>Led Zeppelin song plays
>cheese rock guitar riff bumper,
>an announcer saying "WE'RE READY TO ROOOOOCK 104.2 THE COCK"
>some soundbite from a tv show saying "GIT ER DONE" or will ferrel screaming "ROCK N ROLL YEAH" or some shit
>o o o o reilly autoparts
>shane co diamonds
>that's 1-800-2253, 1-800-2253, dont wait call now, number is 1-8002253
>Woman announcer: "We're all about the music! No commercials!"
>6 more ads
>comes back: Aerosmith plays
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Ironically, classic rock has always been more of a 16-19 year olds' taste, so that would be zoomers now. meme Boomers, not actualy baby boomers, are into post-ironic Limp Bizkit and Sum 41 and all that good 90s shit.
The problem with modern classic rock radio is not only that they've been slow to incorporate any artists that came to fame after the early-mid 80s, but that they have continually whittled down the playlist from a decade ago, ~ 200 or 300 or so hits and a few deep cuts of the 60s, 70s, 80s to literally just the same 50 biggest rock hits of the 70s- mid 80s on every single station.
It's a shame because I think it contributed to the death knell of rock-- it took the community aspect out from the radios because they got eaten up by IHR and Clear Channel.
THIS IS 1.0.-WHATEVER FM
WE PLAY EVERYTHING
>proceeds to play small amount of the same songs everyday
Zepp has basically aged out of classic rock radio. It's all, like, totally fucking faceless and homogenized hair metal and hard rock from the 80s. gay
And the twenty to thirty early-mid 90s era rock songs that should be on there (handful of Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Green Day, Nirvana, Oasis - Champagne Supernova, etc. are basically in occasional rotation on alternative stations when to fill time in between playing weezer, 21 pilots, imagine dragons, or some literally who industry plants)
>classic rock radio
>Sweet Home Alabama plays for the 1000th time in a day
>Zepp has basically aged out of classic rock radio
Huh?
yeah not LZ but plenty of 60s and early 70s stuff that's not harder rock has gotten the axe. You rarely hear the Beatles except Come Together or Steely Dan on my local station that plays at work. They used to play more deep cuts like Allman Brothers album tracks that used to get airplay back in the day but weren't quite as big as the official singles or slightly lesser hits like Talking Heads' Take Me to the River.
No more though, just AC/DC and Whitesnake to oblivion. Definitely more commercials now too...
Clear Channel has effectively diluted CRR down to about the same 200 songs.
I'd take non stop Zep over ACDC and Def Leppard
>Calls in to have them play Back in Black
Yeeeep, that's my song.
>"Alright guys gonna take a break from the stuff for your grandma's retirement home and play some real 'off the walls' classic rock"
>The intro to Nothing Else Matters starts.
>That one mid-day DJ who's lowkey based and slips 13th Floor Elevators in to the playlist.
>"alternative" station
>plays imagine dragons and ed sheeran with some token 90s RHCP/Nirvana hit thrown in
Commercial FM classic rock radio should be like a combo of SiriusXM stations:
>45% post '75 - early '90s mainstream AOR hits
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>30% early 60s - mid 70s early rock radio era hits
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>12% Deep Cuts from both eras
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>5% additional late 70s/80s alternative artists
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>4% additional 90s alternative artists
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>3% additional soft rock
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>1% 80% additional hair metal
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Also adding the with the occasional live version of tracks by artists famous for their live stuff (as many live versions of tracks were played on rock stations back in the day anyway).
Seriously, those playlists shit all over current commercial classic rock stations, yet are playing mostly pretty normie and boomer-beloved artists. It's just a wider selection of tracks.
So it would go something like this:
>Clash - Rock the Casbah
>Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son
>David Bowie - Modern Love
>Yes - Roundabout
>Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels
>Rolling Stones - Let's Spend the Night Together
>Jimi Hendrix Experience - Angel
>Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
>Todd Rundgren - It Takes Two to Tango
>Santana - You Just Don't Care (Live)
>The Cars - Let's Go
>Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
>Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
>The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
>Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
>Def Leppard - Foolin'
this would be a great improvement
By far
Even if it's mostly the same bands at least it's deeper cuts
Carry on my wayward son is already overplayed enough though
This could have been avoided with punk and pop punk
Well you have to have the giant hits to anchor the station every now and again. Can't have solely lesser singles and album tracks.
fucking hate this shit. Either choose to be a classic or contemporary station, but don't straddle the fucking line.
Fuck you that's real music go listen to Lil Criminal I'll stick with Crue
Put em up you lil pussy I'm 56 years old worked as a tradesmen and blast my classic rock station drinking my keystone light as I damn well please bitch pussy faggot you lil shits wouldknt kmnow real music if it kicked you right in the keister with your hippity hop swag swigg low bullshit. Fuck you lil prick I eat pieces of shit like you for break fas
Who /SiriusXM/ here?
>>o o o o reilly autoparts
SiriusXM is good but you have to flip between stations fairly often sadly
hell yea brother ill sip a beer when i get home to that one. damn union cuttin my hours again
>coworker plays classic rock radio all day
>hear "Sweet Child O' Mine" every single day
the perfect classic rock radio station in my opinion was GTA IV's with the Lost and Damned DLC that added a bunch of songs. A wide range from the 60s to the 90s with both big hits and deeper cuts and all different styles.
>dad's main radio station was on a 24 hour alphabetical loop beginning with america - a horse with no name at noon and ending with rush - yyz
>made a game out of predicting commercials with him
>fucking cringey even at ten years old but better than making acronyms out of license plates
>bet him a quarter every time I predict a commercial correctly
>win
>dad touts me as the next Bill Gates because of this
>fucking boomer owes me tens of dollars to this day
what does it cost to start a radio station?
i live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, wouldnt have to pay for licencing or a tower, just equipment
pretty sure the fcc regulates everything so there's a monopoly on the radio stations
You can technically do it without licensing, but it's illegal.
With licensing, probably a couple thousand.
Y
>listen to classic rock radio
>full of commercials but enjoy the songs
>eventually hear every song they play
>switch to alt radio
>no commercials but play the same songs
>imagine dragons and fucking that one marshmello song
>switch to pop/hiphop
>full of commericials
>nicki minaj constantly
>go back to classic rock
>the cycle never fucking ends
Because women listen to the radio
JamOn is premiering an unreleased Allman Brothers live album tomorrow
You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
the next town over had an illegal one for like 20 years, im pretty sure it would take them ages to find it let alone do anything about it
and without licencing? what do you need, mic, mixer, level meter, antenna?
>work for the forest service in the middle of north carolina in the summer of 2014
>no internet or cell service out here, but boss keeps a ghetto blaster on the desk tuned to the only recievable FM station... 105.7 The Mountain
>played all 8 minutes of Bohemian Rhaspody every day
>played all 10 minutes of Free Bird every day
>played all 9 minutes of November Rain every day
>played all 8 minutes of American Pie
>unironically played about 15 Tom Petty songs in heavy rotation all the time
hell on earth
>hip-hop / top 40 radio station
>rotates between the same damn songs every couple hours
>"Yeah" by Usher is also squeezed in playlist for some reason
You can do all the audio stuff on a computer and end up sounding better than professional stations if you have even the slightest clue what you're doing. Most people don't and buy cheap Chinese transmitters off ebay and put unprocessed audio into them. Results are horrific. What you would need on the transmitting side is a transmitter, an antenna, the proper cable to go to the antenna from the transmitter, the shorter the better, and probably a swr meter. Anything on your PC can be an audio source. If you have a soundcard that can output 192khz you can output multiplexed stereo with RDS from it. This software will do the trick:
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The guys that made this software are responsible for designing the same software used on the most expensive hardware solutions currently available. You get basically the same thing that major market commercial stations use much cheaper by going the DIY route.
>alright we got nick m. on the line for radio requests. nick whaddaya want to hear
>yeah I gotta go with pour some sugar on me by def leppard to get me through the week, amazing that man drums with one arm
>excellent choice friend and yes by all means keep on workin through HUMPDAY
>segue into geico commercial and then play half the song before it becomes a medley with santana
>driving my 94 Ford Ranger back from the job site
>they don't make em like this anymore
>Born on the Bayou starts playing
*sips*
Love when they play the deep cuts
>listening to classic rock station
>call in listener actually requests something good
Bon Scott era AC/DC was based though
>riding in car with family
>dad listening to the classic rock station
>lynyrd skynyrd comes on
>suddenly feel attraction towards my sister
yea working in the summer at a shop last year and this boomer keeps the radio blasting classic rock radio every fucking day for 8 months straight. absolute hell and whatever small amount of appreciation i had for some of those songs is completely gone
Commercial radio blows, if it’s owned by Cumulus, Entercom, and especially by Iheartmedia it’s garbage. However, most cities have college radio or non commercial stations that are actually decent. The problem is they usually have crap range. NPR music is bearable, but can fall upon the same stuff a bit too much. However, my local NPR has fantastic range.
I really wish the three corporations would just go bankrupt. Especially Iheart. They all drag the rest of the industry down because terrestrial radio still has a lot of influence.
>caller requests the velvet underground
>DJ never heard of them and is silent for a minute before some other guy cuts in with
>"IF YOU MEANT VELVET REVOLVER THAN YOU GOT IT BUDDY"
>caller protests and begins talking about how genius lou reed is before getting cut off
There is nothing more invigorating than cruising around listening to Skynyrd at full blast with the windows down on a sunny summer day.
None of those companies own my local stations but they're all still garbage. There's one where I live that's kinda distant that got bought by a husband and wife team. It's a classic rock station that pretty much exclusively plays deep cuts, album tracks, obscure shit. It's fun to listen to sometimes but I'm not really into that shit. I listen to the local college station sometimes too but during the daytime it's absolutely unbearable. Programs dedicated to celtic music, folk music (I don't hate folk music but an hour of obscure folk is enough to drive you insane), programs dedicated to some dude playing songs from every band he saw in a coffee house and subsequently bought their CD... All the good stuff is on at night and I'm more likely to be watching a fucking hockey game or something than have the radio on. Most of the time I just listen to internet radio instead. The options are infinite. I have my raspberry pi hooked up to a small FM transmitter and I control it with my phone. Using that I can hear it on all the radios in my house.
I think it would be hilarious to hack a radio station and make it play Waiting For The Man on loop
Lmao
>Caller requests them to play some Radiohead
>They play Creep
>AND NOW WE GOING WITH A CLASSIC ROCK "DEEEEEP CUT"
>*In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida starts playing*
Twenty years ago that would probably confuse the fuck out of people. Given the state of the US right now a large percentage of the listeners are probably junkies so it would likely go over extremely well.
this. everything in my area is either boomer or only focused on a ten minute EP that somebody at their college made
idea: Radio Z, mix zoomer shit with some Yea Forumscore every once in a while
>50th anniversary of the Allman Brothers
>local station plays a 30 minute block of ABB consisting of "Jessica", "Blue Sky", "Whipping Post" a live version of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed"
That first station sounds neat. I agree about the others too. Celtic? Really? For our non commercial daytime we have Gospel till noon followed by Latino until 4. Why have another Latino block when half the stations here play Latino? Money, I guess.
About the only ABB song I hear anymore is the occasional Rambling Man. So that’s actually an improvement. Still lame tho.
>104.2 THE COCK
why am i laughing
>caller requests Morrissey on a hard rock station
>gets bullied before leading into AND I DON'T WANT YA AND I DON'T NEED YA
I hear the shane company and oriley ads on fucking pandora, you can't escape
From the station that really rocks!
>*bob and tom laughing intensifies*
though overplayed, Bohemian Rhapsody and Free Bird have actual merit as rock ballads but November Rain?
god that song is dog shit
>some soundbite from a tv show saying "GIT ER DONE" or will ferrel screaming "ROCK N ROLL YEAH" or some shit
The one that I've heard the most throughout the country is that clip of Nigel from Spinal Tap yelling "ROCK N ROLL" when they're lost trying to find the stadium stage.
Lots of people think it's Ozzy Osbourne yelling that, too.
that was you wasn't it, user
There was a fm pop punk radio station in my city very recently but it didn't last long. It got replaced with 90s rnb hits.
>"IF YOU MEANT VELVET REVOLVER THAN YOU GOT IT BUDDY"
LMFAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hey, this is actually listenable!
>smoke on the water is on the radio again
>they play Freebird
>it's the shortened radio edit
>mfw
In all seriousness, radio has been ass since early 2000s. My ipod classic is finally dying after 12 years. What's a good music player that can store and play 90GBs+ of music?
Ask in /csg/ on /g/. The OP should have a PDF that has recommendations actually. The Chinese make nice players with sd card slots that even play flac. If you're technically minded there are also people that sell hardware mods for the ipod classic. You can replace the hard drive with a SD card.
At least you Americans have a myriad of options.
In Europe the concept of underground radio stations doesn't exist.
I vastly prefer European radio to American radio, and I'm American. My favorite station is FIP. I grew up listening to the specialty shows from BBC too. Europe has a lot of trash stations like Heart and Virgin Radio but there are some truly special ones if you look around. The most "underground" thing there is is college radio. Sometimes there are great shows on it that specialize in specific genres but it's mostly a bunch of trash you won't want to listen to. Similar to BBC stations except far more amateur.
damn
>go on classic rock station
>only metallica songs are from black album and fucking Load
I think boomers are brain damaged. When I watch tv with relatives occassionally the ads are torture to me but they just chuckle at the corny songs and terrible "jokes".
usually they blast top 40 over the fucking loudspeakers at the factory I work at
music sounds so shitty on those things.
every single fucking day I hear katy perry, taylor swift and Justin Bieber multiple times
not to mention Weezer's Africa which sounds even worse on the speakers.
Sometimes they put on a different station but its only slightly less repetitive
>you've been.....thunderstruck