Why I hate FM Radio!

Originally posted by Dr. Anton Phibes:
[Not to your taste??!….Damn,woman, are you particular!…..try driving around the metro D.C. area and listening to what's available here!…you'd be thanking your lucky stars you have decent radio….I just can't get WRNR AT ALL over here in VA….I remember when I first moved back to this area and was living in Calvert County and used to listen late night after I got home from work at midnight…I used to call in at around 2 A.M. or so and get my requests played every night…but,they just played NOTHING but hippie and jam band rock almost all the time…I would lose interest during the day…haven't got to check them in a long time…

They've changed a lot since they first went on the air thirteen years ago. I rarely listen now, prefering my ipod through a car adaptor. Over the years the playlist became increasingly narrow, market-tested and repetitive. They waste incredible amounts of airtime with "imaging," those bits of annoyance that tell you what station you're listening to, and how fucking lucky you are to be doing that. There are far more commercials than in the past. Every good DJ is gone, even Damien. Between all the commercials and imaging, you're fucking lucky to hear ten songs in an hour. Even the overnights are playlisted to death.

Oh, and I think they suck.

Originally posted by Dr. Anton Phibes:
Not to your taste??!….Damn,woman, are you particular

Yeap. Very particular. Neither station ever plays what I really want to hear. My taste is not so much left of the dial but completely off the dial altogether. Both of those stations, in my opinion, are extremely Mainstream Indie and on the very right side of the left side of the dial. If that makes any sense.

I only ever listen to them when I'm in my car and during shorter trips otherwise I'll just stick in a CD. Sometimes it's not worth the bother for local travel which is when I'd rather just flip on the radio. I never, ever bother with either of those stations at home.

Don't know what's happened with RNR but either they sold the station, changed management or maybe just the programing. Now it's extremely similiar to WTMD. WTMD tends to go a bit more to the Dave Matthews and John Mayer crowd where RNR is a tad more Adult Indie with the tiniest bit more Rock to it. At least, that's how it sounds to me. I'm still constantly flipping back and forth between the two, which I really hate having to do, because they both still, in my opinion, play way too much shit that I can't stomach. But both will play just enough stuff that I can enjoy to even bother turning either station on.

Yeah, I am familiar with radio in the DC area and it sucks even more. About the best I could find is the station out of Howard University. Generally, I don't like their talk shows but sometimes their music shows are very good. Often not what I'm looking to listen to but good enough to enjoy on short trips. They just don't play any Indie or Rock or my preferred genres though I've often ended up loving what I was hearing. I give them full credit for playing to their students unlike most Mid-Atlantic college and university stations these days.

Regarding the old RNR, I couldn't stand Damian. Sorry about that. In fact, he was one of the reasons I had completely stopped listening after trying to like them. Nothing against him personally. I just couldn't stand his shows. It was the same worn out music all the time. Music I had left behind years and years ago. Also, the same things that the Dr. said about the Jam bands. Just not my scene.

All part of why I have my own radio show.

It seemed like the DJs of RNR (formerly of the old HFS) made the same mistake most adults to at some point in their lives. They stopped growing. The few times I was able to pick up RNR's signal, I heard the same music I heard when they were at their peak in the early 1980s. In those days, it was refreshing. By the time RNR came around, it was stale.