Song which rocked the commute

Heart - Barracuda

New Order - Age of Consent
Fugazi - Nice New Outfit
Beulah - Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore

AC/DC 'TNT'
The Bar-Kays 'Holy Ghost'
The Prodigy 'Speedway'

thin lizzy- jailbreak
Elvis costello- radio, radio
of course the Supersuckers- pretty fucked up!

nothing like a little 70s rock to get the morning started right… I wonder if you hear such tunage on the Arrow? oh wait they are playing the Beatles for umpteeth time. no wonder radio listnership is declining…

I think 94.7 plays Barracuda every 10 minutes

Bad Brains - Right Brigade

Elliott Smith-Coast to Coast
Pulp-I'm A Man
The Handsome Boy Modeling School & Jack Johnson-Breakdown

We watched a tape of Austin City Limits last night with Wilco and Bright Eyes. When I commented that Bright Eyes can't weigh more than 110 pounds, my wife claimed she could kick his ass.

So the thought of my wife kicking Bright Eyes' ass rocked my commute this morning. :D

Originally posted by pollard:
I think 94.7 plays Barracuda every 10 minutes

nope your getting it confused with all those led zepplin songs they air

bloc party has rocked my commute every day for almost 3 weeks. its melted into my CD player.

Helicopter is defintely the best song (right now)

…and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart (whole album).

actually, this just rocked me while driving last night. this album is amazingly good.

The streets: I am not trying to pull you….. ……. your fit, but my gosh don't you know it.

(What's it called?)

Cake - Guitar Man

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Isis - Oceanic CD
And Any Clutch Song

I sit here and see all of these bands that everyone is talking about and don't know half of them. Now I'm sure that this music good music and I'd would enjoy them I'm sure, but what I don't understand is why is there not a radio station brave enough to put these bands out there. Instead we get crap radio with crap bands.

Originally posted by eastcoastbrian:
but what I don't understand is why is there not a radio station brave enough to put these bands out there.

LA's got one: Indie 103 FM

There playlist is impresive. But I'd like to turn the Radio on here In D.C. and be able to here that stuff. Somebody needs to start a basement radio station and play the good stuff. "Pump up the Volume" Thank you Mr. Slater.

Originally posted by eastcoastbrian:
But I'd like to turn the Radio on here In D.C. and be able to here that stuff.

I think that's sort of the point that most folks on the board are getting at here. Most boardies haven't listened to broadcast radio in years because they don't play this stuff, so the demise of HFS is something that they feel they can mock and could "have told you so."

The problem is, outside of LA, a radio station that plays this type of music likely won't make enough money for Infinity or Clear Channel either, but we're ok with that. We've found alternatives through internet radio, mp3 players, and a few through XM. The reason it works in LA is because so many people have to listen to the radio as they're stuck in hours fo traffic. That's why LA has the most diverse radio stations and Clear Channel can take a chance on an Indie radio station, like Indie 103, to compete with KROQ and KCRW.

It's not going to happen in DC until they stop the radio conglomerates.

well thanks to radio "research" station owners decided the way to go was to tighten up radio playlists and target specific demographics, thus what we have today.

fm radio stations would be much better if they returned to that time when they were considered "underground" and the dj/hosts would only yak between bong hits or when they were bored bangin' thier girlfriends in the studio. nowadays it's personalities saying "witty" things and announcing the latest contest and having everything nicely program so that all the stations play commericals at the same time.

the success of little steven's underground garage show, proves that some listeners aren't as dumb and sheeplike as the industry thinks.

and before our resident XM fan pipes in, XM does provide an "alternative" to local radio. but not everyone is buying into it. i've heard plenty of critism about it's playlists, compressed sound and programming via computer. several people have looked at my swagger mix cd and commented why aren't you programming XM. why? because it contains songs from the 60 onward, crosses genres i.e. garage, hair metal, classic rock, and indie.

IMHO a knowledgable host is what makes for good radio. My dad is a jazz buff and would be an ideal candidate for XM seeing as there is little of that on the air anymore. Yet, he has found a local show in the Detroit area which he enjoys because of the way the host programs.

I haven't switch to XM and rarely listen to the radio because the 60+ minutes I spend in my car everyday is the only time I can crank up recent CD purchases. Should there be a John Peel, Little Steven, or Brave New Waves type show on the air when I'm driving. Then I be listening to that. I certainly don't need to hear the putzs on The Arrow making inane comments in amongst there perdictable playlist.