*SQUEE*

[serinde]

In the midst of a pookiful music-sharing evening, we find that Flogging Molly is playing the Starland Ballroom, their only metro-area show, on March 9th. WE MUST GO!.

You should go, too.

ObCurrentSong: This band was apparently top of the charts both in the UK and the US, and I can see how that would be (except I'm surprised in the unusual show of taste from the masses). Why is it that I only heard them on Radio Paradise? Oh that's right, because NYC radio is UTTER AND COMPLETE GARBAGE.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine FM radio anywhere in this country is anything better than crap these days.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Could be, but ours is toxic nuclear ebola-infested crap.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Bet you a dollar it's worse here.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Nothin' or double, Jack, that it ain't.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

We used to have KOME and Live 105 for "new rock", KSJO for "rock", KFOG for AOR, and K-FOX for classick rock (oh, and Alice for chick rock). KOME bought Live 105, KSJO turned into a Mexican oldies station, KFOG's corporate masters set up The Bone for classic and post-classic (`80s) rock, Clear Channel set up Channel 104.9 for new rock but then folded it a couple of years later.

In the meantime, K-FOX has been playing more commercials and less variety (which is death for a classic rock station), The Bone promotes the hell out of the retard morning show they picked up from KSJO's corpse, and KFOG stopped playing occasional fresh and daring stuff and instead settled into yuppie music hell. So there's only Live 105 left for any sort of decent and new music.

I bought my car from my sister-in-law and it came with XM. Once her subscription expired, it took me a day or two of FM radio to spring for my own XM subscription.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

That is a considerable amount of ouch. (I was basing my analysis on the situation at the time of our honeymoon, which involved a lot of radio listening en route between wineries and resultant bitching about how we could not take all these stations back home with us.)

That being said, you've got one more decent & new station than we have. There is nothing, unless you can pull in obscure college stations, that plays interesting new stuff. We've got the Nu Metal Whiners Of The Week and the Poppy Diva Garbage, and that's it.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

LOL! What a beautiful description! You really can't fit much more ick in there.

I wonder tho'...

D'ya think maybe it's not more crappy than it was, but that the ever-increasing convenience of having the music of one's choice available anywhere makes it seem so? When there was only radio, you found a station, endured the songs you didn't like, and enjoyed the ones you did. I really think I just have far less patience now. Why endure even one song you dislike when you can have an MP3 player full of songs of your choice, or burn CDs of favorites in a few minutes (as opposed to the patient orchestration of making a mix cassette tape)?

[briony530.livejournal.com]

I'm tending to agree, it's all crap. We have an actual independent, not-owned-by-some-media-mogul radio station in Woodstock, which is about as uncrappy as it gets. WDST 100.1 (you can listen on WDST.com too). It tends to be pretty good and very diverse. Only thing is, sometimes it's a little too diverse. They sometimes play those little-known, obscure performers...and the reason some of them are little-known and obscure is because they SUCK! There's a bit too much of that "if the masses eschew it, it must be great counter-culture marvelousness" mentality.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sounds like college radio. At least it's new suck rather than the same old suck.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

You'd think...but they have their pet performers, and they play them a lot. New suck can become old suck pretty damn fast when it sucks that badly!