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Post by The Mad Plumber on Jul 12, 2010 19:03:45 GMT -5
You stole my Jesus fish, didn't you!?
94.5
Toledo's classic rock station. This is a general standby for me and it is nice that the genre is opening up to include some newer works. However, there are popular classic rock songs that I am tired of and I need something more than just classic rock.
93.5
This one's hard to nail down. It's like a classic rock station, but it's not. Maybe classic rock and disco? On it, you'll hear Blood, Sweat & Tears, Chicago, and the Bee-Gees. So, I have to say I actually like it better than 94.5.
101.5
Okay, I'm not entirely sure why this is in my presets. It's a soft rock station. I can't recall if I hear anything distasteful like Michael Bolton or Mariah Carey, but it really feels like I would if I left the tuner there. I suppose I have it programmed because there might be the very occasional song I like.
107.9
This is a smaller classic rock station with a very weak signal. However, the music selection is far more classy than that of 94.5.
100.3
Okay, when I recently heard some Prince songs on this station, I knew I had to save it. I think it identifies itself as a 70s and 80s station, but I heard some newer stuff that causes me to doubt that.
105.5
I don't really know what this station's genre is and I don't know why I programmed it as a preset. I think it's possible that it's a sort of 80s station, but I don't ever listen to it long enough to confirm that.
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Jul 12, 2010 23:02:35 GMT -5
Terrestrial radio? None, I'm through with it. On Sirius XM I listen to Deep Tracks and Underground Garage. I just recently started a few stations on Pandora. I can't listen to regular commercial radio anymore.
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Post by Mod City on Jul 13, 2010 0:26:15 GMT -5
I love satellite radio when I can hear it, but the old broadcast system is still free. And I still like the local flavor, as bland as it may be where I live.
Having said that, other than talk and country, these are about the only stations I can pick up.
95.7
An eclectic mix of pretty much everything pop-oriented from the last 35 years or so. Sounds awful, but it works.
97.3
Local mix station - 80s, 90s and today. I tune in to keep me up to date. Occasionally, if rarely, I'm surprised by something I like.
102.7
Classic rock. Keeps the road rolling along under me.
103.7
Hard rock. Where all the new rock bands are played. Not my cup of tea, generally, but they do some throwback shows that aren't bad.
104.7
Local hip/hop, dance and so forth. I don't know why it's on there as I never listen to it.
570
Huge AM station that carries the farm report and right-wing broadcasters like Glenn Beck and Lars Larson, but they also carry almost every Twins game, so I have it handy on the center "3" spot in the center of my AM presets.
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Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 13, 2010 6:02:12 GMT -5
Years ago someone broke into my car and stole my CD player and radio... so there went my presets. Actually there was only one, 98.9 (maybe 2, I think I had one of the sports channels saved... I used to listen to Mike & Mike) - Anyway 98.9 Classic rock, (Mostly 60s and 70s - Airplane, Hendrix, Beatles, Zep, Alice Cooper) But the real reason I had it preset was to listen to the Radiomen, C. Foster Kane and Jim Arnold. They got me through many a boring morning at work. Very hilarious. Here's their official photo, with excerpt of bio from the website...  "The RadioMen... First together in Europe as children of circus performers, C. and Jim came to America in the '50's. Getting that show-bizz buzz, they toured with actor/ comedian Jimmy Walker for several years and then appeared in such movies as Dead Men are Dead, Shrunken Hips, and Lava." The station is now carrying Alice Cooper's show too. Since I have no radio, I now listen to webcasts at work. |
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Post by Continuing Legend on Jul 13, 2010 7:35:27 GMT -5
88.5 xpn. i don't listen to it a lot, though, unless a band i like is featured.
102.9
classic rock. they seem to have a LOT more commercials than other stations, which is super annoying, but at 4:15ish every day they have a "beatles break" of 3 beatles songs in a row (awesome). also, i find if i listen to them driving home late (around midnightish) there are less commercials.
104.5.
pretty much just plays new rock-ish stuff. i'd say it's about 40% songs i like, 50% songs i tolerate, and 10% songs i can't stand.
94.1
somewhere between classic and new rock. their motto thingy is "the rock you grew up with" and though this applies more to 20somethings, as a 19 year old it mostly applies to me too.
93.3
more modern rock-ish stuff, less likely to play something i like than 104.5 though.
and some staticky thing that i can play my ipod through, when my ipod is working. which it isn't. it's been broken since january. i have yet to find the motivation to drive out to the apple store.
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Jul 13, 2010 8:11:05 GMT -5
I just recently started a few stations on Pandora. I can't listen to regular commercial radio anymore. I'm the same way. After the morning talk shows end, I just put Pandora on all day. I really appreciate the themed selection rather than just hoping a classic rock station plays something I like. |
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Post by solgroupie on Jul 13, 2010 15:28:58 GMT -5
^that's what is killing small market radio stations, like the one i work for.
89.5 - NPR - but i hardly listen to it anymore since they changed their programming and just made it all news. they took my blue monday program off, the jerks.
95.9 - supposed to play everything from alternative to metal. sometimes i catch a good song, but more often than not it just annoys me.
98.5 - soft rock - same as 95.9, but they play more oldies. if i can catch something that isn't celine dion or air supply, i consider myself lucky.
99.3 - z rock - supposed to be the "new" alternative station. it's hit and miss, but i like it if i can avoid the thrashier stuff.
101.5 - classic rock - wqut has been around forever and has like, a gajillion watts. i wish they would shake up their format a little and play some more obscure music, other than that usual freebird, comfortably numb and sweet home alabama. i'm not knocking those songs, but i've heard them so many times by now i just automatically change the channel when they come on.
107? i forget this one. it's a newer station with no dj's, just a robotic chick voice that tells you the name of the song at the end of it. some classic rock, 80's & 90's, early 2000's. not too bad, but they play the same stuff over and over. i am constantly switching from one station to another.
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jul 13, 2010 20:31:21 GMT -5
Well, I can't answer that as I'm supposed to. With my lifestyle, I move from station to station and the preset thing on my ipod is relatively easy to use but gets cluttered quickly as I move about and then retrace my route. The main thing I use it for is finding NPR, and that's mostly to listen to Car Talk and Wait Wait on Saturday mornings and Science Fridays, if they play that. Radio Lab can be okay, too, and there's a roots music show (maybe this one? americanroutes.publicradio.org/) I can rarely find. Oh, and Fresh Air, if she's interviewing someone interesting--like the Billie Joe Armstrong interview a month or so ago, though she does get a bit giggly around attractive male musicians. The best NPR station I've heard for talk is in St. Louis, KWMU maybe, with lots of PRI stuff. But I hate politics. If I can find a little college or high school station where the kids do eclectic/alternative, I'm also happy, but alas, those are few and far between and I've found none in Arizona, where I spend much of my time now...though I'm pretty sure I heard one in the 90's out of Toledo, mad plummer, which perhaps you know of, probably U/T. It's the first place I heard the band Dada. Ann Arbor had one, Eugene Oregon has a good one, KVRM, a high school (and the jocks do sometimes show it with their giggling and mumbling), but amazing music. ( www.krvm.org/programs/programs.html)...well, except for two flipping hours of Grateful Dead every week, which is about 1:55 too much for me. What I really, really would love is a purely intellectual radio program during the day, science and history and philosophy and arts analyisis, no contemporary politics...and then blues and roots and world and eclectic music after 6. p.m. Maybe one day, I'll park and turn on the pod and it'll be there. |
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Post by MonsterX on Jul 22, 2010 22:51:00 GMT -5
NPR. Otherwise I hook my IPod up into the car and put the setting on shuffle to simulate a radio station that doesn't suck.
94.9 used to be awesome here in San Diego, so much so that it opened my mind and changed the way I listed to music. But they have gotten crapy recently which is a damn shame. It's the only station where you could hear Bowie, Black Flag, Spoon, Sound Garden, The Dandy Warhols, Love and Rockets and John Lee Hooker in one set.
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Post by reaperg on Aug 1, 2010 9:48:33 GMT -5
Terrestrial radio? None, I'm through with it. On Sirius XM I listen to Deep Tracks and Underground Garage. I just recently started a few stations on Pandora. I can't listen to regular commercial radio anymore. I can't handle commercial radio either. Repetitive playlists, commercial breaks, annoying jock banter... ugh. I still stream Jim Ladd's show from L.A., but that's it. Satellite-wise, I mainly listen to the Virus for my shock jock needs. When I'm up for music, I'm with you on Deep Tracks and the UG, but also 70s on 7 (old Casey Kasem countdowns) and the E Street channel (live Bruce!) |
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