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Behold! Matt, Sue and Kiala singing Patience. You're welcome.

http://www.faceofthecookie.com/2008/05/18/…
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It's funny you bring this up because I think about this all the time.

I wonder if the radio stations I had as a kid were that great or I'm just romanticizing that time in my life. Regardless, I want KTAG circa 1987. Nothing but billboard top 100 with some good rock mixed in.

I bounce around the dial a lot as I think Portland's radio choices are just fucking awful. I would say I listen to Charlie 97.1 more than anything. If forced I'll listen to 94.7 until they play Nirvana or The Offspring. Every now and again the 90's at noon is entertaining. Again, same cycle of 40 songs or so.

You know what I fucking miss? Moving 107.5. That was a jamtastic dance fest always ready to boogie. That station never let me down.
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Who do I have to throat stab to get a decent hip-hop/urban station in this podunk-burb? And why isn't KEXP opening a satellite station down here? Are they too busy fellating Brooklyn?

I just listen to Pandora these days anyways.
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Thanks for the heads-up PAC; I'm tuned in and enjoying Angel is a Centerfold. Ahh, high school.
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i think the appropriate response here is "f- yeah!" I noticed 105.9 last week, and I have to admit, there's something really lovely about it, especially that it's launching just as we move into summer. All of the sudden, I feel like its 1976 and I have nothing to do but slather myself in sea and ski, grab a bottle of orange crush, the latest seventeen magazine, and my huge am radio to head for the nearest lawnchair. My ultimate playlist:

more than a feeling - boston
don't bring me down - elo
i can't wait for the night with you - scorpions




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I've been listening to this station all week and while I think their song choices are great, it seems like they only have a rotation of about 150 songs or so. In the first two days listening, I heard "Dreams" by Van Halen 4 times..."I need a woman who won't drive me crazy" by Mellencamp 3 times and at least 5 Billy Squier songs. If this station upped their variety, I'd love it, but after about 4 days, I got bored listening to the same songs over and over...
I've been listening to the hispanic station since...
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In the morning I usually listen to KUFO to hear what Rick Emerson and friends are chatting about, if I'm lucky enough to catch them chatting. On the way home I usually fire up the xm radio or ipod. Radio is dying fo sho.
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It's actually Def Leppard 'Photograph'
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Hey Graham, long as you're listening online:
http://www.opbmusic.org
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Thanks, D. I knew it was too perfect to start and end my morning commute with an autograph. But Photograph to Autograph works just as well.
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Second for KEXP getting some airspace down here. That station is the one thing I miss most about living in Seattle.
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Other than KUFO's Cort & Fatboy show, I make no particular effort to follow stations or DJs. The tiny playlists of most stations only inspire me to keep channel-surfing.

My head wants to explode whenever I hear Queen, Bob Seger or Steve Miller. (Try listening to KGON for half an hour without hearing one of those three. It can't be done!) Would it kill you to play some album tracks? Remember the phrase AOR, album oriented radio? It was made popular by those of us who can process more than 40 songs.

I wonder what would happen if radio stations allowed DJs to play their own music, loosely following a format? I remember the thrill of turning on the radio, listening to a song I'd never heard before, then waiting impatiently for the ad break to hear "who that was." These days, I land on a station and can tell what song is playing within three notes.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Devil horns out.
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I wonder if your radio was turned to 105.9 cause yer wife Kitty ain't no fool.
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I feel the same way about radio. It was magical when I was a kid - a mere 10 years ago. Even Z100/Rick Dees was amazing. Corporate came in and bought up everything nationwide and ruined the magic. Perhaps at that time radio wasn't viable in a small station, local format but I have trouble seeing how the current incarnation is going to work long term.

Graham - I got ideas galore for a hip-hop station in Portland. Jammin' 107.5 is terrible. Something like 89.1 for the hip-hop/soul/r&b/urban set would be like a wet dream. Rotating DJ's (yeah, people talking between songs - novel, i know!!), different show themes (east coast, soul, 90 west coast..etc) mixed in with artist interviews, focused call in sessions... What would it take to do this?
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BTW, the only music programming I listen to anymore: OPB's locally programmed indie show on friday (or is it saturday?) nights, 89.1 occasionally but it can hit or miss depending on the DJ (Tom D'antonio has a great show or Mississippi of the West), and occasionally the 107.5 90's at Noon (too short, not enough variety).

Even Talk radio is becoming a black hole with the demise of Rick Emerson (what geek gets up at 5am??) and the massive amounts of hate talk. Lars is good for a laugh occasionally. 95.5 is good for sports but sports talk rots the brain in large doses. XM radio has a great political station - POTUS - which is very a tempered, centric focused.

Sorry for the babbling. Radio used to be such an amazing medium. A place where attitude wasn't possible - a place for people to gather and celebrate humanity in all its uniqueness. Waxing nostalgic here.
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That's hilarious, I was listening the other morning and heard the same artists and some of the same songs even.

Nothing beats Leppard's "Foolin'" - that's like 3 songs in one!
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Get online. Go to the BBC website. Listen to the Radcliffe and Maconie show on Radio 2 from London. Problem solved. (unless you're in the car, I guess...)
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You know what I hate? Charlie FM. Because a) KISN was actually pretty good for an oldies station, and I miss it, and b) Charlie's "We play everything" slogan, combined with the lack of human DJs, makes my skin crawl. It reminds me of a yellow happy face button, or some other seemingly innocuous symbol of brainless good times that in fact stands for something totally evil, like, i don't know, the cultural homogenization brought about by corporate media consolidation. And I sound crazy when I talk about it, but whatever, I hate it.
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As someone who doesn't own a car... The only time I ever listen to radio is in the evening when I'm futzing in the kitchen. And then the only thing I put on is OPB. Otherwise it's all podcasts (listen to Cort and Fatboy's podcast, it's great) and interdork radio.

Who listens to the radio when they're not in a car?
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This is not a rip off of my questionland post, at all!

What do I like on actual commercial radio? KNRK, when they get around to their actual themed shows, is pretty good. They have this call-in skater-punk show on Friday nights that's all kinds of fun. Their "new music hour" used to be fun, too, but they seem to have killed that off, which makes me depressed.

If you're willing to check out independent radio: OPB has a good rock/county show on Sunday nights, usually with live guests. KBOO rocks on Wednesday nights, with there back to back five hours of alt-hard-rock and hardcore punk. They also have a Spanish rock show on Tuesday afternoons that doesn't suck. Also, KPSU has all-kinds of good stuff, if you can be bothered to move your dial that far.
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And Alison, I think KISN was reborn somewhere on the AM dial. You might want to try to track that down.
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KISN hopped to AM, but as far as I know it shut down after that:

http://oregonmediainsiders.com/node/960
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Eh, I know I hear something oldies sounding when I scan the AM, it might be a completely different station.

Also: "Commercial radio was better when I was the target audience."
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Yeah Kyle! That show on KNRK is the only time I really enjoy the radio... for example is the only time I've ever heard the Replacements "I'm in Trouble" on the radio.

Little Steven's underground garage is pretty good too.

Terrestrial radio has taught us that T. Rex only ever recorded one song, Bob Marley was the only reggae artist, and Boston's first album must be played every day according to FCC regulations.
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If you want decent hip-hop/Urban on the radio here bring back JW Friday and Black Rock 88.
It wasn't always this bleak.
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JW Friday was the shit.
I heard and met him when he was still at KBOO.
that voice man that voice.

KBOO's evening lineup was changed recently, ya'll should look it through.
including my show. CrossFade. 1st and 3rd Thursdays @10.

www.kboo.fm

Thing that sucks so far about "The Brew", besides that!, is that they pitch up theirs songs to fit in more commercials.
Sucks and sounds like shit. Fucking Corporate.

we'll see how long the novelty lasts.

Jammin is crap and is pretty much the same thing as Z100 now, playing the same songs sometimes at the same time, which is odd being they are both Clear Channel stations.

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