Q104 is playing "We're Not Going To Take It". Yesterday I heard a block of the crue. Fits right in with the Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Joan Jet, John Cougar and Led Zeppelin they normally play. Is it just because I'm just used to these songs? It's kind of nice to hear this stuff. It sounds more fun on the radio.
― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)
Seriously, the very next song after Twisted Sister is:
Beatles "Eight Days A Week"!
― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Friday, 18 March 2005 22:29 (twenty years ago)
It was inevitable, anyway. I don't quite see what's so surprising.
― odell, Friday, 18 March 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)
Oh jeezus, don't get me started on fuckin' Q104.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)
didn't bowling for soup already tell us this last year??Not only does that question warrant two question marks, it could also do with an exclamation point!
― Eleventy-Twelve (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 19 March 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)
We have a crappy little radio in our kitchen, and the only listenable station I'm able to tune into whilst feeding the little one is invariably Q104....which at least
occaissionally will play something I can stomach. I suppose WPLJ might as well, but they play an awful lot of crap. In any case, there must be some bizarre contractual clause in Q104'sby-laws that states that with very few exceptions (specifically U2, Pearl Jam and Nirvana), it is
STRICTLY VERBOTTEN to play
ANY song recorded after 1983. Q104 swim like a determined salmon against the tide in a bizarre struggle against the cruel currents of time. Thumbing its nose at all things "now," Q104 boldly plays Pat Benatar, Billy Squier and Aldo Nova as if they'd never lost the arguable relevance they once fleetingly prized. Moreover, despite the countless albums they must have at their disposal (containing innumerable golden oldies from multiple eras past), it seems Q104 steadfastly adheres to a spartan audio diet of only about thirty songs ("Baba O'Riley" by the Who, "Captain Jack" by Billy Joel and "Take the Money & Run" by the Steve Miller Band get daily airrings).
IT'S ENTIRELY MADDENING!Anyway, what really makes me sad is the coterie of NY-area disc jockeys like Ken Daschau, Jim Kerr, Pat St.John and newswoman Shelley Sunsteen who have ended up at Q104 like it's some radio old age home. I remember listening to those creeps back in grade school (before I realized that classic rock radio was a fuckin' wasteland). Sad.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)
Radio can be a very soul sucking thing indeed. Any way you could get a cheap tape player in the kitchen or something?
As for me I'm just happy that since my company moved into bigger offices I don't have to listen to the same songs over and over and over on the oldies station I was subjected to previously. It really does make life easier to throw off these chains.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:49 (twenty years ago)
In 10 years, all the old DJs will die, and a newer generation of slightly less moldy ones will take over.
And then they'll stick to playing only stuff made before 198
9.
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 19 March 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)
twelve years pass...
Driving tonight I listened to Dee Snyder's syndicated HOH (House of Hair) radio show. I kinda dug his DJ style, I swear it is straight out of the old American Hot Wax (old late 50s early 60s hits say up to early Beatles) e really peppy type of DJ except Dee is playing Cinderella, Rush and The Cult.
― earlnash, Sunday, 9 July 2017 06:15 (eight years ago)