At the time I thought they were pretty annoying but I miss the alternative rock radio dj's that affected fake, caricatured southern california stoner voices for on air and said stuff like comin up we have 45 minutes of non stop alternative rock
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you're listening to me, Big Dick Slingus, you're in the Boneyard on Tulsa's home for heavy rock, 103.4 The Edge, and I'm givin' away tickets to the 9th caller who can tell me Stifler's first name in American Pie. and kicking off this Saturday evening block: the Goo Goo Dolls with Iris
Growing up, it was played on my local rock radio station enough to piss off a local DJ to call that they called that song "as rock as Hall and Oates" and that they only played it to "fill their Can-Con requirements" and then proceeded to apologize for playing it.
I'm utterly bereft since we lost our alt-rock station in my city this year. @eve6.bsky.social - can you do anything to fix this? Bc the throwback hip-hop station, while often good, just isn't filling the void in my soul. To make matters worse, the semi-alt-rock station also vanished the same day. 😩
but probably not actual country. just radio garbage posing as "country" played by bands like "Let Me Lick Your Fascist Boots Daddy," "I'm From New York City But Sing About Farm Life," and "Breaking the Law is Bad and You Should Always Listen To Cops."
man even pop used to be good. Rick James was singin' about making women squirt and how shit police officers were for shootin' young black kids in the streets in 1981. this shit is just propaganda, that's all.
I used to work in radio. One of our weekend DJs literally just ate potato chips into the mic during one of his breaks and then said “here’s some music”. Infinitely better than some voice-tracked clown from another state pretending to live in your city.
Ive been listening to my local radio station religiously lately and its actually been incredible for my mental health. I love their lil talk shows and movie mania
U need to subscribe to sirius xm. They have all DJs no ads. All genre channels. @richardblade.bsky.social on FIRST WAVE. MTV VJs on 80s & 90s channels. Some ralphy guy on 70s. Nancy Sinatra on the Sinatra channel Pitbull on his discofusion channel. This month is all LADY GAGA channel&she is DJ.
There are small, volunteer FM stations that exist in a small area around places in Scotland where I have lived, even had a go on some. Really glad some of them are now streaming to the world. My partner frequently selects commercial stations and I can’t explain to her how sad they make me
Everyone on a volunteer station is doing it because they love the music; they don’t know how to cheesily slam the output or fake enthusiastic banter, but they do know that they love what they are doing. There just needs to be more love in the things we do, we hear, we see, I think.
I used to find those radio DJs so annoying back in the day, but now I really miss their fake, exaggerated SoCal stoner voices and the way they hyped up the non-stop alternative rock blocks.
disk jocky voice has become so agressively polished its scary like why is this insurance salesman telling me about marcy playground and dinosaur jr go cash out your 401k man
Look up The Coast : KOZT.
It's a California station that is frequently reminiscent of those stations.
Also, Dan Ackroyd did a take on one of those stations on SNL.
I think Sirius has what you’re missing. The rock DJs have that vibe (hear in my sister’s car here and there). Most of them sound like they smoke three packs a day 😆
If radio wants to come back you need hosts with actual personality. Even if it is fake. Dont just say the song title, go
"You're listen to Titty City FM. Up next we have the song you'd kill your boss to *plays Love Shack*
There’s a guy in Sirius, Earle Bailey, who does this bit very, very well.
“Coming up we’re going to fire up a Doobie (deliberate pause) Brothers song.”
One day I'm going to have an alt rock show and play eve6 every day until someone complains, at which point I'm going to shift the pitch of the songs down and claim the band is called eve5
I’ve been convinced for over a decade now that Eve6 is a reference to the Xfiles episodes with the clones all named Eve. So honestly I don’t see why this wouldn’t work. Gather all the eves and make a show that’s just the xfiles theme on repeat for an hour and a half.
Radio Caroline, started as a pirate radio ship in the Thames estuary in the 69s. Playing album tracks aswell as great music. Still going. App in store. Hardly any ads,no news,no weather,just great music. Every morning they play listeners top 15 at 9am UK time
You're most welcome. If radio is your main source of music,you will never regret getting the app. I love the listeners top 15. I hear songs that I haven't heard for decades. Never hear 'pop' on Caroline 👍
I lived in the radio desert that is Wisconsin outside of Madison and Milwaukee. If it wasn't top 40, classic rock, or country, it wasn't playing on the stations we had.
I was one of those jocks, minus the stoner voice. I miss it too. Radio isn’t the same, and I work for a terrible company that values obedience more than talent.
We have a station in the Inland Empire (So Cal) called Jack FM and it reminds me of KROQ. There tag line is “We play what we want to” and they really do. One minute you’re listening to hard rock, the next it’s alt rock, throw in an oldie….great stuff.
The DJ I shadowed in high school only used that voice for the commercials he did for a local head shop 20-25 years ago. Those commercials were still on the air as of a couple years ago.
In the 90s in Southern Rhode Island there was a dj named Bill Wiles. 99.3 FM, WBLQ. Guy was a Diamond in a sea of turds.. Smooth, real and played his own playlist.
Segue from Black Sabbath into Frank Sinatra, and by God, it was amazing. He did shit like that all the time.
Sure do miss him& WBLQ 99.3
Or Nickelback style frat rock songs about drinkin' and partyin' with an affected Southern US twang even if the singer is from New Zealand. Oh, and can't forget adding in the fiddle and/or slide guitar samples into the song!
Did RHCP become alternative rockers when they made BSSM? All I know is I loved the mostly hardcore/punk sound from before but that album changed my life.
Our local alt rock station has a smart guy, a dumb guy, a tired guy who is on at night, and 4 or 5 ladies whose voices sound identical to me but as someone who never listened to radio much, I do appreciate that it's at least a real station with humans instead of an iheartradio playlist, you know?
They did that on the End 107.9 in Cleveland, both when it first started and when it changed to whatever it changed to a few years later. I had an hour long commute and I used to leave it on to see if I could learn the words. Never happened.
It mentioned Lenny Bruce twice, and no one of the generation they were playing for knew who he was. If I hadn't stayed up late watching movies at 12 years old, I wouldn't have either.
It would be like marketing a song to kids now and talking about Mitch Hedberg.
The DJs from KROQ 106.7 (Los Angeles) are now on Sirius XM’s channel 33.”1st Wave”. (Except Jed the Fish. 😭 But in 2018, he joined the “Roq of the 80s” lineup on KROQ HD2, on Audacy.)
(When country radio started to seriously curdle in the late 90s I'd call DJs to request like Roger Miller songs and tell them their programming sucked. I have nothing but nostalgia for that now. You could call on the phone?)
Thanks for confirming my opinion. Love country, grew up with Top 40 which meant every genre & language was played on air. Thought it was my imagination that true country started declining in the ‘90s.
One of the most popular songs on country radio in the mid-90s was "I Love You, Period". Prior to 9/11 it had already devolved into basically "novelty rock".
For the equivalent today - but, importantly, good rather than bad - may I suggest @djjohnrichards.bsky.social on KEXP? He is verifiably real and exists
My presets are Conan, Lithium, 1st Wave, and that channel with the old timey radio plays where everyone sounds like they’re speaking at the bottom of the ocean
Consultants had their hands all over alternative radio at that point and everything was so streamlined and tightened, with jocks with edgy names but the charm of a smug nerd.
One of the reasons I love the “Songs for the Deaf” album by Queens of the Stone Age is the radio DJ interludes between songs. Captures that era of radio ❤️ and reminds me of waiting all night to record my favorite song on cassette 📻
College radio dj in late '70s/early '80s: plays In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Friends back at the dorm listening: he's taking a dump or blowing a doob on the roof.
Y’know…terrestrial radio still exists. And they haven’t changed their schtick. You can listen to this any time you want to. The only catch is if you want alternative music you need to tune it to classic rock stations now.
I caught Loreena McKennitt on an alternative rock station, although it may have been their Sunday Morning Buzz Lite hangover easy listening alt rock segment.
This makes me think of Say Anything, and the DJ voice announcing the start and end of the overnight music, when John Cusack and Ione Sky’s characters drove that poor guy all over looking for his house.
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And to a lesser extent, Tom from toonami.
So nice well play it twice!
All positioning statements all the time!
do not ask me to explain why
It was the best of times. And I remember taking over one of the men’s restrooms in PDX. 🥰
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_Park#Concerts
30 percent MAPL (at least 2)
but 10 percent in Windsor
that entire album slaps
To memory now I can’t recall
So fill to me the parting glass
Good night and joy be to you all”
https://youtube.com/shorts/o5_ObSp-5uU?si=ghItVhDJwy32OoUG
It's a California station that is frequently reminiscent of those stations.
Also, Dan Ackroyd did a take on one of those stations on SNL.
That was wild.
"You're listen to Titty City FM. Up next we have the song you'd kill your boss to *plays Love Shack*
“Coming up we’re going to fire up a Doobie (deliberate pause) Brothers song.”
*BUTT
Eve 2 - Whip
Eve 3 - Mix
Eve 4 - Chop
Eve 5 - Grind
Eve 6 - Blend
Eve 7 - Puree
Eve 8 - Liquify
…and then please play in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Come see us, Mark.
“Wolfman Jack” had ‘God-Like’ powers over the 60’s/70’s Laguna/Huntington Beach crowds!!!
https://youtu.be/qto3SOsl2F0?si=GhghjJKF2kaEfW0k
Segue from Black Sabbath into Frank Sinatra, and by God, it was amazing. He did shit like that all the time.
Sure do miss him& WBLQ 99.3
Heartland rock died but we can have bland versions of "Seger an Mellencamp but assholes" in country forever now.
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Nine times outta ten.
They played REM's it's the end of the world on repeat for 24 straight hours. No commercials. No DJ. No one had any idea what was happening or why.
It was AMAZING. RIP jet102.
Also, i wonder if it was a regional revolt. JET102 was in Erie.
It would be like marketing a song to kids now and talking about Mitch Hedberg.
"Well America is already in low spirits might as well drag them further".
https://youtu.be/ciTzp0kAF4E
“Kayarocyeoo” where the “eoo” was somewhere between a schwa and an eaux.
No wonder kids are angry they grew up with really shitty music.