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Author: TreadlesonTreadleson Date: Jun 30, 2008 23:37
On Jun 30, 11:55 pm, poisoned rose swine.com> wrote:> khematite aol.com> wrote:>> It was the era of free-form, "underground" radio with DJs playing what
>> they wanted with no playlists to guide them.
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> But when you talk about "underground radio," there is college radio
> today. Seems like people sometimes apply two different standards, when
> getting all sentimental for those old days of radio.
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> Incidentally, there's an excellent commercial radio station in my area,
> which is essentially unformatted and plays all kinds of righteous,
> uncompromised music.http://www.indie1031.fm And it's even operated by
> Clear Channel.
I sometimes listen to WFMU, which used to be a college station, and
was where I got most of my radio listening done. But that was over 12
years ago. At the time that station struck me as unusually good for
college radio. The Columbia and Fordham stations weren't nearly at
FMU's level of originality and creativity. I also believe that at one
time KROQ out of Pasadena was like the sixties FM stations in that the
DJ's were musically knowledgeable and had no problem mixing songs that
were charting with obscure imports, movie soundtracks, interviews,
underground artists and so forth. I thought that satellite radio was
going to be a return to free form and that DJ's were going to be freed
from the non-stop promotion game. Instead it appears to be either
niche or celebrity driven by way of a celebrity dj. Or else I'm just
missing the good stuff.
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