> 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.

>

>> 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.

>

>> 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.fmAnd 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.