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Old 11-22-2009, 09:05 AM   #41 (permalink)
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I've discovered the most popular three artists on my local radio are Michael Buble, Meat Loaf and Dire Straits.

Only one of those three are awesome unfortunately.
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Old 11-23-2009, 12:49 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Radio is for people who don't have either a cd or mp3 player in their car.
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Old 11-23-2009, 04:31 AM   #43 (permalink)
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I have all the music if im in the house. If im not in the house i have my ipod with me. If i feel like a change i have Last.FM, Spotify etc

The radio is dead to me.
Spotify killed the radiostar.
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Old 11-23-2009, 10:42 AM   #44 (permalink)
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I haven't listened to the radio since I was around 13 or 14 and got my CD player. A year later I got a CD player that could play MP3 CD's so rather than carrying 7 CD's in my bag, I could just have one CD in my CD player and choose between 5 to 7 albums. Then when I was 16 I got my 20 GB Creative Zen MP3 player was that awesome until the headphone jack decided to stop working. From there I used an iPod for awhile, but I ended up dropping it and the damn thing's hard drive frozen (Yes this was before they started using Flash Memory). My car has a cassette player in it so I have one of those blank cassettes with the wire that plugs into my MP3 player, plus I carry a few back up CD's incase my Zune battery dies. All in all, I've worked incredibly hard to make sure I never have to listen to the radio ever again. If I wanted to hear ad's every five minutes I'd watch TV.
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Old 11-23-2009, 11:58 AM   #45 (permalink)
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I haven't listened to the radio since I was around 13 or 14 and got my CD player. A year later I got a CD player that could play MP3 CD's so rather than carrying 7 CD's in my bag, I could just have one CD in my CD player and choose between 5 to 7 albums. Then when I was 16 I got my 20 GB Creative Zen MP3 player was that awesome until the headphone jack decided to stop working. From there I used an iPod for awhile, but I ended up dropping it and the damn thing's hard drive frozen (Yes this was before they started using Flash Memory). My car has a cassette player in it so I have one of those blank cassettes with the wire that plugs into my MP3 player, plus I carry a few back up CD's incase my Zune battery dies. All in all, I've worked incredibly hard to make sure I never have to listen to the radio ever again. If I wanted to hear ad's every five minutes I'd watch TV.
I'm pretty much the same way, except that I do actually tune in on the radio once in a blue moon to see what's new in the world of music. Unlike most people, I don't believe everything on the radio sucks. But the times I hear something good are few and far between. I think more than half the stations in this town play spanish-language music, not bad per se (as I do enjoy some reggaeton from time to time) but come on already. We have only one crap rock station, one top forty, a couple rap/hip hop stations, a classic rock station and an oldies station...three country stations and about 10 spanish stations. Between all the Spanish and the advertisments, it usually doesn't make for a good listening experience.
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Old 11-23-2009, 04:15 PM   #46 (permalink)
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I still listen to the radio, there are some really great stations over here that are diverse/ interesting/ a little more obscure and not the predictable top 40 stuff. Whenever I'm in my car I listen to the radio, I actually discover great bands that I hadn't heard of and hear about great gigs around town.
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Old 11-24-2009, 06:18 AM   #47 (permalink)
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not me!

its going to be a dying thing now spotify has come on the scene. boohoo
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Old 11-24-2009, 09:48 AM   #48 (permalink)
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I still do because I stupidly forget to bring CDs with me every time I hit the road, I need to get it together, I always spent most of the time speeding through every station, which could go on for 10 minutes until I actually find something worth listening to... usually when it's half over or the signal is starting to mess up.

But if I have to choose between Bad Company and Grandma's seasonal Christmas music compilation, then yeah.
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Old 11-24-2009, 01:41 PM   #49 (permalink)
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I always listen to radio in the car, that way you don't have the pressure of pleasing everyone else in the cars musical tastes, radio is common ground. Most of my friends are way into other genres.
And always on a saturday night, when a special show thing comes on, it plays the best songs ever for me. They've even played at large Colours events as a Dj station, I've seen them twice (called GBX btw if anyones interested.)
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Old 11-24-2009, 02:00 PM   #50 (permalink)
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I'm glad sometimes that I don't drive which means I don't 'accidentally' leave my music at home so all that I have to listen to is local radio Go on just admit it people you love belting out the No1 single with the bass booming and windows open innit?
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