Radio killed my flow

About a year ago some new station moved in to town and started playing 90’s alt-rock hits with a few 80’s and 00’s songs. The stations is always on in Michelle’s car and in Jason’s too, and I hear the virtues of the station when we’re out together. Sure, it’s better than listening to your typical 60’s thru 80’s rock station, but not really any different. In the time that I’ve travelled around with Michelle in the last couple months, I’ve heard this Depeche mode song a good 20 times. It sounds like it could be new or 20 years old, much like Franz Ferdinand sounds like it could be 30 years old or new. I don’t like the Depeche song but I’ve heard it more than songs that I absolutely love.

This makes me wonder about a few things:

a) Is this 94.7 just an oldies station for 20 somethings?
b) How can this Depeche thing not be payola?
c) Is rock n’ roll noise pollution?
d) Is rock n’ roll just rock n’ roll?

3 thoughts on “Radio killed my flow”

  1. We actually listen to 94.7 a fair amount at home. I like it because they generally have a good variety and if you catch certain shows like “the bottom 40” or “passport approved” you get some music that you wouldn’t hear anywhere else. I look at the station as the closest thing we have in Portland to KEXP in Seattle, though I think that KEXP is much better. But I totally agree that there are a select few new and old songs that they just seem to play over and over and over again like the said Depeche Mode song or NIN’s new super crappy song. Every Radio station no matter what their format repeats songs. For example 101.1 plays Metallica and Sabbath all the time, 92.3 should be renamed the Pink Floyd Station, and 104.9 (Tacoma) is named the funky monkey after the Beastie Boys “Brass Monkey” song (so you can guess what they play a lot of), but at least you don’t hear Usher’s “YEAH” played once every hour everyday for 2 years straight. If you want true variety you have to listen to 97.1 (and I doubt you’d like the music, I tend not too), 107.7’s (Seattle) no repeat weekend, or KEXP online.

    94.7 has actually been around for a long time, they just recently “slightly” changed the format to play some more older Alt Rock songs, and got rid of anything talk show orientated. They used to strictly play new songs, which meant even more repeats of songs that get old and annoying. Not really much of a change from the previous format.

    As for the poll, I go with D.

  2. Could you quote a couple of words from the Depeche song? You know, they were already “cool” when I was in high school. I had one of their albums, with Just Can’t Get Enough on it, which I loved. Then I hated everything else they’ve done. But I love Johnny Cash’s Personal Jesus.

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