Another Classic Rock Station Ahhh-Ahhh
The Hawk 94.5 has started its commercial-free introduction to to Wilmington airwaves. The first taste of candy is always free, doncha know.
Be still, my beating heart. A new place to hear:
The same 10 Fleetwood Mac tunes
The same 10 Lynryd Skynyrd tunes
The same 10 Eagles tunes
The same 10 Aerosmith tunes
The same 8 Steve Miller tunes
The same 8 Beatles tunes
The same 8 Tom Petty tunes
The same 8 Queen tunes
The same 8 Led Zeppelin tunes
The same 8 AC/DC tunes
The same 8 Van Halen tunes
The same 6 Bob Seger tunes
The same 6 Pink Floyd tunes
The same 6 Styx tunes
The same 6 Boston tunes
The same 6 Who tunes
The same 6 Stevie Ray Vaughan tunes
The same 4 Rush tunes
The same 3 Jimi Hendrix tunes
Hmm... Did I leave anyone out? Well, no. Not really... That’s pretty much it.
OK, throw in a sprinkle of Bad Co., Cars, Doobies, Frampton, Genesis, Heart, The Nuge, Thorogood, Yes, and ZZTop, rinse, lather & repeat... endlessly.
It may seem like a lot. But it’s not!!! Really!
At first it’s comforting. But it soon becomes maddening, you can’t get away from the same songs. Good songs. Great songs, even. But the same songs.
So now we’ve got three channels of ultra-homogenized cheez-whiz. Can the market bear it? Can the populace? Who will be the first to slip in the deep tracks(not piss-poor live covers of tunes repeated above)? Who will start the Rockabilly/Roots show? Who will play the tracks off the 2006 album of the artists whose ’76 album has provided endless hours of filler between the commercials(again, not gargly, poorly mixed live versions of the hits above)?
I hope Rock 104.5, The Bone 93.7 and The Hawk 94.5 find themselves identities which makes me switch to one of them for reasons other than avoiding the commercials on the other two channels, and give the voices in my head something new to sing along with.
Same old song and dance, indeed.
Be still, my beating heart. A new place to hear:
The same 10 Fleetwood Mac tunes
The same 10 Lynryd Skynyrd tunes
The same 10 Eagles tunes
The same 10 Aerosmith tunes
The same 8 Steve Miller tunes
The same 8 Beatles tunes
The same 8 Tom Petty tunes
The same 8 Queen tunes
The same 8 Led Zeppelin tunes
The same 8 AC/DC tunes
The same 8 Van Halen tunes
The same 6 Bob Seger tunes
The same 6 Pink Floyd tunes
The same 6 Styx tunes
The same 6 Boston tunes
The same 6 Who tunes
The same 6 Stevie Ray Vaughan tunes
The same 4 Rush tunes
The same 3 Jimi Hendrix tunes
Hmm... Did I leave anyone out? Well, no. Not really... That’s pretty much it.
OK, throw in a sprinkle of Bad Co., Cars, Doobies, Frampton, Genesis, Heart, The Nuge, Thorogood, Yes, and ZZTop, rinse, lather & repeat... endlessly.
It may seem like a lot. But it’s not!!! Really!
At first it’s comforting. But it soon becomes maddening, you can’t get away from the same songs. Good songs. Great songs, even. But the same songs.
So now we’ve got three channels of ultra-homogenized cheez-whiz. Can the market bear it? Can the populace? Who will be the first to slip in the deep tracks(not piss-poor live covers of tunes repeated above)? Who will start the Rockabilly/Roots show? Who will play the tracks off the 2006 album of the artists whose ’76 album has provided endless hours of filler between the commercials(again, not gargly, poorly mixed live versions of the hits above)?
I hope Rock 104.5, The Bone 93.7 and The Hawk 94.5 find themselves identities which makes me switch to one of them for reasons other than avoiding the commercials on the other two channels, and give the voices in my head something new to sing along with.
Same old song and dance, indeed.
posted by Doug Utton at Wednesday, October 18, 2006
2 Comments:
Couldn't agree with you more! The only good thing was at least being able to listen to music all day instead of idiot laced drivel. But that will soon change
now that 94.5 is going to be home of the John Boy & Billy Show. Again, just one of many instead of standing out and providing the variety that rock & roll is all about.
It's almost December...and I just found it... No jocks still... hmmmmm..but a few commercials. It's a softer version of what 104.5 WAS. And now 104.5 and The Bone are digging deep into obscure tracks... some that have I have never heard on the radio, or off! And I grew up on Rock!
tb, 45 in Wilmywood
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