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Grex > Music2 > #233: Alice 106.7 lives here in Detroit |  |
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krj
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response 1 of 34:
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Feb 11 01:38 UTC 2000 |
((( winter agora #131 <---> music #233 )))
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drewmike
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response 2 of 34:
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Feb 11 01:49 UTC 2000 |
When Doves Fly? The hell you say.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 34:
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Feb 11 02:49 UTC 2000 |
Do doves fly before or after they cry?
Perhaps we can arrange a country music station swap with western Michigan,
which (in my opinion) has an overabundance of mediocre country stations.
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gull
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response 4 of 34:
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Feb 11 02:57 UTC 2000 |
You can take some of our excess from up here, too. Also, a friend of mine
from South Carolina has often complained about the preponderance of country
there, so you could probably have some of theirs as well.
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jazz
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response 5 of 34:
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Feb 11 04:00 UTC 2000 |
Some of us *celebrate* when another country station falls.
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eeyore
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response 6 of 34:
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Feb 11 04:10 UTC 2000 |
Actually, it changed to Alice several months ago....and it's not an all
together bad format at all.....they ahve a really nice range of music.
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mcnally
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response 7 of 34:
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Feb 11 05:03 UTC 2000 |
I'd really welcome a country station that played country music which
I consider good, but I'm not holding my breath.. It's not as if I've
encountered such a thing in any of the other popular musical formats -
why should country be any different?
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cmcgee
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response 8 of 34:
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Feb 11 11:45 UTC 2000 |
W4 disappeared as a country station in early January. For those in the
eastern Washtenaw/western Wayne County area, my favorite country station is
actually an am station that has been broadcasting country music for 30 years.
WSDS at 1480 has a magnificent playlist, and very personable DJs.
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gypsi
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response 9 of 34:
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Feb 11 14:17 UTC 2000 |
Alice is pretty good, and I listen to it more than IQB or RIF now. Of course,
this doesn't mean much since the ratio of Planet 96.3 to Alice or any other
station is about 19027:4. =)
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jep
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response 10 of 34:
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Feb 11 16:22 UTC 2000 |
I was driving home from work, listening to W4 Country, when the
announcer (Michael J. Fox) came on, and said some light, flowery
things. He then played "The Dance" by Garth Brooks. And the radio
stopped playing music. For the next couple of days there was a steady
tone at 106.7, then they came out with their "80's, 90's and 70's"
format. It's all robot music; no DJs, except in the morning during the
week (I guess). What a disappointment.
I just this week found out where "Young Country" is on the dial, and so
I'll listen to it occasionally. There's also a country station in
Adrian -- out of range for most people in Ann Arbor, but good for
anywhere in Lenawee County.
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flem
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response 11 of 34:
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Feb 11 18:26 UTC 2000 |
I was somewhat impressed by Alice for about the first month or so they
were on the air. Good music, commercials no more obnoxious than any
other station, DJ's either weren't there or didn't talk much (I don't
remember which). But after about a month, it started to go downhill.
The promotional period was over. The playlist got padded with a lot of
junk I'd never heard of, let alone heard. It's still on my presets, but
I don't actually listen to it much, and not for long when I do.
Young Country is okay... they're sort of the 95.5 of country music,
overplaying about ten songs and throwing in a few of last weeks overplay
list for good measure now and then.
A good 80% of my radio listening time goes to NPR.
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gypsi
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response 12 of 34:
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Feb 11 19:36 UTC 2000 |
95.5 of country music...I love that. =)
NPR is my savior when in the U.P. On the Seney Stretch and a stretch of US-41
between L'Anse and Houghton, the seek will go all the way around the band (fun
to watch when bored to death on the Seney Stretch). You can, however, find
NPR if you play with the tuner yourself.
Yes, I have a tape deck,but it's broken. =)
(like my spacebar)
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gull
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response 13 of 34:
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Feb 11 20:33 UTC 2000 |
Yup...I forget which NPR station it is that you can get there, but I often
listen to it, too. (Maybe it's 103.5?)
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tpryan
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response 14 of 34:
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Feb 11 23:15 UTC 2000 |
Whatever happened to WiGGLe?
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carson
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response 15 of 34:
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Feb 12 06:30 UTC 2000 |
re #13: (it's WNMU, and it broadcasts on WAY too many frequencies... two
in the Marquette area alone [102.3 and 90.1, if you must know].)
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gull
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Feb 13 03:18 UTC 2000 |
There's also Michigan Tech's public radio station, on 91.1. Actually, I
think 91.1 is actually a translator from another frequency, but I'm not
sure. It covers well the area between Marquette and Houghton after you lose
WNMU. It's a Minnesota Public Radio feed, for political reasons. (If it
were CMU Public Radio, MTU would be getting their feed from NMU, their arch
rival school.)
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carson
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response 17 of 34:
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Feb 13 05:45 UTC 2000 |
(*ahem*... WNMU also gets feeds from Minnesota Public Radio [Prairie
Home Companion & a finance show that put out the joke book I read
at work, for two], plus feeds from Wisconsin Public Radio & Michigan
Public Radio. my understanding is that MPR does mostly news, as does
WPR. there's also the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, but I'm not sure
of what makes that up.)
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senna
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response 18 of 34:
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Feb 13 09:10 UTC 2000 |
The Planet doesn't impress me at all, but I'm amused that now we've had
a "decade change" (believe it or not, they seem to), they've begun
playing some music with guitar amplification again. Specifically, I
have managed to hear Smells Like Teen Spirit and some plugged in Bush
and Pumpkins tunes on there. Returning to their roots? A bit,
perhaps. 80's music is officially flourishing, again, as a retro
concept.
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gypsi
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response 19 of 34:
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Feb 14 15:17 UTC 2000 |
Well, they play "Alternative Classics from the 70's, 80's, and 90's".
Supposedly. I keep hearing songs that are by no means "alternative", but oh
well. So, you're going to hear the occasional Nirvana, Bush, Pearl Jam, etc
since they were alternative bands of the 90's (and today in some cases).
I prefer the stuff they play on Big Sonic Heaven...*true* "alternative"...when
that term meant alternative and not mainstream. ;-)
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senna
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response 20 of 34:
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Feb 14 19:09 UTC 2000 |
The ad may be the same, but the format has changed slightly. A couple years
before you arrived in town, The Planet moved from your basic alternative
station to one that had a slightly softer sound, targetted primarily at women.
They played a lot of contemporary alternative music, but "hard" stuff was
thrown out the window. Now that the decade has changed, "hard" stuff is
apparently considered to be something of a flashback. I went two or three
years without hearing a sing Nirvana or Bush song on that station.
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gypsi
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response 21 of 34:
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Feb 14 21:07 UTC 2000 |
I've been listening to the Planet since 1996, so I'm aware of the changes.
(Possible by my biweekly visits to town and Real Audio while in Kazoo). Nifty
keen. =) Anyway, I think you're right about Nirvana etc now being "old
alternative" instead of "new rock" (which is why they didn't play it).
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lumen
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response 22 of 34:
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Feb 15 21:12 UTC 2000 |
All of this being primarily a reminder that what is played on the radio
is simply bait for the advertisements. Stations play what the majority
listens to, with the hopes that their advertisements will also reach
that audience. (Most DJ's earn the bulk of their dough doing ads, as I
understand it).
It's very different out here, where country music stations are
plentiful-- about 3 mainstream and 2 that I call "Hispanic country,"
i.e., stations that play banda, norteno, tejano, etc.
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orinoco
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response 23 of 34:
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Feb 15 22:38 UTC 2000 |
(Clueless Midwesterner Question: what are banda, norteno, tejano, etc?)
(or should this be its own item?)
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keesan
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response 24 of 34:
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Feb 16 00:11 UTC 2000 |
What is the Planet?
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mcnally
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response 25 of 34:
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Feb 16 01:06 UTC 2000 |
I'm not familiar with banda.. Norteno and tejano are music genres that
started in the areas on either side of the Mexican/American border and
have filtered into other regions in the USA.
I tend to think of norteno as primarily originating in north-central and
north-western Mexico (e.g. Chihuahua, Baja California) and tejano as
being more Tex-Mex but I could easily be wrong -- my exposure has been
limited here in the American midwest.
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