Music Just Isn't the Same Anymore.

[Hap]

You've got great taste for being such a youngster.

Have no Der Binger, but lots of great vocal music in the library.  Love America's music from the depression through the golden years.

Think I ditched all my "modern" stuff during the last move.  Some great work, but TONS of pap.

"Down hill since Mozart," lololol.  Mahler and Co pretty cool.  Copland way good.  Check out Julie London's "You'd Be Nice to Come Home To" on the Ultra Lounge series album, "Wild Cool and Swinging."

She gets me at "hello."

[ROX]

Must...that's a REALLY cool flashback.

97 was the sister station of WISN-AM, and Channel 12.  They were all Hearst (the newspaper magnate & Patty Hearst's dad) stations at the time.

I wanted to work for WLPX when it was rock and applied many times.  They flipped it to Top 40 and changed the call sign to WBTT-FM.  When their evening guy left to go do afternoons at "The Apple" in Indianapolis, I got the call from Program Director B.J. Harris (also morning man) to do overnights. 

Wierd, because overnights didn't start until 2 AM...I did evenings at WXLC-FM Waukegan/Chicago until midnight, then drove to Milwaukee and did 2 AM to 6 AM on B97.  Long days, but it was fun working in Milwaukee.

Later I did mornings on WAUK-AM.  I wasn't big on doing Country back then...just biding my time.

I worked with Marilyn Mee, Steve Brill, and a number of good folks back then.



ROX

[Rogue9Volt]

Ah man...  I've got a really long (And strange) list...

Basics Only:

Rock
-Bob Seger
-Led Zeppelin
-Beatles
-AcDc
-Queen (Brian May  )
-Stones
-BTO

Country
-Johnny Cash
-George Strait
-Hank (Sr., Jr.)
-Mostly anything before 1979

Punk
-Descendents
-Bad Religion
-Bad Brains
-Rancid (Older stuff)
-Jawbreaker

[wrongwayric]

Nazareth, Sweet, Molly Hatchet, Janis Joplin. Johnny Cash, Red Sovine (Daddy's Girl), Jerry Reed, Johnny Paycheck, Eddie Rabbit, Dr. Hook, Donovan. The list goes on and on. If you do a search on You tube for Red Sovine and look for the Daddys Girl song it will bring a tear to your eye if you have a daughter or are a daughter. I believe the one i watched was a tribute from a daughter to her father.

[RATTFINK]

Punk
-Descendents
-Bad Religion
-Bad Brains
-Rancid (Older stuff)
-Jawbreaker

 

[Rogue9Volt]

 

[bongaroo]

"you don't have to be old to enjoy old music"

nor young to enjoy new music.


With the majority of radio stations in America owned by 2 companies it's hard to hear anything but what they want you to.  And apparently they want us to listen to crap.

[Holden McGroin]

The reason the old stuff tends to be better is that only the good stuff remains after filtered by time. 

90% of the old stuff sucked too, but the stuff that sucked was lost in the dusty boxes in the garage, and probably thrown out.

New stuff is unfiltered and you get the 90% bad along with the good.

For every Mozart, there were 9 Salieri's whose music are no longer performed.

[DiabloTX]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qdH8uwDlyU&feature=related

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