I fondly remember a trip to the USA in 2007. I was visiting a friend in Phoenix, only to find out that the KDST channel in GTA SA wasn’t entirely parody.
Got those who don’t know, GTA had a bunch of parody radio channels, KDST was the rock turned channel where Guns and Roses front man, Axl Rose was the voice actor for the DJ.
Turns out there was a rock station in Phoenix KDKB ‘everything that rocks’ where Alice Cooper hosted a show a couple hours every evening. If was really surreal driving around in America, for the first time, with a channel on that would occasionally play one of the songs in the GTA playlist.
Anyway I listened to them back home for a while, via internet radio, because we don’t have dedicated rock radio. Unfortunately they got sold off… Rip
Well if you brunch at a typical retirement home, won’t you get that type of radio?
Yeah I only got the community name after posting and decide to keep it up regardless. The difference in radio culture is quite notable.
On my recent trip to Europe it was fascinating what songs I’d hear on the radio that had crossed the ocean and seemed to still be in regular circulation on the radio and how the compared to the current regular circulation at home
I will say, GTA’s parody radio stations are a really good parody of what radio stations actually play. From your description that rock station sounded pretty similar to any rock stations I’ve listened to (including specific shows hosted by specific people) although looking into it, I’m realizing that both of the rock stations I’ve listened to enough to remember are from much smaller conglomerates, one of which is only 4 stations on a single shared tower while the other is a regional conglomerate with a couple dozen stations in 7 markets so ymmv
If you’d like I can pm you the websites since both companies offer internet radio streams as well
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Love to listen to three hours of car ads on a five hour drive, while cruising around in a 2004 Honda Civic that I plan to keep driving for another decade.
I bet you still have a CD Player in there so why bother
I do have a player, but I no longer own a burner
Kids these days needing 21 pilots. Back in my day we only had 4, and they were all of them were from Stone Temples.
21 pilots, in this economy?
Right? Even inflation adjusted since the Stone Temple Pilots debut album “Core” release in 1992, the 137.4% inflation rate they should only be asking for 9.496 pilots. So asking for an additional 11.504 pilots for a total of 21 pilots is just greedy.
We did have to Blink 182 times. With all 11 Fingers.
And 9 inch long fingernails!
I remember when KoRn’s R used to be the right way around.
Sadly, that’s on the oldies station now.
Cuz im dead and bloat ted
spicy food at a restaurant be like:
spicy food at a restaurant be like:
One consistent exception to this in my experience is Indian food. If you ask for your biryani to be “spicy” then say goodbye to your loved ones and make peace with your maker before the first bite.
Yeah that one time the concerned waiter in the indian restaurant came back to reconfirm I wanted it ‘spicy’ should’ve been my clue to say ‘you know what you’re right I’ll take it mild’. Mistakes were made that day.
At my favorite thai restaurant, they have “thai spicy” variants of some items on the menu. I tried it once and never again; my mouth went numb for hours… I thought I liked spicy food but my respect for what “spicy” means in different cultures solidified!
Another time, at the same restaurant, there was a double date happening at the table next to ours. One macho guy wanted “thai spicy”, started sweating and almost threw up at the table, then had the nerve to blame and shout at the waiter although they asked him to confirm he wanted it two times… I’ve never felt so much second-hand embarassment in my life.
It was more consistent back in the day, now they’ve lowered the max heat substantially. In the 90s if you were Desi and asked for proper spicy it was guaranteed attempted manslaughter and I miss the dopamine hit of that near death experience. Still can do it at home but there’s something nice about experiencing it more formally.
You still have to find the right spot. There’s an indian joint near me where getting the spiciest version still wasn’t enough for a friend and me. We asked if they had anything to make it hotter and they finally brought out raw onions slathered in hot sauce. Dunked those suckers in and we had a little bit of a bite in the meal.
Then there’s the thai place next door that actually does spice. Beautiful, sweet, ‘I’ll take a 4 out of 5 on the scale’ and you need to take a second between each bite to cool off. I think it’s because we have a lot more southeast asians in our area than indians, so you get the more authentic experience.
Tell them “Indian Spicy” and enjoy!
I like to send it back and tell the chef he forgot the spicy.
I just tell them I don’t want white people spicy.
I’m white, my wife is Desi. When we go to Indian restaurants, we have to order each other’s food. She asks for mild and gets hot, I ask for hot and get mild-medium. So, when I ask for mild for her food, she actually gets mild.
She’s someone who finds pepper spicy, and I often struggle to find the spice in a habanero.
Would your username be in any way related to your appreciation of spicy food?
Unrelated, but it does get me a little more power behind my name
This. Absolutely this.
Q: What even is an “imagine dragon”?
A: Imagine dragon deez nuts across your face.Bad dragon!
Mmmm is like to imagine a bad dragon right about now…
dude at least you have something that even calls itself a “rock station”
nothing within 70 miles of me except jesus music, country, and npr
thank fuck for bluetooth and tidal
Public radio has a surprising amount of fun music if you listen at the right time.
An old buddy of mine is one of the DJs on my local NPR. He does a music show every Saturday night that is just the mid-aughts indie hipster shit we buried ourselves in during college.
You can also listen to Internet radio for free.
I love Radio Paradise. It came preloaded on Rhythmbox when I first switched over to Linux. I’ve found some great music from that station!
Why is this so accurate.
Because like 3 companies own nearly all radio stations in the US, so they’re all the same
Except I’m in Europe. I think it’s just a common thing of those kind of radio.
They played shit like Candlebox for two decades to wear down any resistance to crap music. The people that still cared are long gone from radio listening I imagine.
Woah woah woah, let’s not bring grunge into this
I would never have classified them as grunge, they were just around during the same time period.
Yeah, sometimes I turn the radio on because I just don’t wanna fiddle with Bluetooth, smartphones etc and it’s faster. But holy moly sometimes I turn it back off after 5 seconds.
Some would say your life was pretty sad
but you lived it anyway
local rock stations
yeah, Im not convinced that is still a thing. The vast majority of terrestrial radio stations are owned by large corporations. “Local” is a big stretch there.
You have the 1996 Communications Act to thank for that; it gave a free pass for Clear Channel (Paramount) to buy up every local radio station in America and effectively dictate culture to the US and the wider hegemony.
My area is down to one independent commercial station. Everything else on the FM band is owned by iHeartMedia.
Interesting question. How is it with traditional FM am in the us? In Germany (and I thought more country’s) DAB is taking over. While it is still broadcast it has lowered to bar for smaller players. But You still have to pay for a slot you can broadcast on. Although you just send a data stream to the actual broadcaster.
With the Internet being a thing for a while I am asking myself why you would run a broadcast channel (FM am dab) anyway. High cost in equipment, licenses and energy are a high barrier for normal people. And if You have a cooperation behind you then you won’t have full control over content.
So why are there still normal stations around and even new ones popping up? Because we have these receivers in our cars?
Digital radio in the US almost isn’t a different service; it’s kind of weird, digital is broadcast alongside the traditional analog, you tune the radio to the analog signal first and then digital subcarriers are available if you have a compatible receiver. Find me an American who isn’t a broadcast engineer or ham that has any idea what the fuck I’m talking about; nobody uses that shit.
In my area (and the following paragraph will narrow that down to about 17,000 square miles), there are a lot of iHeartRadio affiliates like WDCG and WRCQ. You’ve got some locally owned conglomerates, like Capitol Radio that owns several prominent TV and radio stations chief among them is WRAL-TV and WRAL-FM. The biggest independent station, as in “one company, one transmitter” I can think of is WKRR transmitting a classic rock format on 92.3, home of the Two Idiots Named Chris show.
I’m not counting the public/college stations like WUNC, nor 88.1 Jesus FM WGOD.
The entire industry seems propped up by the drive time morning shows. The vast majority of Americans forgot about radio when they bought an mp3 player and now everybody uses Spotify. Or that one weird guy who’s still got Pandora. Broadcast radio is mostly ads, so unless you’re looking for news, weather or traffic you’re better off with streaming services.
I Heart Radio seems to own every station in my area but one. Its all ads with the same corpo approved top 100 {station theme here} slop playlist on loop.
“What if I explained the Green text joke as a tweet?”
deep gravely DJ voice: WAKEUP! You’re listening to KPW101.9, the Sleeeeeedge. (sound of hammer breaking through concrete wall) Your one-stop-shop for the latest and greatest, the hardest and fastest, the nonstop torrent of melt-your-face-off ROCK! Rock. rock-rockrockrock. I’m your guide through the River Styx and the Fires of Hell, R-R-R-andy Jay. Let’s jump head first into the molten magma of today’s grittiest, nastiest, most elite hits. Up next… Bruno Mars!
Sklar brothers had a bit about KSHE-95, a very real and ridiculous classic rock station out of St. Louis that is still doing this shit. I love it.
Meanwhile on Satellite Radio…
“Hey what’s up Liquid Metal, this is Kurt Crozier from Demon Semen. This new song of ours, we wrote as a valentine to our fans, it’s all about how there will always be negative people in your life who try to drag you down, and how you just have to rise above it and learn to love yourself and love each other. Here’s our new single, Crows Feast on Your Bloody Entrails. We hope you like it.”
Not When Crows Tick on Windows?
Great suggestion, listening now
BUTTROCK FTMFW
“LOOKATHISPHOTOGRAPH”
Sort of related, reminded me of a coworker that was big into metal expressing how profoundly disappointed he was after hearing of a group named “Savage Garden” and then hearing their music.
Five Finger Death Punch is an emo band
