Who still listens to the car radio, as in broadcast music?

[CGI_Ram]

I am pretty much 100% Sirius XM.

I can get FoxNews if there is something news worthy, NFLN, and with music whatever genre I am in the mood for.

 

[Force16X]

just for sporting events as i drive to work. my dislike for commercials has no end.

 

[RhodyRams]

And now a word from our sponsors ;

 

[Prime Time]

Mad Season , Wolfmother, Tool, Temple of the Dog, Filter, Queens of the Stone Age, Army of Anyone, Highly Suspect, Baroness, Clutch, Chevelle (esp last album) and especially Days of the New!!!!! I could go on and on, man. I'm just a rocker, love finding and absorbing new bands not excluding all the vintage Classic Rock.

Oh believe me I'd love to find new bands and new songs to excite me but it just never happened. My son, who is 26, has sent me lists of newer artists over the years. I've listened to them all and heard nothing of interest.

It sounds like rehashed versions of songs that were done much better at an earlier time. The talent to play the instruments and sing is there but there's little creativity to write a decent original song.

Maybe it's an age thing. My parents raised me on jazz and classical. When the 60's hit they hated everything I listened to. I really never wanted to be that closed-minded but here I am. Will check out the artists on your list. Thanks!

Btw every morning I'm woken up with a song in my head. This morning it was "Something" by George Harrison. This has been going on for years now. My wife always asks me, "What song is it today?"

That's hilarious, so do I! I wasn't around in the '70s and I was just a pup in the '80s so many of my cassettes are older than I am and still work beautifully. Meanwhile most of the CDs I bought during the post-cassette/pre-mp3 late '90s are long since dead.

It is amazing that they still work perfectly. The CD's on the other hand never sounded right. They are grating on my ears. From what I've read they were recorded too loud.

It wasn't MTV's fault, it was the sunset strip and greedy club owners who started making young bands pay to play in the mid '80s. Soon that pay-to-play crap (google it) became the norm across the country.

So the bars and clubs that used to serve as breeding grounds for underground movements (which is where a lot of the great bands came from) became hostile to those same young people. Meanwhile, radio stations were rapidly conglomerating and losing their local presences.

Good points but MTV's first song ever played was prophetic, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. The emphasis began to be about what a band looks like instead of the quality of their music.

This took us to the late 80's which led to rap and reality TV, which infected the entertainment industry like a virus. Today it's shows where contestants parade themselves in front of the cameras to win a prize, sort of like a musical Gong Show.

The last time I played with a band in a club was in the mid-80's and we were paid. I can tell you this, we would have never paid a club owner to play, so yeah if that's what really happened then it's a tragedy for musicians and their audience.

The record company owners have been screwing artists over and stealing from them since the beginning, so I have zero compassion for them losing their shirts because of the internet.

Unfortunately artists are still getting screwed over and stolen from but this time by the public. There is little incentive for them to create music.

You Tube has taken the place of MTV and radio for me. MTV seems to be run by adolescents for adolescents, while radio is run by corporate types that are more interested in ad revenue than playing good music.

AM radio was king during the 60's, at least while I was living in the SF Bay area. They played jazz, pop, rock and in no particular order. You could go for a drive and without changing the station you would hear Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Sinatra, Dylan and every new pop song. Today it's a loop of maybe 30 to 40 songs repeated over and over and interspersed with commercials.

The music, new and old, is out there if one wants to search for it, and that's a good thing. We all get to listen to what we want but radio has become obsolete, at least for me.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omja1ivpx0

 

[shovelpass]

No AUX cable, no cassette player, shotty CD player so I'm forced to listen to the radio, but I only drive once or twice a week. I've grown tired of listening to the same old music so I listen to NPR because I'm better than everyone.

 

[~lyser]

My stereo is loud as fuck and has a cable to one of those old click wheel iPods in the glove box. Last 7 hour drive, I didn't even get through all the songs that start with "B". Classics like Floyd, Rush and Sabbath and newer stuff like Clutch, Witchcraft and Brant Bjork. I don't even know if my radio works and I have not heard a commercial in years. I imagine it would take a hell of a road trip to get all the way from Alabama Thunderpussy to Year Long Disaster.

 

[ScotsRam]

I have digital radio in the car and at the office. It's great because there are a good forty or so stations to choose from. I listen to a station that purports to play rock music but even that is going downhill, too many commercials and too many repeats - I'm going to switch to their rivals who have a 'no repeat guarantee' even though I don't like the hosts so much.

On the commute home I always have the iPod on though. Something loud and screamy. I like screaming along at the top of my lungs as the car inches along the congested streets... the looks you get from other drivers are precious.

 

[Mojo Ram]

I still listen to car radio. Local sports talk and classic rock mostly.

On the subject...i'm cleaning up my place today, and found my old random electronics cubby drawer.
Found this.

 

[Mojo Ram]

And these...and i also found a couple old chargers. I'm anxiously awaiting whats stored on these old bad boys. Lol

 

[Dieter the Brock]

And these...and i also found a couple old chargers. I'm anxiously awaiting whats stored on these old bad boys. Lol

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Yes!!!!
Hahahahaha so glad you shared this
I like to collect late 90's / 2000's obsolete technology

How fucked up is this Motorola Beeper watch i just got a few days ago -- I bought this on Ebay for 15$

And yes!
I love car radio and that's all i listen too on the road.

 

[Angry Ram]

I only listen to independent radio stations..can't stand the fact that iheartradio, Cumulus , and all the other media conglomerates are taking over local stations

I used iHeartRadio to listen to my hometown stations live 500 miles away. And their podcasts. Plus I plug it with my aux cable so its just like I'm back home. So it's not all too bad.

 

[BonifayRam]

I am pretty much 100% Sirius XM.

I can get FoxNews if there is something news worthy, NFLN, and with music whatever genre I am in the mood for.

VERY BIG Radio guy!

Looks like @CGI & I could road trip with the same stations But he summed it up for me pretty much.....I would think its the variety that it offers to me & my family. Since I am similar to @Prime Time in my era of 60's/70's & 80's Rock/Blues I can usually find my needed fix somewhere on the hundreds of channels. The cost $$$$ irks me.

But my favorite channel is #125 The Patriot & recently the Tom Petty Radio station #31 just continues to satisfy greatly I will see him & Joe Walsh in concert in Tampa in May 6th.

 

[BatteringRambo]

Try a few @Prime Time , if I could choose I'd say; Days of the New (yellow album), Queens of the Stone Age (untitled) and Wolfmother (Cosmic Egg). Just saying, no pressure. Definitely Mad Season, you'll be missing out. You become your own DJ! No more (any) radio or satellite for me, been awhile I'm extinct.


(Do enjoy Joe Rogan's podcast if that counts as radio, ( then I lied, haha), he's badass and now I went off topic sorta.)

 

[Prime Time]

Try a few @Prime Time , if I could choose I'd say; Days of the New (yellow album), Queens of the Stone Age (untitled) and Wolfmother (Cosmic Egg). Just saying, no pressure. Definitely Mad Season, you'll be missing out. You become your own DJ! No more (any) radio or satellite for me, been awhile I'm extinct.


(Do enjoy Joe Rogan's podcast if that counts as radio, ( then I lied, haha), he's badass and now I went off topic sorta.)

Thanks for taking the time to make suggestions. I'll check them out.

 

[RamBall]

I havent even tuned the radio in my truck to a station, AM or FM. My new addiction is Amazon prime, I stream on my phone at work, workin in the garage or in my truck. I have about 2.5 gigs on a usb drive in my truck, but rarely listen to it anymore.

 

[RedRam]

Same here. I still have cassettes I recorded from the 70's and 80's that work fine. That's usually what I listen to.

Every 5 minutes or so there are 5 to 6 minutes of commercials on AM radio. No thanks! ESPN is a wasteland especially since I have zero interest in baseball or basketball. The wife has satellite radio in her car and swears by it.

That's sad but understandable. The music industry went down the toilet around the late 80's. Thanks MTV.

It depends on what I'm driving. The car has XM, the truck does not. Mostly, it's XM in the car. If I can't find something I want to listen to on XM, then there's tape, CD, AM/FM as options. If I decide to keep this car for awhile, I'll install an AUX setup so I can stream stuff from the phone. I tried one of those FM transmitter things and it sucked huevos grandes. On the drive home from LA Sunday night I spent most of the 5 and half hours flipping between 70 (blues channel) and 31 (Tom Petty channel). I heard some great, GREAT, old music as well as some more recent offerings. I feel bad for the dog in the back seat...it gets pretty loud back there! :shocked:

 

[kurtfaulk]

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I never willingly listen to the radio. For at least the last 20 years. I have my usb stick with whatever music i want to listen to and plug it into the car.

Since prince died i have only listened to his music in the car. You tube exploded with unreleased prince songs and i recorded all the ones i liked. First i started with material that can't be bought in cd form. The family and madhouse. That madhouse 8 album stayed in my car for 4 months, i couldn't let it go. If anyone likes to listen to jazz give it a go.

The last few months i have put 70 of his unreleased songs on the usb and listen to that. Good stuff.

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[Prime Time]

(Tom Petty channel)

The wife listens to that channel in the car. Out here in Cumberland we have the Alice Cooper FM radio show which is pretty cool.

@BatteringRambo

I bypassed Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, and Temple of the Dog because I've listened to them before and am not a fan of grunge.

Listened to:

Mad Season - Long Gone Day, Wake Up, and River of Deceit - . I liked the singing and the playing is competent but the songs didn't move me. In fact it was depressing.

Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief, Victorious, New Moon Rising - I liked Joker and the Thief the best. Hearing some Black Sabbath influence with much better singing. Riff-rock - pretty good.

Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot, Take a Picture, Where Do we Go From Here - Nicely done but not my cup of tea.

Army of Anyone - My Name Is Human, Lydia - Meh...

Days of the New - Touch, Peel, and Stand, The Down Town, Enemy - This is the band I liked best so far. Great guitar work and arrangements.

Will get to the rest on your list when I have time. Thanks again. We all have different tastes which can change from time to time. That's the beauty of music, there's something for everyone.

Have been listening to this band a lot lately. My wife says "You always go for the female singers with the weirdest voices. This sounds like crap!" LOL


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63VwWz1ij0

 

[RedRam]

The wife listens to that channel in the car. Out here in Cumberland we have the Alice Cooper FM radio show which is pretty cool.


Have been listening to this band a lot lately. My wife says "You always go for the female singers with the weirdest voices. This sounds like crap!" LOL


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63VwWz1ij0

Your wife complains a lot... :blah::rolllaugh:

She probably sounds a lot like my ex...

 

[Prime Time]

Your wife complains a lot... :blah::rolllaugh:

True but after 35 years together she has a lot to complain about...as do I.