h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ugh! Commercial radio is The Pits. Have you ever listened to Capital Radio? I don't have a choice - on of my cow-orkers insists on having it on by his desk. It's horrendous. They play the same eight or so pop songs OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER AGAIN. Then, just when you're going to die, they PLAY THEM SOME MORE. Normally, I can tolerate pop music a little in the background if it's different songs all the time. But that "station" always plays the SAME BLOODY SONGS! They DRILL straight into my BRAIN. It's not much better on other stations, either... there used to be two good stations: Kiss FM, and then XFM (ah, sweet XFM!). However, last year X was bought by... whoop-de-doo... the Capital Group. And recently somebody bought Kiss and all the good DJs have been fired. It's a nightmare. There's NO good radio left, except for little pirate stations. Microradio ( http://www.radio4all.org/ ), it seems, is the only alternative that we have. *sigh*

I two have suffered the pain of listening to the horrors of commercial radio. Back in my college days (which by the way
was only about 6 months ago) there was a computer lab that I had access to where I spent a lot of time working on graphics and other assorted doo dads for my classes. The college was so kind as to supply a radio, much to my disappointment. The only time that radio was off was the rare occasions when I was in there alone. This radio spewed forth the same damn songs all the time into the wee small hours of the night. All crap all the time. Being from a small town with no selection, I was at first excited to be living in the big city now and how I now had such a huge selection of radio stations at my fingertips. Boy, was I wrong. You know it's bad when you change from one station to another and the song you just left gets played within in 5 minutes on the new station.
In am often in South Bend Indiana visiting my fiance, and just to give you an indication of how bad radio can be, this station there is infatuated with the work of Elton John, Rod Steward and Phil Collins. You can pretty much count on one of there songs being played at least once per hour. It is so bad that my fiance and I have a bet. We bet which of these three artists is currently on the radio. We'll play this at random times during the day. We place our bets for either of the three or neither, and would you believe that more often than not, one of the three is playing at the moment we turn on the radio. They don't exactly play the same song over and over again, they do actually make use of their huge catalogues of music, but the fact that they constantly play these three artists material boggles my mind. Just thought I'd share my thoughts on my own personal hatred of radio.

Ah, a kindred spirit. I share your pain, brother.

And there I was thinking that in such a large country as the US, there might be some good radio stations...!

Oh well, I suppose that's what independent record stores are for.

Whoo Hoo people on the same "wavelength" as me (top pun there). You probably wont even read this as I noticed you posted yours 6 months ago. There is no difference now between any radio station. Radio 1 is the absolute arse, even the great evening session is now too similar to all those wacky daytime jocks for my liking. XFM - not bad music but same every 2 hours, Kiss, OK after 7pm but again its the same every 2 hours. They really do insult our listening span, can no one concentrate more than 15 minutes? Mind you Music on TV is even worse. M2 is very good though if you have digital.