Gyaaaaah.

[athelind]

There was a day about a year ago where, every time I got in the car, I turned on the radio to hear KMAX playing a song that was currently loaded in my MP3 player. You can't just let a station like that slip away without comment.

This morning, I listened to the last five minutes of the KMAX countdown, and the first few minutes of "The Wolf", the commercial-free country station that's replacing it.

A mildly entertaining intro piece proclaiming the new station the "alpha predator" of the Bay Area radio scene gave way to some promising rockin' banjo -- maybe country music has evolved since my last road trip through flyover country.

It has.

I can only describe what followed as "Redneck Rap", Southern-Fried voices chanting about their pickup trucks and cowboy hats.

Comments

[haystack.livejournal.com]

Blah. I know the feeling. I've lost more than one great station to format changes. :(

[breimh.livejournal.com]

The Wolf tried to make it's presense known here in the Great Pudget Sound region, as well. They tanked in under a week, quickly replaced by an oldies pre-recorded track station that I can't recall the name of now. Eventually, the idiots who are trying to push their Country-rap garbage will get the clue that they're only wanted in back-woods midwestern trailer parks of interrelated families and the Bush family homes.

Oh, and I hope it was a good day, yesterday. Happy Belated Birthday.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

(shrugs) This backwoods Midwestern redneck listens to NPR, mainly. There are a few real people living here in Fly-Over Space. We're not ALL cartoons.

[jakebe.livejournal.com]

That's...odd. I knew country had gotten a lot more poppy since the days of Shania and Faith Hill and such, but...country rap?

I'm so sorry you had to lose a great radio station to this. You have my condolences. ;) Does this spell the end of radio for you, or is there another great radio station lurking about the airwaves somewhere? I've only been able to settle on the NPR station and KFOG since I've moved here.

-J

[(Anonymous)]

Similar Billboards popping up here and vanishing just as quick. Another Clear Channel franchise.

[rakeesh.livejournal.com]

That's not evolved? That's downsized. > _ > *comforts you*

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

Of course the evolutionary process involves a lot of freaks and failed experiments.... :) so maybe its evolved, but to something that will be selected out of the meme-pool.

[raemuz.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, "the wolf" is out here too. What, are they just going to have the same radio stations wherever you go.

[taral.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Well, as long as they move at a good clip and have some decent fiddle in there. That's what I freakin' hate about Country music - you guys are pretending to be rednecks, play fiddle and play fiddle fast, not this dumbshit dirge crap.

[terminotaur.livejournal.com]

Country and rap together? That sounds like the anti-Reeses-peanut butter cup experiment. Two things that go terrible together. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not sure I have the courage to find out.

[araquan.livejournal.com]

*hugs* >.<

[thoughtsdriftby.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear of your loss
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KLIV was my favorite when programming was mostly rock garage bands, surf music, and the British invasion. Early KOME was fun, KFAT on off days... even K101 when "Anything Goes" was on. Now I doubt anyone at King Broadcasting in Seattle would know where KLIV's real-to-real tape collection ended up.
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KKUP (91.5) will have a Psychedelic Rock Marathon March 23-25 but that's no replacement for years of lost programming.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

Stinks. I liked KMAX. I think the advertisers must force good radio off the air.

See, my pet theory is that advertisers and marketoids in general think if they are obnoxious enough and hated enough, you'll give them money. Good music isn't obnoxious and hateable, so it must go!

[thoughtsdriftby.livejournal.com]

More that the market for products of questionable value are not mated well with good taste, thoughtful opinion, or preferences for quality. The profit is in playing adverts to mind numb sheep with some sound to fill in between ads. People who seek quality will usually research a product to some degree and seek value separately from any advertisement.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

mate, that sucks! and on your birthday! (almost)