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View Poll Results: What do you think of 97.9 CPRrocks | |
This station rocks my socks!
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I just listen because it is rock.
|    | 5 | 23.81% | |
This station is a last resort if nothing else is on the radio.
|    | 11 | 52.38% | |
I would never listen to this radio station, they suck.
|    | 2 | 9.52% |
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12-13-2006, 12:17 PM
|  | Band Member Band Whore | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Biloxi, MS Age: 29
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Rep Power: 50 | | | CPR hardly plays the type of rock that I like, punk and alternative. Seems everytime I tune in all I hear is Disturbed and Korn. We had a really cool rock station in Cali where I was, 80s, 90s and todays alternative. The played everything. We had the Adam Corolla morning show too. That was 100 times funnier than Lex and Terry. I don't find them funny at all. |
12-13-2006, 08:28 PM
|  | Band Member Band Whore | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Here Nor There
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Rep Power: 50 | | | detroit has 89X. they used to be alternative back in the 80's and early 90's, when alternative meant something different, until "alternative" became mainstream,. now their just like CPR, except a few old tunes they still throw in every now and then.
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12-14-2006, 03:21 AM
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Rep Power: 39 | | | "Alternative" has always been a word that I've had a problem with describing as a genre. Too many things get stuffed in that envelope. That's an idea for a thread...
What's your definition of "alternative"? or...
What bands do you consider "alternative"?
For the record it's all rock 'n' roll to me.
*Billy Joel reference unintended* |
12-14-2006, 11:22 AM
| | Band Member Band Whore | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Here Nor There
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Rep Power: 50 | | | Alternative rock
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. The name "alternative" was coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels that didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time.[2] As a specific genre of music, alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the indie music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, indie rock, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s
back in the 80's when there was just ROCK, then there was alternative rock. alternative to me was and always has been bands like; sonic youth, the cure, siouxsie and the banshees, depeche mode, Pixies, Violent femmes, and even R.E.M. was alternative. oh how the memories come back.....ahhhhhh
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12-14-2006, 12:11 PM
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12-14-2006, 12:35 PM
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12-14-2006, 12:47 PM
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CPR SUCKS! |
12-14-2006, 03:13 PM
|  | (((ThatGirl))) Screamo for Emo | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Originally Posted by sixstringer66  Alternative rock
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alternative rock (also called alternative music[1] or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. The name "alternative" was coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels that didn't fit into the mainstream genres of the time.[2] As a specific genre of music, alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the indie music scene since the 1980s, such as grunge, indie rock, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop. These genres are unified by their collective debt to the style and/or ethos of punk, which laid the groundwork for alternative music in the 1970s
back in the 80's when there was just ROCK, then there was alternative rock. alternative to me was and always has been bands like; sonic youth, the cure, I siouxsie and the banshees, depeche mode, Pixies, Violent femmes, and even R.E.M. was alternative. oh how the memories come back.....ahhhhhh | Ahh, the memories, indeed. I don't care if I'm showing my age, but for me the early 90s was the best time for music. Religiously, I still listen to what I had in my CD player in those days... Screaming Trees, Smithereens, Blind Melon, Soundgarden, AIC, Concrete Blonde, Counting Crows, PJ Harvey, Mudhoney, Green River, Love Battery, Velocity Girl, Sonic Youth, Sunny Day Real Estate... yadda yadda ya. And that list is just what I've listened to today.
I hope I don't come off like I'm a big fuddy duddy... I have taken a liking to some of the new bands today, but overall most of it sounds the same... kind of dull.
As far as CPR, I prefer to skip it on the old radio dial... but if I do listen to the radio, I tend to have it set to 92 Zew here in Mobile. They play a great array of the "alternative genre" compared to the other radio stations on the Gulf Coast.
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12-14-2006, 03:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie Ahh, the memories, indeed. I don't care if I'm showing my age, but for me the early 90s was the best time for music. Religiously, I still listen to what I had in my CD player in those days... Screaming Trees, Smithereens, Blind Melon, Soundgarden, AIC, Concrete Blonde, Counting Crows, PJ Harvey, Mudhoney, Green River, Love Battery, Velocity Girl, Sonic Youth, Sunny Day Real Estate... yadda yadda ya. And that list is just what I've listened to today.
I hope I don't come off like I'm a big fuddy duddy... I have taken a liking to some of the new bands today, but overall most of it sounds the same... kind of dull.
As far as CPR, I prefer to skip it on the old radio dial... but if I do listen to the radio, I tend to have it set to 92 Zew here in Mobile. They play a great array of the "alternative genre" compared to the other radio stations on the Gulf Coast. |
OMG,I am feeling sooooo old now,looking @ my list of what we called "Alternative " coming up.
THX,Julie
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12-14-2006, 04:04 PM
| | (((ThatGirl))) Screamo for Emo | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Originally Posted by Cherry-Bomb Productions OMG,I am feeling sooooo old now,looking @ my list of what we called "Alternative " coming up.
THX,Julie
LOL | The truth is, we can never control how old we are... just how old we feel inside. And listening to the same music I did when I was in college makes me feel young again. =)
As far as the music which is played today, "Corporate Rock"... I reiterate that I feel that most of it is garble, although every now and then I may say "Wow... who is that?" Overall, I just don't feel this "Corporate Rock" possesses any of the creativity and "punch" that music used to feel like... and I must use the "Alternative" of the 90s as a comparative example because simply... it was a new sound introduced to us which broke the humdrum of the hairbands... made us think, feel beyond the "party mentality" where most 80s rock took us, only leaving us with a monotonous hangover.
On a sidenote, I owe A LOT to MTV's 120 Minutes. I hold it high on my Top 5 best things that happened to my (eyes and) ears. But now... where is the music? Where is the talent? Where did it go? Back then my teevee was set to MTV 24/7... but now, I can't even tell you what channel it is. Hell, I might even still have it blocked.
Music has become such a business, ran by people who, it seems, don't even really listen to the music. It may sound like it's bad business, but obviously they are making money off of it... otherwise we wouldn't be forced fed that stuff, the stuff that they play on CPR and other stations like it. Or maybe the people who have no real taste in music overpopulate those that do... ?
P.S. The new Tom Waits CD set is absolutely mindblowing. If anyone is alternative, it's Tom Waits. =)
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