For a change this morning, I'm hearing the local 'classic rock' radio station using a PC, Google Chrome, and http://player.liquidcompass.net/KSWDFM. Here's the problem: they just played (in this order) Journey, The Beatles, The J. Geils Band, and Boston. Except for maybe The Beatles, I really, really don't care to hear selections from any of these groups - given the choice, I wouldn't play them myself.
This particular station (KSWD The Sound 100.3 http://thesoundla.com/?nid=7) boasts that, on a daily basis, they never repeat a song. They do, however, play lots of the same songs on a daily basis; mostly lots of the same ones highly commercial corporate stations like this (i.e Bonneville International of Salt Lake City http://www.bonneville.com/?nid=2) have been pushing on a formulaic basis to listeners for years and decades. Considering all of the music entertainment choices available today, I simply cannot bring myself to regularly tune into this same old type of mediocre and tired content. Mostly, I'm referring to middle-of-the-pack, [at one time] nationally and commercially successful bands / brand names? such as Boston, Heart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. ad nauseam.
That said, I can still listen to and like extended plays of any number highly influential and commercially successful [rock and other genre] groups from the 1960s and 1970s. For instance, this week I listened to and sorta studied up on the first six studio albums by Led Zeppelin and I often explore the Rolling Stones' extensive catalog. Finally, it's fair to note that I enjoy portions of the programming on 'The Sound' such as the comedy breaks and the 'rock history' offerings. They'll be playing 10 selections from 1969 at 10:00 this morning -- I think I'll struggle through a couple of hours of the commercials, mishmash, and stuff I like and listen in / listen up / lend an ear.
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