IME that demographic is "Deadheads trying to be open-minded about music."
Again, in my experience, and I was kind of dead center in the time and place for this stuff (let me tell you about the time I hung out with Rusted Root at an outdoor festival at a ski resort in PA while I was tripping on so much acid!!!!) there was a lot of DMB overlap in the early days (let me tell you about the time I got kicked out of a DMB show at the Stone Balloon in Newark, DE for being drunkenly belligerent and trying to fight with a bouncer!!!!) but not so much when DMB were cemented as a white basball hat college bro band.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Like, I am almost positive that I saw an outdoor festival show featuring Dave Matthews Band, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and like... Widespread Panic or something. I mean, I know I saw Bela Fleck and DMB at an outdoor festival show, but I can't remember who the third band was.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
In the middle of all that grunge, here's this guy singing "Are you the cup that I hold by the cheekbones? / I pull you close and I drink you up."
I was trying to figure out why I think of them alongside Crash Test Dummies, and it's because they both sang a lot about breasts and sex and things in a way that ran counter to the irony/sarcasm/violence of other "alternative" music on the radio at the time. And who wants to have ironic sex, anyway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4j7EQtKPUc
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
xp - gotcha, that's exactly what i was talking about! now i know. the friend of friend who i knew sold my friend and i mushrooms once and iirc that guy was pretty nice and basically acted like i was invisible, which i liked. i also once drove him for four hours to visit friends at a college (i was visiting different friends) and we listened to the greatest hits of bob dylan vol 1 and 2 over and over and over both there and back. i mean while we're telling lol stories. i guess those aren't very good stories now that i re-read them.
eazy only pays attention to the songs about boobz looooooooooool ;)
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
lolling at the rusted root comparison, so otm
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Much better lyrics, though. (That "Thanksgiving" song above is A+.)
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
I actually don't know Poi Dog's music very well at all, but one of the band members used to work as a sound guy at the Beat Kitchen and ended up recording C4n4st4 on a few occasions and is a pretty decent dude. IIRC, the band started out in Hawaii before moving to Austin and then Chicago.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, I went with:
91.5 WBEZ93.1 WXRT98.7 WFMT97.1 The Drive103.5 KISS FM107.5 WCGI
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure they are very nice people, and they clearly have a ~chill vibe~ -- I don't think I'm super into their music but that's true for lots of things. More power to them for lasting this long.
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
xp Yeah, they're totally Chicago's Rusted Root.
XRT used to (and maybe still does) cheerlead some of the most tepid and mediocre Chicago bands...but then, they never played local music (outside of "Local Anesthetic") unless the band was on a major label (cf. the Insiders, Nicholas Tremulis).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
Nicholas Tremulisthis is a perfect example! a guy I truly hadn't heard of til I got to Chicago and then he was mr big man
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ Nicholas Tremulis
they never played local music (outside of "Local Anesthetic") unless the band was on a major label
I don't know that this is entirely true. I've heard locals JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound (on Bloodshot) a few times.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link
And I *think* C4n4st4 got a couple of spins during regular programming hours.
But it's probably the exception.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
Allegedly the alt-countryish band I was in for like 6 months in 2006 or whenever got played on that show before I joined, and they were never signed to anything.
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
lol I ruined their careerz
wtg
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
I dunno, XRT definitely has its flaws. I agree that it often defaults to the bland and rootsy, and I don't give a shit about the BoDeans, either. But I don't know any other commercial radio station with such a wide-ranging playlist (you could conceivably hear the Kinks into New Order into Spoon into Prince*), along with some decent featured programming (I'm always happy to catch Saturday Morning Flashback), and DJs that aren't annoying.
*I know that's not THAT wide-ranging in the grand scheme of things, but for a commercial station, it is.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
I always have to smile when I happen to tune in to WHPK randomly and hear some excruciating noise track or whatever.
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
The only college station I can get 'round here is the Columbia College station.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
But you cam get 'Round Here on XRT!
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Typo due to enthusiasm.
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Meanwhile, I'm excited about my new work computer! Big upgrade from XP to Windows 7. I can search within my Outlook! I don't have to ask people to resend their .docx files as .doc! (I had Word/Excel '97.) I can finally use Spotify and, once again, YouTube! Web pages (hopefully) won't take forever to load!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
^^^this was me about 4-5 months ago, we had kept fuckin XP around due to some stupid database no-one had updated to work w/ win7. Back to being only one OS iteration behind the curve!
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
i like 92.3 (rap) through their reception is oddly shitty. i need to find out what the other rap stations are.
xrt really likes the alabama shakes, who i don't get, they're like a boring version of the gossip
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
I listen to a lot of KISS more than B96, but 80% of the time WXRT is sure to give you something good.
First two records are really good, when they were legit Austin weird.
Wasn't this when Poi Dog was Hawaii weird, or was that after? I know a lot of people who love this band. I'm not sure I've heard a note. Certainly I hear the BoDeans on XRT more than Poi Dog, afaict. XRT is the only place I come across Dave Matthews, but they also love the Talking Heads, New Order, Bowie, Richard Thompson, Beatles et al., as well as new stuff like Arcade Fire, Spoon, even LCD Soundsystem, etc. Not really sure I've heard much Prince there.
Used to be an oldies station, but I think it's currently less old. 94 something? and 104 something is all over the place, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
I briefly had "Hold On" on my 2012 playlist before realizing I didn't really like it that much.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
Not really sure I've heard much Prince there.
Yeah, not much, but not out of the question -- IIRC, I heard "Raspberry Beret" on there a couple of weeks ago.
For a station that definitely does love rootsy folksy stuff, they're not *entirely* opposed to electronic sounds. I've heard some new-wave synth-pop (New Order but also Yaz) as well as recent indie w/electronic flourishes (Phoenix, M83). They also currently have Alex Clare's "Too Close" in rotation, which is probably the only song in the last year that I've heard on both XRT and B96. (Well, and "Somebody That I Used to Know," but the two stations play different mixes of it.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
i used to write reviews for a bad music website and the proprietor sent me a bodeans album on vinyl as an xmas present. i never listened to it (don't think i had a record player at the time).
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think you wrote for that site at the same time that Ben T@usig did.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
no, that site is good, i'm talking about a shittier site that i wrote for before that
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
i should have stuck with writing for dusted, probably
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbXvaE39wM
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 12:10 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
looooooooolone time i got a buffalo tom cd from an insurance guy i used to make cold calls for
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
I heard Wilson Phillips's "Hold On" on i101 on Saturday!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
Once I won an (the?) Alannah Myles cassette in a call-in contest from a local radio station. My mom had to drive me 30 miles to the station to pick the thing up, too.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wilson philips ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh GET OUT OF MY MIND
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
i've won a bunch of shitty stuff off the radio but that was the only time an employer gave me music as a giftit's weird to me that i still remember his name and his wife's name.
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://chicagoist.com/2013/01/06/wrigleyville_police_commander_wants.php
Wrigleyville Police Commander Wants "Zero Tolerance" Policy To "Contain The Idiots"
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
I just like the headline honestly
― dansplaining (dan m), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
wrigleyville_police_commander_wants_donuts_now.php
― Chief Duff (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Haha. They didn't include the quote in the story, but that's still funny.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 05:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/01/08/kenneth_conley_prison_escape_breaking_down_one_of_the_greatest_prison_breaks.html
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
Interesting. Wikipedia says there was one other escape from the MCC using bedsheets. Also, Christopher Nolan's brother was planning on such an escape from it, but the plan was foiled.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
Billy Nolan
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
I can't hear you. Speak up!
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I'm just more mature now. Now that I'm a parent.― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, September 16, 2010 1:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
― Je55e, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
BILLY NOLAN
― bish borscht (La Lechera), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
I hate this clip so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sn-KO3xfXE
― Je55e, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
that reminds me: I heard "My Name Is" by Eminem this morning while trying out some new radio stations
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link