Classic Rock Radio Is Really Wierd When You Think About It

Atlanta has not had a classic rock station for years. The closest we have is a "classic hits" station that basically seems to focus on mid 70's through mid 80's stuff.

― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Monday, August 13, 2012 3:17 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What, 97.1 the River? It sucks. But a few weeks ago i was driving back from the airport on a Sunday nite and they unloaded their vaults for some deep tracks and it kicked ass. Ive never heard Trapeze on "classic rock radio" before, also played Skynryd's "Working for MCA" which is a nice change of pace from the standard 3 or 4 they play.

The Guy-Guy's
The Manaways
Sleater-Manney
Mankini Kill

There is a Tom Petty cover band that plays here in North Texas with a perfect name: Petty Theft.

It's no Sheagles or Lez Zeppelin or AC/DShe, but than again, what is?

wait there's a Petty cover band here in the Bay Area called Petty Theft, I used to know their guitarist

maybe it's the same one? They just seem to be through here every 6 weeks.

sleater-manney is making me die

If anyone starts Guided By Joyces, you are hereby obligated to make me your Bob.

The Shangri-Brahs

Is GIRL JAM too subtle?

XX Top

Spiders from Venus

omg XX Top, great derail!

"the mangles" is so good that it has to be done

my buddy got guitar lessons from a guy in a sting cover band (possibly it was called "stung"?) but the sad thing was the guy OD'd.

Manity 6

Some Dude on a roll. I got as far as trying to make something clever out of Manfred Womann and gave up.

Ladyohead?

Dicks On Speed

on the same level

Chixie Dicks

John Jett

Womanfred Womann

I wonder if there are any gender bending bands with both sexes? Like a Fleetwood Mac tribute with women on bass, drums, guitar, and the Buckingham vocals, and men doing the Nicks and Chrstine McVie parts.

Genesisters
Sheely Dan

Allwoman Sisters

I wonder if there are any gender bending bands with both sexes? Like a Fleetwood Mac tribute with women on bass, drums, guitar, and the Buckingham vocals, and men doing the Nicks and Chrstine McVie parts.

― wk, Monday, August 13, 2012 8:17 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

i had a Sonic Youth cover band with an old lesbian singing Thurston's parts and a depressed long-haired teenage boy singing Kim's parts and everyone thought it was the real band

lol

"Atlanta has not had a classic rock station for years."

That seems hard to believe. Usually every town of some size has a "Z-rock station", one classic rock station that has been there for decades (and to be fair might play some newer rock) and then one station that does the hits from the 60s to the 80s.

One thing I have noticed over the years is that when you get into those classic rock stations/or at least old battleship rock stations that some of their programming is still a bit programmed to what is popular in the area. They all play the same stuff for the some part, but there are some artists that seem to be more popular than others. Indy's Q-95 is freakin' nuts for Seger and Mellancamp, it's like every third song is one or the other. Double Q in Lexington plays AC/DC every third song and a heck of a lot more 80s metal. XRT and some of the stations up in Chicago always seem to me to be more anglophile and you would say hear stuff like The Who, The Clash and the new wave stuff like Elvis Costello or The Cure alot more.

I haven't heard it in years, but XRT used to play a lot of non-standard stuff by standard "classic rock" artists. They played "Jack Straw" as much as a "classic rock" station would play "Truckin'"; whatever the new Neil Young record was got way more traction than his old stuff ("Over and Over" was in heavy rotation in 1990-91); and late at night you could count on a semi-curveball or two, like "Marquee Moon."

First I was creeped out when the oldies station welcomed in disco.

Now I get eternally frustrated that the latest Tom Petty hit will be on "classic rock" radio, but they'll still only play Sabbath songs of Paranoid. It's not like these stations don't own a Sabbath greatest hits or a copy of Master of Reality.

Clear Channel fucking sucks.

PS - Babes in Boyland

"they'll still only play Sabbath songs of Paranoid."

You would figure you would hear more southern rock in Lexington and they do play the old warhorses, but they play more old metals stuff including a ton Ozzy and Sabbath, including deeper cuts.

XRT was always a bit different, have no idea what it is like now, but back in the 90s it's still the only commercial station I ever heard play Richard Thompson.

WHFS in DC played Richard Thompson before they "went commercial" around '90; by 1993 they played almost exclusively the Billboard Modern Rock 100 but still liked to believe they were "alternative".

Man Hole

haw

Madonnald

sometimes I can't believe that The Yeastie Girlz actually existed

He-art

Nobody mentioned Cheap Chick, right?

(That one's real.)

Atlanta's only classic rock station was replaced by a news station.

Actually, that might have been the only oldies station, rather. I think classic rock may still live on "The River". But 106.7 used to play classic rock and oldies and then some days it would be alot of 70s soft rock and sometimes it would be obscure 60s garage stuff. And now it's NEWS. Oh the humanity.

Fox 97 is the oldies station i grew up with and i don't think anything can top that. RIP

I just went to check whether The River is technically listed as a classic rock station (personally, I wouldn't call it that), and it is listed as a "classic rock leaning class hits" station. Hilarious. The Z-rock station in Atlanta, Z-93, converted to a Dave station (adult album alternative) probably around 10 years ago, and is now converting into sports talk radio. Hooray.

leaning class?

Yeah, that's "classic-rock leaning classic-hits" station.

Thanks for the hyphens!

I just went to check whether The River is technically listed as a classic rock station

It would be awesome if for bumpers they used the part of "Cities" where David Byrne is all "it's only the river! IT'S ONLY THE RIVER!"

I really like the fake classic rock station in GTA: San Andreas. It was called THE DUST and the promos are pretty spot-on for classic rock radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4DJAlpaVk

Fox 97 is the oldies station i grew up with and i don't think anything can top that. RIP

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, August 14, 2012 11:47 AM Bookmark

Fox 97 was cool but family-owned OLDIES LAKE 102.3 was the shit in the mid 90s. Your archetypal "50s oldies station that vanished as demographics moved along by a decade." Tons of memories of listening to that on the way to school and my mother turning it up for some weird thing she'd swear she hadn't heard in forty years. I got a lot of my musical taste baseline from that station. It was still pretty good in the early 00's when I was working a retail summer job, but it was trending more 60s, less 50s. The same band is now "La Raza," serving the growing Hispanic community, and former owner "Skipper" Bob Joseph passed away in 2005.

"strutter" is so fkn awesome

XRT was always a bit different, have no idea what it is like now, but back in the 90s it's still the only commercial station I ever heard play Richard Thompson.

Yeah, XRT is still pretty great in terms of playing stuff that you'd be hard-pressed to find on most other commercial stations. These days it even plays a smattering of high-profile "indie" stuff, like Vampire Weekend, Spoon, Decemberists, M83, etc.