Fletch wrote:
wrote:
Iv'e noticed in recent months that classic rock station
identification
spots have become like action movie trailers for Jerry Bruckheimer
movies.Some spots have agressive voice overs to the effect of
describing Led Zeppelin as the second coming....after the toyota
spot
ends.....a voice over guy with a deep bass and a ****load of
compression says.."there was a vision by one man to fuse the blues
with
sound of metal(insert black dog riff).....fused with drums beaten
into
submission(insert when the levee breaks intro)....and a voice of
likes
never heard before(screams of robert plant)..and the the voive over
concludes...".no one radio station understands Led Zeppelin better
than
95.5 KLOS"...Is this cheese really neccesary?Im totally stunned
that I
need to be told this.The dj's are also recently seem a bit overly
excited about what coming up like they got a memo saying be perky
about
this as if it was never played before.... or even have pre recorded
2
second samples of such songs as "more than a feeling""sweet home
alabama"who are you" after a pre recorded voice over anounces the
title
of the artist....like you've never heard these songs by these
artists
before and you need to be reminded what you will be hearing coming
up
after the commercial break.Has anyone been bombarded by this ????
This is part of the reason I really stopped listening to music radio
apart from subscription
stations like KUSC, et al.
When I was living in LA (five years) I found the radio traffic to be
interesting in its diversity,
but purile in its execution. I just moved out to the Portland, OR
area and it really isn't a whole
lot better, but there is a locally owned "classic" rock station that
doesn't insult my ears too
much. Well, okay, they play the same old crap and ignore all the
really good "also ran" stuff that
was every bit as vital as the once great songs they have since run
into the ground and made me
loathe listening to any more. But, then, that's the case with most
stations now isn't it, to over
play just about everything they do play...
--fletch