Well for those of you still reading, you may have noticed that there has been a huge drop in the amount of posts lately. Well I guess over the course of almost five years of writing this blog there have been peaks and valleys. Obviously, there has been a big valley
I plan to get back into my groove with writing on here. Hopefully, most of you have stuck around. Anyway, seems my going back to blogging full time isn't the only thing that has made a return. Many awesome stuff is making a come back.
If you are like me, you were mighty pissed when Y-100 died. There was simply not rock stations anymore. Sure there is MMR, but honestly they play only like two bands. Although I dimissed, WYSP as a talk radio station years ago, I am told that they still play music on weekends.
Anyway, since Y-100 went belly up. I found 91.5 Camden County College's radio station. Punk heavy, but really got some good music on there. Sadly, it fades away if you get like 20 miles or less away from campus. 88.5 XPN has I have listened to for a few years, started doing Y-Rock (a reference to the fallen Y-100) at night. Some really great occassionally hard stuff. When XPN isn't playing that. They are playing some really good indie stuff. Not for all tastes granted but I really enjoy it. A few months later I found 106.5, almost the same problem that 91.5 has. You can't get it all places. What rocks about it, is that you can get it on the way to the shore. Now 106.5 is more like DRE was or Eagle 106, no throw a bone to the people who don't really like rock crap that Y-100 did. I think it would win in a fight with Y-100. Two weeks ago, yet another rock station showed up on the dial. 104.5, they are like the tube network of radio. No talk, just music. When was the last time MMR played Alice in Chains? 104.5 has a great rock set, and digs deep to the vanished 90's bands. Check it out, no need to buy one of those fancy smancy XM thing a bobs.
At Shady's a few weeks ago. I bumped into a long lost friend Chris Arter! I figured he was on a tour bus like in Almost Famous for the past two years. Turns out he never really left south jersey. The two of us caught up and it didnt seem like we didn't see each other for years. We ended up hanging out later that weekend.
Now I know very little about music compared to Chris and he knows pretty much nothing about sports compared to me. So, that always made for interesting or funny conversations. I imagine if we keep hanging out that I still have my work cut out for me. Since Chris asked me during the cup finals game, if the players ever start beating up their teamates during a game, or when he admited he never heard of Ryan Howard.
Anyway, another return was the same day. Chris and I went to little ceasears. Now for those of you that forget, little ceasars was pizza chain around here in the 90's that apperently is trying to come back! It had been many many moons since I had one of their pies, or their trademark crazy bread. They offer a great deal. Pizza that is 5 bucks, and ready. You go in, and say give me a pizza, and they hand it to you and its 5 bucks. I think its bigger than Dominos "large" pizza that costs like 17 bucks or whatever now. Of course, I know by my age that ma and pa places usually have the better pizza, but pizza for 5 bucks. Well they should name a road after the person who came up with that idea!
Tucker is back look out internet world!
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I gave up on Philly radio about ten years ago. After WDRE went away, I totally lost interest. Between podcasts and downloading Howard Stern's Sirius shows, I rarely even need the radio.
I'll tell you what, though: I tried Sirius during their two-day free trial last October and it has haunted me ever since. There is SO MUCH great programming there. If I change jobs and start driving every day, I'm getting Sirius in a heartbeat. No question. I'm sure XM has great content, too (like baseball), but I need my Stern. [TL]
I doubt I would ever listen to any baseball game other than the Phillies. The hockey thing might interest me, but I tend to be in my car when games are not actually being played.
I dont miss Howard Stern at all. Preston and Steve are much funnier and their topics are more interesting than some skank who hates he dad trying to make a name for herself in porn.
I listened to Howard on and off when he was around, but I knew once he left I would never go out of my way to listen to him.
You should check out XPN, and 106.5 reminds me a bit of WDRE. Dont know if you can actually get it there or not. Y-rock on XPN is awesome.
I have Sirius and it is the best investment I have ever made. Keith, you mention maybe 5 listenable stations of varying power and clarity. I have about 15 rock stations, 1 station dedicated to Frank Sinatra and the Rat pack, 10 news stations ranging from CNN, MSNBC to fox"news" to Air America to other whack-job right wing lie stations, 2 ESPNs, NBA, NHL, NFL, NCAA, NASCAR (who cares), anything you can think of SIRIUS has it. All of the music stations are 100% commercial free, and I hear so much different music. Not only do I hear new bands but track from known bands that regular radio would never play, all completely uncensored. Terrestial radio is Calecovision to Sirius' XBOX 360. It is not even close.
As for the whole Howard vs. Preston and Steve thing, that is not even close either. Don't get me wrong P&S are good but they are nothing compared to Howard. Howard on terrestial radio was great. Howard on Sirius is transcedental. When he is uncensored and does not have to worry about taking 20 minute commercial breaks all the time he is free to do whatever he wants and it is awesome.
As for the tired, played out and untrue assertion that all howard does is have strippers and porn stars on, I have found that those people that make those claims are just trying to justify why they are stilllistening to terrestial radio. They are trying to make it seem like they are not missing the party, when it actually turns out to be the blast of the century. I could not tell you the last time I have heard a porn star on the show. Howard has two stations and does a 5 hour show every day and they are all homeruns. Stop being so cheap and trying to find something okay when something great is already available.
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