Poll: Best Song From The Survivor Poll Winners

[Dr. Medulla]

I suppose it's just personal preference. I listen to the radio throughout the day, though a lot of the time it's little more than a backing track to whatever other task I'm performing. Yrs, male multi tasking does actually exist, if only on a passive level! But i would agree with the sense of their being something magical about it. One of the things i remember about first moving to the city was the availability of pirate stations and the literally hours of fascination turning and twisting the dial. Maybe pirate stations here were the equivalent of college radio in the us, in terms of output anyway? Before that it was tuning into Radio Luxembourg and the revelation that there was another world out there beyond my own provincial backwater. Great memories.

Yeah college radio and community radio were instrumental in exposing me and countless others to the musical possibilities beyond the rigid bounds of commercial radio. I grew up in an area where I could pull in signals from NY, NJ. CT metro area and beyond and my radio dial pretty much stayed in the 88Mhz to 92Mhz range where these stations lived. Most of the rest of the spectrum was reserved for commercial radio.

CBC-FM, late night on the weekend, had a show called Night Lines hosted by David Wisdom, who was the closest thing Canada had to Peel. Immense variety of non-mainstream music played—oldie garage rock and r & b, obscure punk, house music, reggae, shit was all over the place. Discovered a number of bands that way, but the two that stand out in my memory are Lush and The Orb.

Oh so ultimately not very good then

Don't you have tires to rotate at Jiffy Lube, hesher?

[revbob]

Couldn't resist.

[Dr. Medulla]

Couldn't resist.

The mirth, the giggles!

[Kory]

Is there any kind of connection here between already having a deep appreciation for reggae and rating GDM very highly? I don't get the impression that many IMCT'ers are reggae-heads.

I love reggae probably got more than most who post here. But I think GDM gets by for being a strong song with great lyrics first and the reggae feel secondary.

I think I wrote that backwards. What I meant was more of, for some of the people that don't like it, might it have anything to do with not being a reggae fan?

[Marky Dread]

Is there any kind of connection here between already having a deep appreciation for reggae and rating GDM very highly? I don't get the impression that many IMCT'ers are reggae-heads.

I love reggae probably got more than most who post here. But I think GDM gets by for being a strong song with great lyrics first and the reggae feel secondary.

I think I wrote that backwards. What I meant was more of, for some of the people that don't like it, might it have anything to do with not being a reggae fan?

Could be mate. All down to individual taste.

[Wolter]

Man, I’m envious of people who grew up in towns with actual college/independent radio stations.

[revbob]

Man, I’m envious of people who grew up in towns with actual college/independent radio stations.

I just always think you're from Chicago...until BBQ talk comes up.

[Wolter]

Man, I’m envious of people who grew up in towns with actual college/independent radio stations.

I just always think you're from Chicago...until BBQ talk comes up.

Though Charleston is a college town, there wasn’t a college music station until the mid 90s when I was already pretty much able to hunt my own music down. And even that station only had a broadcast range of a few blocks.

And I lived in the suburbs and exurbs for most of the 80s and early 90s.

[revbob]

Man, I’m envious of people who grew up in towns with actual college/independent radio stations.

I just always think you're from Chicago...until BBQ talk comes up.

Though Charleston is a college town, there wasn’t a college music station until the mid 90s when I was already pretty much able to hunt my own music down. And even that station only had a broadcast range of a few blocks.

And I lived in the suburbs and exurbs for most of the 80s and early 90s.

Yeah that does suck.