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[chamberk]

I've heard "Impossible Germany" by Wilco twice when I've gone into Publix to withdraw money from the ATM. At first I just laughed. "This is the gentrification of indie music," I thought to myself.

Then I thought about it. How sad is it that Publix is playing better music than any radio station in Atlanta?

Now it's not funny. It's just sad.

Comments

[slowfisher]

It's someone's job to choose which songs get played in their stores. I wonder how that works.

[chamberk]

Whoever they are, they're doing a better job than most radio station program directors. 99x went downhill because their one concept of new music was horse-screeching emo - and when, surprise surprise, that didn't appeal to their nearing-their-thirties audience, they hopped right back to playing Candlebox and all sorts of other stuff we heard 50 times a day in the 90s.

There is GREAT music being made these days, but god forbid Atlanta radio find out about it.

[plaidskirtsrule]

Music on the radio in Detroit is still mostly terrible but they did a few things to kind of make it better. Originally, we had 89X which is basically the same thing as 99x. A bunch of people from 89X decided to start a new station called The River. The River stays away from the nu-metal and screamo shit or whatever the hell the kids with dyed black hair listen to these days and plays SOME good music. There's a pretty big variety as well. You'll get a lot of older, classic-ish rock and then newer indie music. I've heard Ryan Adams, Wilco, Band of Horses, Jenny Lewis, The Decemberists, and a bunch of other music we like on there. Granted, you'll probably get one good song for every 5 or 6 songs they play but it's still the best thing we have going radio-wise.

That being said, I'm glad my car has a port for my iPod.

[chamberk]

The River we have in Atlanta is basically just classic rock. If they don't play Boston every hour you've accidentally changed the channel.

I don't have the iPod port, just a tape adapter.

[gtv42]

I usually toggle between WABE 90.1, WREK 91.1, and WRAS 88.5. And cds.

[chamberk]

I would say that it's really sad that college students can play better music than professionals, but I suppose it isn't. Once it stops being a love and starts being a business they'll just play whatever crap sells.

[slowfisher]

Never stop being a college kid, at least at heart. It makes you awesome.