[mod.music.gaffa] Grudingly Admitted

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/26/87)

Really-From: Greg Earle <smeagol!earle@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>


Grady Toss wrote:
>Either they're coming around to our way of thinking, or we suck Big Time.
...
>Anyway, whoever voted, we're happy to have our name linked with that of
>KXLU, a station that produces some great radio in SoCal.

Time to check your suckers.  Now KXLU sucks Big Time.  I don't hear it that
much anymore (out of range most of the day) but when I do it's hurtin bad.
Play all this shit like fIREHOSE and SST crap [ (-: - Ouch, Grady, Ouch!
No, don't hit me! Ouch!]  What, me objective?  :-)

The best station in America is KSPC, 88.7 in LA.  They're in these little
cultural backwaters called Pomona & Claremont, and yet they still play
reams of Big Black, Sonic Effing Youth, Head Of David, etc. etc. etc.
during *all* shifts (i.e., not just during some `New Wave special' show).
A friend of mine says that he called and requested Big Black and the D.J.
said "You're GOD, man, you're fucking GOD!!" in return ... Yow ...
He also heard a song from the Factory tape (disclaimer: gratuitous plug
intended) and he suddenly exclaimed `Hey, I know that song!  I heard it
on KSPC!  It goes like this ...' and described how it ended perfectly.
Everyone in Factory *swears* they never sent the station a copy of it ...

Now THAT'S what I call one rad station ...

Greg

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (02/26/87)

Really-From: ebm@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Grady Toss)

>Really-From: Greg Earle <smeagol!earle@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>

>Time to check your suckers.  Now KXLU sucks Big Time.

Could be--I haven't heard KXLU for a few years now, and probably it's
like most noncommercial college stations, its quality goes up and down
with the staff.

>The best station in America is KSPC, 88.7 in LA.

Likewise I haven't heard KSPC in a few years, but the last time I did
it was the classic model of a college station.  The programming spanned
the vast range from the best non-commercial radio has to offer (dj's
with interesting musical backgrounds and tastes programming shows in
ways you've never heard before) to the worst (dj's who would be better
off in the bathroom with the door locked).  KALX is much the same, as
was the station I used to work at in Seattle (KCMU).

That they play "Big Black, Sonic Effing Youth, Head of David, etc. etc.
etc." puts them squarely in line with just about every other reasonably
good college station in the country.  Check out the playlist in CMJ
sometime--it's sickening to see how well the Indie labels have managed
to do the same thing they harrangue the Majors about.  Everyone is
reading the same mags and playing the same records.  I don't mean in
any way to demean KSPC--KALX is essentially the same.  Hardly "rad."
Though KSPC is geographically in a "cultural backwater," we're all
linked up through the indie record scene.

Maybe getting a request for Big Black is news at KSPC, but BB (and
Sonic Youth, and all the other anti-culture darlings) are massively over-
requested (and overplayed) at KALX.  When someone calls and asks to hear
Stuff Smith--that's Godlike.

... gra dy   t oss
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