A radio station devoted to one band?

[pretty fly 88]

I know that there are plenty of online radio stations that are devoted to one band, but where I live, there aren't any you can listen to in your car. I know plenty of people who would want to listen to an all Led Zeppelin station or an all Beatles station or whatever in their cars. I always thought it would be cool to have an all KISS radio station.





Do you think it would be a good idea to have a radio station devoted to one band?

[T-6005]

Not really. Too many bands, not enought frequencies.

[dain84]

I know that there are plenty of online radio stations that are devoted to one band, but where I live, there aren't any you can listen to in your car. I know plenty of people who would want to listen to an all Led Zeppelin station or an all Beatles station or whatever in their cars. I always thought it would be cool to have an all KISS radio station.





Do you think it would be a good idea to have a radio station devoted to one band?
KISS had no talent whatsoever dude.

[pretty fly 88]

KISS had no talent whatsoever dude.
I think KISS was better than all other rock bands combined. I've had their Millenium Collection CDs for months and I still regularly listen to them. I usually stop listening to a band regularly about a month after I buy the CD, so they must've had talent. I'm sure a lot of people would love an all KISS station, even if most of those people aren't members of this website.

[Human]

I think KISS was better than all other rock bands combined. I've had their Millenium Collection CDs for months and I still regularly listen to them. I usually stop listening to a band regularly about a month after I buy the CD, so they must've had talent. I'm sure a lot of people would love an all KISS station, even if most of those people aren't members of this website.
Kiss is pretty good. I have a video that one of mom's friends got signed at their last concert. pretty cool. I could probably sell it for enough to buy an NDM1 but I like it.

[BREAK]

Talk about an ass-boring idea. Aren't Zeppelin & the Beatles already overplayed enough on classic rock radio?

[coke_a_holic]

@ Break: Not nearly as much as Pink Floyd is (here, at least).

@ pretty fly: KISS was much better live than on their cds; they were a band famous for visuals and stunts, not for being virtuosos. Maybe some sort of DVD of their best live shows would be more up your alley than an entire radio station devoted to simply playing the music of a band that wanted a much more visual influence than an audio one.

[lucy-lucy]

no. i dont think its that good to have a radio station just for one band.
if they were playing same songs 24/7 people would get sooooooo sick of those songs

[pretty fly 88]

@ Break: Not nearly as much as Pink Floyd is (here, at least)..
That's not true. I live in Maryland, so we have the same Classic Rock Station.
That station plays way more Zeppelin and Beatles than Pink Floyd. Heck, they even do a Breakfast with the Beatles hour every Sunday from 9-10(or something like that.




@ pretty fly: KISS was much better live than on their cds; they were a band famous for visuals and stunts, not for being virtuosos. Maybe some sort of DVD of their best live shows would be more up your alley than an entire radio station devoted to simply playing the music of a band that wanted a much more visual influence than an audio one


You're probably right about that. I have been hearing that KISS was way better live than in the studio. Which means they must've been one hack of a live band, because I think their CDs are awesome. I know they have live albums, but do they have a live DVD?

[Yatesy]

I don't think it'll be a good idea as the songs would get boring.

[coke_a_holic]

That's not true. I live in Maryland, so we have the same Classic Rock Station.
That station plays way more Zeppelin and Beatles than Pink Floyd. Heck, they even do a Breakfast with the Beatles hour every Sunday from 9-10(or something like that.
Funny, I hear Brain Damage, Comfortably Numb, or Money practically every time I turn on 94.7.

[Spork]

Hmm, no doubt there are pirate radio stations like this perhaps?

[BREAK]

@ Break: Not nearly as much as Pink Floyd is (here, at least).


That doesn't make any sense to me. I'm going to be lazy and throw together a really fast, perfunctory list of overplayed radio songs by each respective band:

Pink Floyd -
Time
Money
Breathe
Us & Them
Wish You Were Here
Have A Cigar
Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
Young Lust
Comfortably Numb
Hey You
Run Like Hell

That's like 11 songs. That's a hell of a lot. But let's take a look here at the Zeppelin list:

Stairway To Heaven
Black Dog
Rock N' Roll
Communication Breakdown
D'yer Mak'er
Over The Hills & Far Away
Whole Lotta Love
Ramble On
Heartbreaker
Living Loving Maid
Immigrant Song
Gallows Pole
Going To California
Dazed & Confused
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
The Ocean
When The Levee Breaks
Fool In The Rain
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Kashmir

I could go on, but I think you get the point. That's like 20 songs, & it's not even a complete list! Now let's take a cursory look at the Beatles repertoire:

Love Me Do
She Loves You
I Feel Fine
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Help!
A Hard Day's Night
Ticket To Ride
I Am The Walrus
Eleanor Rigby
Yellow Submarine
Norwegian Wood
Back In The USSR
Obladi Oblada
Glass Onion
Come Together
Something
Let It Be
Eight Days A Week
Yesterday
Can't Buy Me Love
Here Comes The Sun
Do You Want To Know A Secret
All My Loving
Day Tripper
We Can Work It Out
Lady Madonna

DAMN. That's not even close to being a comprehensive list. Clearly, Floyd can't hold a candle to that! Now I don't doubt that your local classic rock station plays them more frequently than the aforementioned bands, but I think, generally speaking, it's safe to say they are probably the two most overplayed bands in the history of the world.

Which brings me to my point:

[coke_a_holic]

Yeah, but here, I hear Pink Floyd a lot more than I hear other bands on classic rock stations unless it's at a certain time. Like prettyfly said, there's Breakfast with the Beatles and Led before Bed, but otherwise there isn't nearly as much of either bands during the day. Also, Pink Floyd fans have exponentially grown over the past year, for some reason, so maybe I'm just seeing the name on t-shirts everywhere and thinking it's being played more than it actually is.

Back to the topic, I think having certain genre stations would make more sense than certain band stations. i.e.: More than just one classic rock station, maybe one blues-rock station, one psychodelic rock station, and one smooth-rock station. You get the general idea, break up the genres more so I don't have to sit through band X when they're a lot different from band W, band Y, and band Z.

[BREAK]

I disagree. A radio station with a diverse playlist would be a hell of a lot more entertaining than a homogenized one. If there was a station that could go from Stereolab to Funkadelic to the Birthday Party to Converge to Husker Du in the space of a single hour, maybe I'd actually listen to the radio.

[bassist_dude74]

Hmm... i dont think the station to one band would work... i like this idea though...

Back to the topic, I think having certain genre stations would make more sense than certain band stations. i.e.: More than just one classic rock station, maybe one blues-rock station, one psychodelic rock station, and one smooth-rock station. You get the general idea, break up the genres more so I don't have to sit through band X when they're a lot different from band W, band Y, and band Z.

then again i never listen to the radio, where i am its all rap, r'n'b hip-hop and what-not its rather annoying.... :mad: :mad: