I just don't see where I can fit a radio in while I'm home with the Internet. Mainly because it will interfere with the TV and Internet so radio listening is for background sound if I'm cleaning something but I haven't listened to the radio in 7 years which is why I never know anything about NEW MUSIC. So who listens to the Radio in the house and if you do how long?

I listen to the radio at home occasionally. But I definetly enjoy it more when I'm in the car. There's nothing like driving along to your favorite song on the radio! ;)
Mostly at home I find myself listening to my MP3s though.

I listen to the radio in the house. There's a radio by the computer, so I sometimes have it on while I'm on the computer.

When the Emperor Rosko had his "disco" show on Friday and Saturday nights (Friday it was five hours, Saturday it was six hours), I'd have the radio on for the whole time it was on - because I really like disco music.

Radio is best for:

1. Car
2. Beach/pool
3. BBQs/picnics
4. work around the house- inside or out
5. Christmas music for wherever (seasonal, obviously)

Radio is best for:

1. Car
2. Beach/pool
3. BBQs/picnics
4. work around the house- inside or out
5. Christmas music for wherever (seasonal, obviously)

That's a good list. I mainly just listen to the radio in the car though.

That's a good list. I mainly just listen to the radio in the car though.


I forgot one more place, At the Office

I listen to the radio at home occasionally. But I definetly enjoy it more when I'm in the car. There's nothing like driving along to your favorite song on the radio! ;)
Mostly at home I find myself listening to my MP3s though.
:yeahthat:

I only listen to the radio when I'm sleeping, but I listen to CDs everyday. I listen to them at home and in the car. I love music! :D

Radio is ****. There's nothing ever good on. So wherever I go, my CDs go as well. :)

Mostly just in the car, although I do listen to Sirius thru Dish Network on my TV, so I guess I could count that as radio in the house. And I just bought a little ipod shaped radio, so I'll use than if my mp3 player is dead.

When nothing is on TV, I turn my Sirius radio and get on computer like im doing right now as I type this.

In the car it's always my CD's or Sirius Satellite radio. At home while cleaning I will also have satellite radio on or play my CD's on the computer. Free radio has waaaaay too much commercials, interruptions, talking, same old songs over and over and over again. The only free radio that I listen to is this oldie station that plays great songs, not the same old oldies you hear on other oldie stations, this one plays rare, hard to find stuff, classics. I have this station on while I am falling asleep and leave it on all night.

I don't listen to the radio in my car. I listen to my ipod.

I listen to the radio while I'm in the shower, while I'm cooking, cleaning, on the computer, and while I'm at work, In the car.

I like radio stations in the office and in the car. When i'm on the computer, I like to listen to music I have stored in Itunes or one of their radio stations.

I don't even listen to music in the car anymore. I listen to Sports Talk radio.

Same here :)



I listen to the radio at home occasionally. But I definetly enjoy it more when I'm in the car. There's nothing like driving along to your favorite song on the radio! ;)
Mostly at home I find myself listening to my MP3s though.

I just don't see where I can fit a radio in while I'm home with the Internet. Mainly because it will interfere with the TV and Internet so radio listening is for background sound if I'm cleaning something but I haven't listened to the radio in 7 years which is why I never know anything about NEW MUSIC. So who listens to the Radio in the house and if you do how long?
I wouldn't know. I don't even listen to radio in my car! :lol: I always play CDs, and I listen to a Swedish online radio station on my computer.

To me, terrestrial radio is dead. It's become so polluted with commercials and same ol', same ol' repetitive playlists (even oldies/classic rock stations play the same 100 or so songs ad nausem) that it's unlistenable. Satellite radio is where it's at, and yes, I do most of my listening to it in the car.

I do a lot of music-listening at home, too, however, but the majority of it is records and CDs.

I don't listen to the radio in my car. I listen to my ipod.
Yep!

And if I'm on the computer, I listen to internet radio or a CD or Mp3's that are on my computer. ;)

I tried the iPod/MP3 thing, but the lingering knowledge that the music is compressed when compared to the CDs from whence they're ripped really bothers me. And on some CD rips, if the person who encoded the file is careless, you can plainly hear loss.

So I'm still on my CD/vinyl high horse. If I listen to music on my computer, it's ripped by me in wav format, since it's lossless.

I have peasent-hearing radio. No antenna on my car. I pick up one station.

Other than that, I only listen to music in my car. I've never been a huge music person.

My husband on the other hand, has an MP3 player loaded with every song from the 60s up you could imagine.

Yeah, the only time I listen to the radio is when I'm in a car. I have Rhapsody, so that's what I listen to everyday.

My CD player has an AM/FM radio so I occassionally listen to it in the house. In general, I only listen to music in the car.

I hardly ever listen to the radio for music. I'm a big fan of some talk radio shows... Frosty, Heidi, and Frank on KLSX and John and Ken on KFI.

I listen to the radio at home and in the car.



How can you listen to the radio if you're asleep? :lol: :)


You would be surprised. :lol: :wave:

I listen to it in the car, and online!!:lol:

I listen at home,in the car,anywhere :)

No its not just for Car travel...........

When I first came to China twenty years ago, I could listen to my hometown rock radio station. But then it stopped because it would not allow their content to be heard outside the United States. I have always found this stupid and highly annoying, and many things disallow their content to be seen and heard because I am in a foreign country. It is called THE WORLD WIDE WEB.

Radio

The last place I worked had a short list of approved "customer friendly" radio stations, that in the business owner's opinion would not jeopardize his relationship with his aging customer base.

No sex talk, or jokes about biological functions or body parts. No doom metal, or grunge. No Howard Stern of any kind.

So we had maybe 10 mainstream stations we could play that would not summons the owner out of whatever bowels he was lurking in demanding to know "WTH?".

And of those, there were perhaps 3 that I could even listen to. And those stations played the h*ll out of perhaps a half dozen artists, as nauseam. Billy Joel, Heart, Foreigner ( the lame love ballads, not their good stuff), Bob Segar, Elton John, Huey Lewis, etc....over and over.

I guess the radio stations have these formulas they use to attract their target base.

When I was a teenager I used to listen to music and especially what we might know now as "Classic Rock". If I lived back home now (and I may soon) and drive a car in the city, I probably would just not have it on and enjoy the silence. My Classic Rock station (and other stations) would annoy me by having a "Wake Up Crew" which were three DJ's who most of the time just rattled on about nothing for three hours and a lot of it was crude, and them laughing at their stupid jokes. I am in the car yelling "PLAY SOME FkING MUSIC!!" I have lived in two other American cities, same awful format.

I used to listen to talk radio, and listened to Rush Limbaugh a lot of years. I would also listen to Dr. Laura Slesinger (if she is still around) and when I drove a truck in the middle of the night, Art Bell and the Kingdom of Nye. That was a weird show.

I go back to my hometown in the first time in fifteen years and turned on the radio to the classic rock station I used to listen as a teenager and the station has not changed format at all since the 1980's. It could be 1984 again. But now the station's listeners are people over 50 and might as well be an "Oldies" station.

One thing I wish would stop is music in stores. That drives me nuts and everyone does it. Why do stores (and especially supermarkets) do this?? Music should be a choice and not more or less forced into listening. Plus the poor employees who have to listen to it all day long. I dont know if this is a condition, but many times a song gets stuck in my head for days on end. It's like a DJ playing the same song.

Being deaf wouldnt bother me much.

The last place I worked had a short list of approved "customer friendly" radio stations, that in the business owner's opinion would not jeopardize his relationship with his aging customer base.

No sex talk, or jokes about biological functions or body parts. No doom metal, or grunge. No Howard Stern of any kind.

So we had maybe 10 mainstream stations we could play that would not summons the owner out of whatever bowels he was lurking in demanding to know "WTH?".

And of those, there were perhaps 3 that I could even listen to. And those stations played the h*ll out of perhaps a half dozen artists, as nauseam. Billy Joel, Heart, Foreigner ( the lame love ballads, not their good stuff), Bob Segar, Elton John, Huey Lewis, etc....over and over.

I guess the radio stations have these formulas they use to attract their target base.

I made a post here and touched upon how much I really hate listening to music in stores and public places. To me it is needless and unnecessary.

I have worked in retail, once in a Books a Million outlet bookstore that had their own store music and it was the same s..t over and over again. This was over twenty years ago and still remember one song.

The other place was in a casino (Horseshoe in Tunica) where I dealt cards and had to stand in one place for an hour. There was a stage bar where they would have "bar bands" play every day or every week. The problem was they would play the same ***** in the same order everyday. It was like Groundhog Day (the movie) where one lives the same day over and over and over again listening to this crappy bar band. I also hate going to a bar and/or restaurant and seeing some damn band set up. Bands are LOUD and so LOUD usually one cannot talk to other people and basically just listening to them. To me this is a form of narcissism and musicians have this "HEY LISTEN TO ME, I WILL MAKE IT SO LOUD, YOU CAN STAY OR LEAVE!"

. The problem was they would play the same ***** in the same order everyday. It was like Groundhog Day (the movie) where one lives the same day over and over and over again listening to this crap"

LOL! Yup, I have the same issue with the radio stations that I mentioned earlier.


Thing of it is, back in their era, I really liked Heart, and Foreigner, owned some of their albums.

But the way the radio stations now just grind it into ya, same handful of songs. It gets very tedious. Especially a crime with Foreigner, because they (the radio stations) don't play the "rockers"...., they play the sappy love ballads. And let's face it, Lou Gramm is no crooner.

One thing I wish would stop is music in stores. That drives me nuts and everyone does it. Why do stores (and especially supermarkets) do this?? .

I used to work for a real estate company that owned and operated shopping malls. We had public address systems throughout the common areas, so that you could make announcements (would "jeffy" please meet your mommy in front of the cookie company etc)

And, when announcements were not in progress, we played Muzak in the background. Supposedly music makes people at ease, and when they are in your mall and comfortable, they spend more money....so the back ground music is intended to create a soothing environment. More comforting than the sociopath sitting next to you screaming at their kids, anyway.

There is also an inverse psychology that no one is officially allowed to recognize.

Certain types of music do not play well with certain demographics.

So, if you have an undesirable element among your patrons, you might select a style known to thin the herd in that particular demographic....and yes, it really works.

My Classic Rock station (and other stations) would annoy me by having a "Wake Up Crew" which were three DJ's who most of the time just rattled on about nothing for three hours and a lot of it was crude, and them laughing at their stupid jokes.

GAWD YES, that is so pathetic. Listening to them prattle on, with fake belly laughs to things that are more preposterous than funny,...gets old very quick.

But so MANY of them do just what you say.

I suspect part of it too, depends upon individual temperament. Is the person a "the glass is half full or half empty" sort of person....things of that nature. So, I'm usually looking to make the best of things around me. Some times that's just not possible, but most of the time I try to make the best of even unfortunate circumstances.

I'm not a big fan of rap, don't really care for adult contemporary, and the really twangy country music can drive me up a wall.

And, never been a big fan of elevator muzak. But I was sitting in a restaurant at our mall one day, and they had their own local muzak system playing background music.

And this one song just kind of pulled me out of the clouds. It sounded so familiar, but I just couldn't place it. It was just someone softly playing a synthesizer with a drum accompaniment, so there were no lyrics to clue me...but after a good 5 minutes they finally went through a note sequence that triggered my synapses.

It was an elevator music rendition of Deep Purple's 'Child in Time" (1970), 30 years after the fact.

Tried to track it down to buy it, but whatever it was, they are calling it something else.

For all I know, Purple might have ripped it off from some old bible hymn, and just gave the tune contemporary lyrics? (wouldn't be the first time)

LOL! Yup, I have the same issue with the radio stations that I mentioned earlier.


Thing of it is, back in their era, I really liked Heart, and Foreigner, owned some of their albums.

But the way the radio stations now just grind it into ya, same handful of songs. It gets very tedious. Especially a crime with Foreigner, because they (the radio stations) don't play the "rockers"...., they play the sappy love ballads. And let's face it, Lou Gramm is no crooner.

If I had to listen to Foreigner everyday and especially "I want to know what Love is..." I would have a psychotic episode. I also hate LOUD music, even if it a song I like. Stores tend to play the music LOUD because it has to be heard, this is why they have it. Ever see "The 40 Year Old Virgin" which the lead character works in an electronics store and the manager has an endless loop of a Chicago song on the TV?

I am a critic of music in stores simply because people have different tastes in music, or none at all. Several years ago, I was in a Hy-Vee supermarket in Iowa to see my elderly aunts with my parents in the coffee shop and decided to take a walk. Of course, the store had music on, but it was "Classic Rock" and I enjoyed it (even though again, I would make music playing in stores illegal, hypocrite me). But my elderly father doesnt want or like "Classic Rock". I like AC/DC, doubt my father would. The store might play "Hells Bells" and some of us would love it but most of the edlerly and cross wearers wont. But no one objects to silence.

If you want to listen to music in public, wear some headphones.