MarcO Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Great band, terrible song. Why oh why must Q107 play this song 3000 times a week?!?Led Zeppelin, don't get me wrong, I know all about them and dig them, but FM radio has really made them a bit of a burden to listen to for me.That is all, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwa. Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 They seem to play it more when the weather is nice too, like its their version of reggae to make us all feel tropically rock and rolly. lame i agree. just play real reggae Kim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kookycanooky Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Why must kim mitchel play his own music on his own show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) It's easily one of Zeppelin's worst songs. I can't stand The Beatles' Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da either. Edited June 14, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I wonder how much of the music Q107 (and other big stations) is actually sourced from a computer...because if that computer were, say, accessible from the Internet, an intrepid hacker could reprogram things a wee bit...rename a file here and there, change some MP3 tags, make a few judicious substitutions in a playlist or two*...Aloha,Brad* Like, say, "The Crunge" in place of "D'yer Maker". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Brad, I think all of the music comes off a computer server, much like it does with TV. Hack away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 I listen to the radio for road reports. I listen to CD's for music.Please don't hack the road reports, Toronto would be in serious trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Listen to a news radio station for road reports. Someone hack into fucking Q107. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kookycanooky Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 its all too simple...dont listen to Q...I dont listen to any radio...always have a stack of CD's in the car, or iRiver.Their on-air personalities SUCK ass, and they play 2 songs followed by 15 mins of commercials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted June 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 hey, I take the good with the bad when it comes to FM rock radio. I can deal with an afternon of the Mighty Q - everyday I do anyway. It's our agreed upon choice for music at work.But that song. Why?for the record, I find Kim Mitchell as a DJ to be both enthusiastic and entertaining. He's come a long way since he started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kookycanooky Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 (edited) speaking of commercials...i saw a great one during the hockey game...canadian tire - some guy is standing at a leaking sink and yells for his wife to get him a socket wrench...i was drunk, this commercial may not be funny at all..."it has a 'one', 'seven', and two M's!! Edited June 14, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afro poppa Posted June 14, 2006 Report Share Posted June 14, 2006 Its all about Sirius radio!!!I thought I would only listen to the JamOn station but I listen to it all...so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Why must kim mitchel play his own music on his own showI don't think DJs actually have any choice in the matter - the program director makes those kinds of decisions. DJs are just personalities these days - radio hosts, not true DJs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Not Bob Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Just curious, do they pronounce the name of the song correctly? Every time somebody mispronounces the song, I wince. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bokonon Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Not all radio is terrible, the CBC kicks ass. I get to hear a lot of weird stuff I normally never would have found on my own, it's news is interesting and more relevant to Canadians (it is public broadcasting), the music is incredibly varied and the only commercials you hear are for other CBC programs. CBC interviews are the most intelligent I've ever heard, I find that the questions really help to reveal the subject objectively. Repeats are very infrequent and the programs change drastically from one time slot to another, it's impossible to get bored of the CBC. I love that my taxes support it, even when views contrary to my own are being extrapolated, it's great to hear a solid cross section of the mentality of a population.Bokonon+CBC=Heady Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimoe Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Not all radio is terrible, No, most radio is great. For this thread and website, commercial pop and rock formatted radio sucks ass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skelter Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 When I lived in Oshawa, I listened the Edge a lot and sometimes Q, but the commercial islands were just brutally long, and I worked in commercial radio for a few years. But yeah, music, 95% of the time, is programmed a day or two in advance by software with a tonne of different parameters, which is then re-analyzed for fuck-ups by a music director. And yeah, always hearing that song pisses me off. Even most of Zeppelin hated it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 Something about the production of the song always made me think they were playing to an empty room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 It's O.K. to be a little critical, but please be careful when talking about Zeppelin, the Rock Gods are always listening and are omnipotent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davey Boy 2.0 Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 faaaaack now i've got that bloody song stuck in my head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peipunk Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 (edited) I remember my first time making a road trip to Toronto (10 years ago) and being full on BLOWN AWAY that Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were on the radio (PEI had 2 AM pop rock stations and 1 FM country station when I grew up-its a grass roots miracle that we somehow got into Phish in '96 ). After spending a few years in Toronto doing a great deal of driving, I can honestly say that the lustre had been rubbed off of Q107, they really do repeat more songs then they have to. D'yer Maker never rubbed me the wrong way though; Houses of the Holy was always Zeppelin's most "summer" album in my opinion, and that song fit in fine. The songs that Q107 played that threw me into a blind rage(I would screw up my face and snarl as I wrenched on the tuner dial) were "Born to be Wild" and "American Woman". I honestly don't need to hear those songs again.....EVER. Rob Not Bob: I think they do pronounce it correctly, I think it was Jeff Brown's afternoon program that explained to me what "D'yer Maker" meant.....(edit: now I have started second guessing myself....its "did you make her" slanged down to "jer maker" right?) Edited June 15, 2006 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcO Posted June 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 It's supposed to be pronounced like a play on "Jamaica", tied to a dirty pun that actually is about as funny as the song is good.Please don't say "die-yer maker". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewie Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 having worked in radio for years (commercial and CBC) i find this thread very funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark_starr Posted June 15, 2006 Report Share Posted June 15, 2006 While continuing to work in commercial radio (as a Music Director, no less) I find this thread even funnier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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