And that’s the other reason I didn’t listen to the radio.
What would be playing at your granny’s station is Metallica.
Yeah, cuz Granny is friggin metal.
Many years ago my station of choice when driving to work started running an advert for car safety. The sound effect was a loud blaring car horn and the sounds of screaming tires and a crash. The first, second, third time I heard it was instant jolt of panic and left me jittery. I switched stations after the third time.
And this is part of why I don’t listen to the radio while I drive. The other part is because I bought a cheap android stereo and I couldn’t be fucked to buy the adapter to hook my antenna up to the stereo.
I guess being lazy is saving me from early morning drive radio jump-scares.Also radio is trash. My phone has like 13 hours of music on it and then YouTube music is practically endless, all I need is an FM transmitter or a tape deck because my car is from 2001.
My car is from 2004, doing a radio upgrade was actually really easy and by far the best thing i did. It cost like $50 and gave me android auto, bluetooth, aux, usb and some other things i dont use. It was basically plug and play.
Or I could just not and save fifty bucks.
ok enjoy your tapes I guess.
The tape deck has an Aux cord so I’m good.
HA! MAY CAR IS WAAAAAAAY NEWER THAN YOURS!
…2006.
When I bought it, it had an even cheaper android stereo in it. When I was looking for a interim replacement before I spent over £100, I found the one that was installed when I bought it…for £12.
Ended up with an ~£80 deck that came with a half decent reverse camera, which was almost the only requirement for me other than Bluetooth.
I honestly kinda wish it had come with a tape deck, being on the edge of old I still have a bunch of tapes. Used to have a load of CDRs, but rot got them. 🤷
I have about 60Gb of music on my phone, I’ll occasionally switch some of it out for new stuff. I had Google Play Music back in what is now considered “The Day” and now I pretty much refuse to use any streaming service.
Made a greentext out of your story (I took some creative liberties):
be me, driving to work still tired and half asleep
turn on radio loudly to wake me up a bit
suddenly hear the most horrific accident happening
Heartattack.jpg
take a second to compose myself
it was the fucking radio station
fully awake now
MFW
I remember that one station that would advertise that they would play “uninterrupted music” during certain parts of the day. Only to then constantly interrupting it to tell us how they currenlty playing “uninterrupted music”.
I think broadcasters are legally required to announce who’s broadcasting, at some minimum interval. I know it affects ham radio - because slow-scan image transmissions worked around it by watermarking their callsign in the image. It’d also explain why Sirius XM does it so goddamn often when every receiver already has a screen.
Remember? That’s like half the stations around. The other half don’t do “uninterrupted” blocks
Also, this announcement but first: “You’re listening to another ad-free power-half-hour on KKKK”, with that ad for the station repeated every 10 minutes.
This isn’t even an exaggeration.
I just noticed the headphones in the picture are Audeze LCD 2, I think. Expensive AF. In case anyone wanted to know that.
I had them for all of 5min before returning them- they’re heavy af. My neck ain’t built to sustain that kind of weight.
Never tried them. The best headphones / “earspeakers” I ever tried were Stax. They blew me away. 2k $ tho. I have the much more reasonably priced Sennheiser HD 650 and AKG 712 pro with a FiiO DAC/AMP, which are both light and comfy.
Audeze nuts in your mouth
LCDeez nuts on your face
Chin.
Who’s all in?
This^ but narrated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QmaC5E17_E
Is this happening anywhere outside US? Because every American radio station, TV program, podcast etc. seems to be fiiled to the brim with these annoying sound effects, ads, and with obnoxious testoreone imbued speaker.
And I don’t remember encountering it anywhere in Europe.
i dont remember many sound effects, but the testosterone imbued speaker is definitely in one of the big privately-owned rock radios in germany.
one thing that always annoyed me tho is when stations play snippets of really good music in their announcements or adverts, and then resume to playing the boring songs they played the last 3 hours.
Don’t worry, that’s entirely on purpose to keep you listening.
I’ve never listened to much radio but I have a distinct memory of drinking in a bar in Dominican Republic and hearing air horn sfx throughout the night
I haven’t listened to radio in >10 years, but back in the day they had a bunch of pre-recorded station ID messages like this in Germany, France and some African countries.
Yeah I think every radio station uses these pre-recorded snippets, but they are usually rather mild and they serve to remind you that “yup, you’re still listening to our radio btw, ok bye”
You’ll get the odd station elsewhere that peppers in a sound effect or two, but this kind of faceroll on the soundboard is a uniquely American radio station thing in my experience
Yes. This happens in several other countries
It has been a long time since I listened to popular radio. I don’t remember it being this annoying, but I think there were also sound effects (German radio).
Dammit!
Anon is totally gay, but the realness present in this text has broken my brain.
Also, that song is still fucking awesome.
Thats one of those cases of “Fuck I hate that band except that one song”
Like Burn it to the Ground by Nickelback.
I could fart in a rhythm and it would be more musical than the entire discography of imagine dragons.
Nah, tastes are different and since enjoyment of music is 100% subjective everyones opinion is equally valid.
I’d like to hear the farts please
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF2Jo6z5RFc
Very well.
Imagine draggin’ deez nuts on your face
You couldn’t handle my strongest ligma.
i love this live version in particular: https://youtu.be/ZQxuw9d2d28
Best version ever!
Amazing. That’s the most creativity I have seen associated with them.
Jesus, my sides are in orbit
right 🤭 i also ended up with a six-pack from laughing
Imagine dragons is so boring man.
Do Grannies listen to “imagine dragons - radioactive”?
… There are old Grannies and there are young Grannies.
You still hear music on FM radio and not just ads the entire 20 minute car ride?
I live in a small college town in rural ohio. I listen to our local golden oldies radio station in my car because the songs are great, the ads are mostly local businesses, and i get local news from it. Although we also get a lot of Medishare scams, snake oil from supplement companies. But the ads are much better than the radio back when I lived in Houston 10 years ago. Even the Cleveland stations are pretty light on ads these days.
My main gripe with my local station is that the small conglomerate they are in all play Christmas songs at the same time in the winter. I understand the incentive behind synching up ads across your controlled stations, but why do they all insist on playing Christmas carols at the quarter hour across all channels? I fucking hate Christmas carols.
Some industries go ‘we have to do [blank] because that’s the most popular thing’ and some industries go ‘we can’t do [blank] because everyone else is doing [blank].’ Inevitably the latter get infected with executives from the former.
Yes!
FM radio has to compete with (free) Spotify nowadays given that 4g coverage is pretty ubiquitous, at least where I live. This means they can’t stuff too many ads in there.
one of the classic greentext’s of our times
A classic
