Honestly, has anyone noticed?

*no comment, just pianissimo saxophone tootling for twenty minutes*

This is good news. I hate variety.

Except for subby's mom. She's got plenty of variety.

There goes my farking hold music.

Thanks Clear Channel, now I'm forced to listen to country or adult contemporary music as background music.

Radio?
Why? (new window)

WNUA, for when you want to put half the office to sleep and make the other half's teeth itch uncontrollably.

Does this mean Kenny G will end up like M.C. Hammer.

Smooth jazz sucks ass, but it is a genre with a devoted following that will keep that station on the air all day, so this seems like more short-sighted thinking from the radio industry.

Obviously, though, the solution to their problems is to pay off Congressmen to block the XM/Sirius merger.

Tom_Slick: Does this mean Kenny G will end up like M.C. Hammer.

Will someone, for the love of God, please think of the clarinetists?!

/at least i think he played clarinet. maybe alto sax. no idea.

I've not listened to local radio in a long time. Once you go satellite, you never go back.

Sirius Blues 74

NeauxFear: /at least i think he played clarinet. maybe alto sax. no idea.


Soprano Sax, Recovering band geek.

Jazz is the music for those that hate jazz.

I for one am looking forward to another station of shiat pop music.

/Kenny G may suck, but atleast he ain't The Game/Fitty Cent, etc

You can always just ride on an elevator.

fark smooth jazz, but fark the Washington Post worst.

What a farking stupid way of web they have. Where they hyperlink "Los Angeles" to their own stories of LA, but they won't name or hyperlink the Los Angeles radio station that they claim was the first major outlet.

fark all newspapers that do this shiat, but fark the Washington Post writers with a baritone sax. No, fark them with a tuba.

HeadbangerSmurf: Thanks Clear Channel, now I'm forced to listen to country or adult contemporary music as background music.

This one's got nothing to do with Clear Channel. WJZW is owned by Citadel. Smaller company, bigger stupid.

Citadel's stock had to stop trading on the NYSE this month because it fell below $1.05 a share. That's down 90% from a year ago.

For this, their CEO got $17 million last year.

Dear God,

Usually I am not your biggest far due to all of the pain and suffering in the world: however, if you are shutting down the smooth jazz, well, I just might reconsider becoming a member of one of your fine institutions.

Love,
P_S

Frankly I blame MILES DAVIS. After releasing biatches BRew,this album was so huge it unleashed an endless stream of jazz musicians doing that pussified jazz fusion


Ugh....

/cues Miles' "Live Evil"

soze: WNUA, for when you want to put half the office to sleep and make the other half's teeth itch uncontrollably.

Thanks, now I have their tag stuck in my head.

What kind of backward subhuman hick nightmare of a country has smooth jazz stations?

HappyHarryHardOn: Frankly I blame MILES DAVIS. After releasing biatches BRew,this album was so huge it unleashed an endless stream of jazz musicians doing that pussified jazz fusion


Ugh....

/cues Miles' "Live Evil"

Actually, I'd lay that more at Weather Report's feet. I think the blueprint the "smooth jazz" people follow comes from them, not so much Miles. Because Miles' "fusion" music is really really challenging, and not a precursor to Kenny G except in the broadest sense.

RoyBatty: What a farking stupid way of web they have. Where they hyperlink "Los Angeles" to their own stories of LA, but they won't name or hyperlink the Los Angeles radio station that they claim was the first major outlet.

It was the now defunct KMET "The Mighty Met" 94.7MHz. I was there (listening on the radio) for the the last song "The End" by The Beatles.

KTWV "The Wave" took over the frequency February 14, 1987, it was a sad day indeed.

Closed_Minded_Bastage: RoyBatty: What a farking stupid way of web they have. Where they hyperlink "Los Angeles" to their own stories of LA, but they won't name or hyperlink the Los Angeles radio station that they claim was the first major outlet.

It was the now defunct KMET "The Mighty Met" 94.7MHz. I was there (listening on the radio) for the the last song "The End" by The Beatles.

KTWV "The Wave" took over the frequency February 14, 1987, it was a sad day indeed.

That's what I thought too.

A little bit of heaven, 94.7. KMET, Tweedlee.

Pay Metheny WILL kick your ass.

Pat Metheny WILL kick your ass.

Pat.

"Let's face it, there's never been worse music in the history of human beings."

-Pat "Pay" Metheny

know this thread is dead, but had to correct my previous quote:

"Let's face it, this is the worst music there could ever possibly be in the history of human beings."

More accurate.

Unfortunately, the smooth jazz is being replaced by todays top country hits.

The one cool thing about NY's CD101.9 was that at 3am you could hear Coltrane's A Love Supreme...


But fark 'em. Infact, fark radio. Long live My iPod.

FTFA: Michael B¿rub¿, a cultural critic at Penn State University...

Who the heck is this?

I hate smooth jazz. It's the stuff they always used to play over the PA at my doctor's office when I was a kid.

I think the idea was to calm you down, but it had more or less the opposite effect. To this day, every time I hear that aural pap, I get that same feeling of dread that I had when I was sick little kid, dreading the inevitable poking, prodding, and needle-ing.

/those nurses could have been a bit less brusque, really

I thought it was "smoove jazz"


bring on the "that's racist!" kid.

Anyone hating on "smooth jazz" stations clearly were not born into the generation that had to put up with the "beautiful music" and "easy listening" stations of the 60s and 70s. Imagine "Moon River" played continuously by string orchestras. Imagine never hearing any percussion instruments. Imagine that Karen Carpenter's music was too wild and crazy for them.

Sorry, but if you are over 54 years of age, the ad agencies aren't interested in you. Hiring local sales-reps to hustle business is too expensive. So it's 'Light Dreck', and 'Hits of the 80's 90's and today on yur radio TFN.
Now if it was up to me, I'd put on an eclectic easy listening format, which you would slam as boring, and criticise because I won't play your favorite reggae song....
(reaches for guitar, plays fingerpick pattern in minor key...)

Siriusly? (new window) My satellite reception has never been better.

Closed_Minded_Bastage: RoyBatty: What a farking stupid way of web they have. Where they hyperlink "Los Angeles" to their own stories of LA, but they won't name or hyperlink the Los Angeles radio station that they claim was the first major outlet.

It was the now defunct KMET "The Mighty Met" 94.7MHz. I was there (listening on the radio) for the the last song "The End" by The Beatles.

KTWV "The Wave" took over the frequency February 14, 1987, it was a sad day indeed.



For a while, they actually played some exciting new age music. Got introduced to some real fun stuff like David Sylvian and Patrick O'Hearn. Then they went to smooth jazz crap.

There's a good song called "The Wave" by Tribal Tech. A reference to the radio station. It starts like a smooth jazz song, then it gets all...tribally and awesome.

I like smooth jazz. Got a problem with that, music snobs?

TribeFan695: I like smooth jazz. Got a problem with that, music snobs?

*snicker*

*ahem*

No, no. Not at all...

uh, no. weather report led by two Miles alumni, Shorter and Zawinul. The only thing " fusiony" about their band was the use of electric keyboard, which Miles heard Zawinul play on Nat Adderly's hit "mercy,mercy,mercy" and hired him for that reason.
Those responsible for smooth jazz are; Bob James and Grover Washington, who more or less originated the genre.

Now what am I going to listen to when customer service puts me on hold?!?