Who still listens to radio...

Oh, shit! I must be hanging out with some really delusional people. Among them: my daughter, my son-in-law, theirs sons, my live-in helper, her boyfriend, my niece, and numerous others. They're liars--LIARS, I tell you! They SAY they're varying decades younger than 60. I must set them straight!

 

I don't listen to music on the radio now even in a car, only talk or a football broadcast.

I got in to my favourite music though on a good portable mono radio set in the early seventies while doing my long homework alone in the evening. I think recordings were optimised for these types of mono broadcasts, and a later purchase of the vinyl stereo version could sometimes be disappointing at first.

I didn't and don't generally like Irish musicians (and I'm Irish) but many decades later (about 15 years ago) I heard a track by Van Morrison referencing tuning for music on radio stations of that era and before.
I loved it so much I bought the album "Enlightenment" and his 3 disc "Still On Top" compilation (2007) and loved his stuff and the musical arrangements ever since.

The track was "In the Days before Rock 'n' Roll":

Justin, gentler than a man
I am down on my knees
At the wireless knobs
I am down on my knees
At those wireless knobs
Telefunken, Telefunken
And I'm searching for
Luxembourg, Luxembourg,
Athlone, Budapest, AFN,
Hilversum, Helvetia
In the days before rock 'n' roll

In the days before rock 'n' roll
In the days before rock 'n' roll

When we let, then we bet
On Lester Piggott when we met
We let the goldfish go

In the days before rock 'n' roll
Fats did not come in
Without those wireless knobs
Fats did not come in
Without those wireless knobs
Elvis did not come in
Without those wireless knobs
Nor Fats, nor Elvis
Nor Sonny, nor Lightning
Nor Muddy, nor John Lee

In the days before rock 'n' roll
In the days before rock 'n' roll

When we let and we bet
On Lester Piggott 10/1
And we…

Source: LyricFind

 

Great taste. I love Van Morrison!

 

Almost every day when I am driving

 

AS I Live ina fringe reception area for FM and even more fringe for DAB, I stream. Jazz FM, BBC 2/3/4 and classic FM, blues and reggae online 'radio'

 

For me it's more interesting to make an AM & FM radio than it is just to listen to AM & FM

 

Don't listen to the radio often, but when I do, it's KPIG with classic rock. & county. Most of my music comes from You Tube, where I will listen to my friend Henry Kapono from Hawaii.

 

At home, mostly talk radio, not for me but for the bird. He doesn't like it when it's quiet and doesn't seem to like music so he keeps up on the news (Win 1010 from NYC - I don't live there haha). If I am in a different room for a while then it's Pandora. The car is mostly always Pandora, sometimes an alternative radio station. I also have a bunch loaded to my phone so listen to that too (Poweramp ftw).

 

I really only listen to the radio while i'm here at work.

 

I listen to podcasts, does it count?

 

One of the podcasts is the local news so kinda maybe?

 

What are those? and how much they cost?

 

I use jump drives with "borrowed" music from YouTube for the Kenwood in the truck as well as the Onkyo in the living room;


I used to listen to the Dr.Demento show as well.