I HATE Twin Cities radio.

[SmileyBoy]

If you're a rock fan and only want to listen to rock music (like me), Minneapolis is NOT the city to live in. No offense to any Twin Cities DUers, but I can't WAIT to go back to Fargo in four weeks. Thank GOD I only live in this city three months out of the year. 93X (Minneapolis's ONLY rock station) is a virus on society. They're a Disney-owned musical corporate butt-rock TRASH HEAP. Drive 105 (alternative) plays nothing but WUSS ROCK and KQRS (classic rock) is not much better.

I have no interest in listening to news radio, talk radio, public radio, pop radio, Spanish radio, etc. 770 Radio K (the U of M station) doesn't play the type of music I like most of the time. I just want a nice good rock station (that doesn't play too much corporate butt-rock and doesn't repeat their damn songs) to listen to instead of 93X which has about 8 brand new songs and 8 other Metallica songs on their playlist, and plays them over and over again ad nauseum.

As a pizza delivery driver, I'm always fidling with the dial, because there's always something crappy being played on one station, then something even worse on another station, and the cycle continues on and on. Most of my job involves me driving in my car, and I can't take it when all the radio stations SUCK. I'm SICK and TIRED of hearing the same damn Three Days Grace song over and over again. It's stuck in my head, for chrissakes...

I'm sorry, but I really have to say that the radio in this city really SUCKS. Thank God I'm moving back to Fargo soon so I can listen to the greatest radio station in the world, Q98. I hate Minneapolis. I have lots of other reasons than just the shitty radio.

Rant over.

[mzmolly]

1. I guess I agree that TC radio is bad. But I am no fan of 93X either.

I'm more of a KS95 fan myself.

Sorry MPLS didn't work out for you. I hear Fargo is a nice place to live? Good luck with your move. :hi:

[SmileyBoy]

2. I go to college there (NDSU).

I lived there from last August to middle of this May. I go back in 4 weeks. I'm thinking of getting an apartment downtown next to the new architecture/graphics campus eventually. It'll coincide with my school, cause I'm an architecture student there. Then I can live there year-round.

[mzmolly]

3. How does daily life differ from MPLS?

Curious... ;)

[SmileyBoy]

6. In more than a few ways:

The whole area is much smaller than the Twin cities, but it offers every single amenity that the Twin Cities offers. Gourmet restaurants, martini bars, night clubs, executive offices, etc. But the city doesn't overwhelm me like Mpls. does.

I can drive from one end of the city to the other in around a half an hour, but I can still get a bagel at 11pm.

I can listen to my pick of two rock stations, three classic rock stations, a jazz station, the NDSU college station, a hip-hop station, and others. Rush Limbaugh's radio show does NOT exist in Fargo. The main local talk station (WDAY) has a main right-winger (Scott Hennen) and a main left-winger (Ed Schultz) who broadcasts nationally (even though I don't like him because he cheerleads for UND).

I can go to a huge mall (135 stores) to shop, then I can go to any number of classy restaurants in the immediate area (upscale chains and independents) and I only have to drive not even 10 minutes to get home. I can go to Taco Bell until 2am. And it's not just the drive-thru, but the restaurant that's open. Hell, I can go to most fast-food places around my campus before midnight, and drive-thru before 2am. I can also get a Starbucks coffee in Fargo just like the Twin Cities.

I can walk thru the downtown skyway system, and parking there is FREE.

I can do anything that I could do in Minneapolis, except the people are less snooty, and I don't get stuck in traffic.

[mzmolly]

10. Sounds good to mua.

:hi:

[kikiek]

4. Music aside on ks95 the AM people are annoying in my book.

I finally got Sirius.

[mzmolly]

5. I'd love satelite radio. I generally get my music fix on the Cable music

stations. Comcast digitial to be exact. I don't listen in the AM. And, I turn it off when people get chatty. I tend to stream AAR, or listen to NPR when I'm not listening to music.

[kikiek]

9. Me too. Also with Sat. you can get like CNN headline news. I spend

a lot of time in my car for work.

[NightTrain]

7. If it's commercial radio, chances are it blows.

In the late 1990s, I drove across the country three times and kept the radio on most of the way. No matter what part of the country I was in, it felt as if I were listening to the same handful of stations. Not only was the music all the same, so were the jingles, bumpers, commercials, and in many cases even the announcers.

You can thank the Telecommunications Act of 1996 for the pathetic wasteland that is commercial radio in the early 21st century!

[SmileyBoy]

8. I know man, you're not kidding.

But Q98 in Fargo is owned by a small company, and still has a lot of leeway in the songs they play, how the DJ's are, etc. There's still a big variety of rock on that station.