I started listening to CFNY back in the late 70's when David Marsden turned the station around. They played music that the others didn't and everyone I knew at the time listened to it.. CFNY the spirit of radio was great into the late 80's. Once it became CFNY the edge, that's when it all went to shit. When home I listen to 94.9 the rock.
the edge 102.1 fm
- Thread starter canada-man
- Start date
+1, ahh the good old days, CFNY back then was "THE RADIO STATION", from late 70's to say mid 80's it was the bomb, started going downhill when "House Music" was the rage.
There is actually a website devoted to "the spirit of radio" such that it was back in the 80's (when most of us middle aged guys were in high school and college / university). The glory days.
http://www.thespiritofradio.ca/
http://www.thespiritofradio.ca/
Yah, maybe...sorry to bash it on your thread, but as you can see there's a lot of old fogies that still remember "the good old days" of CFNY. Enjoy..
Where The Edge scored in those days was its promotion of the punk/reggae fusion, I heard The English Beat for the first time in the station and was hooked.
The English Beat weren't around long, they split into two bands. The singers formed their own band and scored a hit with Tenderness. The remaining musicians ended up with the better deal.
Old Fogies rule!!!!, lolyou dudes are old!!! there has been music created since 1981 just to let you know
THIS changed my life...once in a lifetime, I went from listening to my older brother's music, to finding my own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
and a REALLY cool cover of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDkZO4JRf0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU
and a REALLY cool cover of it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDkZO4JRf0g
i think 80s music is a blend of different forms, so 80s songs have a more general appeal
beginning in the 90s, music began to specialize
so if something was hip hop, rap, heavy metal, dance beat, diva (chick) music, etc. it was hard-core that genre, so if you only liked a particular genre, you didn't like the remaining 80% of what was playing on the radio
beginning in the 90s, music began to specialize
so if something was hip hop, rap, heavy metal, dance beat, diva (chick) music, etc. it was hard-core that genre, so if you only liked a particular genre, you didn't like the remaining 80% of what was playing on the radio
Lol I don't think it's that old fogies rule so much as we know what radio is like when it's done really really well, before the corporate masters get their hands on it. Anyone remember 89X from windsor was from 1991-93 or how GREAT Energy 108 was from 1994-97? It was spectacular new music, house, urban, hip hop, mash up and the djs knew they were creating something wonderful. Then corus bought it and instead of taking the valuable lessons learned, turned it into a clone of Q107.
Anyone know if DJ Starting from Scratch is still around on Flow Fm? 2007 -09 that kid was the god of drive home radio. Could spin like he was from inner city Philly but is a white geek from Montreal.
My point is that radio when done well, is more powerful than any other medium, but it takes talent, timing and passion to bring it together. Mostly timing and when corporate radio has its back turned, that passion will pop up if given the chance.
I remain hopeful and I love it when I find stations doing it right, like KCSN out of LA and Radioactive Fm from New Zealand.
There's simply nothing like great radio that can transcend time and space
Even though the 80s are the most vacuous wasteland of music and culture since, I dunno, the fecking 1500's, early 80s CFNY was brilliant. Iconoclastic, clever, creative, endlessly listenable and engaging radio. Whatever the fuck they are now, it ain't it. It ain't a mere shadow of their former glory. It ain't nothing but the same old shit you can find anywhere and everywhere else.
With Madonna and Huey Lewis/ News being all the rage in mainstream radio, most of the music of the 80's did suck ass. The Edge bucked the trend and brought to the fore some very innovative bands.
