What's up with Cjay 92?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Schraderbrau

Cjay is a rock station. It's not there fault the only real good new rock in the last 5 years is the foo fighters.

There are oceans of good new music, but commercial radio is not really designed to bring it to you.

[Top Shelf]

Originally Posted by darockwilder

They used to? (By old do you mean Justice and earlier?)

I can't comment much before 2002, but it seems they used to play them more? Maybe I just listen less these days....

[pylon]

Without Cjay 92, where are all the affliction wearing, tribal tatted, truck nutz sporting dude bros gonna get their musical fix? Especially when their pre-paid mastercard is maxed out, and their Sirius subscription is cut-off for non payment. Ozzy's Boneyard aint' gonna replace itself.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by flameswin

Yeah, they played One by Metallica the other day too, I kind of did a "huhhh?" while flipping through stations and turned it up. If they kept the bands they play relatively the same but played more variety of those bands, I'd be happy with them.

It seems they get stuck on 2 or 3 songs from each band and don't deviate often enough. Play 7 Red Hot Chili Peppers songs, instead of 2, play 7 Metallica songs instead of 3, an so on, and all of sudden you've got yourself a much bigger variety and a station way easier to tune into.

Really? So they've started to discover that Metallica has songs other than Enter Sandman?

[DAN0383]

CJAY 92 really fostered my hate of Collective Soul.

[S. Yelle]

Originally Posted by darockwilder

They used to? (By old do you mean Justice and earlier?)

They used to play 'One' at least. I'm glad to hear they brought it back.

[ae118]

I'm surprised CJay still exists, and at the hate here. I kind of thought a hockey board might hit some of their target market. So the outstanding question is who on earth is listening to them?

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Schraderbrau

Cjay is a rock station. It's not there fault the only real good new rock in the last 5 years is the foo fighters.

There's plenty of good new rock playing on SiriusXM. But then again they aren't staffed by a bunch of geriatrics stuck in the 80's

[Locke]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Really? So they've started to discover that Metallica has songs other than Enter Sandman?

They do? Since when? LIES!!!

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Haven't listened to CJAY for at least a decade now but I imagine the playlist isn't markedly different since then.

Any time I happen to be flipping through the dials and pause on CJAY, I marvel at how many of the songs I hear are the same songs I used to hear back when I first moved to Calgary in 1999. Looking at that Twitter feed, I bet that at least 3/4 or maybe 3/5 songs at any randomly selected period of time are songs that have been out since no later than the year 2000. They are a classic* rock station with a few new tunes reluctantly sprinkled into the mix.

*If you allow "classic" rock to mean songs that are 20+ years old.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Yeah it is. They could always start playing some B sides (where much of the good music is) and stop playing Ocean Pearl and Dirty Deeds every hour. It's not even like they'd be pioneering the music. Their collection is all more than 10 years old. The OTHER good songs from those albums get played on other stations. It's one thing to be repetitive, but it's much worse when it's playing the same lame songs for 20+ years.

Oh, and get rid of Gerry Forbes. They'll remain on my boycott list until he's gone.

In defense of CJAY they have to play Canadian content and while you can argue they maybe don't play enough current rock you can also argue that Canadian rock talent has fallen off a cliff since the 90's. No successors to the Hip and not even bands like Moist, Econoline Crush, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, etc to fill the airwaves with. It's a barren wasteland for Canadian rock which means Nickelback and oldies.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by pylon

Without Cjay 92, where are all the affliction wearing, tribal tatted, truck nutz sporting dude bros gonna get their musical fix? Especially when their pre-paid mastercard is maxed out, and their Sirius subscription is cut-off for non payment. Ozzy's Boneyard aint' gonna replace itself.

For anyone playing the pylon drinking game, this post is a doozy.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

No successors to the Hip and not even bands like Moist, Econoline Crush, Our Lady Peace, I Mother Earth, etc to fill the airwaves with. It's a barren wasteland for Canadian rock which means Nickelback and oldies.

Simply not true.

42,000+ artists and bands recorded on CBC 3.

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists?br=1&...nre=&genre=&f=

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by troutman

Simply not true.

42,000+ artists and bands recorded on CBC 3.

http://music.cbc.ca/#!/artists?br=1&...nre=&genre=&f=

I'm not saying Canadian artists and bands don't exist. I'm just saying that popular Canadian artists and bands don't exist like they did a few decade or two ago. If CJAY exclusively plays the content you linked every day people change the station.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I'm not saying Canadian artists and bands don't exist. I'm just saying that popular Canadian artists and bands don't exist like they did a few decade or two ago. If CJAY exclusively plays the content you linked every day people change the station.

I suggest people give Art of Dying a listen.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I'm not saying Canadian artists and bands don't exist. I'm just saying that popular Canadian artists and bands don't exist like they did a few decade or two ago. If CJAY exclusively plays the content you linked every day people change the station.

Ok, I see what you are saying now. The music industry has changed dramatically. Bands don't need record companies to support them. We may not see many Canadian bands filling large arenas, but they have followings that are more difficult to measure.

Here is a list of all Gold/Platinum albums in Canada in 2014, with many Canadian entries:

http://musiccanada.com/gold-platinum...tal-downloads/

Arcade Fire was triple platinum, and played the Saddledome.

The new metric might be twitter followers, facebook likes, festival and late show appearances.

[hah]

Q107 or is it Rock 107 or is CKIK Fm 107 or is 107 KIK FM.

Has just changed formats as well. They suck too!!

Kid Rock, Kenny Loggns Footloose, Men at Work, Split Enz WTF?

The morning show is lame.

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by ae118

I'm surprised CJay still exists, and at the hate here. I kind of thought a hockey board might hit some of their target market. So the outstanding question is who on earth is listening to them?

Framers and Roofers.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Last few times I've actually listened to the radio (i.e. when the iPod is dead), I heard Foo Fighters on Q107 (Classic rock - 1997?) and Nickelback on the Eagle 100.9 (which also claims to be a classic rock station). I've always found the term "classic rock" to be lazy and annoying, and the fact that it apparently only means rock from 15 years or more ago seems to reinforce what an idiotic term it is.

[dino7c]

they still play the odd gem...like for whom the bell tolls but really commercial radio sucks big time. People that hate CJ what is your alternative? Its not like there are any other good radio stations in Calgary. X929 are a bunch of whinny hipsters

I'll stick to the fan 960 or stuff I record off the net