(OT) Settle a disagreement! Are songs on the radio better than the same song on CD?

[Tabarnak Smokeblower]

You can always choose what song you listen to on your CD player, but when a song comes on the radio that you didn't know you wanted to hear, its even better

TS

 

[DerianCypher]

Hmm, this thread hasn't been locked... perhaps the mods are all gone to gencon and didn't say anything so chaos and anarchy wouldn't reign supreme?

Or maybe this has just slipped through the cracks?

 

[s/LaSH]

CD has higher bandwidth, and is more controllable.

(Of course, radio mixes are sometimes different, which is kinda odd - radio/tv is where I hear songs that I like so I buy the CD, so you'd think they'd give the customer what they want, but maybe they've got some arrangement with commercial advertisers or something freaky so you have to keep listening to the radio. Which seems only remotely possible.)

Fight the system.

 

[TalonComics]

I don't listen to the radio anymore. I got an iPod for my birthday back in April and I've ripped pretty much every CD I own at a 160 compression rate. With the iPod you can literally build whatever playlist you like and put it in any order or just select "random" to get that "I don't know what song is next" feeling.

Personally, I was pretty sick of hearing a radio playlist of 40 songs with several that repeated every couple of hours.

I *highly* recommend a portable mp3 player especially the iPod.

~D

 

[MarauderX]

Gotta vote fast, and wondering if you heard it on DC101, HFS, or 98 Rock...

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[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well they don't play my bands on the radio here so I don't know.

I want a REAL heavy metal station!!!!!! Not a station that plays Korn and Disturbed! Oh no, I want a station that plays Testament, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Vader, Nevermore, Death, etc.

Sorry rant over.

 

[Arnwyn]

Wow... still going? Got my vote in! (I think it only seems different because the radio "surprises" you.)

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[TiQuinn]

Gotta vote fast, and wondering if you heard it on DC101, HFS, or 98 Rock...

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I hear it a lot on 99.1...

 

[TiQuinn]

Upside: Radio is better for the surprise factor. Plus there's always the freaky "I'd really like to hear this song" moments when all of a sudden the next song they play is the one you were just thinking of.

Downside: Avril Lavigne.

 

[KnowTheToe]

I agree with you, hearing a song you did not know you wanted to hear can be better than putting a CD in, but once you calculate commercials, static, annoying DJ, commericals, commercials, commericals, commercials, commericals, commercials, commericals, commercials, commericals, commercials, commericals, commercials,commericals, commercials,commericals, commercials

Wait I became distracted. Are we talikng about how we hate commercials on the radio?