Do you listen to radio?

NPR has many music programs.

When I said I didn't realize listening to the radio was unusual, I should have included that yes, I listen to music in the car, a song here or there, as the mood strikes me.

Some of that music is from regular FM music stations, some are from NPR, some from CD's

The radio is not some obscure outdated unknown object.

While I listen to a lot of NPR, the radio is always on in my car. Unfortunately, the popular pop station here has already started playing Christmas music in rotation and will go to 100% Christmas music on Thanksgiving day, so I'm exploring the dial. I've got some classic rock and alternative stations programmed in for emergency music listening.

i rarely listen to broadcast radio anymore, i'm a talk guy, and i listen to podcasts almost exclusively

I'm unconvinced that radio is not outdated.

I posted a link on another thread where the person giving a lecture asked who in the audience wore a wristwatch and then asked who was over the age of 25. There was a correlation between the use -- people younger than 25 did not see much use in "single function devices". I'm thinking the same would hold true with radio.

Sattelite and internet radio allow you to get very specific about the style of music you want to hear -- I'll bet younger people enjoy that specificity more than older people do.

iTunes and podcasts allow someone to narrow things down even further.

I'm going to listen carefully to the commercials today. I'm willing to bet that the products are geared to older audiences.

Ugh. Christmas music. I'm getting sick of Christmas already this year.

But I did buy a radio that was marked down as part of some Christmas special!

But some of what you value the most from listening to radio is the randomness. Of course the radio station has a certain theme, but still the range is generally pretty broad. I don't doubt that young people enjoy the specificity but that also limits exposure to new music. Of course, you can go to the Internet to find out what is new and hot, but it's a lot easier to let the variety come to you instead of searching for it. I love my ipod and my car can link directly in to it, so I can listen to it pounding from every speaker in digital quality, but sometimes I turn the radio on to get something new and radio is a great place to get something new at a low cost.

I love listening to music in foreign (to me) languages. My college boyfriend spoke 6 languages and had a collection of music in all of them. I loved trying to guess what the song was about based just on how it sounded. I was right most of the time.

The entire "classical" music radio station i listen to is "geared" for an older audience. They advertise to an older audience and advertise that they appeal to an older audience. The owner of the station has coined a term (which just appals me) which is "zoomer" and by which he refers to Baby Boomers. Almost all of their public service anouncements are also geared to this older audience, which they describe as 45+. My personal take is that they in fact are targeting an audience older than that.

I used to play around with this internet thing where you could list some songs you like and it would recommend some new/obscure stuff that you would probably like. That was kind of fun.

When I was younger I always just seemed to know what the new thing was. Someone in my group would have discovered it somehow. The closest I come to that now is when djjd or hingehead show up with someone I've never heard of before. Swimpy (I miss her) had very similar tastes to mine and I always liked what she referred.

I suspect that you're right.

I'm going to have to look for our classical station. That would be great to hear with dinner.

Maybe I'll start trying to match the music to our meals!

Rod Stewart's Tonight the night was played loud and clear as i escorted Mumpad down the hall of her college dorm when i picked her up for our first date, courtesy of her college roommates.

I often listen to the radio in the car. When i'm working in the paddock I will have the car radio tuned to the country hour which is mostly talk radio dealing with rural issues stock prices etc.
The radio is on when Mumpad takes a shower but otherwise not too much.

The inane drivel that seems to permeate commercial radio makes me puke.

I dont own an ipod or mp3 player.

My TV and PC has permanently repcalced the radio. Both media will usually be superior in both music, news and other information access.

No, I gave it up when the mega corps bought up all the radio stations and ruined them. When we came back from Germany 1995 the stations in Monterey Ca were mostly gone. We moved to Arizona 1998 and in our smallish town there was still an old time radio station with real DJ's playing interesting music. I was all "OMG, this is so cool, I thought they were all gone!" Four months later a mega corp (Clearchannel?) bought them and instantly distroyed them. That was the last straw. I am done with radio. I refuse to listen to it even in the car now, I play CD's mostly. My wife's jeep has a jack for MP3 which is cool.

In my wife's shop, she keeps the radio set to a top 40 pop station.

In my workshop, I tend to keep the radio set to a top 40 country station, depending on the weather I can pick up a classic country station, and sometimes I switch to classic rock.

In my truck, most times it's set to a station that plays pretty much everything, but it still tends to be the same 150 songs or so.

At work, it's usually news/talk radio.

At home, I have youtube and nearly 50,000 songs on my pc to choose from....we have lived in this house for just over 8 yrs and I've only had a radio playing maybe twice.

I listen to the best radio station in the world. CKUA. It's on the net. Check it out. It's the oldest public radio station in Canada, maybe N. America with the best library ever. The have real dj's that pick there own shows line up.
Stuff you never hear on "programed' radio shows. There's a celtic, jazz, vocal jazz, blues, bluegrass, classical, choral, country and all the stuff in between but what's played on top 40. I'm cool with that because I get to hear the greats that aren't commonly played anywhere else. We also get a great selection of talent coming through the province because of this station, stuff you never hear anywhere else.
That and CBC are all I listen to, in the car or at home, unless my heathens are there to change the channels, which they do quite frequently. I am now an expert in Trance and Rap, but I still prefer music that people with talent play...

I'm an avid listener to the radio at work.

From NPR to the classical music station (WQXR). On occasion, I feel compelled to listen to either classic rock or the rock music stations.

These past couple of weeks, I've been working at a separate project with a group of guys from my other work assignment. We share a radio where it ranges from classic rock to the rock station to a classic R & B station, and on two rare occasions a Spanish language music station.

That's why for the most part, I stay away from commercial radio stations. The two major rock stations in NYC are landmined with annoying commercials as well as their reluctance to play beyond the most popular and accessible songs of their entire archive of music.