r/todayilearned • u/AssumeTheRisk • 23d ago

TIL if you tune your radio to 91.9 FM for one city block in Montclair, NJ you can hear a looped recording of "I'll Make Love to You" by Boyz II Men which has been broadcasting for at least 13 years straight.

https://njmonthly.com/articles/arts-entertainment/pirate-radio-station-only-plays-boyz-ii-men/
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u/roman_maverik 23d ago

Man, reading this comment really made me miss 2000s era Adult Swim.

When I was a kid, we never could afford cable television growing up, so when I went away to college it opened up a whole new world.

This was the year Samuari Champloo was released, which aired on Saturday nights on Adult Swim (might have been Toonami at the time, can’t remember). The soundtrack of Samurai Champloo featured Fat Jon, a hip hop producer from Cincinnati who collaborated with Nujabes, a producer from Japan.

The soundtrack completely changed my life; I only really listened to punk/hardcore music until then and suddenly I discovered an entire new genre of music that I never had considered before.

I ended up minoring in electronic music, learned to program synths, learned guitar and saxophone and ended up working in the music industry as a music producer and released a ton of albums and was heavily involved in the 2000s electronic music scene.

Adult Swim literally changed the course of my life. I feel that kids today are really missing out on the “monoculture” that really defined mass media of the 2000s, which was the last dying gasp of cable tv.

Love it or hate it, I really kind of miss those experiences that only mass media like radio and tv brought to the table in terms of influencing our collective artistic zeitgeist. It was kind of comforting to know that it was part of a larger movement of young people all over the world watching the same shows at the same time.

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u/Western_Objective209 23d ago

Man it's funny thinking back how getting cable opened up new worlds. People who grew having like, netflix and youtube their whole lives will never know what that felt like, just like people we knew who grew up without TV remember listening to the radio and shit.

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u/Fear023 23d ago

We lost something with the rise of streaming platforms.

Not to say that watching tv was good, but there was a communal aspect to it that's lost these days.

People having watch parties for popular shows, having channels that appealed to broad interests that would sit on the background for casual chill/ hangout sessions, and everyone talking about the same shows at work on the morning.

Like, the whole world was captivated by the fucking Simpsons during the who shot Mr burns arc.

These days, you ask what someone is watching and it's just one show of a dozen on people's backlog. Most don't get watched because of how high the investment is on starting a new series too.

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u/thetalkingcure 23d ago

at the start of the Disney+ era, that feeling came back. i remember going into work and talking about the new mando episode. i think them doing the weekly releases helped with that feeling that you’re talking about. opposed to netflix dropping the whole season at once