Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts

Saturday, February 23, 2013

CFNY "The Spirit of Radio" – Best of 1983



    Back when Toronto radio station CFNY "The Spirit of Radio" was worth its weight in music I listened to it religiously, but as the years went on and they played the same song 6 or 7 times a day I lost all interest. Now thanks to the The CFNY Spirit Of Radio Fan Page I have been compiling videos off of YouTube to go along with the year end "Best Of" lists that they have gathered and displayed on the website. So if you want to have your very own "Retro Night" press play on this Best of 1983 list and enjoy.


Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Radio That Doesn't Suck.com - Music to My Ears



    With literally thousands of internet radio stations out there to choose from these days it can get kind of mind numbing trying to find one to suit your tastes, some people dig one specific type of music and that's it they don't & won't change but if you're like me and enjoy your variety those stations are few and far between, I think I've found one that's going to work for all of us. 

   RadioThatDoesntSuck.com, broadcasting to the Universe from Willowdale, Ontario, Canada runs the gamut as far as radio programming goes, the musical styles you'll find streaming are everything from Rock & Pop, Jazz and instrumental, some Soul/R'n'B, and great information programs…they've got everything. Just an example, in the last 30 minutes that I have been listening I've heard everyone from Rush to Moby, the great Ron Sexsmith to synthesizer musician Vangelis…now that's variety.

   Back in December RTDS announced that Thursdays’ programming would be devoted entirely to the promotion of Canada’s thriving Folk/Roots music scene with Roots Music Canada providing 3 original programs and with RTDS playing a diverse line up of Folk/Roots music leaning heavily on Canadian artists, as a fan of the Folk/Roots genre of music and one to always support our own Canadian musicians this was (and this is gonna sound kinda of corny but it works) Music to my Ears

   So do your ears a favor and head on over to RadioThatDoesntSuck.com and start listening, you will thank me.





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Joe Cornelisse-SMM

Thursday, January 3, 2013

CFNY: 30 Years Ago



     This New Year's Eve was turning out to be the usual for me, the usual being staying in, rockin' the M&M's Oriental Party Pack and watching the ball drop online....but there was more this year.

   A week before or so I had been poking around this great website called 'The CFNY Spirit Of Radio Fan Page'; they have everything you want to know about the heyday of Toronto's CFNY (when it was the Spirit of Radio). I got looking at the old year-end chart lists, some of them very good; in 1984 the Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves record was #1 …and some really bad, the years '89 & '90 saw both New Kids on the Block and Vanilla Ice make appearances on the charts. So I thought it would be fun to pick a list and post videos to go along with all of the artists. I decided on the 1982 list "CFNY's The Best Damn Music of '82"...a list of the top 82 records from 1982 that was tabulated from votes cast by CFNY listeners. It turned out to be more work than I had expected but I love doing things like this and I have gotten some really positive feedback for it. 

So here's the link to the complete list on YouTube and here is the actual list so you can follow along (just click on the pic so you can read it)

Look for the 1983 YouTube Chart List coming soon.

Joe Cornelisse-SMM