Websites that offer the best variety in music

[superfan]

Hello there all:

I am starting a thread that will give websites of stations/shows that play an extensive selection of songs. Feel free to add your favorite stations to the list and thanks in advance.

RadioIO.com: Perhaps, the best playlist around on the internet. Many great stations to choose from.

www.radioio.com


The Lost 45's: Barry Scott's weekly radio show site. Does contain an online only show that can be downloaded, plus other great stuff.

www.lost45.com/

Crap from the past: If you are into listening rare and unusual songs, then this site is perfect for you. All shows are available for streaming and download.

www.crapfromthepast.com/archives/index.htm


Finetune.com: This a neat site that will play songs from any decade or genre you wish. If you join for free, you can create your own playlists.

www.finetune.com


Ultimate oldies radio: This site allows you to down load countdown shows created by this site. Neat stuff!

www.ultimateoldiesradio.com


Lastfm.com

The world’s largest online music catalogue, with free music streaming, videos, photos, lyrics, charts, artist biographies, concerts and internet radio.

www.last.fm/


WLNG: 10,000 song playlist and counting, .

www.wlng.com/


www.imeem.com : Yet another site that plays your favorite songs, here is a sample of Ali Thopson’s “Take A Little Rhythm”

www.imeem.com/jazzzyme/music/QaBxnYzv/ali-thomson-take-a-little-rhythm/


Misc music websites:

radiobop.com/
www.boomerradio.com/
www.icebergradio.com/

Finally, here are some websites devoted to music videos:

www.mtv.com/music/yearbook/

www.vh1.com/video/music.jhtml

www.vh1classic.com/

I know I am missing some great sites and again, feel free to add them for the rest of us to explore.


Thanks again

[superfan]

Jason Miller's Time Warp Top 40 is new and worth a listen. Already being picked up by numerous stations across the country. Last week's countdown from 1957 was fabulous. Found at timewarptop40.blogspot.com/

[superfan]

Right now I'm listening a lot to Radio Bop, which plays practically every top-100 song from 1955 through 1965: pop, rock'n'roll, r&b, MOR, country, and rockabilly. They also play a lot of non-charting singles and quite a few B-sides and album tracks. radiobop.com/ The site's sound is pretty bad but they give you the option of four other media players. May I suggest Windows Media Player? And perhaps a nice merlot to go with it.

[superfan]

Roots Of Rock is another fun channel: rootsofrock.us/ They play the pop, r&b, and country hits of 1944-54; their slogan is "The music Elvis grew up with."

[superfan]

I am not a huge Rick Dees fan however:

Another site that deserves to be brought up is www.rick.com. Rick Dee’s Weekly Top 40 website allows you to listen to past and current shows plus has a few different music channels to stream thru. This site was brought up quite a few times. I checked it out and will tune again.

[Mike Schwartz]

Jun 22, 2009 13:28:15 GMT -5 superfan said:

I am not a huge Rick Dees fan however:

Another site that deserves to be brought up is www.rick.com. Rick Dee’s Weekly Top 40 website allows you to listen to past and current shows plus has a few different music channels to stream thru. This site was brought up quite a few times. I checked it out and will tune again.

I was able to listen to them last summer, but lately, I haven't been able to get the players to work, and I don't usually have trouble with webstreaming.

I emailed the show but have yet to get any response from their tech support guys.

Any tips?

[superfan]

Mike: I am noT sure about Rick.com's past problems, but it appears to be working now.

Checkout www.grooveshark.com. Just type up what you're looking for and there's a very good chance you'll find it

[Michael1973]

While I think it's great that Rick Dees offers old shows on his website, the list has not been updated in months. Initially, he was adding 3-5 of the classic shows per week.

[easye]

RadioSure is not a website, but instead it is an application. The actual content is usually a radio station's stream, though they have some webradio listed. Currently, there are over 12,000 stations in the application window from numerous countries covering multiple genre. Program is useful because it consolidates all these streams into one window. It is also possible to record the stream, although the results may not be great because of where RadioSure cuts the individual mp3's. Of course, the program depends on accurate link within the application as well as the broadcaster's stream working at the moment.

www.radiosure.com/

[superfan]

Here’s another nice 80’s channel:

lost80s.com/index.php

Plays it all plus “current: songs of 80’s artists.

Enjoy.

[superfan]

This is more for us beatlemaniacs but how about www.beatlesradioshow.com This is a weekly tradition called breakfast with the beatles hosted by the amazing dennis mitchell. It is syndicated around the globe on various radio stations and you can also stream the hour long love fest for the beatles right on that web site.In a word awesome Also there is www.maccaradio.com All beatle related music 24-7.


For you 70’s fans, like myself, there is:

105.7 WROR
www.wrornothinbutthe70s.com/

Their home page states:
WROR is harnessing the power of HD Radio, providing you the highest fidelity ever available and even more choices. "Nothin' But The 70's is a celebration of the music and pop culture of the 1970's. Whether it's Rock, Soul, Disco, Top 40 Hits, or B-sides, if it was made in the 70's, you'll hear it here. Featuring a lot of songs you haven't heard in a long time, it will bring back memories. And, of course, it's free.


Here we are, boys and girls: an AM radio station that still plays mid-1950s through early '70s and has a 7000-song library: "Krazy Q" KZQZ, 1430 in St. Louis. And you can hear the station courtesy of this new-fangled invention known as "the Internet." kzqz1430am.com


Another good mid-'50s-through-early-'70s AM station is WMTR in Morristown, NJ: www.wmtram.com/Default.aspx


A new station to check out WGVU AM 1480 in Grand Rapids, MI. The first NPR station in the country to go oldies. They say they have 5,000 songs, and want people to hear songs they haven't heard in 40 years.
www.publicbroadcasting.net/wgvu/ppr/index.shtml


Here is a great 70s alternative to XM:

www.1.fm/Station/70s/Default.aspx

They have the deepest playlist that I have found yet - for example, they played a version of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" done by John Travolta and the Captain and Tennille. The performance was from the old Captain and Tennille tv show. Admittedly it sucked but it was fun to hear a blast from the past like that. They have an 80s station that goes very deep as well.


Here is a station that just plays "lost hits"
KCIX Lost Hits:
An awesome collection of great music that isn't played anymore, and some of today's songs that aren't played enough!

www.live365.com/stations/kcixdisco1


Here’s is a show that I haven’t heard on radio for a while. Think it’s on at 6:00AM on Sundays where I live LOL. You can listen to both the 80’s and 90’s versions of these shows. Click “Listen Here” on the home page and you are set.

BackTrax USA with Kid Kelly:
"We've got everything you need to relive the era when greed was good, hair was big and lipsynching could win you a Grammy. We're always adding more stuff, so be sure and drop in often or you might miss something."

www.backtrax.com/index.html

[mrjukebox]

I'm glad to see WLNG on this list-They play a lot of songs you don't hear anymore like "Dominique" by The Singing Nun,"Volare" by Domenico Modugno & "Ringo" by Lorne Greene-Their claim that they have 10,000 oldies is not an exaggeration-LNG is located in Sag Harbor,NY,which is on the eastern end of Long Island-For those posters who live in that area,their frequency is 92.1 FM-For those of you live in other parts of the country,go to www.wlng.com & you can hear a live stream 24/7.

[JMW]

I haven't listened to WLNG in ages but I love that station and the variety they have. The only downside is that they play a lot of commercials during the day; they would play a song and then have five minutes of commercials. I'm assuming that that's only on the online version of the station.

[superfan]

I will post again Barry Scott’s fantastic Lost 45’s show:
www.lost45s.com/index.php

Barry posts a weekly online show, but you have to be on his e-mail list to listen to it. You can register, for free on his site. This week only (09/24/09-10/1/09), he is posting a two-part show, which consist of the top 100 lost 45’s.

Here is the site that lists the songs
lost45.com/top1002009.php

He also has a current on-line show in which he is playing my song request (Eric Carmen’s “Change of Heart”). This is a second song on the show.
The site updates regularly so don’t miss out.

[pandy]

The Oldies Collection based here in Milford is my station and it plays top 40 songs from 1954-1989. Also many old radio station jingles are included also with special versions of songs. We also feature Crap From The Past and The Ultimate Oldies Countdown show as mentioned prior in this post.

www.live365.com/stations/joepo