This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake TIRnRR playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.
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Today's imaginary playlist gathers a few tracks introduced to me via college radio in the '70s and '80s. The playlist includes a few '60s fave raves discovered way after the fact, but everything here is something that entered my hook-starved consciousness when I heard it on college radio.
As much as college radio meant to me in the '70s and '80s, there were really only two college stations that manifested that impact: Brockport's WBSU (initially a closed-circuit AM station, later an over-the-air FM) and Buffalo State College's WBNY-FM. I'm from the Syracuse area, but I didn't listen to Syracuse University's WAER-FM when I was in high school. As an undergrad at Brockport, I was introduced to the sound of the Ramones, Blondie, the Runaways, Television, the Dictators, and much more, and I continued listening to WBSU for the two years I remained in Brockport after graduation. When I moved to Buffalo, I soon became a loyal WBNY listener, even though I was never a student at Buff State.
The only track here that I definitely didn't hear on either WBSU or WBNY is "Big Hits (On The Underground)" by the Saints; that one wafted into my car radio courtesy of some unidentified Western New York college station when I was driving on the New York State Thruway one evening in the late '80s. It's possible that some of the other tracks on the playlist were actually delivered unto me by commercial radio instead; I was fortunate enough to hear some damned good commercial programming in this time frame, as Utica's WOUR-FM, Syracuse's 95X, Rochester's WCMF-FM, and Buffalo's WUWU-FM and 97 Rock served up a number of acts--the Sex Pistols, Shoes, Graham Parker, the Greg Kihn Band, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Romantics, et al.--that one might have presumed the province of college radio instead.
But most if not all of this came from stations located on a college campus near me. Time for some rock 'n' roll matriculatin'. Let's hear it for college radio.
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