Help Hopey Pick Music for His Radio Show!

So I have a regular weekly radio show at my university. Naturally, I've decided to make it a music show. Which requires music. However, my own personal collection is rather limited in scope, and I would like to play a broad range of music on my show.

So, throw your suggestions at me, preferably You Tube links.

(Note: My show is pre-watershed, so I really can't have songs that are heavily explicit)

-obligatory Marillion plug-

I would recommend Adam War Rock.

Now, what song you wanna play depends on the subject matter.

If you want songs about anime, there's Space Cowboy and Rebuild 1.0 - You Are (Not) | You Can (Not).

If you want songs about comics, there's Teamwork and The Six.

Then there's his more highbrow stuff,like To Love is To Die

Are Soundtracks accepted?

No, not just video game soundtracks.

Are instruments only tracks good? Or only songs are accepted?

How did you get that? I want one too!

Anyway, I'm going to need something more specific than just "suggest music to play on the radio", because I can't really suggest much if I don't have a clue what kind of genre or mood you want. Unless you want to go all BIRMINGHAM RPRZNT on your listeners, in which case the answer is Black Sabbath and Judas Priest all day every day.

Spacebound, I Can't Decide, Life and Death, He Said He Had A Story, The Tank, She Wolf, Elements, Moon Trance, A Little Piece of Heaven, Vivaldi Four Seasons Technomix and Crystallize.

-will put more later maybe-

edited 15th Nov '13 7:18:21 AM by baelfyre

You could try Karnivool for something heavy but pretty much non-explicit.

-shameless plug of a friend's band-

Ministry's PermaWar is a must this year.

@ Lior. I don't really mind. As long as it sounds good.

@ Ramblydad. I walked past the radio station at the university and asked if they needed a presenter and they said "sure, when do you want to do your show?"

I'm generally going for a psuedohipster kind of deal. Like, music that a metropolitan young person would listen to.

Everything here is so good. I'm going to have to do a lot of whittling.

edited 15th Nov '13 8:11:14 AM by INHOPELESSGUY

How about this. This, this this, this, and this?

Disco Lies by Moby, Me and You by Alexia, Solo tu by Highland, True North by Devin Townsend, Everybody Loves Somebody by Blues Brothers(actually lots of other songs, too), Vamos a la playa and El Tiburon by Loona.

Thirty Seconds To Mars.

Just sort of pick one. Sorry, can't look at You Tube stuff right now.

edited 15th Nov '13 9:11:13 AM by Frishman

You should use some of the remixes of Abandoned Ship for pokemon RSE. The best ones are made by a channel called pokemon remix, I think. It has a kabutops avatar. Unless of course that infringes on IP laws :p

Frish, we can no longer be friends.

Seigmen is mandatory, too.

Any specific sort of music within the broad list of things you need, Hope-man?

I will say: Some Bossa Nova, Jazz or Ambient music (if you want calm and/or cool/chill stuff), Krautrock and Post-Punk (if you're going for very alternative/spiky stuff), Synthpop, Disco and House (because they're the sounds many people listen to nowadays), and so forth.

PM me if you need help on these (and other) genres. Good luck with your show!

edited 15th Nov '13 4:32:12 PM by Quag15

Just remember, my picks get priority

Try some S3RL for UK Hardcore and Happy Hardcore

Oh, and don't forget Machinae Supremacy. They run pretty well with the peeps.

You need some Japanese video game-remix vocal dubstep. And also some Tank!

And some A-Ha. Everybody loves A-Ha. The Sun Always Shines On TV, Hunting High And Low or if you really want that "ah, this one!"-factor, Take On Me.

edited 16th Nov '13 5:46:19 PM by Lemurian

When I was in college, I briefly tried to get into radio. It was the spring of my junior year, and they moved so slowly we were only just starting to talk about scheduling new regular shows after spring break, when I decided that I had better things to do with the dues money I still hadn't spent than pay my way into only half a semester of DJing.

But I did get one trial show first. I hated the experience, though it was mainly due to things that would have smoothed out later if I'd gotten the chance. I was playing my music off a CD-R I burned for it, which meant I had to switch between the CD player for the songs and the computer for the ads and the music beds they made me play under my announcements. Since I was using the music bed more often than the ads and I had to pull the music bed way down so I could talk over it, I kept forgetting to bring it back up for the ads. The station manager had to charge in a few times and yell at me about that.

I prepared a playlist for a second show, which I put on a data CD-RW for the programming director to put on the computer so it'd be more streamlined, with the idea that CD could go back and forth getting rewritten with every show, but that second show never happened, and I never got the disc back.

But more to the point, I took my inspiration for the theme of my show from Doctor Demento, and ended up with an eclectic format including "mainstream stuff I like", novelty (funny) songs, and filk/fandom music.

I recall the first playlist had songs like Boogie Wonderland, Behind Blue Eyes, Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport, One More Minute, Mal's Song, and The Picard Song.

Oh, right.

In my "broad range" of stuff, I'm mostly talking electropop, post-hardcore, art rock/arena rock, indie, pop-punk, and Britpop.

Still compiling that tracklist. I have 20 min of content left to fill.

Don't forget to put in some My Bloody Valentine.

Play all the music from Hairspray.