Z100 100.3

It’s a decent radio station, but the problem is with most stations now is that it has become stagnant with music. I swear nearly all songs played on Z100 are pretty much the same style. Z100 used to have more variety, but now it’s more of a R&B station then anything. Not that I don’t like R&B it’s that all of it right now pretty much sounds the same.

i would just like to be spared the «i don’t like pop music» bit.
«oh but lauren, it’s so contrived! I only listen to indie rock because it’s so independent! you know, this independent band on this major record label? they sound exactly like a million other bands? i can just relate to that, they get my emotions and they actually play their instruments and write their songs and put their heart in their music and they’re not manufactured by some corporate bigwig who’s just out to make a buck.»
sit on it, please. it’s POP. it’s catchy. it’s not the pinnacle of musical achievement, i listen to other bands for that, but my eardrums like it. and I will listen to it in my car. and i’ve surely got more love for the hip hop side of things, but it’s kinda all the same.
thank you.
oh, but p. s. their morning show do-​si-​do-​ing has got to stop. i don’t want to listen to people tell countless unfunny jokes in the morning. i want to hear music. POP music.

A quote from the movie Grandma’s Boy really sums Z100 very well: «shit’s weak!»
They claim to play more songs an hour, but unless my mind is playing tricks on me, I believe they crank up the speed of the songs.
Unlike Jammin, there is varity, but that comes with the territory of playing different genres as well, so that’s a moot point.

Back in the day when they still had the Morning Zoo crew of Valerie, John, Dan-​O, and Nelson it was one of the greatest stations in Portland. Sure it was entirely composed of mainstream pop, but it still had the morning show that was as unique as they are around the country. It is amazing to me that Nelson did not bolt for national notoriety because he was a man of many voices, outrageous humor, and was probably censored by station management and the FCC a lot more than he lead on. When he bolted to Rosie 105, the station had to work around him and John Murphy and the rest of the crew began fizzling. Their prizes were lucrative and exciting, but now are reduced to local events prizes and some cash money.
The DJs (read: ZJs) that are now in the line up are uninspiring and tend to sound like they wish they were working somewhere else. They are all people offering different voices but the same music, which is your teeny bop, wannabe cool, high school fascinated pop music. 95.5 seems like it had the upper hand when it came to the rest of the young niche they were looking to market to, but ultimately they’re all lumped in the same sad group of Portland radio stations.

oh my god this radio station is so Fing annoying.
is it really neccessary to continually play the same 3 songs within 1 hour?!?

Icky, trendy, bubble gum pop. Eeeeeeewww!
P.S… does anyone remember when the old Z100 went «off the air» in like 1992? No? I’m really the only one?