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Last call for WFNX is Friday evening
By adamg on Wed, 07/18/2012 - 7:53am
TJ Connolly reports WFNX goes off the air for good at 7 p.m. on Friday, to be replaced by, well, something that isn't WFNX. Boston Radio Watch reports Neal Robert will handle the last show, 2-7 p.m.
Earlier:
WFNX to become right-wing wankfest?
Is this town big enough for two online-only WFNXes?
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I wonder what the last song will be
My vote goes to "How Soon is Now?" by The Smiths. To me, that song expresses the sentiment I have of losing the station but also represents a time when WFNX was really at its peak.
My vote goes to the Dead Boys..
"Caught with the meat in your mouth" and then dedicate it to Mindich.
For obvious reasons, of course.
That song was what got me
That song was what got me hooked on WFNX in 1986 after moving to Boston from the suburbs, where I couldn't pick it up. I heard the song, called the station to find out the name of the group and song, and have been listening to FNX ever since, except for the Sandbox and the Linkin Park/Creed/Offspring era, where there was a negative vibe to the morning show.
I'm guessing The Ramones "We
I'm guessing The Ramones "We Want the Airwaves". That sentiment isn't going to go away.
Last Song
I would vote "You're Wondering Now" from The Specials, because I am.
Can't believe I'll be out of town the day the music dies.
This is the last song FNX should play...
Dead Kennedys
"Chickenshit Conformist"
Punk's not dead
It just deserves to die
When it becomes another stale cartoon
A close-minded, self-centered social club
Ideas don't matter
It's who you know
If the music's gotten boring
It's because of the people who want everyone to sound the same
Who drive the bright people out of our so-called scene
Till all that's left is a meaningless fad
Hardcore formulas are dogshit
Change and caring are what's real
Is this a state of mind
Or just another label
The joy and hope of an alternative
Have become its own cliché
A hairstyle's not a lifestyle
Imagine Sid Vicious at 35
Who needs a scene
Scared to love and to feel
Judging everything
By loud fast rules appeal
Who played last night?
"I don't know, I forgot.
But diving off the stage Was a lot of fun."
[CHORUS]
So eager to please
Peer pressure decrees
So eager to please
Peer pressure decrees
Make the same old mistakes
Again and again,
Chickenshit conformist
Like your parents
What's ripped us apart even more than drugs
Are the thieves and the goddamn liars
Ripping people off when they share their stuff
When someone falls are there any friends?
Harder core than thou for a year or two
Then it's time to get a real job
Others stay home; it's no fun to go out
When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs
When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals
From New York metal labels looking to scam
Who sign the most racist queer-bashing bands they can find
To make a buck revving kids up for war
Walk tall, act small
Only as tough as gang approval
Unity is bullshit
When it's under someone's fat boot
Where's the common cause
Too many factions
Safely sulk in their shells
Agree with us on everything
Or we won't help with anything
That kind of attitude
Just makes a split grow wider
Guess who's laughing while the world explodes
When we're all crybabies
Who fight best among ourselves
[CHORUS]
That farty old rock and roll attitude's back
"It's competition, man, we wanna break big."
Who needs friends when the money's good
That's right, the '70s are back.
Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative
It just don't move me, ya know?
The music's OK when there's more ideas than solos
Do we rally need the attitude too?
Shedding thin skin too quickly
As a fan it disappoints me
Same old stupid sexist lyrics
Or is Satan all you can think of?
Crossover is just another word
For lack of ideas
Maybe what we need
Are more trolls under the bridge
Will the metalheads finally learn something-
Or will the punks throw away their education?
No one's ever the best
Once they believe their own press
"Maturing" don't mean rehashing
Mistakes of the past
[CHORUS]
The more things change
The more they stay the same
We can't grow
When we won't criticize ourselves
The '60s weren't all failure
It's the '70s that stunk
As the clock ticks we dig the same hole
Music scenes ain't real life
They won't get rid of the bomb
Won't eliminate rape
Or bring down the banks
Any kind of real change
Takes more time and work
Than changing channels on a TV set
Boy, I hope you
copied and pasted that!
FNX to the core
I've enjoyed listening to WFNX over the last month. Now that management isn't worried about 1/4 hour ratings, they've let FNX be FNX. The music is real, not overloaded with Top 40 bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers &, Beastie Boys, or songs that are carefully tested as not to offend listeners who listen to Magic 106.7 anyways.Maybe if WFNX had been allowed to be truly Alternative these last few years, things might have turned out different.
I agree...
...I 'd been thinking to myself during the last few weeks "I haven't enjoyed this station so much since sometime in the 1990s"
What a damn shame.
if they are going to put 1200 right wing freak talk on this signal, can't they At LEAST broadcast FNX on 1200AM? I could live with that.
EXACTLY!!
Andrew hit the coffin nail right on the head! Now that FNX is in it's final hours, they are playing the music they should have been playing for the last 15 years. The brain died long before the body.
The first song WFNX played
The first song WFNX played was Let's Go to Bed by the Cure (maybe it will be the last song, too). Originally they were WLYN-FM "Y-102" but by early 83 with the purchase by the Phoenix, the 3,000 watt station became WFNX--and that paper's latest issue has a year by year rundown of highlights etc.
It's possible by 7 pm Fri the music will continue via automation to the point where Clear Channel takes over (Mon.? earlier?) CC is tight-lipped about the format though some have registered domain names that they hope to sell to CC; rumors include conservative or even liberal talk, adult hits (remember "Mike 93.7"?) maybe known as The Harbor or The Bay (WHBA call letters requested) or something in espanol. They are being careful not to spill the beans as a rival company could change one of THEIR stations and beat them to the punch. (Ex.: 2005, WODS was just about to go "we play everything" as Jack. Word got out and
Entercom changed Star 93.7 to Mike. Thus, CBS abandoned its Jack plans...)
Rumor has it
That the signal will go to autoplay tomorrow night.
Whatever happens, can we all agree that we do not need another station that plays Rihanna every damned hour? KISS, Jam'n and Amp Radio -- I'm looking at you!
I was actually on FNX when
I was actually on FNX when they were in Lynn as part of a journalism class project. We did a one to two hour show - what a blast! As my family awaited my debut on radio, my job was to give the mandatory time and station id bits, I froze in front of the mike and gave the wrong time. My father, in anticipation for my debut, had the radio to his work on and when I came on and gave the totally wrong time, he said everyone in his office just stopped to check their watches. Going live on radio is most certainly easier said than done!
Last Song on WFNX
If you're following the sad last day of WFNX on twitter, there's a hash tag #LastSongOnWFNX you can follow.
I'll be in a meeting from 6:15 - 7:30 and I'm po'd that I'm going to miss the final sign off.