Pittsburgh is as "hip" as you want it to be

[nuwaver88]

Originally Posted by Agbor

I have to endure WDVE every day almost at work...an I suspect by the content,humor and music they
play their demographic is non-college educated lower-class "yinzer" types..I notice that when they do
skits they seem to have a tendency to have characters who play into common American stereotypes:
they have a reoccurring arab character, reoccurring gay characters and a jewish one I think..and typical
male comments about women...They do have a woman on there to avoid the wrath of the women's
groups..and they don't have a obvious stereotypical black character due to political correctness I guess..my overall impression is that to me it comes across as very adolescent..

Amen! Don't people find it insulting. Not the comments, but WDVE's impression of their audience. They don't think highly of their audience, yet people are too blind (or stupid) to see it.

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by nuwaver88

I play all of them. Echo and The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Prefab Sprout, you name it. I go to You Tube and I see that there are a lot of people like me, I am just not seeing them here. I am sure there are some, but they are few and far between.

Funny thing is -- when we left Pittsburgh in 1984 -- WDVE was playing a lot of New Wave. Not a lot of the Brit stuff, so my boyfriend (now hubby) made me a lot of mix tapes with our favorite Brit stuff (Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Lene Lovitch).

I can remember the look on hubby's face when he came into my house the first time and saw the piano. Yes, I played. His face fell... and then when he looked at my albums -- he got more bummed. But on our first date, he started playing his favorite music and I started bopping.... and it was love. (Not kidding -- second date he told me he found the woman he wanted to be with the rest of his life. I asked what her name was.) (WE WERE 19!!)

He figured if I could listen to and like his music, he could tolerate the fact I love Dan Fogelberg....

And the fact I was AWFUL on the piano and totally done with it by the time I met him (after nine years of lessons!) made it better....

We're 50 this year.... and he still likes the old stuff... but his real passion is MOTORHEAD....

[Tiger Beer]

Are there any good college radio stations in Pittsburgh?

[Morningsider]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Are there any good college radio stations in Pittsburgh?

There are two that i know of:

92.1 WPTS is pretty good, but their signal is very weak outside of the East End.

88.3 is the CMU station.

To be honest , these two DUQ and WYEP are the only stations worth listening to in Pittsburgh. The local mainstream rock "alternative" station seems to have stopped playing new music sometime around 1998. It's really just the Gen X version of DVE.

[Copanut]

I think to be hip you gotta be young, hard to be hip when changing diapers or doing the old 9-5 to put food on the table. Then again, I think Dean Martin was hip until the day he died.

As to DVE and the music scene, I don't think they've changed their play list since the 80's. I was a fan until Scott Paulson left the show, it definitely dumbed down since his departure, seems more like a Howard Stern Lite show. Their humour is strictly college frat boy, something that most of us outgrow.