Comments on: Martin Streek is Dead: Remembering a Time when CFNY / 102.1 wasn’t Lame

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:05:20 +0000

I meant to say “Network”. I always get those two mixed-up.

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:03:26 +0000

samm, I think you mean Corus Entertainment(?) This all has a kind of “Broadcast News” quality to it now that I think about it. Longtime veteran of a station getting canned – only Streek actually went through with his suicide.

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:13:33 +0000

Thanks Mark. I have a knack for offending large groups of people with one curt sentence. Call me the person who goes into the middle of the room to fart (starts arguments); and Ricky as the person who tries to diffuse the situation by spraying some air freshener.

By: samm

samm — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:15:58 +0000

Another death by corporations – way to go CORAL.
RIP Martin!

By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:15:42 +0000

i like turtles

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:59:27 +0000

Allison you certainly know how to write posts that get people talking and arguing. I need to start including more inflammatory stuff in my posts.

By: Allison

Allison — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:13:41 +0000

Josh, I get what you’re saying but for a 12-14 year old hearing Joy Division’s “Transmission” on the radio, even if it was played a bajillion trillion times (and that was the only song they ever played), opened the floodgates to a world of music that most 9th grade friends wouldn’t have any clue about. CFNY and City Limits changed a lot of people in my age group’s lives, profoundly shaping their music tastes because it gave them an introduction into the “alternative” beyond major label offerings.

Look, I’m not saying they weren’t a commercial station. They were guilty of bludgeoning us over the head with NIN, Jane’s Addiction and other mainstream alternative fare; even their 80′s night was limited to (as you said) one-two familiar hits. The point is, that that pryed open Generation Y’s curiousities and prompted them to buy a lot more music and to explore on their own. Club nights are always repetitive anyway…people want to dance to music they know, unless they’ve taken a few hits of Ketamine in which case they’d probably jig to 98 Degrees.

Jordan: I am a woman but it’s nice to know I have a man’s voice even in written text. I think a personality sex-change is in order.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:50:41 +0000

josh, you were never young

By: Jordan

Jordan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:06:16 +0000

whoever wrote this clearly knows what he’s talking about. Reading it rushed back tons of memories from my childhood growing up in Toronto. Where did the music go? Why do Torontonians stand around and look bored even when they love the music? I cant understand it … i hope Martin’s passing wakes everyone up…i hope it stands for something…i hope its a landmark, where things will take a turn for the better.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:40:52 +0000

I forgot to raise my favourite point. 102.1 was never good. If I hear one more comment about how CFNY use to be good I will throw up, Not to say they didn’t play some good music. Its just they played it 9 times a day and it was all music provided as promos by major record labels. No risks.

“Cross has a nack of walking a tite rope between big commerical radio station and …. now guess what comes next?”

Let me guess…more commercial radio? U2, Alice and Chains, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Wilco.

Want the ongoing history of music?

Try this

http://takethepills.blogspot.com/
or this
http://marvik.blogspot.com/

or any other blogs linked to these blogs.

Neverending source of amazing alternative music from the eighties and nineties which was never played on CFNY or talked about in Alan’s ongoing history of the Smiths. You could surf forever.

Tones On Tail…great band….lots of good music. CFNY’s playlist for the band, one track “Go”.

Don’t get me wrong. I was young once too….and did listen to CFNY. but by the time I was 17 I had found Brave New Waves on CBC after Midnight. Good thing about CBC. They played things once and then moved on and their playlist wasn’t restricted to what the 6 big Canadian Record Companies were providing them.

Sorry to burst the CFNY bubble.