The Beat 94.5 fm

[AGROculture]

SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS!!!

(except for oldschool luch hour)

its not a hiop hop station, not even close

70% R & B
15 % Jiggy
15% Bling Bling
100% wack

AGROout

[Res]

pretty much all radio is gay

mojo radio has its moments of humor tho

[Glendita*]

Your totally right dave ~

Even the ol' skool lunch hour blow half the time, ~


mikey ~
DA

[Moon]

the beat is fuckin wack. they promote such a trashy culture its stupid. one thing i'll give em props for is when they put j swing on the ones and twos! the guys fuckin sick!

[rawb]

thier live shit is dope, the rest is such crap.

hey at least they're trying to bring something new, i guess.

[Lenny]

old school lunch and reggae on sundays..only times I listen

[EminencE]

old skool lunch rules only on mondays!!

-TiFF-

[SEAN!]

Originally posted by k-pryde
the beat is fuckin wack. they promote such a trashy culture its stupid. one thing i'll give em props for is when they put j swing on the ones and twos! the guys fuckin sick!

word, kid has skills but stupid fly..holy shit that guy sucks ass, he shouldn't have been let out of the bedroom. the beat is lame, there totally going after the lowest of the low with their trashy club nights and what not.

[matéo]

I don't think supafly is that bad.
As for the radio station I can't stand there Indo canadian turned Black Radio personell.
I also can't stand the bitch who does their news and weather she is very stoopid.
And the french girl on saturdays. Thats disgusting.

[angelaThong]

radio is harsh gay

[matéo]

I really don't understand the concept of a radio staion being gay unless in fact it promotes homosexuality.
Or if its a boy radio station that likes another boy radio station that would make sense i guess.

otherwise Gay just doesn't seem to cut it.

[Wood]

it's not supposed to be a hip hop station, it's never been advertised as a hip hop station. It's an urban station.

i think they do a great job. Obviously it's not intended to appeal to the 'underground' heads, it's a commercial station for fucks sakes. I think it's great for vancouver, it's another avenue to promote our nightlife scene, and even if it only reaches the most mainstream end of that demographic, it still helps the scene on a whole.

sorry to say it, but you'd have to be pretty naive to have expected anything more from them. Nowhere in this world is there a commercial radio station that plays any significant amount of non-mainstram music. The Beat do their part by playing some good jams alongside the cheese, and by supporting artists and events in their own community. I wouldn't expect many 'undergroundlier-than-thou' twentysomething post-raver types to enjoy their music programming, but they didn't become vancouver's #1 rated station within a year of their launch because they 'suck' or are 'gay'.

[Wood]

Originally posted by k-pryde
the beat is fuckin wack. they promote such a trashy culture its stupid.

erm... sorry marty, but rave culture makes the beat look like high tea with the queen of england. you want to see trash, go to a plaza party. ech.

[Moon]

Originally posted by 9663
it's not supposed to be a hip hop station, it's never been advertised as a hip hop station. It's an urban station.

i think they do a great job. Obviously it's not intended to appeal to the 'underground' heads, it's a commercial station for fucks sakes. I think it's great for vancouver, it's another avenue to promote our nightlife scene, and even if it only reaches the most mainstream end of that demographic, it still helps the scene on a whole.

I was personally very excited for the launch of the Beat but i have not been very impressed with it since it was launched. Radio has always been a huge influence in every single city around the world but the quality of the music should NEVER be compromised. My opinion on the music they play? It's fucking trash. This may not be a direct insult to the beat, more so to commercial urban music in North America as a whole but for fucks sake, how much more of this ghetto trash turned multimillionaire preached music do we have to put up with?!? Theres so much other music out there that actually has some fuckin meaning to it but how can anyone think that these stupid filthy rich "artist/entreprener/actor" characters running the commercial music industry is gonna push music anywhere!? i love hip hop r&b and alotta other urban sounds but commericial urban music today is garbage. its not gonna last very long and in the next 10-20 years, people will look back to this shit and cover their faces in shame.

Originally posted by 9663
sorry to say it, but you'd have to be pretty naive to have expected anything more from them. Nowhere in this world is there a commercial radio station that plays any significant amount of non-mainstram music. The Beat do their part by playing some good jams alongside the cheese, and by supporting artists and events in their own community. I wouldn't expect many 'undergroundlier-than-thou' twentysomething post-raver types to enjoy their music programming, but they didn't become vancouver's #1 rated station within a year of their launch because they 'suck' or are 'gay'. [/b]

i'm sure you've heard of bbc's radio 1. the diverse amount of music they play definetly makes it stand out as one of the greatest radio stations of all time in my opinion. i never listened to radio 1 when i went to the uk like 10 years ago but i've been to sydney autralia and let me tell you right there they have an extrememly big diversity in music on their playlists. and its DOPE! the house, drumnbass, hip hop, r&b, pop they play is nowhere near as cheezy and trashy like Z and the Beat. i'm sure theres gonna be arguments against making house, drumnbass, breaks and trance mainstream but wow you should see the impact they have on Sydney's nightlife. Vancouver's nightlife has absolulty shitall NOTHING to Sydney's nightlife. Not only does Vancouver have a smaller clubbing demographic and stricter laws, TOP 40 and this TRASHY fuckin commerical urban shit are the dominant scenes here. thats sad. its gonna die real fast and people are just gonna be turned right the fuck off on going out to a clubnight and dancing to the same shit they heard every other night (as well as 3000 times a day on the fuckin radio).

[Moon]

Originally posted by 9663
erm... sorry marty, but rave culture makes the beat look like high tea with the queen of england. you want to see trash, go to a plaza party. ech.

i dont think i've ever in my life said vancouver rave culture was any better than the commercial urban culture. it all comes down to this. "rave" music in general can have any meaning you want it to have, but rap and r&b clearly speaks out a message in the lyrics... and the stuff they play on the beat definetly isnt even marginally close to high tea with the queen of england. sounds like the lumpen proletariat who were made filthy rich one day by the corrupt mordern day commerical music industry.

[Wood]

BBC's not commercial radio man! it's government funded.

And... i don't think there's a city on this planet who's nightlife doesn't kick vancouver's in the ass.

Commercial hiphop/rnb is dominating the club scene all over north america right now, and believe me, it's not going anywhere any time soon. like it or no, that's sound is gonna be the mainstream for a long time to come. And if it brings more people out to the clubs, it's indirectly helping all of us who work in the nightlife industry because when clubs make more money, they are more open to trying different things on different nights.

sounds like the lumpen proletariat who were made filthy rich one day by the corrupt mordern day commerical music industry.

sure, a lot of it does.... but a lot of the tunes you'll hear on the radio these days carry very positive messages about love, empowerment, human rights, etc.

my point is, nobody is forcing this music on anybody - if you don't dig it don't listen. But it is what the masses want, so who are we to criticize people like The Beat for giving it to them? Business is business.

[Wood]

Personally i think all these sentiments should be directed towards vancouver's true purveyor of trash culture... Z95.3

[Wood]

ps, what's this doing in 'party reviews' anyways?

[chinky_eyed]

oh man. why are u people arguing about this anyways? dont listen to it if u dont like it. simple as that.

[Dj_K2]

Originally posted by Sean!
word, kid has skills but stupid fly..holy shit that guy sucks ass, he shouldn't have been let out of the bedroom. the beat is lame, there totally going after the lowest of the low with their trashy club nights and what not.

I dont mind there club nights, Tuesdays(wild coyote), Wensday(Loft 6) Saturday (Bar None) & Sunday (Daddyo's) are all good nights I think with good music, & always have good turnouts!

& I AGREE sUPPAFLY IS crap, J-Swing is the man, he's teaching me the basic hip hop mixing right now (fuck its hard)

[RJay]

we finally have something new and already its being hacked down. I think if we give'em a few years theyll mature into a great station.

[Sammy Skillz]

matty...i couldn't have said it better myself.

retro and angela thong...i'm giving you bad looks right now.

[dj4mula]

Vancouver has been asking for an urban station for a long time. I think Vancity is one of the last major Canadian cities to get an urban station. TO, Winnipeg & MTL all beat us to the bang.

The Beat is like any other major radio station, they have a specific playlist that they must follow. They usually play the same shit over and over and it does suck. Unfortunetly they have to play what the masses want and its usually Ja Rule, J-Lo and etc.

Also, since its a Canadian station, they have to play a certain amount of Canadian content. And there isn't as much out there as there should be.

However, when it comes to live shit J-Swing is off the hook. This dude can seriosly cut and mix. He can't juggle, but whatever this dude seriosuly reminds me of Dj Rectangle. As for Supafly this dude is one of the worst DJ's I've heard. Fade in, fade out.

~Tim

PS - If your forced to listen to something on the radio because you aint got no CD player in the car, The BEat will do.

[matéo]

I don't get it though supafly does'nt Fade in and fade out he mixes. He is a pretty decent dj he can spin hip hop better then most/or all of us here so whuts your beef!.

As for J swing yeah hes dope.

But I don't know I've heard Supa play live and on the 5 o clock hoe banger jam and he seems decent enough.

[WiWcHaR]

Now matta how u say it!
Z95.3!!