WERS cancells Nasty Habbits Radio show (after a 20 year run)[views:14984][posts:74]______________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 1:48pm - the_reverend ""] The Syndicate mourns the end of an era in Metal Radio. This week we lost not one but two staples in the loud rock radio community. As reported in this week's CMJ Blast, WERS 88.9 FM's Nasty Habits has been cancelled after more than 20 years of spreading metal to Bostonians. According to Program Director and Music Director Lee Doerr, the show was yanked due to a decline in ratings, waning student interest and poor fundraising results. Starting June 26, WERS' late Sunday night programming will consist of soul, funk and classic R&B. When asked about the radical shift in programming, Doerr said, "Some research we did indicated a huge interest for soul and R&B, and there was lots of student interest for [soul and R&B] as well." While it ain't exactly metal, Radiobeat on Saturday nights will feature punk and hardcore. "Ultimately, we're hoping Nasty Habits' listeners will tune into Radiobeat ," Doerr said. Radiobeat will be little consolation for the heshers who have been holding down Nasty Habits for two decades, but at least heavy music still has an outlet at the station |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 1:51pm - the_reverend ""] this is actually scary... I supported cancelling the saturday night show (cause it was pretty weak when I listened to it), but the sunday night one was awesome. this reminds me of back in the early 90s when WERS went from a free-form station to it's current structure. before that, they were one of the most influential college stations in the country (constantly beating out my station, WNYU, and the 100K watt station in georgia to be voted #1). |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 1:51pm - Josh_Martin ""] Good. Nasty Habits has sucked for a long long time. Chalk one up for the goyim. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 2:02pm - litacore ""] all the more Reason to support the ZBC metal show in that same timespot. FAR SUPERIOR. a shame, because ERS is my alma mater. I guess the students there are all listening to Bobby Brown now. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 2:49pm - yodaslab ""] i hate rap, hence i hate radio cus thats all thas on it. i think i am the only guy in the world who has two 15" woofers in his car and blasts black dhalia murder and cryptopsy. |
| ______________________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 3:00pm - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] I'm even happier Emerson didn't give me any financial aid because I would now be going to school with a bunch of fags who want to listen to soul, funk, and classic R&B to show how eclectic their musical tastes are. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 3:07pm - anonymous ""] wow. this really is awful. yeah the saturday night show was terrible. didnt dave from since the flood dj nasty habits? |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 3:12pm - BornSoVile ""] I don't think I would be into metal if it wasn't for Nasty Habits. That show changed my life. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 3:51pm - SuperFly ""] GRIEF got to play live on nasty habits years ago, it was pretty cool. they had speakers out on the street so people walking by could hear the band, and you could look right in the studio through huge windows. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 3:55pm - sadus ""] hey nasty habits was cool it did get worse just like record hospital |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:06pm - BornSoVile ""] Yeah that was my first radio show I ever played and I was fucking thrilled cause it was a show that influenced me so much. We got Goratory in there too, had a fun night eating all the membership drive food, pressing our nipples on the glass for girls, and other fun things. Matty O'Dette is the shit, pound for pound of my favorite people around. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:28pm - KeithMutiny ""] SuperFly said:GRIEF got to play live on nasty habits years ago, it was pretty cool. they had speakers out on the street so people walking by could hear the band, and you could look right in the studio through huge windows. i liked makin faces at them when i was drunk through those big windows! |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:31pm - SuperFly ""] were you there for that? that was like 6 years ago. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:34pm - KeithMutiny ""] i dont specifially remember, but if it were 6 years ago, theres about a 98% chance i was. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:35pm - SuperFly ""] I see, just talking out of your ass again. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:42pm - KeithMutiny ""] im gonna punch you in the cock |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:45pm - SuperFly ""] HOMO! |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:50pm - RichHorror ""] You should learn to respect your elders, Keith. |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 4:54pm - SuperFly ""] :moe: |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 5:44pm - KeithMutiny ""] pick on someone your own age! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 6:01pm - MILITIANARY ""] Nasty Habits was alot better when played more obscure shit |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 6:05pm - MILITIANARY ""] But now it looks like they arent gonna be playing anything which sucks even more |
| ________________________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 6:08pm - whiskey_weed_and_women ""] what the fuck ! |
| __________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 6:43pm - Defnasty ""] sorry I never listen to metal on the radio. I like my own shit not some wet behind the ears ninny in college. |
| _________________________________________ [Jun 29,2005 11:44pm - DomesticTerror ""] i listen to nothing but WEEI |
| _______________________________________ [Jun 30,2005 8:00am - Joe/NotCommon ""] How am I ever going to get my fill of horrible metalcore late at night now? Fuck Nasty Habits, blame their shitty DJs for it being cancelled. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 6,2005 2:26pm - Bastard.Ryan ""] I was the main DJ for the past year. The main reason the ratings declined was because I stopped playing that metalcore shit. If I had a dime everytime someone requested Diecast or Everytime I die... Id be fucking rich right now. If you actually listened to the show in the last 3 months you would have heard pretty much only 80s thrash metal, wicked good new shit, and assorted death metal favorites and discharge every couple hours... By the way, fuck all the haters. Nasty was fun, and metal on the radio is a rare thing... and it can be a very important thing for the local scene... unfortunatly I fucking hate the local metal scene so I didn't use Nasty for much good... But if you look at what Radiobeat (saturday nites on wers) has done for the punk scene, you can see what good indie radio can do. |
| __________________________________ [Jul 6,2005 2:32pm - metalguy ""] That is definately what probably killed it. Previously Nasty Habits DJ's played everything except what was mainstream. Black metal, Metalcore, Death metal Hardcore and the occassional power metal song. I actually stopped listening to the show when they started with the black metal shit song after song. But this really is a big loss for metal as a whole. Shadows Fall and Misery Index both used studio recordings from nasty habits. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 6,2005 2:38pm - ArrowHead nli ""] Bastard.Ryan said:it can be a very important thing for the local scene... unfortunatly I fucking hate the local metal scene I'm with Joe, I'd have to blame the shitty D.J.'s. "Radio can be an important thing for local bands, unfortunately I didn't do that and my show and the scene suffered for it." What a dick. |
| ______________________________ [Jul 6,2005 2:43pm - haha ""] The DJ they chose for the show sucked ass... Blame him. |
| ______________________________________ [Jul 6,2005 3:27pm - Bastard.Ryan ""] I never said the scene suffered for it. I said every local band sent me their shitty demo and I laughed at it and threw it against a wall. The best part of not having this radio show anymore is not having to look at a Kevorkians Angel, or a Red Invasion CD ever again. I had no interest in the local metal scene and there for the show was of no use to the local metal scene. I REALLY wish I could have found a replacement, but I couldn't. I would have given it up in a heartbeat to someone who actually gave a fuck. But there was no one who did. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 6,2005 3:42pm - ArrowHead nli ""] Sorry if you thought KA and RI were the local metal scene. Maybe if you WERE interested in it you might have known about all the great bands around, and had a far better show. I guess you can just be proud that your resume killed a local metal institution. Hell, doc had to die to do it, all you had to do was suck. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 1,2007 11:39am - anonymous ""] long live jeanine lombardo!! |
| __________________________________ [Mar 1,2007 11:54pm - Dankill ""] Sucks. I used to love listening to Nasty Habits. I discovered some great bands because of that show when I was younger. Too many college radio metal shows are going away. It's almost becoming a lost art. |
| ________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 3:44am - W3 nli ""] Dankill said:Sucks. I used to love listening to Nasty Habits. I discovered some great bands because of that show when I was younger. |
| _____________________________ [Mar 2,2007 6:43am - 123 ""] i miss nasty habits cuz now there is no metal on boston radio |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 8:42am - FuckIsMySignature ""] 123 said:i miss nasty habits cuz now there is no metal on boston radio Harder/Faster sometimes throws in a couple good tunes between the mess of metalcore. |
| ______________________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 10:23am - BobNOMAAMRooney nli ""] 123 said:i miss nasty habits cuz now there is no metal on boston radio There's still Void Expression, which is far better than Nasty Habits or Harder Faster. |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 10:39am - anonymous ""] void expression?? whats that |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 11:48am - Anonymous ""] If you listen to UMASS Lowell's station WUML, every Thursday from 6-9pm you'll catch the Stress Factor hosted by Pat "Foghorn" Ellis. I used to help out with the show and he keeps it to all death, black, occasional thrash and power metal.....good shit. You can even stream the show online if your out of the signal range. www.wuml.org |
| _____________________________ [Mar 2,2007 12:02pm - cav ""] i havent listened to that in soooo long. kinda sucks its off now. |
| ______________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 12:03pm - the_reverend ""] I completely forgot about the stress factor yesterday.. i remembered at 8:30 when I was almost in worcester. I was listening to the no spin zone instead. sucks. I did listen to the stress factor a few times in the past. once sucked, the rest were good. |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 12:41pm - madoakdevin nli ""] I got into Knut from that CD they put out |
| _______________________________ [Mar 2,2007 1:14pm - tylerl ""] good thing we still have WAAF HARDER FASTER!!!! |
| __________________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 1:16pm - FuckIsMySignature ""] I heard Nile for the first time on Nasty Habbits |
| ___________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 2:07pm - Anonymous ""] the_reverend said:I completely forgot about the stress factor yesterday.. i remembered at 8:30 when I was almost in worcester. I was listening to the no spin zone instead. sucks. I did listen to the stress factor a few times in the past. once sucked, the rest were good. Ya, up until last year the stress factor was handled by some douche named tom....but foghorn has done a good job of turning it back around and getting it back on its feet.....Bill of Lost Disciple used to run it waaayyyy back in the day |
| ____________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 2:16pm - HailAtWork ""] Nasty Habits was great 10 years ago...I haven't listened in ages because they started playing crap... |
| _____________________________________ [Mar 2,2007 2:18pm - the_reverend ""] rich. the time is sucked it was all cradle of filth |
| ___________________________________ [Apr 28,2007 11:11am - Foghorn ""] Hey this is Foghorn from the Stress Factor. Thanks for the support from everyone! I'm doin my best to keep the show around when there's so few radio outlets for our genres of metal. Thanks again! |
| _______________________________________________ [Apr 28,2007 11:39am - infant_skin_suitcase ""] Matty and Eric were the best fuckin DJ's ever |