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returntothepit >> discuss >> WERS cancells Nasty Habbits Radio show (after a 20 year run) by the_reverend on Jun 29,2005 1:48pm
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toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jun 29,2005 1:48pm
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



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Jun 29,2005 1:51pm
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).



toggletoggle post by Josh_Martin at Jun 29,2005 1:51pm
Good. Nasty Habits has sucked for a long long time.
Chalk one up for the goyim.




toggletoggle post by litacore   at Jun 29,2005 2:02pm
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.



toggletoggle post by yodaslab at Jun 29,2005 2:49pm
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.



toggletoggle post by BobNOMAAMRooney nli at Jun 29,2005 3:00pm
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.



toggletoggle post by anonymous at Jun 29,2005 3:07pm
wow. this really is awful. yeah the saturday night show was terrible.

didnt dave from since the flood dj nasty habits?



toggletoggle post by BornSoVile   at Jun 29,2005 3:12pm
I don't think I would be into metal if it wasn't for Nasty Habits. That show changed my life.



toggletoggle post by SuperFly at Jun 29,2005 3:51pm
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.



toggletoggle post by sadus at Jun 29,2005 3:55pm
hey nasty habits was cool it did get worse just like record hospital



toggletoggle post by BornSoVile   at Jun 29,2005 4:06pm
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.



toggletoggle post by KeithMutiny  at Jun 29,2005 4:28pm
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!



toggletoggle post by SuperFly at Jun 29,2005 4:31pm
were you there for that? that was like 6 years ago.



toggletoggle post by KeithMutiny  at Jun 29,2005 4:34pm
i dont specifially remember, but if it were 6 years ago, theres about a 98% chance i was.



toggletoggle post by SuperFly at Jun 29,2005 4:35pm
I see, just talking out of your ass again.



toggletoggle post by KeithMutiny  at Jun 29,2005 4:42pm
im gonna punch you in the cock



toggletoggle post by SuperFly at Jun 29,2005 4:45pm
HOMO!



toggletoggle post by RichHorror  at Jun 29,2005 4:50pm
You should learn to respect your elders, Keith.



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toggletoggle post by KeithMutiny  at Jun 29,2005 5:44pm
pick on someone your own age!



toggletoggle post by MILITIANARY  at Jun 29,2005 6:01pm
Nasty Habits was alot better when played more obscure shit



toggletoggle post by MILITIANARY  at Jun 29,2005 6:05pm
But now it looks like they arent gonna be playing anything which sucks even more



toggletoggle post by whiskey_weed_and_women  at Jun 29,2005 6:08pm
what the fuck !



toggletoggle post by Defnasty   at Jun 29,2005 6:43pm
sorry I never listen to metal on the radio. I like my own shit not some wet behind the ears ninny in college.



toggletoggle post by DomesticTerror at Jun 29,2005 11:44pm
i listen to nothing but WEEI



toggletoggle post by Joe/NotCommon   at Jun 30,2005 8:00am
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.



toggletoggle post by Bastard.Ryan at Jul 6,2005 2:26pm
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.



toggletoggle post by metalguy at Jul 6,2005 2:32pm
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.



toggletoggle post by ArrowHead nli at Jul 6,2005 2:38pm
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.




toggletoggle post by haha at Jul 6,2005 2:43pm
The DJ they chose for the show sucked ass... Blame him.



toggletoggle post by Bastard.Ryan at Jul 6,2005 3:27pm
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.



toggletoggle post by ArrowHead nli at Jul 6,2005 3:42pm
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.




toggletoggle post by anonymous at Mar 1,2007 11:39am
long live jeanine lombardo!!



toggletoggle post by Dankill at Mar 1,2007 11:54pm
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.



toggletoggle post by W3 nli at Mar 2,2007 3:44am
Dankill said:
Sucks.
I used to love listening to Nasty Habits. I discovered some great bands because of that show when I was younger.




toggletoggle post by 123 at Mar 2,2007 6:43am
i miss nasty habits cuz now there is no metal on boston radio



toggletoggle post by FuckIsMySignature at Mar 2,2007 8:42am
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.




toggletoggle post by BobNOMAAMRooney nli at Mar 2,2007 10:23am
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.



toggletoggle post by anonymous at Mar 2,2007 10:39am
void expression?? whats that



toggletoggle post by Anonymous at Mar 2,2007 11:48am
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



toggletoggle post by cav at Mar 2,2007 12:02pm
i havent listened to that in soooo long. kinda sucks its off now.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Mar 2,2007 12:03pm
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.



toggletoggle post by madoakdevin nli at Mar 2,2007 12:41pm
I got into Knut from that CD they put out



toggletoggle post by tylerl  at Mar 2,2007 1:14pm
good thing we still have WAAF HARDER FASTER!!!!



toggletoggle post by FuckIsMySignature at Mar 2,2007 1:16pm
I heard Nile for the first time on Nasty Habbits



toggletoggle post by Anonymous at Mar 2,2007 2:07pm
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



toggletoggle post by HailAtWork at Mar 2,2007 2:16pm
Nasty Habits was great 10 years ago...I haven't listened in ages because they started playing crap...



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Mar 2,2007 2:18pm
rich.

the time is sucked it was all cradle of filth



toggletoggle post by Foghorn at Apr 28,2007 11:11am
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!



toggletoggle post by infant_skin_suitcase at Apr 28,2007 11:39am
Matty and Eric were the best fuckin DJ's ever



toggletoggle post by BornSoVile   at Apr 28,2007 3:30pm
Noah was the man.



toggletoggle post by VoidExpression  at Apr 28,2007 8:54pm
anonymous said:
void expression?? whats that


http://www.voidexpression.net

It's not easy being shameless.



toggletoggle post by sxealex   at Apr 29,2007 12:10am
yodaslab said:
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.



maybe right now you are... but honestly right when the second tack comes in BDM when i had a crazy sound system the fucking car shakes cuz they have those sub frequencies. Dimmu is also great with subs.



toggletoggle post by sxealex   at Apr 29,2007 12:14am
there used to be a show on right b4 nasty habits back in the late 90s that was punk. i dunno if thats still on bu the fact that they cam on consecutively got me into metal. i remember listening to a pinkerton thugs set then nasty habits came on and that was when i first listened to the whole show since i was into MDB and they palyed your river first.



toggletoggle post by anonymous at Sep 9,2009 1:00am
THE WORLD IS FULL OF KINGS AND QUEENS WHO BLIND OUR EYES AND STEAL OUR DREAMS IT'S HEAVEN AND HELL. JEANINE LOMBARDO



toggletoggle post by ouchdrummer   at Sep 9,2009 8:25am
i miss this show.



toggletoggle post by brodown at Sep 9,2009 10:40am
The Stressfactor on WUML is an awesome show. They've started having live bands in almost every week, which is an awesome outlet for the local scene, and Tom and Pat are both really great guys.

They also (I believe) sponsored NEDF, and sponsored the Psyopus/Woe of Tyrants show I did at UML last spring.

They put their money where their mouths are, support the local scene, and put out a hell of a show to boot. Huge respect for them.

Tune in fuckers!



toggletoggle post by aril at Sep 9,2009 10:42am
Was it the nasty habits show that was playing black metal (emperor, immortal, etc.) around 1995-1996? I remember hearing some stuff back then, wasn't sure if it was NH or what..



toggletoggle post by ouchdrummer   at Sep 9,2009 10:46am
Yes Jim, although they didn't just play black stuff. They covered all metal.



toggletoggle post by aril at Sep 9,2009 10:49am
I do remember NH mixing it up quite a bit; but I'm pretty sure there might have been another station down where I lived that played about mostly black metal. I used to rock it out while reading LoTR. I can't believe how much time has passed and how it's roughly 2010.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Sep 9,2009 10:50am
I loved the stressfactor, but I can't listen to it now cause the girl that took over says the order of the songs in the wrong order... I want to call her up and say if you play 8 songs, you can start with the first song that you played to the last song you played. no one can follow that. the only way you can get away with starting from first to last over the air is if you only play 2 songs. WUML is the only station that I hear people doing that on.



toggletoggle post by ouchdrummer   at Sep 9,2009 11:17am
Yep. It's confusing. I often have to count from a song i know in the 8 songs to figure out whats what.



toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Sep 9,2009 11:21am
someone needs to edjewkate them.



toggletoggle post by ouchdrummer   at Sep 9,2009 11:33am
That's YO job. Preach-on, holy man.



toggletoggle post by DrewBlood@Work at Sep 9,2009 2:56pm
WERS should really have a metal show. they cram about 30 hours of shitty indie music into one day of programming. rockers is a joke now because all they play is new jack dance hall shit. their hip hop show is alright and they re-introduced some decent electronic music to the late night slots. also, to be fair, their R&B and soul show is probably the best thing they have on that station.



toggletoggle post by corpus_nli at Sep 9,2009 7:23pm
Life changing show. Sad to see it go.kinda how I got into a lot of shit as a kid.



toggletoggle post by ArrowHeadNLI at Sep 9,2009 9:38pm
corpus_nli said[orig][quote]
Life changing show. Sad to see it go.kinda how I got into a lot of shit as a kid.


Agreed. Nasty Habits, Blitzkrieg, and even the Metal Zone on WHJY (in the late 80's) introduced me to a lot of metal I'd never have heard of otherwise.



toggletoggle post by demondave at Sep 9,2009 10:05pm

Metal Cage and Sonic Fury ruled.

I have no self interest in saying that




toggletoggle post by the_reverend   at Sep 9,2009 10:15pm
DrewBlood@Work said[orig][quote]
WERS should really have a metal show. they cram about 30 hours of shitty indie music into one day of programming. rockers is a joke now because all they play is new jack dance hall shit. their hip hop show is alright and they re-introduced some decent electronic music to the late night slots. also, to be fair, their R&B and soul show is probably the best thing they have on that station.
rockers used to rule when they mixed dancehall in a bit. the worst WERS show is the AM coffee house show... terrible. I still liked radio beat.



toggletoggle post by Bloodsoaked at Sep 10,2009 1:18am
Growing up in Melrose WERS is what I turned to for my underground music and upcoming shows. WERS was the first place I heard Obituary back in 1989 and I shit my pants. Nasty Habits was the shit.



toggletoggle post by anonymous at Jul 27,2010 10:45pm
anonymous said[orig][quote]
THE WORLD IS FULL OF KINGS AND QUEENS WHO BLIND OUR EYES AND STEAL OUR DREAMS IT'S HEAVEN AND HELL. JEANINE LOMBARDO



toggletoggle post by bornofosichris  at Jul 27,2010 10:59pm
I'm an Emerson College student and I actually DJ for WERS, I had no idea that we ever had a metal program. That's pretty rad, wish it were still around.



toggletoggle post by ouchdrummer   at Jul 28,2010 8:21am
yupyup, nasty habits was how i found out about a good 50% of the metal i got into back then. Really really sad when they stopped this show. The timeslot was always hard (late night-sunday) but it was WORTH IT. So good, i wish there were something like this now, i realize satalite has the "liquid metal" channel, but since the two companies merged, the selection has fallen off. Now you're just as likely to hear willhaven as you are death.



toggletoggle post by Wallace at May 25,2016 10:12pm
Mike Jones was the undisputed king of nasty habits



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