The Sound 100.3

Update from my previous review on 2÷11÷15. I was able to get around the whole Mark in the Morning disaster by listening to my iPod or NPR in the car on the way to work. In the afternoons on my way home, it was awesome, because it was just music with Cynthia Fox or Rita Wilde, it was perfect.
Now, just recently, they added «Andy in the Afternoon» where they moved Andy Chanley from the morning show to his own show from 3:00 to 7:00 p. m Another show made up of talk, juvenile pranks, and gags. The music again takes second seat.
So that is it, I’m done with The Sound completely. I’ll be making sure I have my iPod charged and ready for the car because Los Angeles, again, lacks a mature, classic rock station that isn’t all about corporate profits.

Greg F is so right! I think they only have a 100 songs! And 5 of those are Sting’s! What’s with Sting? And I thought K Earth was bad… As for Mark in the Morning… I liked it better when Andy Chandley was alone. Now I have to hear the rest of the morning crew do their forced «belly laughs» every time Mark says anything. Andy… you don’t need this crap! You need your own gig…

After not listening to radio in my car for many years, I recently gave it another try. Somehow, I landed on The Sound. The first few days were great, as I hadn’t heard any of the songs in years. Before the week was over, I realized that their playlist is about 100 songs. I only drive about three hours a week due to a short commute. Within that week, I heard several songs three times. Now that’s a small playlist!
Mark in the Morning was a familiar voice, as I was a Mark and Brian fan in the 1990s. But what made M&B great was Brian. He was so down-​to-​earth and humble. And he was the witty, clever, funny guy. Mark was the bore. As the 1990s turned into the next century, the only thing that happened to Mark was the inflation of his ego. Now, his show completely sucks because he’s not funny and he plays the «grumpy-​old-​has-​been» angle. It’s completely retarded. But I do like all the other characters in his crew. I think that morning crew would have better show without Mark.
And regarding Uncle Joe Benson … sorry, but his voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The engineers do something to make it more mid-​rangey. I’ve heard him in interviews on YouTube and his voice isn’t as annoying.
But the main thing I dislike about The Sound is the way all the DJs talk during a song’s intro, then stop immediately before the song’s lyrics begin. It must be a Management decision to do this. They must think this is a cool radio trick. FM radio stations either do it or they don’t, so it’s not as if it’s a particular DJ’s style. The Sound needs to stop this talk-​over because it’s really annoying. I think it’s something that young people might like. But their music obviously caters to the 50+ crowd.
I really wanted to like The Sound, but after a few weeks, I was completely annoyed. Another example of corporate radio. So, it’s back to my iPod shuffle.

they are firing on all 12 cylinders! a great production effort. I wish they could add a little Brian Phelps crazy stunts…

With Uncle Joe it was a 5 star program!!! I found the sound a few years ago and loved listening to Uncle Joe at 6am… he’s music knowledge is amazing and he’s just entertaining without all the talk, talk, talk. Then recently, this nasal noise came on and I think they call it a «Mark»? It never stops trying to promote its son, wife and daughter and its ego is HUGE! Andy and Gina, how do you stand it? Not only is it bad enough that the Mark thing yaks incisively from 6 to 8am, but the station REPLAYS those 2 hours from 8 to 10!
I couldn’t take it… I have to stop listening on my am drive from the OC to SB. Too bad they messed with perfection. Management of the station should read reviews once in awhile and btw stop allowing Mark to read the letters he writes praising himself while acting as if listeners wrote them. SOUND… you should listen to your listeners…

1003 the Sound… AKA KLO-​west
I started listening to you guys because Mark was back on the air and because you guys didn’t play Led Zeppelin into the ground like KL OS. Now you’re starting to do it just as bad as them. You constantly segue conversations into Led Zeppelin, you even had a guy in there one morning dissecting the so-​called brilliance of the Led Zeppelin studio recording. It’s gotten to the point of absolute blind worship of the band. Knock it off! Good band… yes. Greatest band ever… sorry don’t think so. At least the Rolling Stones don’t pretend they are something they are not. At least play something obscure from Zeppelin once in a while. We don’t need to hear Dancing Days everyday… let’s be honest dancing days have never reached Robert Plant… The closest thing he does the dancing is that stupid finger snap head bob thing.

I like the morning show very much and the lack of commercials! I found the sound & lost KLOS…

When this radio station first came alive a fee years ago, it filled the dead air in LA and CO that I felt permeated after so many other stations went «Talk — radio format».
I prefer music all of the time. Generally I switch between KROQ, NPR, and THE SOUND. I tolerate the necessary advertisements by simply turning down the volume. I commute early in the morning, so I thankfully do not have to endure the silly slapstick and goofiness of KROC ’ S Kevin and Bean (although I really think Ralph Garmin makes that morning Show tick.)
Recently I heard that voice of Mark Thomson from the old Mark And Brian Show on KLOS… I cringed. I never enjoyed his criticism and gooey personality. Brian made that Show with his spot– on voice impersonations and hilariously genuine personality.
Now the Sound, I believe, ruined morning commute after 7am with this lame over amplified Talk and gibberish.
I simply tune off The Sound. Sad, because I love the style of music they play. The Sound doesn’t seem to stick to a Top 40 rotation of Classic rock; they mix in some B sides, some rarely played tracks from our favorite albums growing up. That is unique. BUT NOT ANYMORE…
The Sound needs to drop the Talk show format in the morning and get us back into the positive groove to enable us to navigate through this dreaded LA/​OC traffic. Aaarrrggg!!!

The Sound started as a very good station. As many have posted here, the play list is becoming constrained. Both the artist and the songs seemed to be formulated. As stated, would love to hear artist and songs that were new or need renewing, now its the same old, same old.
More variety would improve my rating of this station. Another improvement would be not to talk over the introduction or the ending of the songs, the days of ‘Boss Radio” are old and tired. More album sides throughout the day would be nice, yes hard to do, yet it can be done.
Keep the humor acts, nice job on that.
Mark Thompson is a major disappointment, he is not funny most of the time.
Did not want to do this, you may play less commercials (which is great), but you sound the same as the other commercial LA radio stations. Another way of saying this is, The Sound in LA is, ‘La, la, so what!‘
Please, please change back as you started out, it was new and fresh and refreshing… Help yourselves!!!

I love the Sound. But there is one thing that a bunch of us do not like, and it is the Fact that Uncle Joe Benson always Talks through the opening of a song. he has a very BAD habit of doing this. Uncle Joe is great and we all Respect him, but he needs to Stop talking over the songs. The sound is all about the Music, right? that is your thing, correct? We dont want to hear a DJ talk over the music. Thank u for being on.

I stopped listening to KLOS in the morning because of Mark & Brian and I do not list to the Sound in the morning because of Mark.
I tuned into the Sound for the music, not the talk.
It is a shame that more people don’t tune out to send a clear message to the management.

Thank you for bringing Mark back to Los Angeles. The day he left I stopped listening to a morning format like he was on at KLOS. I went to a news station and then I saw a billboard that said Mark’s back and 100.3. I preset on of my buttons and turned him on and was laughing right away. I wish him good luck with his new show and hope to hear him for a long time to come. Glad to hear Uncle Joe follows his show.

Epic station! I look forward to triple play Thursday’s, and uncle Joe’s history lessons xD! You guys need to have Cary Elwis guest DJ again! He did an awesome job! And picked some grate tunes you don’t normally hear:)

The «one star» is for the Management… or maybe even the Owners. It’s amazing how «disconnected» they can be sometimes. Put down your Golf Clubs and take a look at Unilocalers are saying about your station! You were off to a pretty good start… even remenicent of the old «KMET» days (what I think alot of us really miss about L.A. radio).but now… better drop the landing gear before its too late. the grounds comin up fast!
Jim Ladd come home!

Well, it had to happen… One of the most decent radio stations in LA went… less decent. Now it has become KLOS light. Because playing too much music in the morning was not enough to placate the CEO’s wherever they may be… they now added more talk by bringing Mark Thompson from… KLOS.
You see, us LA commuters are too dour and sad so the station management thought we needed more «Fun» in our morning commute by bringing in Mark and his idle chatter. Hey station management… this is a chicken crap way of doing things if you want to bring in younger fans. If this is your way of bringing «fun and comedy» to the morning commute… I don’t want it. Hey kids… go to KLOS… at least we know what we’re getting.

The station used to be awesome but they stopped playing most unique songs. Okay an occasional Johnny Cash. But it’s just another playlist now. love the addition of the KLOS DJs but really, «Hotel California» every freaking day? In the last week I’ve heard «the Boys are Back in Town» 4 or five times.
Did I step back in time? Is this Arrow or KLSX? Or is it the Sound with artists like Donovan Frankenreiter, Death Cab for Cutie. I might be a Baby Boomer but I’m not dead.
Seems like every time a unique station comes up in Los Angeles it’s replaced with either corporate blah or becomes a Hispanic station. No offense, that’s the emerging demographic, but every time I get attached to a radio station number it flips to something mediocre.
Let Andy Chandlee pick the music or bring in somebody really edgy like Jim Ladd.
By the way, less commercials is great, but if that’s all you have as a unique position, I’d rather listen to Pandora.

It’s about time more radio stations like this popped up in the city of Los Angeles. Getting tired of all the same old Hip-​Hop, Top 40, and Spanish stations and pretending like we’re short on these kinds of stations. Kind of funny that I mention Hip-​Hop stations because wasn’t 100.3 The Beat a Hip-​Hop station?
It’s a great station no doubt. It covers a lot of decades from the ‘60s all the way to the ‘90s so you get a little taste of every decade. I can appreciate the fact that this radio station is trying to be unique.
As far as repetition goes, I’ll have to listen to it for longer time before I come to that conclusion. So far, I’m just wowed by the variety. If you truly want to know what repetition sounds like, go listen to a small town radio station and then you’ll see what repetition sounds like. Since I’ve been to the big city, the FM radio feature in my car has been used more. So far, this station is solid and is deserving of a preset in my car.

I don’t know, man. They started out promising and played some stuff you don’t usually hear on boring repetitious L.A. classic rock stations, but have since deteriorated into a virtual clone of KLOS. I’ve actually heard some great songs when they play the whole album, but otherwise it’s the same stuff over and over.
I don’t know what to say anymore about this except maybe these clueless idiots in charge of programming L.A. classic rock stations need to be replaced with music-​minded people who do have a clue.

I agree with other reviewers — this is a good station as far as the LA selection goes, but they’ve gotten a bit vanilla. It feels like they have a standard playlist of about 100 songs and then every 10^th one they’ll drop in something different.
Better than most of what’s out there (this is the first station I check in my set of 6), but plenty of room for improvement.

When I saw the star rating for the Sound on Unilocal I thought, «3 stars? No way, that’s at least a 4-​star station!» But other reviews have reminded me that they used to play actual «true variety» and deep cuts, and now they’re basically KLOS. They even brought in Uncle Joe!
Don’t get me wrong, I like popular classic rock. But it was nice to have a station that mixed in something other than Aerosmith and Pink Floyd every hour.
I’m sort of confused about other reviews comparing this station to KROQ and 98.7. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything later than early 90s on The Sound… at least not in the last year or so.