BOB FM 93.7

Classic 80’s and today, Bob is my station when I’m in Virginia Beach. I love that I can tune it in for a good hour as I drive in and for an hour as I’m leaving. The Go-Go’s, Depeche Mode, The Cars, KISS, all sorts of really great music.
No requests.

Kinda sounds like BOB is like JACK in Seattle and other cities.

So this station is more bearable to me than The Point, but it’s still no The Coast so I can only give it so many stars. They do play a really good variety on this station and I rarely hear the same song twice. Plus they do a ‘request lunch’ where they really play some random out there stuff. But all in all it’s still your basic hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and some of today’s music.
Also the BOB commercials just crack me up because they’re so silly. No, I do not want a Bob-​accino, but thanks for offering.

I am the original BobFM! Everyone used to think I was a weirdo. My homemade mixed cds blasting out of my car window would always invite confusion and laughter from friends and passers-​by. Who puts Simon and Garfunkel ‘Bridge over Troubled Waters’ after Public Enemy ‘Welcome to the TerrorDome’?! I do, damn it! Who puts Mary J Blige ‘Going Down’ before Tool’s ‘Sober’? For me, it makes perfect sense.
That’s why I love Bob FM – they truly embody the universality of music. Every song is chosen and played on its own merits as a contribution to music, not by its ability to neatly fit into a genre or a playlist. Rock, roll, hip-​hop, sing and shine on BobFM!

BobFM rocks!

This might make me sound really old, but I miss 93.7 The Coast. Man that station rocked the best in indie, alternative and new wave. Then BOB came along and is essentially the same as all the other stations for the older set. It’s hits of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today, but they just call it a free for all to make you think you’re a little cooler listening to it. I guess it’s good if you just love hits. I admit it, I love hearing old Prince. I can rock out to some of the tunes on the station. But, it’s always followed up with something I hate, like Chicago and Blink 182. That’s just silly.

I have to admit I thought BOB FM was a pretty lame idea when I first heard about it.
Their slogan, «We play anything,» seemed to me just another way to say «We play crap” – not to mention that it reeked of the sort of corporate pandering that has made mainstream radio duller than a mashed potato sandwich.
But now I’ll have to eat my words along with that mashed potato sandwich.
No, BOB FM isn’t blazing any musical trails. But it does latch on to a basic fact about most music lovers, one that other formats ignore – that is that we don’t just like ONE genre of music. The whole concept of BOB is that they might play Soundgarden followed by Madonna followed by Fleetwood Mac followed by Run DMC. It’s a mishmash of styles you’d ordinarily have to flip channels to hear.
And 90 percent of the time they’re songs I like, even if I’ve heard them 1,000 times.
I turn to BOB for good background motivation when I’m driving or doing stuff around the house.