KMTT 103.7 FM The Mountain

At first I was ambivalent about The Mountain, despite hearing a few negative things from Arya and The Hound. Then I saw him in person and admitted he had a pretty impressive physique, despite being repulsed by his apparent lack of compassion for the people he was killing.
The one star, though, only came about when I saw he was aiming to be champion of the crown in the trial of Tyrion. I would very much prefer Tyrion to remain alive over The Mountain, no matter how much money the Entercom corporation has sunk into him.
Also willing to add another star if he agrees to play more Skynyrd.

I Hate the new mountain radio format. Go back to its old format!!! You have destroyed a long time radio institution in Seattle

This station has changed to HOT 103.7 which is a far cry from what the mountain did. It specializes in music for 22 – 40 year old women. It’s throwbacks from the 90’s and current hits with minimal commercial interruptions.
Unfortunately I noticing a lot of repeats now. More so than what they did when they first introduced the station. Playing 10,000 songs commercial free with very little repeats. However all good things change, the commercials and repeats are here. But I find myself singing along all the time to this station. Give it a try.

Wow, what happened to the Mountain when I turned around?! Where can we go for new or alternative music in Seattle? Are Pandora and Sirius really the only choices anymore? Even the city’s alternative music stations are incredibly repetitive. Very disappointing.
Is it really true that the 30 – 50 demographic cannot support a radio station? Really … isn’t that one of the more affluent profiles?

What happened to my Mountain? Most idiotic decision made in Seattle media since they took Pat Cashman off of morning drive time radio. As if we need another mind-​less techno-​pop outlet. Their web site says that they are trying to appeal to «female» listeners. Yuck!!! Maybe pole dancers but I can’t imagine myself listening to this garbage over a coffee at Third Place Books. So sad. Another Seattle institution gone… Kurt Cobain is rolling over in his grave.

What the fuck was that on my radio tonight? I had no idea The Mountain was no more until 20 minutes ago. What a loss.

Can you give zero stars?
Years ago this was the BEST radio in Seattle. They played a great mix of ‘alternative’ 90’s college rock, acoustic stuff for those of us who can really live without another KZOK/​Clear Channel clone.
Now it’s just one more ‘repeat the same pop crap’ radio station with just a little of KZOK’s playlist thrown in to keep the few remaining old listeners from jumping ship.
This station is just one more in a long list of Seattle stations that has re-​programmed itself into insignificance.

And Now the Mountain is only to be found online and on HD2
It’s gone, gone I tell ya.
They took my jazz, they took my mountain-​brave new world!

I came to listen to KMTT after my former AA station went to easy listening. Some of the on-​air folks pointed me to 103.7 (You could actually call and talk to the studio way back in the 90’s) I loved the music, and the format. Then, all of a sudden it became all about ad revenue, and listener ratings. I am saddened to lose an old friend and disgusted by the Entercom brand.

Mountain, I’m so very disappointed in you. I’ve been listening to you since the day you started — when you played wonderful adult alternative radio. The place I could always count on for new and unique music. If I wanted to listen to KJR or KZOK, I would listen to them. I miss the cutting edge stuff they used to play. I want my Mountain back — because you have gone from number one on my presets to something I just listen to when I’m on seek mode. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr…

What the hell happened to the Mountain? Where did «intelligent» music go? Listening to ‘oldies’ gets, well, old. When I want a steady intake of oldies, I’ll go to KZOK. As it is now, KMTT is the least listened to station in my car. Please bring back the intelligence.

Over played music, no variety, & sold out to commercial radio!

Just another classic rock station… with the exodus of Shawn Stewart this station has gone downhill fast. I actually reprogrammed my presets in my car to exclude this station. Such a disappointment. Same format as KZOK.

Urbane and dEEliciously smart. SO refreshing… Good radio– too bad I have to drive around in a car, hopelessly lost in Seattle to listen .
At least it was a spectacularly sunny day.
Our San Francisco/​Bay area radio has become one big mish mash of same sounding lameness. Now if that weather thing could be more Bay Area I actually could contemplate a move… nah… maybe just stream…

Look at it this way… this station is like… buying that «Time Life one hit wonders of the 90s CD» from late night TV. and having it on a constant loop.
Try THIS experiment: Go to the Mountain’s website
and go to their tunegenie playlist thing that shows what things they have been playing…
Did you know that they play Semisonic — Closing Time… at least 6 TIMES A DAY EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST 6 YEARS?
Did you know that they play that stupid DMB You and Me song 4 times an hour… as some sort of contract requirement?
I know… I know you probably don’t believe me… but BELIEVE ME. go check it out for yourself… I did. I counted!
it’s ok… if by ok you mean… that you can stand the same repertoire of Natalie Imbruglia — Torn, Melissa Etheridge — Come to My Window, DMB, Alanis Morissette Ironic, Semisonic Closing Time intermixed with a small selection of crappy U2 songs and the ‘current top jams’ every hour.
My coworkers have it on at work… I swear I have Closing Time lyrics memorized… you know why? because they play the same songs by the same artists every day. almost on the cue… and you know what’s sad. i actually USED to like that Semisonic song.
and it’s not that the artists are bad (wait.DMB is bad…)… it’s that they play the same SONGS by each artist… yea if you wanna climb up the wall from listening to a shitty looped playlist of Bono and other crap, you might like this station.
Look at it this way… this station is like… buying that «Time Life one hit wonders of the 90s CD» from late night TV. and having it on a constant loop.
Actually I wish i could give it 0 stars… but sadly i cant do that. it’s just terrible.

Has to go down.
I was bothered about a particularly negative manner in which the morning announcers trashed the airline industry. I did call to talk about it and go ta very umm… nonresponsive intern who argued the case, but apparently had not heard what they said!
For the most part I really enjoy the morning show with them, but today this was a major BUST! Iupdeated this as I enjoy their music regularly. I hope the intern learns.

Not the station for the kiddies… they usually find it boring.
I moved here from FL and we had nothing like this in Tampa. All alternative rock (which is OK too) and teeny bopper pop music (oh…and the coutnry stations, bleh).
Anyway, I like the folk/​rock genre, a bit lighter side, adult contemporary. This is what the mountain is. It is a nearly perfect music mix for my style.

I can’t. I just can’t.
I mean, I love my sister, and she thinks the Mountain is cool.
And I’ve tried many times over the years to listen to the Mountain, but it just drives me up a boring, grey, everything’s the same wall.
I love KEXP but only from 6 a.m. — 6 p.m. So sometimes I’m stuck in the car other times and I need to listen to a radio station ’cause I’ve forgotten my iPod. The End is, well, the end of female artists, which drives me kinda batty, being, well, female and all (and knowing there are really great female artists making even, gasp, hard alternative rock these days). So I flip to the Mountain. Which, 7 times out of 8, makes me think of this old Garrison Keillor skit (I used to date a guy who listened to Prairie Home Companion religiously) about how boring new-​age music was a Republican plot to get white middle-​class people to eat their carpets (I think there wasn’t a raunchy pun intended, I mean, it’s Garrison Keillor).
Over the past few weeks I’ve heard the Mountain proclaiming Band of Horses to be «new music.» And I like Band of Horses, and I’ve had the album for five months or so, since after they started playing it on KEXP, so it doesn’t seem exactly «new.» (And I’m not exactly on the cutting edge of KEXP music, either.) I’ve heard the same Band of Horses song — The Funeral — twice now in flipping to the Mountain, and I know it’s because it starts out slow and doesn’t get really challenging.
Most of the stuff they play, as far as I can tell, is insipid, boring, simple, meaningless love song slow rock, at least in what I’ve heard. I mean, my sister’s a Sheryl Crow fan. I love her, but I can’t go there. I just can’t. I like music.

No matter where you live in the Seattle area, you are most likely stuck in traffic around 5pm. I like to start my drive home with the Attitude Adjustment Hour on The Mountain. The highlight of this segment is the ‘5:20 Funny’. Marty Riemer features some very funny stand-​up comedians for your commute home. I have been laughing so hard sometimes that I almost caused accidents.
Fellow eastside drivers, if you see me laughing hysterically in my car, don’t be alarmed. I should be back to normal… well, relatively normal at about 5:27.

The chill side of the mountain is a crime against radio (–1 star), but the rest of the shows I’ve heard have a wide-​ranging collection of (mostly) rock from the 60’s to today. It’s rare that Maria and I disagree on something, but this is one of those times.
Just now I’ve listened to Gnarls Barkley, Blondie, Nora Jones, Shawn Mullins, Lennie Kravitz, and that «House of Bamboo» song. The variety is nearly endless, mostly main stream, but a lot of the best independent stuff.
They have a show on Tuesday mornings «Shawn Stewart’s New Music Preview Every Tuesday morning at 7:30am» that is cool. I’ve learned about some of my favorite new (to me) bands from that show (North Mississippi Allstars, Keane, KT Tunstall, Gomez) from that segment.
Also, I love the «5:20 funny» for a break in the day after work. The evening host plays a few minutes of stand-​up comedy. It’s great because it helps wipe away a day’s toils, while I sit in gridlock.