what do they think? you can argue the hits and day to day programming from when you thought radio was great but times have changed. if you think radio was the best when you were in it you are correct. if you're not in it and think the way you did it when you were in it was the best, you are admitting to a past segment of your life. radio. like life is fluid.
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a listener in their 70's or 80's.
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"They"? You are talking about two decades of people who are most probably wildly diverse in most everything including their favorite radio? I think most would say something like this:
Today's technology is far better than it was back then. We have all manner of studio gear that makes on-air jobs much easier and we have radio gear that provides much higher quality of signal than in times past. Unfortunately, we have a financial and competitive environment that puts strain on the ability to earn revenue and as a result we have largely lost the live entertaining on-air staff we used to enjoy and that made radio unique. The once-powerful AM blowtorches that provided virtual nationwide coverage no longer exist so there are probably fewer little boys hiding underneath their blankets listening to far away radio on their crystal sets late at night. And yesterday's list of radio's genre's used to be much smaller than today and with it the variety that no longer exists on any particular station. All in all, radio is far less important to the man in the street than it was in the good old days and appears to be lessening more and more each passing year.
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Fist off, I would like to commend freqdev on mustering-up enough Testicular Fortitude to post a Topic, of his own choosing. You must be exhausted! So,...without any further doo-doo, I shall weigh-in: Since Rock & Roll began,...up 'til now,...it is all relevant, including Hip-hop/Rap(which has zero to do with R&R). Everyone has their own, but disrespect comes easy, when one detects the talentless, somehow, sliding under the wire. I will never hesitate to point them out! Those that feel both the 70's & 80's are dead have not paid attention to both the purchase of downloads, and/or tangible product. As I predicted, vinyl, for collectors, has resurged! Check out Popmarket.com
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No, it's listeners in THEIR 70s or 80s. They would have been in their 30s and 40s in the 70s and would have been the parents telling their teenagers to TURN THAT RACKET DOWN!
As for me, rock of the 70s and 80s was just noise to me when I was a teenager in the 70s.
When did KISS become wholesome family entertainment worthy of the Macy's Parade?
As for me, rock of the 70s and 80s was just noise to me when I was a teenager in the 70s.
When did KISS become wholesome family entertainment worthy of the Macy's Parade?
A budding time traveling, teenage Doctor in his Tardis, were you? Didn't venture too far if you only got to the 80s.
Anyway, I'd have to agree with you regarding most of the seventies music. It sucked being a teen back then. The eighties were generally a little better although the synthesizers got old.In the seventies, I liked Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, Neil Diamond, The Carpenters, John Denver, James Taylor, The Bee Gees and K.C. and the Sunshine Band. I'm lucky to still ave a radio station playing most of these artists.
Vchimpanzee, I can totally relate to being a teenager who liked older music and couldn't stand most of the popular stuff. I'm 28 and so was a teen in the late 90s and early 2000s. I went to a school where you lived in dorms and only went home on the weekends, so it was really hard to avoid the current music being played everywhere, especially when they forced us to go to those school dances, which were required *shudder*. The funny thing is that now I can enjoy some of those songs, although there are some that still make me want to punch the radio/whatever listening device that is playing the song. I guess I can enjoy some of it now because it's not being forced on me.
Nobody forced me to go to any social event in college. And after my first semester when I was at a college too far away for me to go home every weekend, I was never there on a weekend, or at least the whole weekend.
But during that first semester I became very familiar with the current music. I still don't know the name or artist for some of the songs. One was played on "The Cleveland Show" when George Clinton made a guest appearance.
I have finally found out one of the songs was "The Groove Line" by Heatwave, though that would have been a year old. Other songs I heard during that semester were "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" by The Knack, "I Want You to Want Me" by Cheap Trick, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Bob Dylan, "Dependin' on You" by The Doobie Brothers, "Get It Right Next Time" by Gerry Rafferty, "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac, "Pop Muzik" by M (one of the worst), "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" by Louise Goffin, "Cruel to Be Kind" by Nick Lowe, "Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO, "Arrow Through Me" by Wings, "Fins" by Jimmy Buffett, "After the Love Has Gone" by Earth, Wind, and Fire and "Spooky" by Atlanta Rhythm Section.
There are only a few of those that I like, including the last three.
But during that first semester I became very familiar with the current music. I still don't know the name or artist for some of the songs. One was played on "The Cleveland Show" when George Clinton made a guest appearance.
I have finally found out one of the songs was "The Groove Line" by Heatwave, though that would have been a year old. Other songs I heard during that semester were "My Sharona" and "Good Girls Don't" by The Knack, "I Want You to Want Me" by Cheap Trick, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "Gotta Serve Somebody" by Bob Dylan, "Dependin' on You" by The Doobie Brothers, "Get It Right Next Time" by Gerry Rafferty, "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac, "Pop Muzik" by M (one of the worst), "Remember (Walking in the Sand)" by Louise Goffin, "Cruel to Be Kind" by Nick Lowe, "Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO, "Arrow Through Me" by Wings, "Fins" by Jimmy Buffett, "After the Love Has Gone" by Earth, Wind, and Fire and "Spooky" by Atlanta Rhythm Section.
There are only a few of those that I like, including the last three.
Actually, with WBCY and John Boy playing in the cafeteria at the next college I went to, I also learned to like "I Can't Tell You Why" by The Eagles and "Minute by Minute" by The Doobie Brothers.
And then there were "Whip It" by Devo and "Turn Me Loose" by Loverboy.
Forgot a couple of songs. During that first semester, I heard "House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by George Thorogood.
The next time I lived on a college campus the guys in the next room couldn't get enough of "Beatin the Odds" by Molly Hatchet.
And then there were "Whip It" by Devo and "Turn Me Loose" by Loverboy.
Forgot a couple of songs. During that first semester, I heard "House Rent Boogie/One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" by George Thorogood.
The next time I lived on a college campus the guys in the next room couldn't get enough of "Beatin the Odds" by Molly Hatchet.
Let me add The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers and Hall and Oates. I don't like everything by these artists, but I do like some of their songs.
Some folks forget that John Boy and Billy started out at 107.9 back when it was WBCY. They later moved to WRFX 99.7 after some sort of contract dispute. But 99.7 had a much smaller coverage area due to 99.9 in Asheville. But they soon became syndicated, so that really didn't matter anymore. But I liked WBCY as a rock station at the time, but then they became more CHR and finally changed call letters as they transitioned to AC. And became WLNK of today. Giving rise to Bob and Sheri.
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Sheeeeeeeeesh! Not even Freqdev believed he'd see such posts when launched this Topic. I just gotta ask V-Monkey....Do you Rock at all? That list on post #7 has you crowned King of Sap. For the Love of St. Pete, I would never have disclosed such. Also,...post #5, hissy fitting on KISS. That Rock band is an American Icon, and Loved through-out the rest of the globe. You just don't Rock. I'll cut you some slack, but Gene & Paul would cut you to pieces. I was a private in the KISS Army from the beginning, granting more airplay to their records, than any other PD, in the Southeast....and now a five star General in the KISS Army, and I continue to Rock!
V-Monkey,....remember my logic: The guy playing the Fender Strat, will get laid, before the guy playing the Clarinet!
V-Monkey,....remember my logic: The guy playing the Fender Strat, will get laid, before the guy playing the Clarinet!
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I should have mentioned Billy Joel and Elton John. I don't like everything they do, but they're on my type of radio station a lot.
And Bread should have been on my first list.
And Bread should have been on my first list.
Huh? When did I say anything bad about KISS? They were proud not to be wholesome family entertainment.
One reason they moved to WRFX was that they didn't like the music any more. WBCY was actually what we would now call Hot AC by the time I was hearing John Boy there.
WBCY went CHR before John Boy and Billy left, at least adult-leaning CHR.
When Bob started, it was mainstream AC and the letters changed to WBT-FM. At some point the name changed to Sunny and the letters to WWSN. Sheri joined Bob at some point, and the music was back to Hot AC, but I don't know exactly when.
The name "Link" may have been chosen when they went "Modern AC", but they went back to Hot AC at some point and also added more talk.
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