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Does anyone besides me think AC today is a joke?

vchimpanzee said:
Shania's "Any Man of Mine" actually does sound country and is played (or was, since I haven't heard it lately) on one classic country station I listen to. But not long after that, she started doing crossover stuff that I really hope doesn't show up on the good stations. That's not to say all of her music was bad, but she's one of the offenders.
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"No One Needs To Know" was easily her most country-sounding single, lots of steel guitar and the percussion is understated to the point of not being noticed. It would have been a country hit in the '70s with no problem at all.
 
Music Lover said:
By the way, that KAAM station plays some of the currents I'm into: Celtic Woman, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Michael Buble. Because I don't have any stations in my neck of the woods playing those artists is why I have to rely on a variety of streaming and social media sites to keep up with their music.
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That explains why Music Lover is not satisfied with radio. The performers she's into are not pop performers.
 
CTListener said:
"No One Needs To Know" was easily her most country-sounding single, lots of steel guitar and the percussion is understated to the point of not being noticed. It would have been a country hit in the '70s with no problem at all.
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I never said it wasn't, and I would tend to agree. It's actually one of my favorite songs by her.
 
Music Lover said:
By the way, that KAAM station plays some of the currents I'm into: Celtic Woman, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Michael Buble. Because I don't have any stations in my neck of the woods playing those artists is why I have to rely on a variety of streaming and social media sites to keep up with their music.
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Susie Q said:
That explains why Music Lover is not satisfied with radio. The performers she's into are not pop performers.
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From what she's said, it sounds to me like her taste mellowed since her youth. She talks about being into boy bands during her teens and now she's more into mature performers. That's why it's harder for her to connect with today's mainstream.
 
Han Solo said:
From what she's said, it sounds to me like her taste mellowed since her youth. She talks about being into boy bands during her teens and now she's more into mature performers. That's why it's harder for her to connect with today's mainstream.
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That should be normal.

I don't know that I liked anything comparable to "boy bands" as a teenager. The Osmonds and The Jackson 5 were the boy bands back then. I still like some of The Jackson 5's material more today than i did back then.

Then there was disco. I've never stopped liking it.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Obviously with those letters it's too far west to be in the South. But I find it hard to believe anyone would want those letters. If a station in the South were able to get them, can you imagine the reaction?
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Well, it would be a chance for Scooter to make his radio comeback... :D But it's hard to imagine anyone either wanting those call letters in the first place. PS as usual: How'd we get here anyway?
 
I don't know.

I have mixed feelings about Shania's "Still the One". I have heard it on easy listening radio but never standards radio. No, wait, it might have been on the local morning show of my favorite station, though that hardly counts as standards as the occasional Nat King Cole or Perry Como is pretty rare in a mix that sounds very much like oldies, which is not classic hits.

Still, "Still the One" would not likely show up on what is called AC today.

And now we're back!
 
Music Lover said:
By the way, that KAAM station plays some of the currents I'm into: Celtic Woman, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Michael Buble. Because I don't have any stations in my neck of the woods playing those artists is why I have to rely on a variety of streaming and social media sites to keep up with their music.
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Susie Q said:
That explains why Music Lover is not satisfied with radio. The performers she's into are not pop performers.
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Han Solo said:
From what she's said, it sounds to me like her taste mellowed since her youth. She talks about being into boy bands during her teens and now she's more into mature performers. That's why it's harder for her to connect with today's mainstream.
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Another thing that showed me her tastes is that she had mentioned that she didn't reject her parents 60's and 70's music as a teen.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't know.

I have mixed feelings about Shania's "Still the One". I have heard it on easy listening radio but never standards radio. No, wait, it might have been on the local morning show of my favorite station, though that hardly counts as standards as the occasional Nat King Cole or Perry Como is pretty rare in a mix that sounds very much like oldies, which is not classic hits.

Still, "Still the One" would not likely show up on what is called AC today.

And now we're back!
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Let me get this straight: Your favorite station occasionally plays Nat King Cole and Perry Como but they aren't "Standards"? That's like saying you have a glass of water that's 98% pure and only 2% is poison!
 
semoochie said:
Let me get this straight: Your favorite station occasionally plays Nat King Cole and Perry Como but they aren't "Standards"? That's like saying you have a glass of water that's 98% pure and only 2% is poison!
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That station must have some "Unforgettable" "Magic Moments".
 
semoochie said:
Let me get this straight: Your favorite station occasionally plays Nat King Cole and Perry Como but they aren't "Standards"? That's like saying you have a glass of water that's 98% pure and only 2% is poison!
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They are, but everything else would be called oldies or AC.

When they switch to the satellite, then enough of the songs are actual standards for the term to be used.
 
TheBigA said:
A few years from now, all of these radio categories will disappear.
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Except here, where the diehards will still be posting that no one plays their favorite song from 1968 that peaked at #43.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Except here, where the diehards will still be posting that no one plays their favorite song from 1968 that peaked at #43.
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Sure, I was expecting to hear these #43's

Not Enough Indians (Dean Martin)
Give A Damn (Spanky & Our Gang)
Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five)
Guitar Man (Elvis Presley)
With Pen in Hand (Billy Vera)
Brown Eyed Woman (Bill Medley)
Down on Me (Big Brother & the Holding Co.)

I even expect KRTH to play these, right??

:)
 
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oldies76 said:
Sure, I was expecting to hear these #43's

Not Enough Indians (Dean Martin)
Give A Damn (Spanky & Our Gang)
Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five)
Guitar Man (Elvis Presley)
With Pen in Hand (Billy Vera)
Brown Eyed Woman (Bill Medley)
Down on Me (Big Brother & the Holding Co.)

I even expect KRTH to play these, right??

:)
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That's "Everybody Knows" by the Dave Clark Five, not to be confused with "Everybody Knows" by the Dave Clark Five.
 
oldies76 said:
Sure, I was expecting to hear these #43's

Not Enough Indians (Dean Martin)
Give A Damn (Spanky & Our Gang)
Everybody Knows (Dave Clark Five)
Guitar Man (Elvis Presley)
With Pen in Hand (Billy Vera)
Brown Eyed Woman (Bill Medley)
Down on Me (Big Brother & the Holding Co.)

I even expect KRTH to play these, right??

:)
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I've never heard of any of those songs.
 
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