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We Are the Champions

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I heard this song, without "We Will Rock You", on an oldies station that is locally programmed with no DJs.

I've only heard it alone one other time that I remember, not counting when a team actually won a championship. And that time it was related to a successful local team, I think, even if it hadn't won anything yet. It was on an adult standards station where the local DJs tended to play oldies, though it was the station's owner playing it, and he usually leaned more in a standards direction in his music choices.
 
We Are The Champions is the A side of the single, We Will Rock You was the B side. They appear consecutively on the album.
 
TheBigA said:
We Are The Champions is the A side of the single, We Will Rock You was the B side. They appear consecutively on the album.
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Similar to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" on the Beatles' album, although there actually were no singles from it. I occasionally hear the latter without the former, but just about every time "It was 20 years ago today..." comes out of my speakers I know I'll be hearing "What would you say .." in a couple of minutes. I guess radio programmers just decided that since the Beatles had let the songs flow into each other on the LP, there was no justification in separating them for radio, especially since both songs are quite short.
 
Yes, that's similar to how I've never heard Boston's "Foreplay" without "Long Time" immediately following it. I've never heard INXS's "Mediate" without "I Need You Tonight" right on it's heels. Or Van Halen's "Eruption" without "You Really Got Me. And I've often heard "Stay" by Jackson Browne without the lengthier "The Load Out" which preceded it.
 
Cordelia Chase said:
Yes, that's similar to how I've never heard Boston's "Foreplay" without "Long Time" immediately following it. I've never heard INXS's "Mediate" without "I Need You Tonight" right on it's heels. Or Van Halen's "Eruption" without "You Really Got Me. And I've often heard "Stay" by Jackson Browne without the lengthier "The Load Out" which preceded it.
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WCOZ Boston, in the mid-'70s, would play ELO's "So Fine" and "Livin' Thing" as one. The songs flowed into each other on the album "A New World Record," but "Livin' Thing" was released by itself as a single. Did other album rockers spin the merged album track?
 
CTListener said:
WCOZ Boston, in the mid-'70s, would play ELO's "So Fine" and "Livin' Thing" as one. The songs flowed into each other on the album "A New World Record," but "Livin' Thing" was released by itself as a single. Did other album rockers spin the merged album track?
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Yes, many Album Rock stations on the West Coast played "So Fine/Living Thing". Traffic's "Glad/Freedom Rider", and many others are examples. Beatles, Moody Blues and many other artists made albums where the songs segued into each other. Genesis "Home By The Sea/Second Home By The Sea" was another...
 
CTListener said:
Similar to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" on the Beatles' album, although there actually were no singles from it. I occasionally hear the latter without the former, but just about every time "It was 20 years ago today..." comes out of my speakers I know I'll be hearing "What would you say .." in a couple of minutes. I guess radio programmers just decided that since the Beatles had let the songs flow into each other on the LP, there was no justification in separating them for radio, especially since both songs are quite short.
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The Sgt. Pepper Reprise + A Day In The Life at the end of the album were almost always played together as well.

Others include Journey's Feeling That Way + Anytime, and Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker + Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman).
 
landtuna said:
Not exactly "rockers" but Moody Blues had multiple tracks playing into each other.
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My reference to "album rockers" was to the radio stations in the format, not the performers. Besides, the Moodies could rock when they put their minds to it -- "I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band," "Question" and "Gemini Dream," for example. Anyway, most AOR stations played mellow tracks like "Nights in White Satin" back in the day, before the headbanging "kick-ass rock and roll" varients of AOR got started as the audience started to splinter.
 
landtuna said:
Not exactly "rockers" but Moody Blues had multiple tracks playing into each other.
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"Gypsy", "The Story In Your Eyes", "Ride My See Saw", "The Voice", and others are rockers. Songs with melody and top notch musicanship were their strengths. They qualify as an Album Rock band...
 
tbolt909 said:
"Gypsy", "The Story In Your Eyes", "Ride My See Saw", "The Voice", and others are rockers. Songs with melody and top notch musicanship were their strengths. They qualify as an Album Rock band...
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They did indeed have some genuine rock tracks but were known mostly for their exotic orchestral arrangements and "odd" instruments (mellotron, harpsichord, etc).
 
CTListener said:
Similar to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "With a Little Help From My Friends" on the Beatles' album,
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KeithE4 said:
The Sgt. Pepper Reprise + A Day In The Life at the end of the album were almost always played together as well.
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I remember a station near me (top 40 at the time) that would segue "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise." Of course, that was their own custom edit. Playing time came to a little over three minutes.
 
a station near me (top 40 at the time) that would segue "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise." Of course, that was their own custom edit.
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KKSN-FM in the 1990s/early 2000s had a custom edit segueing "Reprise" into "A Little Help from my Friends"! It was a trainwreck.
 
boombox4 said:
I always heard We Will Rock You followed by We Are The Champions.
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And how many more times in my life will I hear this song? This is one of the more overplayed songs on traditional radio. This song is on Oldies stations, Classic Rock stations, Classic Hits stations, Active Rock stations, 80’s Hits stations and did I forget any other formats? This song has overstayed its welcome.
 
Kevin said:
And how many more times in my life will I hear this song? This is one of the more overplayed songs on traditional radio. This song is on Oldies stations, Classic Rock stations, Classic Hits stations, Active Rock stations, 80’s Hits stations and did I forget any other formats? This song has overstayed its welcome.
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Stations do music research testing, and if they play it, it's because the stations listeners want to hear it... a lot.
 
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