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Easy 105.9 / Myrtle Beach

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DJfrombackwhen

What In the world is going on at this station. It’s been a straight up AC station playing “Today’s best yesterday’s favorites” and now I’m hearing Neil Diamond and Air Supply mixed in with current songs. One break jocks will say 80’s 90’s and now - next break they say continuous light favorites. It’s a mess and hard to listen to.

I think it’s still local jocks on there but sounds disorganized and unfocused. What’s the deal??
 
DJfrombackwhen said:
What In the world is going on at this station. It’s been a straight up AC station playing “Today’s best yesterday’s favorites” and now I’m hearing Neil Diamond and Air Supply mixed in with current songs. One break jocks will say 80’s 90’s and now - next break they say continuous light favorites. It’s a mess and hard to listen to.

I think it’s still local jocks on there but sounds disorganized and unfocused. What’s the deal??
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Are you listening on air on online?
 
Last time I looked at their playlist several months ago, it was straight ahead AC with Post Malone, Katy Perry. Justin Bieber. Looking at it through the past few days, they have swung back to Soft AC.
 
It has sounded like soft AC to me during the past half hour or so. "One of These NIghts" by The Eagles? They played very few 70s songs during the past year and a half, and certainly not that one. The only song that didn't qualify as soft AC was "Apologize" by OneRepublic. That was also the only song that didn't put them in direct competition with Sunny and Bob.

Also, "80s, 90s and more" is different. It doesn't even imply they're playing anything from today. I guess Energy 92.1 and Mix 97.7 are once again the only ones dong today's music.
 
Nothing was said on Facebook about a change. But the Eagles have been played twice in an hour. That's big improvement over all the Justin Bieber and Jonas Brothers.
 
Okay, I looked at a list of last songs played and a number of the songs from the mainstream AC format were on it. Bieber, Bon Jovi and Dua Lipa are still there. But it does seem softer than before and there are certainly more older songs. If anything, they should start claiming "We play anything" because they're doing a better job of it than Bob. As for their web site, it still says "Today's best, yesterday's favorites", but there's not a lot from today any more.

"Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon followed by "Your Smiling Face" by James Taylor. Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones were in that movie. They're working on repairing the rails but not planning to bring trains back across the rickety bridge over the Waterway, and based on this, that's not a bad idea.
 
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Here's a sample. I can't recall for certain whether "Straight Up" was played during the soft AC years, but I think it was. I also don't know for sure about "Best Day of My life". As out of place as it was, "Sunglasses at Night" did air during the sift AC years. So you have a long list of songs that were played when WEZV was soft AC, and then two near the end that surely wouldn't have been.

"Leave A Tender Moment" Billy Joel
"Sunny Came Home" Shawn Colvin
"Africa" Toto
"Sunglasses At Night" Corey Hart
"Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" Tavares
"Walking on Broken Glass" Annie Lennox
"More Than Words" Extreme
"Joanna" Kool & The Gang
"Best Day Of My Life" American Authors
"Straight Up" Paula Abdul
"Have I Told You Lately?" Rod Stewart
"Yesterday" The Beatles
"Walk Like An Egyptian" The Bangles
"Raspberry Beret" Prince
"After All" Cher & Peter Cetera
"Shadow Dancing" Andy Gibb
"Bad Day" Daniel Powter
"Happy" Pharrell Williams
"As I Lay Me Down" Sophie B. Hawkins
"Escape (The Pina Colaoda Song)" Rupert Holmes
"Karma Chameleon" Culture Club
"Rich Girl" Daryl Hall & John Oate
"Vogue" Madonna
"From This Moment On" Shania Twain
"What A Fool Believes" Doobie Brothers
"Blinding Lights" The Weeknd
 
Seems more focused in my opinion. Before they went to new with today's music being more hot ac. Almost another version of the old Tide 94.5 format. Now they sound great 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, today all mixed in.
 
I actually think I could listen to this. I just got tired of 94.9 the Surf last year, and while that comes closer to being what I want to hear, if I wanted something different for a while WEZV might work now.
 
This isn't really anything official because they're still saying "Today's best, yesterday's favorites" (and with the list of last songs played they must be doing today's very best) but I found a Facebook post listing soft AC artists and "CONTINUOUS LIGHT FAVORITES." I had to scroll way down to find it, but it's there.
 
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