I’ve been streaming KLOU and I’m not sure what the heck they’re doing. The liners and DJ’s say “the best variety of the 80s and 90s”, but the music is anything but. Wild World and Have You Ever Seen the Rain? within the same hour (50+ years old, definitely not 80s and 90s) and one 90s song or so with the rest being 70s and 80s is a bit off for that positioner.
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103-3 KLOU Identity crisis?
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I counted 14 songs from the 1970’s in the past eight hours from their playlist. Plus one 60’s song “Come Together” (Beatles 1969) ….averaging about 2 per hour. Possibly some tweaking? I have seen 2004’s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Green Day on their playlist about six months ago. For the most part I guess they are 80’s/90’s.
The two oldest songs I see since around 3pm are “Your Song” from 1970 and “American Pie” from 1972. “Magic Man” is playing right now.
I counted 6 90s songs played in the last 8 hours. IMO, “80s and more” might be a better positioner.
Maybe the station intends to slowly delete most of the 70s and all the 60s eventually? So the liners hawking "the best variety of the 80s and 90s" is a foretelling of what's to come? Even though, for now, they are hanging onto some older titles?
We've discussed before that it really doesn't make a lot of sense for a Classic Hits stations to completely purge the 1970s. Artists such as Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles and Paul McCartney shouldn't see all their 70s songs tossed out when they are still very popular.
Would you throw out "Dreams," "Don't Stop" and "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac, which were hits in the 70s, but keep "Hold Me," "Little Lies" and "Gypsy" because they were hits in the 1980s?
We've discussed before that it really doesn't make a lot of sense for a Classic Hits stations to completely purge the 1970s. Artists such as Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles and Paul McCartney shouldn't see all their 70s songs tossed out when they are still very popular.
Would you throw out "Dreams," "Don't Stop" and "Rhiannon" by Fleetwood Mac, which were hits in the 70s, but keep "Hold Me," "Little Lies" and "Gypsy" because they were hits in the 1980s?
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