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Not to interfere with the thread....I am just laughing to hard to not reply!!

It is less than one page, Radnowski had a resonable request for ONE SONG PER POST. (That sounded like a great plan)

Less that 2 pages in and the postings contain multiples!!!! We can tell who doesn't follow the threads!!
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It looks like I need to sign up for the Reading Comprehension for Adults they're offering at P.S. 23! ::)
 
I hereby nominate heydaybegone for to position of Thread Parliamentarian. Second? Motion carried! How about a hit from the last decade so we don't look like a bunch of 50+ white guys standing around at Rite Aid waiting for our prescriptions to be filled. Sure, it's a stadium anthem, but it sounds great on the radio and probably will for the next twenty years. Bon Jovi, "Who Says You Can't Go Home?"
 
JohnW said:
Not to interfere with the thread....I am just laughing to hard to not reply!!

It is less than one page, Radnowski had a resonable request for ONE SONG PER POST. (That sounded like a great plan)

Less that 2 pages in and the postings contain multiples!!!! We can tell who doesn't follow the threads!!
Click to expand...

Oops...

It looks like I need to sign up for the Reading Comprehension for Adults they're offering at P.S. 23! ::)
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Sorry...I'll go lock myself in a small room and subject myself to "Torn Between Two Lovers", on a station with really bad processing. :)

A song that bad...could that have been a clandestine payola hit? Ok I digress.

Appreciate Jim Pastrick's comment about processing. It's probably lonnng forgotten, but for a few of us radio geeks, how transparent some of the great old 50KW AM flamethrowers sounded 40 years ago...especially WABC. You could hear the tambourines in the bridge of "Rock Me Gently" on WABC. For FM's, early 80's KC-101 in New Haven and circa 1983 OK-100/Cortland-Ithaca had a three-dimensional feel. Lotsa presence and perceived dynamics. Sounded great in the car. The right processing makes all the difference.

Now back to the thread with...Green Day - "Holiday". I may be over 50 but still appreciate a hooky rock song!
 
How about a hit from the last decade so we don't look like a bunch of 50+ white guys standing around at Rite Aid waiting for our prescriptions to be filled.
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Truth hurts? We are, and there aren't any! ;D

This thread will tend to eliminate any "recent" electronic, highly engineered, processed and microwaved (over easy once)..thump, thump thump.... sorry I digress :eek:

The few and far between's of the last decade will filter through...but let's face it...the stuff us "50+" dudes & dudettes in the "heyday" times played, will prevail. :) Face it again...PART of the reason for some industry downturn is PRODUCT!! This is where the addage "back in the day" kicks in. (Disclaimer: author realizes music is a very personal taste issue). I hear very little "recurrents or currents"...that just plain sound good on the radio. IMHumbleO...I'll stick with the dusties.
That's all...and keep 'em coming!! (LOL)
 
I hereby nominate heydaybegone for to position of Thread Parliamentarian
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Thank you, thank you (as he hits the network news sounder perfectly from Heart's "Barracuda" cold end - never been done in history since, including reality TV edits)....
However, I must decline this notorius nomination (regardless of seconding - what was he thinking to second his own motion ???)
I prefer to walk with the others in "the valley of death", and let these threads evolve in the usual Human Nature (MJ - screw the credit disclaimer). It will go where it goes. My apologies to the producers & of course the fans...without whom this honor would not be possible.

That's all. ;D
 
Element9 said:
(Shotgun Jingle into) Jackie Blue, Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
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Even better if it's the album version...the only version ever played on Pittsburgh Top 40's 13Q and WPEZ.

Now for something more current: Franz Ferdinand - "Take Me Out"
 
Sorry, but there's NOTHING by Pink Floyd that isn't so toasty that it doesn't cause me to reach for the "next" button...
 
That's true for me with about every older song that's played on the radio...which is one reason I don't listen much any more. I am b-u-r-n-e-d on just about everything that I played to death on the air and that is played today on most stations. Give me a play list consisting of many of the songs on the Stiffs Thread and I'll be happy. But that's just me...43 years in from when I got my first pro gig...and if I have 100 "hits" on my iPod, that's a lot.
 
Debaser said:
That's true for me with about every older song that's played on the radio...which is one reason I don't listen much any more. I am b-u-r-n-e-d on just about everything that I played to death on the air and that is played today on most stations. Give me a play list consisting of many of the songs on the Stiffs Thread and I'll be happy. But that's just me...43 years in from when I got my first pro gig...and if I have 100 "hits" on my iPod, that's a lot.
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With this in mind, how about "Lust For Life" by Iggy Pop. I'm used to hearing the intro as the opening for Jim Rome that sometimes I'd wish he'd STHU and let the whole song play. Then again, it's just bumper music to him. Past-fact, long before Rome used Lust For Life, our good friend Jeff Johns used the song as staging for his weekend talk show on WGR.
 
Some hit songs, yes I'm burned. Others have been "evergreens" in research and so played to death I should be tired of them...but I'm not. To quote Austin Roberts' debut song, "Something's Wrong With Me".

Ok, another post-2000 song I never tired of: Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life" (2003)
 
Newer: "I've Been Waiting" by Matthew Sweet (Hey, I'm 52. The 90's IS newer to me ;)
Older: Most of the Credence Clearwater Revival hits still sound fresh, but "Who'll Stop The Rain" has a killer guitar hook and great harmony vocals.
 
Heard a Canadian FM (might have been Toronto's Boom or 97.7) play "Unskinny Bop" by Poison and it sounded good, but I wondered if I'd want to hear it in regular rotation. Didn't seem to fit in the "Stiffs" thread, so why not here?
 
"Unskinny Bop" was a hit as I recall. Still gets play here in Pittsburgh.

And now from just a couple years back...3 Doors Down - "It's Not My Time". I don't care that it sounds like every other uptempo song they've done (except for 2000's "Kryptonite")...it still sounds great on the radio!
 
Not only do I never tire of Little Feat's "Dixie Chicken" but it's one of the rare radio hits that audiences sing - beginning to end - in tune.
 
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