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And The Burn-Outs Just Keep On Comin'

Many of you are picking cheesy pop songs. Yes they were burned when they were currents but then they weren't heard from again. The truly burned songs are the ones that have never stopped being played. Three that jump out at me are...

John Mellencamp-Jack and Diane
Phil Collins-In The Air Tonight
Tom Petty-Free Fallin'
 
Jay F said:
Many of you are picking cheesy pop songs. Yes they were burned when they were currents but then they weren't heard from again. The truly burned songs are the ones that have never stopped being played. Three that jump out at me are...

John Mellencamp-Jack and Diane
Phil Collins-In The Air Tonight
Tom Petty-Free Fallin'
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Yes, those three get fried a lot; however, here is yet another one that gets fried:

I Feel The Earth Move - Carole King
It's Too Late - Carole King


Whatever happened to good old Smackwater Jack, or the title song of the Tapestry album? Instead of using other songs to allude to them why not just play them?
 
Robert Palmer-Addicted To Love
Eagles-Hotel California
Bob Seger-Old Time R&R
Kenny Loggins-Footloose
Red Hot Chili-Under The Bridge
U2-I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
U2-With Or Without You
Whispers-Rock Steady
Bon Jovi-Wanted Dead Or Alive
J Geils Band-Centerfold
Tina Turner-What's Love Got To Do With It
John Waite-Missing You
Police-Every Breath You Take
B52s-Love Shack
Billy Idol-Mony Mony
Gnarles Barkley-Crazy
Calling-Wherever You Will Go
Seal-Kiss from A Rose

I have heard those enough to last the rest of my life and any other future lifetimes.
 
How about Living On A prayer by Bon Jovi? Or Unbelievable by EMF? OR All For You by Sister Hazel? Or Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind?
 
Looking at JayF's musical crispy critter nominees, these songs get played the hell out of in Buffalo but I don't think I've heard them on-air in a long time in Rochester...

Whispers-Rock Steady
Tina Turner-What's Love Got To Do With It
B52s-Love Shack
Gnarles Barkley-Crazy
Seal-Kiss from A Rose

Got a feeling that some songs which are charcoal in one market may be still welcomed by Rochester listeners, and a few (like Seal's Kiss from a Rose) might even generate an 'oh, wow" moment from some...

Some songs are burned to a crisp everywhere, like Hotel California or Footloose. But burnout could very well be a regional thing for some songs more than 10 years old--remember, it's only in the last 10 years or so that playlists on most stations came from a central group programming office, and songs burned out at the same time everywhere. Up through the late 90s local PDs had a lot more leeway in crafting their playlists, and deciding how many songs to keep in the recurrent bin. Today it's national and uniform, and the recurrent bins keep a lot of the same songs on the air past their shelf life everyplace...
 
No one has mentioned Paradise By the Dashboard by Meatloaf? A horrid, horrid, song. I hated it the first time I heard it.
 
Paradise By The Dashboard Lights - Meatloaf
Rocket Man - Elton John
Black Is Black - Los Bravos
Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones
Sister Golden Hair - America
More More More (How Do You Like It) - Andrea True Connection
 
"Black Is Black" ??!! Where is that song toastified? Not a Buffalo Burn-Out, unless WHTT has been bangin' it once a day since they flipped formats. OTOH, "More More More" could be played a whole lot "Less, Less, Less."
 
Can't remember the last time I heard "Paint It Black" in Buffalo. Probably during the "Oldies 104" days.
 
Ahh...forgot these in my listing a couple pages back...

Good Ole' Steve Miller Band....we are getting a treat on CMF today...the dreaded 2'fer...These two are beyond crisp...they're ashes!

1) Keep On Rockin' Me, Baby
2) Jungle Love....

Let's see, and before that we had Bob Segar's daily crisper - a song I hated from day friggin' 1 -

1) Old Time Rock and Roll - as soon as I hear that Goddamn piano intro, my fingers are on the radio changing the dial or shutting it off.
2) Against the Wind
and one more from good ole' Bob....
3) Down on Mainstreet

and before that...The daily dose of Rolling Stones...
1) Gimme Shelter
2) Angie

I love Steve Ray Vaughan...but the same two fried songs played EVERY DAY
1) Coldshot
2) The Sky is Crying

C'mon, man...can't anyone change the f*****g playlist...Radio SUCKS!!!
 
"Bob you need to listen to Warm more often. The songs you cite get pummeled to death."

Uhhh, no thanks...definitely not in their target demo. Probably the station I spend least time with in the Rochester market. Nothing against them, just not my thing...

Meanwhile Meat Loaf's Paradise By the Dashboard Light gets cited as a crispy critter and rightly so. (Guess programmers must be nostalgic for Phil Rizzuto's play-by-play--a recording session he once admitted he never told his wife about.) But there are Meat Loaf songs they could be playing that would be welcome on the air again--like Life Is A Lemon (And I Want My Money Back)...
 
It would appear that some markets play some songs to death while other markets play other songs to death; however, there are those that get played to death all over the place:

Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
 
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