What do you guys think? I'm going with Mix 1079... excellent imaging with a voiceguy and voicegirl... good adult CHR-leaning music, and good personalities even though they're VT'd... sucks their signal limits them!
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Best Sounding Station in Columbus?
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IMO, WNCI and The Blitz when it comes to imaging and overall presentation. I also gotta give Radio U credit for great imaging with such a small, non-profit operation. They sound so much bigger than they are.
Mix, but more importantly, the formats Hot AC and Adult CHR have bothered me as of late. It feels like they're trying to be all things to all people but it just doesn't work. I enjoy the majority of the songs on their station, but I just can't hear them next to each other. To me, playing Bittersweet Symphony followed by Dynamite just doesn't flow. You're going from a slower tempo, emotional, self-loathing message delivered by multi-instrumentalists to an up-tempo, superficial, self-celebratory message delivered by electronic, auto-tuned, digitally perfect computers. I get it's a mix, but it just doesn't have a vibe anymore.
To me, the hot ac / mix formats worked through much of the 2000s when at least the instrumentation between the styles was the same: electric guitar, bass, drums, piano/keys, and vocals. Whether alternative or pop, singer/songwriter or AC ballad, those instruments were pretty standard. Today, you're talking 808 drums, synths, pads, and auto-tune. The messaging has changed too. Modern songs are written almost as an escape of reality. Between "Good Life", "Party Rock Anthem", and "Last Friday Night", do any of the new artists know there's a recession going on?
I digress... I'm just saying that the transition between these songs is more than just stylistic. Times have changed. Alternative was almost 20 years ago. 115-120 BPM dance-pop is in. Maybe some change or new research is in order. Or maybe it's just one guy's opinion...
Mix, but more importantly, the formats Hot AC and Adult CHR have bothered me as of late. It feels like they're trying to be all things to all people but it just doesn't work. I enjoy the majority of the songs on their station, but I just can't hear them next to each other. To me, playing Bittersweet Symphony followed by Dynamite just doesn't flow. You're going from a slower tempo, emotional, self-loathing message delivered by multi-instrumentalists to an up-tempo, superficial, self-celebratory message delivered by electronic, auto-tuned, digitally perfect computers. I get it's a mix, but it just doesn't have a vibe anymore.
To me, the hot ac / mix formats worked through much of the 2000s when at least the instrumentation between the styles was the same: electric guitar, bass, drums, piano/keys, and vocals. Whether alternative or pop, singer/songwriter or AC ballad, those instruments were pretty standard. Today, you're talking 808 drums, synths, pads, and auto-tune. The messaging has changed too. Modern songs are written almost as an escape of reality. Between "Good Life", "Party Rock Anthem", and "Last Friday Night", do any of the new artists know there's a recession going on?
I digress... I'm just saying that the transition between these songs is more than just stylistic. Times have changed. Alternative was almost 20 years ago. 115-120 BPM dance-pop is in. Maybe some change or new research is in order. Or maybe it's just one guy's opinion...
Dave, I think it's all in the art of the segue, which can be either musical (through the songs themselves) or spoken by the dj (either before a song cluster or between tunes). Alliteration of band names, common words in songtitles, common themes in lyrics, and even opposing imagery between tunes can all be used to turn what some might consider ahead of time to be train-wreck radio into a fairly entertaining listening experience.
Generally in today's radio world, no one makes this kind of effort towards song continuity because it would require a little bit of work on their part, which they're too lazy to do. Last night I connected heaven-related songs from Redd Kross and James Taylor, train tunes by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the Shangri-Las, selections from ****-cousins the Cocteau Twins and Eddie Cochran, and from our current featured artists the Turtles and Talking Heads came something from each of them about books and a second pair of tunes in which they both sang about the joys of walking. Instrumentation, tempo, and the socioeconomic conditions of the wide-ranging decades in which all of these recordings were made obviously varied greatly, but none of that mattered -- what the listener wound up with was a fun, cohesive hour that yes, I acknowledge is impossible for today's big-time radio to be able to replicate.
Generally in today's radio world, no one makes this kind of effort towards song continuity because it would require a little bit of work on their part, which they're too lazy to do. Last night I connected heaven-related songs from Redd Kross and James Taylor, train tunes by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the Shangri-Las, selections from ****-cousins the Cocteau Twins and Eddie Cochran, and from our current featured artists the Turtles and Talking Heads came something from each of them about books and a second pair of tunes in which they both sang about the joys of walking. Instrumentation, tempo, and the socioeconomic conditions of the wide-ranging decades in which all of these recordings were made obviously varied greatly, but none of that mattered -- what the listener wound up with was a fun, cohesive hour that yes, I acknowledge is impossible for today's big-time radio to be able to replicate.
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