That's a style that needed to go, more than likely.
I make exceptions for Soft Cell and Thomas Dolby when he's not playing with Foreigner ("Waiting for a Girl Like You" was him, and I thought it was terrible).
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CBS-FM Adjusting Playlist
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I make exceptions for Soft Cell and Thomas Dolby when he's not playing with Foreigner ("Waiting for a Girl Like You" was him, and I thought it was terrible).
I find Tommy Dorsey quite enjoyable in 2024.
These are all good and I enjoy listening to them in 2024.
I heard "At the Hop" today in the car, though on an AM near power lines.
I remember thinking it was strange that WKZQ in Myrtle Beach played an old song like "Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller in 1983.
Did it turn into “At the bzzzz….”?
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
In your opinion, perhaps, but looking at the research it's around #275 in popularity among 80s titles, which is definitely enough to earn it at least a secondary rotation slot.
I do find it amusing that you used the present tense above for a song from 1981. At what point in your timeline does it become "when he wasn't playing with Foreigner"?
MassMusicMan
Banned
That the classic hits station in New York is playing a 26-year old hip hop anthem should not shock you in the least.
CBS-FM including "Forever Young" from Alphaville might be because the new remix with Alphaville, Ava Max, and David Guetta just released. This song, along with "Big In Japan" were huge hits in Europe, not in America. As someone who's a Euro Disco fan, its nice to see Alphaville being played here.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
No, I thought it was sacrilege 26 years ago as well.
I don't know when you were last in New York, but if you're looking to be the station that's the soundtrack that reminds 35-54 New Yorkers of their youth, this is exactly in the sweet spot in 2024.
Like everything else, CBS-FM adapts with the times, as it should.
(And the song isn't a cover of "The Way It Is." It's a remix of a song called "Changes" that actually came before the Hornsby song that it samples.)
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Shows you how little I know about it.
I care about it approximately the same amount.
I care about it approximately the same amount.
I was on the front patio midday Sunday waiting for some election canvassing troupe to pick me up to go door-knocking and flyer-hanging. Beautiful day for it, too.
In the wait I had a cup of coffee; the one drink medics will allow me anymore (a wee airline-bottle toot of JD over an ice cube) and a GE SR II tuned to whatever station 'did it' for me. The AM dial was the usual scanner/jammer/RF/mess-- making even a football pre-game show on the loudest AM station, WPPA, unlistenable. I switched to the FM side.
Some WVIA Scranton translator got me to mellow with a piece that the anncr said was from The Hobbit. It was far easier on my senses that the nothing assemblyline slop that loud T-102 and semi-local 'V-99.7' were playing. You know -- those current A/C and Hot A/C tunes that deserve to need only 1:20 long to say whatever they have to lament but feel that dragging out the repetitive half-riff dirges to 5:30 will be perceived as a form of quality.
A few religious stations got the same shrug -- even the songs.
I hooked up the metal fence to the GE SRII's antenna screw and tried for a station I haven't caught in months (long story). The presentation sounded a bit voice-tracked, but the three in a row songs I heard got me in the mood: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, The Rhythm of the Night (Miami Sound Machine), and one by a guy I thought to be Lou Gramm (the title of which might have been 'Higher and Higher').
A horn tooted and I went off to be an activist. But only after getting some adrenaline and optimism from Hanna-FM (WHNA 92.3, 'The Susquehanna's Greatest Hits'). They are getting splendid ratings playing their particular version of Oldies.
In the wait I had a cup of coffee; the one drink medics will allow me anymore (a wee airline-bottle toot of JD over an ice cube) and a GE SR II tuned to whatever station 'did it' for me. The AM dial was the usual scanner/jammer/RF/mess-- making even a football pre-game show on the loudest AM station, WPPA, unlistenable. I switched to the FM side.
Some WVIA Scranton translator got me to mellow with a piece that the anncr said was from The Hobbit. It was far easier on my senses that the nothing assemblyline slop that loud T-102 and semi-local 'V-99.7' were playing. You know -- those current A/C and Hot A/C tunes that deserve to need only 1:20 long to say whatever they have to lament but feel that dragging out the repetitive half-riff dirges to 5:30 will be perceived as a form of quality.
A few religious stations got the same shrug -- even the songs.
I hooked up the metal fence to the GE SRII's antenna screw and tried for a station I haven't caught in months (long story). The presentation sounded a bit voice-tracked, but the three in a row songs I heard got me in the mood: Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, The Rhythm of the Night (Miami Sound Machine), and one by a guy I thought to be Lou Gramm (the title of which might have been 'Higher and Higher').
A horn tooted and I went off to be an activist. But only after getting some adrenaline and optimism from Hanna-FM (WHNA 92.3, 'The Susquehanna's Greatest Hits'). They are getting splendid ratings playing their particular version of Oldies.
A very good remix indeed. 👌
Steve, buddy, I love ya, but WTF are you talking about? And what does it have to do with any of the multitude of topics in this thread?
@ Weiserguy
I tried setting one anecdotal scene in support of Scott Fybush's postulate about the 35-54 window being adjusted over time in order for it to survive while actually serving that desired demo.
.... And to what extent the difficulty was for a person outside that demo finding anything on a 2024 radio dial that most closely resembled pop music, Oldies, and the varying tempos that were always there -- vis-a-vis the drone that modern pop music has become.
.... And how fortunate this area is to have a station that has a broad interpretation of oldies (a prevailing topical concern of many of the posters).
.... As well, mentioning how this true variety is being done in a rated area. Sunbury-Selinsgrove-Lewisburg ratings had the smallish-signalled Hanna-FM third in the market last time I had occasion to check. Their owners, 7 Mountains, haven't subscribed lately; neither has competitor Sunbury Broadcasting. The latter runs the similarly limited-signal Eagle 107, a station whose vast Classic Rock library shames the 200 song playlist of stations in huge markets.
I'm not just some madman DXer or disgruntled grumpy critic. I often listen to the radio for idle leisure, background and foreground, like the average listener. And as I noted, this area is fortunate enough to have accommodating stations within range. I just tried to exemplify how such a search of the dial on a Sunday midday wound with me feeling very, uh, gruntled.
I tried setting one anecdotal scene in support of Scott Fybush's postulate about the 35-54 window being adjusted over time in order for it to survive while actually serving that desired demo.
.... And to what extent the difficulty was for a person outside that demo finding anything on a 2024 radio dial that most closely resembled pop music, Oldies, and the varying tempos that were always there -- vis-a-vis the drone that modern pop music has become.
.... And how fortunate this area is to have a station that has a broad interpretation of oldies (a prevailing topical concern of many of the posters).
.... As well, mentioning how this true variety is being done in a rated area. Sunbury-Selinsgrove-Lewisburg ratings had the smallish-signalled Hanna-FM third in the market last time I had occasion to check. Their owners, 7 Mountains, haven't subscribed lately; neither has competitor Sunbury Broadcasting. The latter runs the similarly limited-signal Eagle 107, a station whose vast Classic Rock library shames the 200 song playlist of stations in huge markets.
I'm not just some madman DXer or disgruntled grumpy critic. I often listen to the radio for idle leisure, background and foreground, like the average listener. And as I noted, this area is fortunate enough to have accommodating stations within range. I just tried to exemplify how such a search of the dial on a Sunday midday wound with me feeling very, uh, gruntled.
MassMusicMan
Banned
It's sacrilege for a radio station to play the hits?
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