Classic Schlock at 100.7

[Legend City]

Billy Joel is pure crap. Might as well just play Muskrat Love.

 

[KOOL Listener Lauren]

Sorry, but Billy Joel has been on KSLX for years and years and years. And for those of you who don't think "Big Shot," "You May Be Right," or "It's Still Rock 'n Roll To Me" isn't classic rock-- they used to play "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" all the time.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Well I forgive Lauren. Does anyone else?

 

[johndavis]

Sorry, but Billy Joel has been on KSLX for years and years and years. And for those of you who don't think "Big Shot," "You May Be Right," or "It's Still Rock 'n Roll To Me" isn't classic rock-- they used to play "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant" all the time.

I understand why they're playing all of the songs listed. For the upper end of the demo, Jim Croce is classic rock. (or at the least a classic hit, on a station that launched this format years ago as "Classic Hits 100.7") For the lower end of the demo, it's U2, Van Halen, etc.

So you have an hour with several songs in the extremes - hard & soft. Is it smart to picket-fence them? It's better than grouping them together. If it were me, I'd limit the number of songs like those in an hour so songs that are more in the middle can support a "You Really Got Me" or a "Never Been To Spain" without the segue being so jarring. A few tweaks of the sound codes and suddenly the hard & soft records don't stand out as much and you have a muiscal flow that keeps on rocking.

 

[indieradioguy]

"Billy Joel sucks"? Wow. I'm not even going to comment on that. If it's the anti-piano bias, why not rip on Elton John, too?

I *do* know I feel really old hearing The Clash and R.E.M. on KSLX and am really surprised nobody has mentioned that. Of course, I wouldn't complain if they ever played anything from Iggy Pop or the MC5. Or Ozzie-era Black Sabbath. Or Television. Or X. Or Zappa. Anything besides the circular, predictable Beatles/Doors/Stones rotations every hour.

 

[indieradioguy]

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[Neanderpaul]

Interesting to read all the opinions re: Selector. It really exposes who's actually put together a sound hour & who hasn't.

 

[radiobum]

to KOOL listener...Elton John had a least a few decent songs EARLY in his career. Billy Joel's song about jerking off (Captain Jack) is a good metaphor(?) for his recorded output...and one of his better songs

I can see why KSLX would play Nirvana. X or Iggy would be way too hip..and if you're going to play Gordon Lightfoot...at least "If I Could Read Your Mind" was actually a decent song and might actually fit...not next to AC/DC of course but....

 

[David Owens]

Yes, I have to agree with most posters here about the songs that irk people, such as BIlly Joel for example. Gordon Lightfoot has no place on a classic rock station, and what makes matters even worse, is they're playing a newer version of the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. The only place to get the original version is on vinyl, far as I know. Find a copy on vinyl if you insist on playing the song. Should I help them out and convert my vinyl copy to mp3 for them???? I guess I'll always be a purist, but I think that classic rock as a genre has lost some of it's qualities over time if you can talk over the intros, use it to sell cars, etc.

 

[99KTKT]

The only place to get the original version is on vinyl, far as I know. Find a copy on vinyl if you insist on playing the song.

You have to be in Canada to hear it (which helps the CanCon quota, don'tcha know). Or in Duluth. Or Da Yoopers. Which might as well be Canada, eh?
Where can I get a decent Cornish pasty around here? ;D

 

[Bill Drake]

Bad Bad Leroy Brown?? Classic Rock?? YIKES!

no worse than Tommy James or "Low Rider." KMGN makes 100.7 sound like it always has: confused.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

What by Tommy James does K-Slacks play? Surely not Hanky Panky or Mony Mony.
Hmmm, probably I Think We're Alone Now. ;D OK, I kid. Crystal Blue Persuasion?

 

[Bill Drake]

What by Tommy James does K-Slacks play? Surely not Hanky Panky or Mony Mony.
Hmmm, probably I Think We're Alone Now. ;D OK, I kid. Crystal Blue Persuasion?

Oh yes "Mony Mony" for sure. I heard one of the 20-something dimwit autohosts offering his confused blossoming ignorance because he couldn't understand where TJ got the name for that song.

 

[ThePasswordIs...]

Say what you want but K-Slacks gets numbers and the $. Not my cup-o-tea, but I have heard Moondance from Van Morrison to Come As You are from Nirvana on there. Like KPUD, K-Slacks has no chains holding it back from playing what it wants and the audience knows it. They have the audience loyalty that few stations in the market possess.

 

[OneHorseTown]

Bill, what "20-something autohost" do you think KSLX employs? None to my knowledge. There is no one on that airstaff under 30....dare I say 35?
Just sayin'.

And, since I've said this 3 times in the past couple of months, once more is not going to kill me...playing ONE song by Nirvana is assinine. KSLX is great about supporting artists, and playing that particular artist's repetoire...but to play one obscure song by a grunge band that has ZERO business on a Classic Rock station does not make me loyal to KSLX...it makes me change the channel.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

(KSLX)...playing ONE song by Nirvana is assinine.

Ah, but there's precedent--KOOL-FM plays only one James Brown song.

 

[Bill Drake]

Bill, what "20-something autohost" do you think KSLX employs? None to my knowledge. There is no one on that airstaff under 30....dare I say 35?
Just sayin'.

Just guessing about the age but if you are correct, that makes it even more pathetic if the autovoice doesn't have a clue about the artists.