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How much longer will quallity rock last?
- Thread starter PaulO
- Start date
Jet --- I know I get frustrated with Crumy on RQQ because the music they "could" be playing and focusing on is GREAT, but then
they get some wild hair and someone (from outside the Roundabout) throws in "national" playlist garbage hoping to remove the
narrowcasted format allowing the audience to allegedly increase. But, they throw it all away. Over and over. The Total Rock Experience
is what now? UNFOCUSED. You get current U-2, Talking Heads from the 80's, Pearl Jam and a lot of medium-rocked oriented
songs that were played on radio (but not run into the ground like the 87 songs in rotation on The Rock.) Just when they build
momentum and a nice segment of focused rock, they suddenly started dropping in "Open Arms" and "Lowrider" and it's getting
worse. The station really sounded great when they started out after being harder rock, but now, it's starting to limp along because
it's tough to get excited about overplayed Classic Hits/Rock that don't match the newer music. I know I will catch grief on
this, but hear me out here:
Smithereens, Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, Stone Temple Pilots, Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Kings of Leon, Cure, REM = all basically
a couple of decades of linkable Hit Alternative Music, most of which was not overplayed to death (but well known) and
certainly much of this music tests good, but not great (P1, etc theory.) You get a legitimate beat and music momentum
building and you kill it with "Magic Man", "I Shot the Sheriff", "Hotel California", "Come Together" and "Satisfaction. It's
okay to be diverse, but NOT deathverse. It forces people to pick a format of the minute (based on whether they prefer
Classic Hits or Alleged Alternative and everytime a song turms them off they are back to scanning or punching...driven
away. It's two formats combined, that don't really mix. Jack can get away with it because the game is to NOT make sense.
RQQ ain't Jack, nor should it be.
Like below --- Dire Straits, which is arguably good music on The Rock, etc. is just not as tolerable within this block:
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
08.09.2009 2:19pm
Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting
08.09.2009 2:28pm
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
08.09.2009 2:33pm
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Bittersweet
08.09.2009 2:38pm
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump It Up
08.09.2009 2:45pm
Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll
08.09.2009 2:48pm
Then again, some people will say Dire Straits is the ONLY good song in the list! I know it's subjective, but be what you're supposed to
be and be the best at it. Curveballs are killing the real potential... Then again, what do I know?? Hit me, Mac. I know you care and you're
a good guy and you have to be p-correct on here, but man...WHAT COULD RQQ BE with just a few more tweaks?
they get some wild hair and someone (from outside the Roundabout) throws in "national" playlist garbage hoping to remove the
narrowcasted format allowing the audience to allegedly increase. But, they throw it all away. Over and over. The Total Rock Experience
is what now? UNFOCUSED. You get current U-2, Talking Heads from the 80's, Pearl Jam and a lot of medium-rocked oriented
songs that were played on radio (but not run into the ground like the 87 songs in rotation on The Rock.) Just when they build
momentum and a nice segment of focused rock, they suddenly started dropping in "Open Arms" and "Lowrider" and it's getting
worse. The station really sounded great when they started out after being harder rock, but now, it's starting to limp along because
it's tough to get excited about overplayed Classic Hits/Rock that don't match the newer music. I know I will catch grief on
this, but hear me out here:
Smithereens, Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, Stone Temple Pilots, Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Kings of Leon, Cure, REM = all basically
a couple of decades of linkable Hit Alternative Music, most of which was not overplayed to death (but well known) and
certainly much of this music tests good, but not great (P1, etc theory.) You get a legitimate beat and music momentum
building and you kill it with "Magic Man", "I Shot the Sheriff", "Hotel California", "Come Together" and "Satisfaction. It's
okay to be diverse, but NOT deathverse. It forces people to pick a format of the minute (based on whether they prefer
Classic Hits or Alleged Alternative and everytime a song turms them off they are back to scanning or punching...driven
away. It's two formats combined, that don't really mix. Jack can get away with it because the game is to NOT make sense.
RQQ ain't Jack, nor should it be.
Like below --- Dire Straits, which is arguably good music on The Rock, etc. is just not as tolerable within this block:
Green Day - Know Your Enemy
08.09.2009 2:19pm
Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting
08.09.2009 2:28pm
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
08.09.2009 2:33pm
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Bittersweet
08.09.2009 2:38pm
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pump It Up
08.09.2009 2:45pm
Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll
08.09.2009 2:48pm
Then again, some people will say Dire Straits is the ONLY good song in the list! I know it's subjective, but be what you're supposed to
be and be the best at it. Curveballs are killing the real potential... Then again, what do I know?? Hit me, Mac. I know you care and you're
a good guy and you have to be p-correct on here, but man...WHAT COULD RQQ BE with just a few more tweaks?
Yesterday, the Rock was all Beatles all day long! (At least until they went to their "iheartradio" feed at 7:00 p.m.) It was the best they had sounded in quite a while! Instead of going on about how great the Beatles were, and still are (which they did), how about playing some of these rarer Beatle cuts a little more often? Why does it need to be like the fine china that you only pull out on special occasions? These Beatle songs that they played yesterday (and they played "Yesterday," too) should be regulars on the Rock's playlist!
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