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It's 2015! Time to get rid of the '70s.

vchimpanzee said:
How could I forget that one?

I don't know the second one.

Responding to another post, those two by The Police, absolutely.
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"Driver's Seat" by Sniff'n the Tears (1979), check it out on You Tube.
 
It's frustrating but I guess I'll just have to accept that many current Soft AC faves I like are primarily not radio artists, more of CD artists.
 
Amazing how songs like Pop Music and Driver's Seat seem to have taken on lives of their own well past their charted activity in 1979. Goes to show you there are listeners that still like those songs so therefore radio plays the songs that their listeners like and will continue to like not taking into account how those songs charted originally.
 
eriedj said:
Goes to show you there are listeners that still like those songs so therefore radio plays the songs that their listeners like.
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True, but only if stations would quit playing that silly 1989? remix of Pop Muzik, instead of the original 1979 version, which is many times better!
 
Music Lover said:
Goodbye golden oldies. Sniff. Sniff. :(
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Now all of these will truly become "lost songs", nowhere to be found except in personal music collections. Buy them now while you can! You never know what the future will hold!
 
Music Lover said:
More big streaming companies have been hit with the oldies copyright/royalty lawsuit. http://www.wsj.com/articles/digital...challenge-on-playing-classic-tunes-1422050883

Goodbye golden oldies. Sniff. Sniff. :(
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New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hot Tuna ... Again, acts that are getting absolutely zero exposure on terrestrial radio voluntarily ending any exposure they might be getting on satellite or Internet radio or sites like YouTube -- and any CD or download sales that exposure might win them -- in an attempt to wring money that it still isn't clear that they're entitled to out of the streamers. Greed coupled with a death wish. Brilliant. I hope they all wind up living in cardboard boxes over steam grates, playing their worn-out cassettes for the only people who still remember them: themselves.
 
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CTListener said:
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hot Tuna ... Again, acts that are getting absolutely zero exposure on terrestrial radio voluntarily ending any exposure they might be getting on satellite or Internet radio or sites like YouTube -- and any CD or download sales that exposure might win them -- in an attempt to wring money that it still isn't clear that they're entitled to out of the streamers. Greed coupled with a death wish. Brilliant. I hope they all wind up living in cardboard boxes over steam grates, playing their worn-out cassettes for the only people who still remember them: themselves.
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Not as doom and gloom as I had thought. Just a bunch of bands I've never even heard of. No great loss if there are stations that can't play them.
 
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Ummm who are those groups, exactly? I've been listening to music for a long time, including a lot from that era, and I think I've vaguely heard of one of those groups, which I think was a "one hit wonder"...well, if nothing else this lawsuit got their names out there 45 years too late. Now if we were talking about Zep, Floyd, the Doors, or another worthy group, that'd be different. Jus' sayin'.
 
In the 13 months I spent working at what would now be called a classic rock station in 1982, we NEVER played Hot Tuna or New Riders Of The Purple Sage even then. No great loss.
 
They both still tour pretty actively. Tuna was a side-band from Jefferson Airplane, and New Riders were Grateful Dead's openers in the early 70s. Neither had any hits. They're great trivia questions. If you liked either of those bands, then you probably liked the side bands.
 
eriedj said:
In the 13 months I spent working at what would now be called a classic rock station in 1982, we NEVER played Hot Tuna or New Riders Of The Purple Sage even then. No great loss.
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Spoken like a radio suit who wouldn't recognize good music if it bit him on the ear.
 
Well, Mr. Listener, thanks for the jab. Now I feel honored.
 
And, Mr. Avid, by the way, I'm 55 and well aware of who Hot Tuna and New Riders Of The Purple Sage are. Obviously, the PD of the station I worked for in West Virginia, the late Bill O'Brien, in 1982 didn't think their music was worth playing either. And, as I recall, the station was consulted by Jessie Bullet, who apparently also felt that neither band was worthy of air play. Oh, that's right, they are suits. Silly me.
 
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