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It doesn't matter. It's the same tired refrain. Over and over. That's why this thread should be over.
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Thomps2525
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Let's all sing along: "I said over and ah-over and ah-over again, this thread is gonna be a drag." (I had to change one word but I don't think Bobby Day would have minded.)
You are in a minority in being a born-in-the-Southland person.
...or The Dave Clark Five either. I am a bit taken aback about mailed in favorites not having a bearing on a countdown that's said to based on them. I remember various Top 40 stations doing a "biggest hits of all time" having some very long gone songs, even near the top.
Says who?? Don't like it, don't participate, simple.
I'm re-opening this thread. Play nice.
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Appreciated, thank you.
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Thomps2525
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A week ago, KRTH added No Doubt's It's My Life. Today, during the Totally '80s weekend, KRTH played the original version by Talk Talk. Golly gee! KRTH also played George Clinton's Atomic Dog, which peaked at #101, and New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle, which failed to chart when first released in 1986. It was re-released in 1995 and got to #98. Golly gee! And yes, I know: "Chart positions don't matter." But it's nice that KRTH occasionally plays a song we wouldn't expect to hear on KRTH.
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K.M. Richards
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Given the Talk Talk and New Order songs, I wonder if they are being helped by KROQ-HD2 PD Freddy Snakeskin.
It's My Life was #27 in the 1984 year-end KROQ countdown, #66 on the Flashback 500 (Memorial day weekend, 1989; it had been #225 on the previous year's version), and #438 on the All-Time Request 500 (Memorial Day weekend, 2006). Bizarre Love Triangle was #23 in the 1986 year-end, #72/#120 on the Flashback 500s, and #139 on the All-Time Request 500.
It's My Life was #27 in the 1984 year-end KROQ countdown, #66 on the Flashback 500 (Memorial day weekend, 1989; it had been #225 on the previous year's version), and #438 on the All-Time Request 500 (Memorial Day weekend, 2006). Bizarre Love Triangle was #23 in the 1986 year-end, #72/#120 on the Flashback 500s, and #139 on the All-Time Request 500.
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Thomps2525
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K.M., do you think KRTH is simply adding songs which test well and fit their format or do you think KRTH is adding certain songs in an effort to attract listeners from specific stations? Many of the recent additions to the playlist have been modern-rock songs and classic-rock songs. Is Chris Ebbott targeting KROQ/KYSR/KLOS/KSWD listeners?
By the way, Talk Talk's It's My Life reached #23 on the rock chart and #31 on the Hot 100 in 1984. (Billboard did not launch a modern rock chart until 1988.)
By the way, Talk Talk's It's My Life reached #23 on the rock chart and #31 on the Hot 100 in 1984. (Billboard did not launch a modern rock chart until 1988.)
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Thomps2525
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What did I just say about KRTH adding modern rock songs and classic rock songs to the playlist? This afternoon KRTH played three songs which were not on my list (but are now):
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo (--/1986)
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top (56/1983)
Walking In LA - Missing Persons (70/1983)
Oingo Boingo! On KRTH!
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo (--/1986)
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top (56/1983)
Walking In LA - Missing Persons (70/1983)
Oingo Boingo! On KRTH!
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"David, just for the record---no pun intended---I was born in Glendale and still live in Glendale."
"You are in a minority in being a born-in-the-Southland person."
For the record this 70-plus Pasadena-born native is also a member of the aforementioned minority, and far from living in a retirement home. Neither is his mother, another Pasadena born native born in 1912. She rode a Rose Parade float on the occasion of her 100th year and rides a plane whenever she has the need (most recently this past spring).
To "out of the demographics" geezers like us "oldies" are the kind of tunes Andy and Virginia Mansfield played in the fifties and sixties on "Turn Back the Clock." That KFI program was carried on armed forces radio. Today you can only catch such music with Johnny Magnus out of Long Beach (where he replaced the now-retired Chuck Cecil)..
We may be old and not valuable to advertisers but please don't assume we don't exist - I know many other natives over 70 in relatively good health. Granted we are a minority due to the population influx but we're still around.
"David, just for the record---no pun intended---I was born in Glendale and still live in Glendale."
"You are in a minority in being a born-in-the-Southland person."
For the record this 70-plus Pasadena-born native is also a member of the aforementioned minority, and far from living in a retirement home. Neither is his mother, another Pasadena born native born in 1912. She rode a Rose Parade float on the occasion of her 100th year and rides a plane whenever she has the need (most recently this past spring).
To "out of the demographics" geezers like us "oldies" are the kind of tunes Andy and Virginia Mansfield played in the fifties and sixties on "Turn Back the Clock." That KFI program was carried on armed forces radio. Today you can only catch such music with Johnny Magnus out of Long Beach (where he replaced the now-retired Chuck Cecil)..
We may be old and not valuable to advertisers but please don't assume we don't exist - I know many other natives over 70 in relatively good health. Granted we are a minority due to the population influx but we're still around.
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Yes, I'm getting off topic again.....but, Art, I want to offer my congratulations to your mother for being honored on a Rose Parade float. My own mother has a friend who, at age 105, got to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a San Diego Padres game in 2014. Here is the news report from KGTV-Channel 10:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInkAnOSbvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lInkAnOSbvo
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K.M. Richards
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ZZ Top is not a modern rock band.
The Oingo Boingo song was #10 on KROQ's 1984 year-end list, #6/#69 on the Flashback 500s, #24 on All-Request 500.
Missing Persons song was #11, #67/#132, and not on the Request 500.
All of the songs you've mentioned have been in the active KRTH library since the beginning of May, BTW.
You mean like The Eagles? OMG
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K.M. Richards
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Answering this separately ...
I think part of the decision has to do with KRTH being co-owned with the heritage modern rock station, KROQ. It also has to do with targeting the "MTV Generation" as listeners. I do much the same thing with my "Eighties Channel" format.
I doubt they are targeting current KROQ listeners, although the songs they are adding from that station's past are prominent on the "Roq of the '80s" KROQ-HD2 format. KYSR only plays one '80s song per hour (sometimes two), KROQ is about the same, KLOS is ... well, stale ... and KRTH has a ways to go before they are heavily duplicating KSWD.
This is part of the "make the center of the demographics younger" game plan they've been working on since Jhani retired. Pretty much all of the '80s titles you've expressed surprise at hearing were big MTV hits from the era when they were very music video-centric, so they are going to be very familiar to those who were in their teens and 20s when they were current. Someone who was 18 in 1985 is 48 now. Someone who was 25 that year is just now graying out of the demographic.
More importantly, '80s music was still heavily played in the '90s (again, especially the MTV hits). Someone who was 18 in 1995 is 38. Someone who was 25 is now 45. Look at all those people in the young-to-middle ages of the target demo.
You overthought this, Steve. Although every station is going to draw from the other stations in a market which play music the target demo listens to, you can't really target as specifically as you wanted it to be when you asked the question.
The poster referred to adding Modern Rock songs AND Classic Rock songs.
But they're all 30 years old.
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K.M. Richards
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I know. I added the clarification on the ZZ Top song so no one would post "where was it on the KROQ charts?" later. Instead, I get this.
I can't win.
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Thomps2525
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You can't win? Join the crowd. 
K.M., until you pointed it out, I hadn't given much thought to the fact that many of the 1980s songs now being played on KRTH were songs with videos which were featured prominently on MTV during that decade. I didn't watch MTV very often. Most of the videos I saw were the ones that Beavis and Butt-Head made fun of on their MTV series. "Uh-huh-huh, this song sucks." "Heh-heh-heh, yeah. But it's got fire. Heh-heh-heh. Fire is cool."
Following the Sirius-XM merger in 2008, the playlist of the '80s channel was slashed dramatically. I posted an updated list on the XMFan site and I included this comment: "During regular programming, you'll hear mostly the groups who got heavy airplay on MTV, such as Journey, Bon Jovi, Genesis, Queen and Loverboy. Many number-one songs are completely ignored, as are most of the r&b hits and country hits." Do you think KRTH is gradually moving in that same direction?
http://xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=99117&start=0
K.M., until you pointed it out, I hadn't given much thought to the fact that many of the 1980s songs now being played on KRTH were songs with videos which were featured prominently on MTV during that decade. I didn't watch MTV very often. Most of the videos I saw were the ones that Beavis and Butt-Head made fun of on their MTV series. "Uh-huh-huh, this song sucks." "Heh-heh-heh, yeah. But it's got fire. Heh-heh-heh. Fire is cool."
Following the Sirius-XM merger in 2008, the playlist of the '80s channel was slashed dramatically. I posted an updated list on the XMFan site and I included this comment: "During regular programming, you'll hear mostly the groups who got heavy airplay on MTV, such as Journey, Bon Jovi, Genesis, Queen and Loverboy. Many number-one songs are completely ignored, as are most of the r&b hits and country hits." Do you think KRTH is gradually moving in that same direction?
http://xmfan.com/viewtopic.php?t=99117&start=0
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