😂 lol
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KZOK playlist shakeup
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😂 lol
Hopefully you're just using KIXI as a metaphor, because at the current pace, AM listening will probably be gone before that would happen.
I think it was a sarcastic suggestion - unless my sarcasm detector is on the fritz again.
"Gone" might be an exaggeration. We have several AM stations that have been on format for two or three decades that have never shown up at all in the ratings! If the "big boys" go away completely, I can't imagine them being in any worse shape than they've always been in.
Sarcasm or not, I like the idea. One thing I can't get my mind around however, is this board's obsession with Robbin and Maynard. Were they one of the great Seattle radio shows of the 80s? If I've got my history right, they were on KXRX, but disappeared when that station went country in '92, which was a year or more before I was born.
The R&M references are also sarcasm, dating back 6-8 years when every conversation about a station making adjustments included someone lamenting that R&M weren't on the air any more. And they did have a couple of more stops after KXRX before they "retired".
Parallel to the lamentations about R&M being on the beach was constant chirping that Ron and Don would never make it in PM drive on KIRO.
KIRO dumped Val Stouffer and the afternoon news in January 2005. Ron and Don have made it eleven years.
On a related note, I heard LINKIN PARK on 98.9 last night, "Crawling".
I'm not particularly a fan of the band, but I did like that song when it was out, I thought it was catchy. Now it's made it to classic rock.
Looks like the future is now.
If it's 15 years old or older, it's pretty much an oldie (or classic rock.) "Crawling" does fit that definition. So does "Chop Suey!" System of A Down and "Spit It Out" Slipknot.
Indeed. Welcome to the future.....
I think that as many of us get older we fail to realize the scope of time. I remember listening to Seattle radio as a teen in the 70's and thinking that stations that were playing 60's music were old, dull, and out of touch.
Today's equivalent would place anything before 2005 as ancient. Perhaps one difference would be the music changed more from the 50's to the 70's, than it does today, but I digress.
I think if we step back and think about music and radio history, we can see actual comparisons, or lack of comparisons. Either way, they paint a historical picture.
Well, for me, I predate the nu-metal era demographic wise, but I actually liked a lot of it, and what it represented.
I remember seeing a local rap-rock cover band do Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" at a club and saw a bunch of African American women shouting out in time to the lyrics, they were really getting into it -- and I thought "wow, this music transcends the racial barriers as much as Motown probably did in the 1960's."
Plus, it was heavy music, catchy, with heavy guitars -- all of which appealed to me. The rap part took a bit to get used to, but it's just words.
Anyway, I digress. The turn of the century was 16 years ago... The later edge of GenXers probably feel the urge to hear their own "oldies", and it's refreshing to hear some of these tracks inserted into the mix of 80's, 70's, and other classic rock tracks on several of the local stations (98.9 especially, although I heard a couple on KISW as well recently, and I think 102.9 inserts a few from that era also).
I remember seeing a local rap-rock cover band do Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff" at a club and saw a bunch of African American women shouting out in time to the lyrics, they were really getting into it -- and I thought "wow, this music transcends the racial barriers as much as Motown probably did in the 1960's."
Plus, it was heavy music, catchy, with heavy guitars -- all of which appealed to me. The rap part took a bit to get used to, but it's just words.
Anyway, I digress. The turn of the century was 16 years ago... The later edge of GenXers probably feel the urge to hear their own "oldies", and it's refreshing to hear some of these tracks inserted into the mix of 80's, 70's, and other classic rock tracks on several of the local stations (98.9 especially, although I heard a couple on KISW as well recently, and I think 102.9 inserts a few from that era also).
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