Q100's one-hit wonders weekend has included a nice review from the past 15 years: Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby," Quad City All-Stars' "C'Mon 'n Ride It", Duice's "Dazzey Dukes," Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy," Crystal Waters' "100% Pure Love," Tag Team's "Whoomp! (There It Is)," Haddaway's "What is Love," Nicki French's Total Eclipse of the Heart, Primitive Love God's "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand," Alice Deejay's "Better Off Alone," Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's," Take That's "Back For Good," Willa Ford's "I Wanna Be Bad," The Divinyl's "I Touch Myself," Crazy Town's "Butterfly," Calloway's "I Wanna Be Rich," Positive K's "I Got a Man," Los Del Rio's "Macarena," US3's "Cantaloop," Snow's "Informer," Meredith Brooks' "Bitch," Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back," Dream's "He Loves U Not," 702's "Where My Girls At," Donna Lewis' "I Love You Always and Forever," Mark Morrison's "Return of the Mack," Soho's "Hippychick," Dee-lite's "Groove is in the Heart," Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" Chumbawumba's "Tubthumpin'"
Star 94 is doing a historical look back, too, to the '90s though not just one-hit wonders: Salt-n-Pepa's "Whatta Man," Ini Kamoze's "Here's the Hotstepper," Lou Bega's "Mambo #5," Len's "Steal My Sunshine," "Ice Ice Baby," Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life," Britney's "Baby... One More Time," Spice Girls' "Wannabe," EMB's "Unbelievable," Marky Mark's "Good Vibrations," Sugar Ray's "Fly," Real McCoy's "Another Night," Nine Day's "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" Smash Mouth's "All Star" and that Nicki French "Total Eclipse."
And while Dave FM is resting U2, REM, the Police and Sting, it's still playing plenty of Rolling Stones, the Who, Tom Petty, Talking Heads, the Cars, INXS, Dave Matthews Band, Led Zeppelin and David Bowie. So it's not a markedly different sounding station minus those four artists.
> > > > > > > Dave FM is "resting" its core artists such as
> U2,
> > > REM
> > > > > and
> > > > > > the Police
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Every promotion, hell everyTHING, a station's
> > programming
> > > > must do is gather more listeners and/or make people
> > listen
> > >
> > > > longer. Really, nothing else.
> > > >
> > > > Telling people what that you WON'T play core
> artists...
> > > > um... how in the hell does that make ANYONE listen
> > longer?
> > >
> > > > Esp. if that's why you come to the station?
> > > >
> > > > Up there for one of the most poorly conceived "theme
> > > > weekends" ever. Absolutely stupid. No other word for
>
> > it.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > They had a chance to cut and run with the Hurricane,
> but
> >
> > > > NOPE... stuck to it.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Dave weekend is poor programming choice.
> > >
> > > I feel the same about the live music weekend on 99x. I
> > gave
> > > the idea about 15 min. and was turned off...Coldplay
> into
> > > Pearl Jam into Train into a horrible Jimmy Eat World
> > > performance. Unlistenable for a Fri. night. It is
> labor
> > > day weekend, people are supposed to be able to cookout
> and
> >
> > > sit by the pool and listen to some fun music during a
> > > holiday. Instead 99X is playing 100% live tracks for 3
> > > days....poorly performed, mostly down-tempo and not the
> > best
> > > track selection so far. Maybe one or two an hour, but
> > this
> > > was really fatiguing and I think a bad idea for the
> > holiday
> > > weekend when people could put on the radio for an entire
>
> > > afternoon. I'm sure many real "music-heads" disagree,
> but
> > I
> > > think normal listeners like me just want to hear
> familiar,
> >
> > > favorite, songs to party to this weekend.
> > >
> > Which leads me to one question. Would you be happy if a
> > station held an Awesomely Bad Weekend? They'd play all the
>
> > classics. "Heart of Rock and Roll", "Ice, Ice, Baby",
> > "Longer" by Dan Fogleberg, "My Neck My Back" by Khia.
> Would
> > you listen?
> >
>
> I like the Q100 One HIt WOnder Weekend. Some of those are
> pretty bad novelty songs, but they sure are fun. That's
> what I want for my party weekend, something that makes
> people sing along and turn it up.
>
