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Movin and Jack--meet your killshot

They took the music previews on amazon.com and made a radio station. GOOD GOD!
 
Funny format. I thought it was an April Fools joke. Could definitely see it on an HD channel
 
Why screw around and pay these clowns for the rights to their "format".

Just get Hook Select to put together some auditorium test tapes and broadcast those...you can play 150 songs per hour!
 
TowerLamp said:
Why screw around and pay these clowns for the rights to their "format".

Just get Hook Select to put together some auditorium test tapes and broadcast those...you can play 150 songs per hour!
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Exactly what Ackerley/CC did in '02 before KJR-FM went back to classic hits. Remember Quick 96? If not, this should jog your memory: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/72450_radio30.shtml
 
placebo1969 said:
Heh, "Blinded by the Light" in just over 2 1/2 minutes. :eek:
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Or worse yet, HEY JUDE with opening verse, second verse, one chorus and ONE round of the closing refrain. Should take it down to about 1:45.

Will have to check the patent to see if they also protected the slogan "we know the artist's intended expression better than the artist does".

Drake consulting used to snip the hell out of songs (usually removing parts of bridges, etc.) for the same "pacing" reason. If you were used to the real version and heard one of those, the first reax was usually "what the h3ll was THAT???" Conversely, I was always impressed when a station would take time to mix a custom version or play extended mix of a song (album version vs. single) so when you were hearing a song 235,235 times a week ... at least on that station it stood out with their own seasoning.

At the other end of the "let's mess with the context" was a deal Chuck Blore did in mid 70's ... they would act out about a 2 minute drama that tied to a song ... roll the song in at the end of the drama and it put the song in a different context. Would usually play in a segue ... was kind of an intresting twist on how a station would package a song.

But if one wants to improve the attention span aspect of radio ... I'd suggest by starting with attention on the stopsets. (1) fewer units than 30 minutes non-stop; (2) go for creative and production that can make spots a tune-in instead of the inverse. SOME national TV ads have really done a good job of that ... no matter how many times the ad airs, you still watch because it's entertaining or well-produced.
 
Radio Sass? This idea may be the most insulting thing I've ever heard of. Hard to believe they're serious. Right, no guitar solos, no long intros, no chorus repetition. While we're at it, why bother with any music at all. Why else do you listen to "Blinded By the Light?" For the cool trippy parts along with the verse and chorus of the song along with the accented "deuce" line. Snipping "Hey Jude?" There's another crime against humanity. What good is a song if you only blow through the chorus once?

I've heard songs like Gerry Raffery's "Baker Street" sped up and played at a faster rate, which is an old trick and distracting and annoying enough, and hey, sometimes you do have to cut a little something out, but this comes off like playing Tasteless God.

What am I saying...this will probably take off somewhere and be huge. Who needs all 7:11 of "Hey Jude," right?
 
There seems to be enough serious disagreement about Sassy (what a b33ch name!) that it now qualifies as a good idea.

Remember when radio played the edited version and the LP held the extened cuts? Just a reprise of that idea...and not a bad idea either.
 
Jackson Dell Weaver said:
Remember when radio played the edited version and the LP held the extened cuts? Just a reprise of that idea...and not a bad idea either.
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Jackson,

I don't disagree with you, but just to play the devil's advocate...Isn't this part of what what helped kill AM? They played the "45 version" while FM played the cool LP cuts.

Could radio like this just be handing it to the sat rad guys?

And the rest of you take a chill...I know that music edits weren't AM's major downfall, but it was part of it.

It might make for a very cool high-energy old Top 40 style delivery station. Screamin' jocks, cool jingles, etc...whatcha think?
 
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