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Q104 - Nights - When will Cypress Hill get mixed in?

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Brooklyndon

It's been 20 years since Insane in the Brain...and by the late 90s, acts like Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Everlast/House of Pain, Outkast, and (very belatedly) Public Enemy were getting play alongside acts Limp Bizkit, 311, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, and Sum 41.

There are a lot of 30-somethings out there that were reared on rap, much like there are a lot of 60-somethings that were reared on Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Q104 will have to cater to this younger group if it hope to stay relevant, the interesting question is when will they start to do so?
 
Brooklyndon said:
It's been 20 years since Insane in the Brain...and by the late 90s, acts like Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Everlast/House of Pain, Outkast, and (very belatedly) Public Enemy were getting play alongside acts Limp Bizkit, 311, Linkin Park, Papa Roach, and Sum 41.

There are a lot of 30-somethings out there that were reared on rap, much like there are a lot of 60-somethings that were reared on Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Q104 will have to cater to this younger group if it hope to stay relevant, the interesting question is when will they start to do so?
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Let's hope never.
 
There were a lot of popular songs from that period of time that FIT the format. Why play those that don't?

Q-104 isn't a classic hits "play anything" format. It's a rock format. Stale and boring rock songs, but still a rock format.
 
Q104 is as stale as heck for sure, but I dont think the artists you mention belong on a Classic ROCK station. The problem with Q104 is they're leaning older and softer every month. They wont even play hair bands like Whitesnake or even 80s Van Halen. The playlist consists mainly of the Beatles, Elton John, Steve Miller Band, mainly 70s rock, hardly any 80s, and virtually no 90s except for a once in a blue moon Pearl Jam. If anything Q is becoming a rock oriented Classic Hits station. There's really no rock radio in NYC at all and that's a cryin shame. CC is using Q to go after CBS-FM, along with Lite and the 80s. Rock fans lose out once again, yes, even Classic Rock fans lose too.
 
The 90's songs they do play mix in well with the west of the format. Cyprus Hill doesn't.

For that matter, it's true that a typical classic rock station won't really go deep into the 80's and beyond. That's the sound this format had since it's inception in the 80's, and not much has changed.
 
Q104 should take a cue from WZLX in Boston (just won the NAB Radio Marconi award for best rock station). Not only does ZLX have a great variety of the classic rock era, throwing in tracks you don't normally hear... they recently just started adding in tracks from the 90's including Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc. and it sounds great mixed in with the previous stuff. Q104 HAS to do this to keep up with the younger part of the demo.. I looked at their playlist and I see a LOT of old old stuff..
 
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That's a good point. Personally, I think a lot of the Seattle stuff that still gets played is a little tired, but it would be nice to hear:
* Versus-era Pearl Jam,
* Unplugged Nirvana,
* any of the Stone Temple Pilots' big singles (all the way up to Sour Girl),
* Monster-era REM,
* select Oasis,
* Bends-era Radiohead,
* any Sublime,
* Jar Of Flies-era Alice in Chains,
* Blood/Sugar and Hot Minute-era Red Hot Chili Peppers,
* any Jane's Addiction or Porno for Pyros,
* the Soul Asylum singles,
* the Counting Crows singles,
* the Matchbox 20 singles,
* the Collective Soul singles,
* the Cranberries singles,
* the Gin Blossoms' singles,

the list could continue. And this could come at the expense of not playing "More the a Feeling", "Bad Company" or "Carry On My Wayward Son" for the 5000-and-1st time.

I will say I question whether Bush, Everclear, Incubus, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins, the Verve Pipe, Cracker, Third Eye Blind, Tonic, Jeff Buckly, Elliot Smith, Bjork, Jamiroquai, Kula Shaker, the Toadies, Stabbing Westward, Nine Inch Nails, Filter, Candlebox, Foo Fighters, the Lemonheads, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Sponge, or a host of other 90s acts will ever be able to blend into a classic rock format, without fundamentally changing the character of that format.

But I think the acts listed in the first paragraph could peacefully coexist alongside a Layla or Comfortably Numb, middays.

The rap-rock nights post was meant to provoke thought, but the 90s-giants on classic rock conversation is definitely a more interesting one to follow.
 
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