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Songs that are overplayed

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vibe

The topic on the favorite songs U never hear anymore got me to wonderin. There must be a number of songs that make one immediately change the station if not reach for the barf bag. These overplayed songs are my least favorite:
Brandy-Looking Glass
Hotel Caliofornia-Eagl;es
Listen to the Music-Doobies
Rumors-Fleetwood Mac
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-E. John
There are others but thse five come to mind. Anyone else wanna join in? More importantly why do stations keep playing this crappe?
 
vibe said:
The topic on the favorite songs U never hear anymore got me to wonderin. There must be a number of songs that make one immediately change the station if not reach for the barf bag. These overplayed songs are my least favorite:
Brandy-Looking Glass
Hotel Caliofornia-Eagl;es
Listen to the Music-Doobies
Rumors-Fleetwood Mac
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-E. John
There are others but thse five come to mind. Anyone else wanna join in? More importantly why do stations keep playing this crappe?
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They play this "crappe" because most listeners like these songs. Just because you're sick of them doesn't mean everyone else is. As my first PD told me back in '73..."if your jocks aren't sick of the music you play, you're doing something wrong". True then, true now.

Since when is "Brandy" classic rock?
 
Oldbones said:
vibe said:
The topic on the favorite songs U never hear anymore got me to wonderin. There must be a number of songs that make one immediately change the station if not reach for the barf bag. These overplayed songs are my least favorite:
Brandy-Looking Glass
Hotel Caliofornia-Eagl;es
Listen to the Music-Doobies
Rumors-Fleetwood Mac
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-E. John
There are others but thse five come to mind. Anyone else wanna join in? More importantly why do stations keep playing this crappe?
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They play this "crappe" because most listeners like these songs. Just because you're sick of them doesn't mean everyone else is. As my first PD told me back in '73..."if your jocks aren't sick of the music you play, you're doing something wrong". True then, true now.

Since when is "Brandy" classic rock?
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What I find is a revisionist history of classic rock....songs that get more airplay now, than they did when they originally came out, and there are bands who were very popular who don't get the airplay they deserve.
 
I wholehearedly agree-I should have put more thought into the list because Brandy is not classic rock. I don't know what the hell U call it. And yes, for some strange reason, songs that were so so are being played much too much and the great ones of the day aren't. We used to hear Donovan's "Season of the Witch" every few weeks in the 1970's and no more now.
 
I could go on and on.

1-Any song by Pink Floyd, Led Zep, or Skynrd is way overplayed
2-Van Halen-Runnin With the Devil, Jump, or Finish What Ya Started
3-Guns N Roses-Welcome to the Jungle or Sweet Child Of Mine
4-Bob Seger-Turn the Page
5-AC/DC-Back in Black and You Shook Me All Night Long
 
vibe said:
I wholehearedly agree-I should have put more thought into the list because Brandy is not classic rock. I don't know what the hell U call it. And yes, for some strange reason, songs that were so so are being played much too much and the great ones of the day aren't. We used to hear Donovan's "Season of the Witch" every few weeks in the 1970's and no more now.
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The aurgument could also be said...what is classic rock. Songs heard on Boston classic rock radio: The Way It is (Bruce Hornsby), Hard To Handle (Black Crowes) and some others, Run To You (Bryan Adams) and some others, REM, Bon Jovi, John Hiatt, etc...so why not Brandy.
Why no black artists (Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Temptations, etc...). These were all artists that used to mingle with Led Zeppelin, The Who back in the AOR days :'(; now the imaginary line in the sand doesn't consider them classic rock. I would consider Sly more classic rock than Bryan Adams!
Lets face it....classic rock is what it is....a very narrow view of the music of the late sixies, seventies, and now eighties....lets just call it "Baby Booomer Muzak"!
 
You are sooo right about the Boston-Worcester classic rock radio scene; very narrow playlists, very few black artists. I love classic rock and don't even have them on my presets in the car.
 
mcamp said:
vibe said:
I wholehearedly agree-I should have put more thought into the list because Brandy is not classic rock. I don't know what the hell U call it. And yes, for some strange reason, songs that were so so are being played much too much and the great ones of the day aren't. We used to hear Donovan's "Season of the Witch" every few weeks in the 1970's and no more now.
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The aurgument could also be said...what is classic rock. Songs heard on Boston classic rock radio: The Way It is (Bruce Hornsby), Hard To Handle (Black Crowes) and some others, Run To You (Bryan Adams) and some others, REM, Bon Jovi, John Hiatt, etc...so why not Brandy.
Why no black artists (Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Temptations, etc...). These were all artists that used to mingle with Led Zeppelin, The Who back in the AOR days :'(; now the imaginary line in the sand doesn't consider them classic rock. I would consider Sly more classic rock than Bryan Adams!
Lets face it....classic rock is what it is....a very narrow view of the music of the late sixies, seventies, and now eighties....lets just call it "Baby Booomer Muzak"!
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The WHY is simple..... DJs no longer have say over what they play on the radio.

The "human" element has mostly been removed from radio. And that situation will n-e-v-e-r be superior, musically to a DJ getting to play songs that a rather large audience can groove to for more than 15 minutes without getting sick.
 
TheRover said:
mcamp said:
vibe said:
I wholehearedly agree-I should have put more thought into the list because Brandy is not classic rock. I don't know what the hell U call it. And yes, for some strange reason, songs that were so so are being played much too much and the great ones of the day aren't. We used to hear Donovan's "Season of the Witch" every few weeks in the 1970's and no more now.
Click to expand...
The aurgument could also be said...what is classic rock. Songs heard on Boston classic rock radio: The Way It is (Bruce Hornsby), Hard To Handle (Black Crowes) and some others, Run To You (Bryan Adams) and some others, REM, Bon Jovi, John Hiatt, etc...so why not Brandy.
Why no black artists (Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Temptations, etc...). These were all artists that used to mingle with Led Zeppelin, The Who back in the AOR days :'(; now the imaginary line in the sand doesn't consider them classic rock. I would consider Sly more classic rock than Bryan Adams!
Lets face it....classic rock is what it is....a very narrow view of the music of the late sixies, seventies, and now eighties....lets just call it "Baby Booomer Muzak"!
Click to expand...

The WHY is simple..... DJs no longer have say over what they play on the radio.

The "human" element has mostly been removed from radio. And that situation will n-e-v-e-r be superior, musically to a DJ getting to play songs that a rather large audience can groove to for more than 15 minutes without getting sick.
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If you say the human element doesn't exist, does a computer select songs randomly?
Yes, it's true that DJ's are "spinning" the music anymore...should "we", the AOR generation, collectively just tune off?
This thing they call classic rock is stale, and if they think they are appealing to a new generation of fans, they're wrong.
The majority of 18-30 year olds all have ipods, and they don't have an FM tuner, and the few that do tune in don't have the attention span to stomache 'Sweet Home Alabama' every other day.....so the question is....the appeal of classic rock is geared to___________?
 
Nirvana- Teen Spirit, Ozzy Osbourne- Crazy Train, Boston- More Than A Feeling, Aerosmith- Love in an Elevator, and Green Day- When I Come Around. Those were just looking at 3 hours or so on yes.com at my local rock station. They are good songs I just can't stand to hear them anymore.
 
TheRover said:
mcamp said:
vibe said:
I wholehearedly agree-I should have put more thought into the list because Brandy is not classic rock. I don't know what the hell U call it. And yes, for some strange reason, songs that were so so are being played much too much and the great ones of the day aren't. We used to hear Donovan's "Season of the Witch" every few weeks in the 1970's and no more now.
Click to expand...
The aurgument could also be said...what is classic rock. Songs heard on Boston classic rock radio: The Way It is (Bruce Hornsby), Hard To Handle (Black Crowes) and some others, Run To You (Bryan Adams) and some others, REM, Bon Jovi, John Hiatt, etc...so why not Brandy.
Why no black artists (Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Temptations, etc...). These were all artists that used to mingle with Led Zeppelin, The Who back in the AOR days :'(; now the imaginary line in the sand doesn't consider them classic rock. I would consider Sly more classic rock than Bryan Adams!
Lets face it....classic rock is what it is....a very narrow view of the music of the late sixies, seventies, and now eighties....lets just call it "Baby Booomer Muzak"!
Click to expand...

The WHY is simple..... DJs no longer have say over what they play on the radio.

The "human" element has mostly been removed from radio. And that situation will n-e-v-e-r be superior, musically to a DJ getting to play songs that a rather large audience can groove to for more than 15 minutes without getting sick.
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Exactly... when I first began my broadcasting career in the late 80's, I was an overnight dj at a rock station, and pretty much played whatever I wanted... hell, most of my playlist consisted of stuff I had in my personal collection. I had the freedom to play true ALBUM cuts (remember, the format USED to be AOR!)
Today, it's all homogonized, and it will never go back. :'(
 
Why no black artists? Because in the late 70s, "disco sucked" and anything that was remotely R&B sounded was tagged with that label, thus the rockers of the day disn't want to hear it.
 
well now ;D

hotel california
take it easy
life in the fast lane
freebird (someone please shoot that bird)
stairway
take the money and run
money
sweet child of mine
welcome to the jungle
born to run
born in the usa
jungle love
anything on the playlist of eagle 98.1 baton rouge ;D
 
HEAVEN for this Music Lover would be for 98% of the current Classic Rock Playlist to go on a very long hiatis, and, then for all of the other worthy album cuts to be put into play.

That would make many of the lowest common denominator listeners sort of "uncomforatble"..... But, I would rather that they be in Radio Listening HELL...... than Me.. ! ! ;D :-*
 
Here's something to keep in mind:

I get a call on the request line asking what song I just played. It was a song that most RADIO people have heard a million times over (I think it was Journey). But it reminded me that no matter what you play, someone, somewhere is hearing it for the first time.

Broadcasters need to remember that the average listener DOES NOT listen to the radio like we do.

BTW, just last Thursday I got a call for Freebird.

And finally, to the poster who wondered why we don't just let the jocks play what they want? We already tried that, and the jocks can't be trusted to properly keep the music rotation. It's too hard for them to be objective on the air, while always favoring songs THEY like best. It was the jocks that fu*ked everything up by constantly playing their favs instead of the listeners. That's why we have computerized software to do it for us.
 
Chicago's 97.1 the Drive mixes in Temptations, Stevie Wonder and several more black artists with the rest of their "classic hits"...to me the format they have is that of a classic AOR sound. They go fairly deep often, and their HD2 "Deep Tracks" is even better. They sure sound better than what Emmis has done with The Loop...
 
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