The epitome of mediocrity

[SpareChange]

CBS-FM sounds fine. Is it the perfect "Greatest Hits" radio station? No.

It's 2007. Two thousand SEVEN, people. Fifty years have passed since "Chances Are" and "Jailhouse Rock." Still wearing your Flagg Brothers Cuban heels and chinos? Bubble skirts and spinners on your nosed and decked 57 Merc? Your sweetie still prancing around the house in her Poodle skirt?

You whiners are pathetic... Loaded up on Skittles and store brand cola, pounding away on your keyboards at all hours of the day and night and stomping your feet... like the comic book guy on the Simpsons. It's never good enough or hip enough for you.

Bravo, Element9! On the money, funny and well said! The "fifties fanatics" will never be satisfied, so CBS-FM should continue to program to the listeners who will enjoy what they're hearing.

 

[qtpieislit]

Yo, it’s not about Johnny Mathes, or The Jail House Rock. It’s about The Elgins, and The Orlons, Lloyd Price, and The Videls, The Chantells, and The Shirells. It’s about deep Smokey Robinson cuts, and Fats Domino tracks you’ve never heard. It’s the Earls, and Bobby Vee, and the Friends of Distinction, and the Duprees. It’s Jackie Wilson, and Mary Wilson, The Artistics, The Mad Lads, The Sapphires, and The Drifters, The Marcels and Tami Terrell, The Marvelettes, and The Crests. And I can go on and on. It’s the Rhythm and Blues, Rock ‘en Roll song book catalogue encompassing the roots of Rock and Roll. And if you insist on hearing what you are missing then hear a real Philadelphia radio tradition, along with the Greatest Jingles of all Time. And that’s where it’s at, in the mean time, in between time. Solid Ted, ‘nuff said.

You named some artists I have never even heard of

Gee, that's sad. I think there's something to be said of the limited catalogue exposure to the origins’ of Rhythm and Blues, and Rock and Roll. It’s not about the age, it’s about the knowledge.

 

[jamjimaria]

Quote from: Element9
CBS-FM sounds fine. Is it the perfect "Greatest Hits" radio station? No.

It's 2007. Two thousand SEVEN, people. Fifty years have passed since "Chances Are" and "Jailhouse Rock." Still wearing your Flagg Brothers Cuban heels and chinos? Bubble skirts and spinners on your nosed and decked 57 Merc? Your sweetie still prancing around the house in her Poodle skirt?

You whiners are pathetic... Loaded up on Skittles and store brand cola, pounding away on your keyboards at all hours of the day and night and stomping your feet... like the comic book guy on the Simpsons. It's never good enough or hip enough for you.


Great post 9. Until the flip we would have given anything to at least get this. Is the station perfect? No. But neither is life. Lets be happy with what they have given us. As much as we would like it to be different we also have to adapt to the times. CBS has invested to much to this for it not to work. So give them time to tweak this. It is only the 1st weekend. Lets enjoy the new CBS and be happy that it is not JACK. As someone who lives in the Boston area they are playing more "oldies" than Boston's WODS and have a bigger playlist than Boston's Classic Hits WROR. Both are great stations in the Boston market and CBS is playing better music than both of those stations. So lets enjoy the station and enjoy the improvements as they come!

 

[OldiesCat]

As I stated in a previous thread, we can all bet the complainers are largely made up of the same folks who spent 2 years crying about CBS-FM going away and about jack.

Wouldn't be cool if the rest of the world was as perfect as these hacks all think they are?