WCBS-FM 101.1 Memorial Weekend Countdown

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Good, a 60's hit!

Sounds like a successful run this year.

WOGL is doing an 80's block weekend, a different year every hour, but sounds like another purposely manufactured list with 80% of the songs ones they already play to death. Predictable. You knew they would spin that annoying Romantics song, even though it stiffed badly in 1980. And they also included "My Sharona" as part of the 1980 block.[/QUOTE
You know full well that isn’t the point, yet you obsess over chart positions as if listeners actually care about that. They want what they want today. Period.
This is not a hard concept.

 

[oldies76]

Today's songs to today's listeners are just as good... and maybe better... than those of the 50's and 60's.

Totally disagree. Yeah, 6ix9ine's "Gooba" is better than "Day Tripper" or "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".

Seriously, think about what you just posted. If anything, a true downer to the pioneers and greats of that era.

 

[oldies76]

Good, a 60's hit!

Sounds like a successful run this year.

WOGL is doing an 80's block weekend, a different year every hour, but sounds like another purposely manufactured list with 80% of the songs ones they already play to death. Predictable. You knew they would spin that annoying Romantics song, even though it stiffed badly in 1980. And they also included "My Sharona" as part of the 1980 block.[/QUOTE
You know full well that isn’t the point, yet you obsess over chart positions as if listeners actually care about that. They want what they want today. Period.
This is not a hard concept.

Quoting would be a first step, then we can talk about chart positions.

 

[luperm]

Quoting would be a first step, then we can talk about chart positions.

Oh. You’re one of THOSE people. You know...the one’s who cruise around Internet message boards critiquing other people’s style, grammar and spelling...but actually have nothing substantive to say. Being so perfect all the time must be really stressful for you!

 

[CTListener]

Oh. You’re one of THOSE people. You know...the one’s who cruise around Internet message boards critiquing other people’s style, grammar and spelling...but actually have nothing substantive to say. Being so perfect all the time must be really stressful for you!

Ones.

 

[davideduardo]

Totally disagree. Yeah, 6ix9ine's "Gooba" is better than "Day Tripper" or "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes".

Seriously, think about what you just posted. If anything, a true downer to the pioneers and greats of that era.

Music, like art and even clothing or home decoration, is a matter of personal taste.

But most people accept the fact that not everyone likes what you like.

Are you willing to think of Sugarhill Gang as pioneers, too? They started the biggest musical trend of the next 40 years... much longer than the music you seem to like lasted.

Some people think that 50's or 60's music is better than today's music. Most people don't. Get used to that.

 

[luperm]

Ones.

You caughts me!

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Good, a 60's hit!

Sounds like a successful run this year.

WOGL is doing an 80's block weekend, a different year every hour, but sounds like another purposely manufactured list with 80% of the songs ones they already play to death. Predictable. You knew they would spin that annoying Romantics song, even though it stiffed badly in 1980. And they also included "My Sharona" as part of the 1980 block.

You know full well that isn’t the point, yet you obsess over chart positions as if listeners actually care about that. They want what they want today. Period.
This is not a hard concept.

Better? Doesn't change the reality one iota.

 

[oldies76]

But most people accept the fact that not everyone likes what you like.

Are you willing to think of Sugarhill Gang as pioneers, too? They started the biggest musical trend of the next 40 years... much longer than the music you seem to like lasted.

Some people think that 50's or 60's music is better than today's music. Most people don't. Get used to that.

You're only off by about 25 years.....I'm a 70's and 80's kid.....where did you get 50's?

Rap / trap may be the trend today, doesn't make it better. It's only ONE genre. And streaming is helping it's cause.

 

[oldies76]

You know full well that isn’t the point, yet you obsess over chart positions as if listeners actually care about that. They want what they want today. Period.
This is not a hard concept.

Fine, it was just an observation on my part as were the predictable songs that eventually played. Just having a weekend specialty is a great thing. Better than doing nothing.

Ready for the top 20 on WCBS, should be later today....

 

[Groove1670]

Music, like art and even clothing or home decoration, is a matter of personal taste.

But most people accept the fact that not everyone likes what you like.

Are you willing to think of Sugarhill Gang as pioneers, too? They started the biggest musical trend of the next 40 years... much longer than the music you seem to like lasted.

Some people think that 50's or 60's music is better than today's music. Most people don't. Get used to that.

True:
Loved the 50's, 70's, 80's, 10's
Thought the 60's and 90's and to some extent 00's were the worst decades of music. (exception the resurgance of 90's county music).

Wore out a few Sugarhill 12" inch singles. It was so popular, I remember Y-100 in Miami announcing when the 15 minute version would be played.

All a matter of opinion

 

[CTListener]

You're only off by about 25 years.....I'm a 70's and 80's kid.....where did you get 50's?

From past posts, you seem to dislike much of the music made from the late '70s on, very little of the '80s for a self-proclaimed "kid" of that decade. I'm 65 and would never have used a musty oldie like "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to disparage today's hits. The British Invasion brought me into pop music, and that song sounded horribly old-fashioned to me even in the mid-'60s. You obviously are a big fan of songs that were hits in your early childhood or even before you were born, which makes you an outlier, again.

 

[oldies76]

From past posts, you seem to dislike much of the music made from the late '70s on, very little of the '80s for a self-proclaimed "kid" of that decade. I'm 65 and would never have used a musty oldie like "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" to disparage today's hits. The British Invasion brought me into pop music, and that song sounded horribly old-fashioned to me even in the mid-'60s. You obviously are a big fan of songs that were hits in your early childhood or even before you were born, which makes you an outlier, again.

I mean I could have used "Rock Around The Clock" or "Splish Splash".....

The opposite is true, I love and totally enjoy the music of the 1970's and 80's (especially the early-mid 80's), but yes, I do enjoy hearing and have learned to appreciate music from before my time. I was 16 in 1983.

I may have complained in past posts about the 'repetition' of my teenage era songs, but I still love them. It's the era I grew up in.

So, I'm an outlier....what's new. We all enjoy things that are out of the ordinary. Many like classic cars, old planes and movies. And others enjoy music. Heck many young people idolize Johnny Cash.

Why do you think my screen name ends in 76? The first year I remember hearing good music (currents at the time) in the family car and it caught on.

 

[CTListener]

I mean I could have used "Rock Around The Clock" or "Splish Splash".....

The opposite is true, I love and totally enjoy the music of the 1970's and 80's (especially the early-mid 80's), but yes, I do enjoy hearing some music from before my time. I was 16 in 1983.

So you were basically done with current popular music by the time you turned 18. That is highly unusual. I was listening to it a lot from 1964 through 1988, when I became attracted to the "new traditional" and other sounds coming out of Nashville. I was 33. By the time country music no longer interested me that much (about 10 years later) I found that the sound of CHR had changed so much that I liked very little of it. That's when I became an oldies listener, at 43. I have a feeling I'm more typical of my generation (well, the white, suburban part of it, at least) than you are of yours. And a quick bit of math will tell you that 32 long years have passed since EITHER OF US has enjoyed most of the music played on CHR stations. That's three decades of musical fads and trends and sea changes that we haven't been a part of, three decades of listeners who didn't grow up with any of "our" music. Now do you understand why today's classic hits stations don't need to be playing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Day Tripper" -- or even "Sister Golden Hair" and "Kung Fu Fighting" -- except on holidays and weekends when few people are listening and the Nielsens don't really matter?

 

[oldies76]

So you were basically done with current popular music by the time you turned 18. That is highly unusual.

I enjoyed some CHR music til the early 2000's. After rap dominated the charts and airwaves more, I lost interest, but still collected my favorites pop songs since then. Heck, I love the songs "Havana" and "Feel It Still" from 2017. But music of my time; a rough ten year span from about 76 to the late 80's, I enjoy the most today.

That's when I became an oldies listener, at 43. I have a feeling I'm more typical of my generation (well, the white, suburban part of it, at least) than you are of yours. And a quick bit of math will tell you that 32 long years have passed since EITHER OF US has enjoyed most of the music played on CHR stations. That's three decades of musical fads and trends and sea changes that we haven't been a part of, three decades of listeners who didn't grow up with any of "our" music.

I became more of an oldies listener, along with some currents of the time, in the early 1990's, after hearing numerous weekend specials on K-Earth in the mid-late 80's. That's why I enjoyed those specials, because it ultimately got me into music that was before my time. Along with my dad's reel to reel machine, it got me hooked!!

Now do you understand why today's classic hits stations don't need to be playing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and "Day Tripper" -- or even "Sister Golden Hair" and "Kung Fu Fighting" -- except on holidays and weekends when few people are listening and the Nielsens don't really matter?

I'll go for that. Agreed.

 

[oldies76]

So great to hear "Hey Jude" on this countdown just a while ago! And Now "Respect" by Aretha is on. Great to hear 50 year old records once again, in the #1 market! Great job!

 

[TheBigA]

Great to hear 50 year old records once again, in the #1 market! Great job!

Even though you don't live there.

 

[oldies76]

Even though you don't live there.

Don't need to, we have streaming. Aren't 1/2 century old records great?

Oh btw, I lived in CT in the mid 70's and re-visited since so I'm a bit familiar with the territory.

 

[TheBigA]

Aren't 1/2 century old records great

To some stations in the city, they'd be considered new releases. Playing 50 year old songs isn't anything new for market #1. It happens every day.

 

[davideduardo]

Don't need to, we have streaming.

Unlike independent web streams, radio stations and their streams produce no income from outside their markets.

In fact, the only way a station stream produces revenue outside its market is by replacing the local ads with national ones (or ones inserted based on the listener's location). The revenue from such streams apparently does not even cover the music licensing fees.