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Has anyone noticed that WODE 99.9 is playing more newer stuff? Like Life Is A Highway and One Week by Bare Naked Ladies? I think it's a good thing because the classic hits is really getting tired and stale.
 
Oh boy. This has been a peeve of mine for a long, long time. I'm in my 50's. When I think of a good classic rock station, or classic hits, I don't want them to necessarily move forward in time. I mean I do, to a certain degree.

WODE/WMGK will play Who Are You by The Who 2 or 3 times in a calendar day, every day for the past 15 years. Same thing for Lola by The Kinks. But they won't play anything by The Kinks from their Sleepwalker-Misfits-Low Budget era which in my opinion was their creative peak. Just great stuff on those 3 albums.

I'd prefer that they not move forward and start to play 3 Doors Down, but play Robin Trower for cripes sake. If you follow my point. Play the beginning of the Beatles through to the end of Dire Straits. Include everybody in between. Be classic and be progressive. Geez, is that too much to ask.

If you can't do that then rebrand the format as Snore-a-thon.
 
WODE doesn't seem to be "classic hits" at all. Recently, they sound like classic rock with some random 90s hits in the playlist. I listen to WMGK instead after hearing Alanis Morissettes "You Oughta Know" the other day. The song is very good, but WODE needs to get away from their limited boring playlist and add more 60s and 70s that they neglect.
 
Sounds like Nassau's Last Stand. But then again, it's been the same routine with Nassau for what seems like an eternity - One corporate VP who programs all their stations, regardless of format, like a Top 40/Hot AC. You could almost set your watch by Nassau's classic hits brand whenever you heard Lynyrd Skynyrd and 'Gimme Three Steps'....
 
These same songs, as well as some Red Hot Chili Peppers (Under The Bridge), Gin Blossoms, and Hootie & The Blowfish, have been playing on Nassau's Frank FMs in Northern New England.
 
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