I do not know why, but I seem to really be enjoying the 80's music on WODS. They are mixing songs that haven't been played in awhile and mixing the 80's titles with the old familiars. The thing is that they are doing this in moderation and not playing the standard 80's staples into the ground at all. Mix did not seem to be able to do that at all. Other stations seemed less than successful doing this in my humble opinion also.
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WODS and the 80's.
- Thread starter Retro
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Oldies radio is moving on. WDRC-FM in Hartford has added a bunch of '80s titles in the past year, too; a typical 13-song hour includes six or seven songs from the '70s and three or four songs each from the '60s and '80s. Except for an occasional Four Seasons title -- guess things like "Sherry Baby" still test well out here -- pre-British Invasion music is completely gone, and of the Invasion bands, only the Beatles and Stones still get their '60s hits played. No more Dave Clark 5, Hermits, Petula Clark at all, and only '70s titles from the Who and Manfred Mann. I like a lot of '80s music, but I wish they could have saved more of the '60s.
Oh well, I'm on the wrong side of 55 now, and DRC-FM had a great October book (probably skewing younger, too), so I guess this is the future and WODS must sound much the same.
Oh well, I'm on the wrong side of 55 now, and DRC-FM had a great October book (probably skewing younger, too), so I guess this is the future and WODS must sound much the same.
The city could use a Gen-X heritage station right now, particularly on the pop end leaning female.
MassMusicMan
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promixcuous said:
Bingo. You know how many girls I see at the bar still go nuts over the Spice Girls?
Blackroc said:
I knew that 103.3 flipped to Christmas earlier today, however while I was on the road tonight around 8pm, I causally tuned in hoping to find Back to the '80s Friday Night, not even thinking about how the normal format had flipped. So instead, I heard a Christmas song and thought... oh... this SUCKS. When it was on Mix, it never got pre-empted. But now it would appear that the next Back to the '80s Friday Night is going to be Saturday, December 31st, assuming they don't flip formats after Christmas. Guess I'll have to tune into 104.5 XLO Saturday night at 7pm for my '80s fix w/Chuck.
P.S., Saturday Night '80s on 95.5 PLJ is quite good too.
MassMusicMan
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Retro said:
Well, it doesn't work if you play 'em next to Gloria Gaynor.
And Star was ill-fated only because the light bulb went off in radio in 2005 that you could make money with a station without paying an airstaff, so they tried it.
Retro said:
WODS's Christmas playlist has always been ultra-tight, hasn't it? I don't think it was much more than 250 titles last time around.
Yes, but I didn't think that their rotations would be so tight though. I am listening to North Shore 104.9 online now.
I thought it was more like just 103 for the WODS Christmas list.
Heard a liner on WORC-FM in Worcester promoting the 60s, 70's and now the 80s. I heard a couple of 80's songs but they don't seem to be going overboard with it.
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