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WZLX going more Pop Radio? From Classic Rock to Classic Hits???????

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Varulven

I actually like it. IS it is a "new" sound for them or just the luck of the draw?


Joan Jett / I LOVE ROCK & ROLL Top of the hour 1:55 PM
T Rex / Bang A Gong 2 PM

Fixx / One Thing Leads To Another


other tunes that don't seem to be your regular LedZepSkynyrd / Bob Ceegar have been infiltrating the playlist.

Is it a change? Or is the MIKE FM shuffle getting to them?
 
Varulven said:
I actually like it. IS it is a "new" sound for them or just the luck of the draw?


Joan Jett / I LOVE ROCK & ROLL Top of the hour 1:55 PM
T Rex / Bang A Gong 2 PM

Fixx / One Thing Leads To Another


other tunes that don't seem to be your regular LedZepSkynyrd / Bob Ceegar have been infiltrating the playlist.

Is it a change? Or is the MIKE FM shuffle getting to them?
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I don't believe I have ever heard of Bob Ceegar.
 
Yeah, it looks like WROR and MIKE FM have given them a swift kick but they are still too narrow.
Classic Hits / Classic Rock radio has to go to the deeper cuts, if only mid-day and 7 PM to 6 AM, a steady diet of the same old same old outside of drivetime is ridiculous because it pushes their core audience out the door.

They want to maintain the core and keep the marginal listeners but the balancing act has worn thin.
 
It probably does not have much to do with other stations. The difference between classic rock and classic hits are that one appeals strictly to men, the other to men and women (or persons 25-54). When they add songs like the Fixx etc remember those songs are over 20 years old. Many classic rock stations have updated playlists with songs from the 80's Joan Jett etc because they are in the 20 year old range, artists like Billy Idol and U2 are classic rock artists now as well.
 
yeah, with that logic, like anything more than 15 years old is classic rock, then all the leftover lunch (c. 1997) artist are fair game.
 
I can hear it now

WZLX...your Duran Duran connection


WZLX...we know the ABC's of the look of Love

WZLX...everything counts in large amount

WZLX...from blue monday to Friday I'm in Love
 
Well there is also a certain sound that goes with the format. Classic rock is guitar driven and mostly guitar bands rooted in blues so that lets out Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and those you siggested but I think you understood my main idea.
 
jacjk fm seems to mesh them well down here in the balmy mid atlantic...but I see your point. given the popularity of the at-one-point-two-hour leftover lunch, I'm shocked an 80's station has yet to rear its ugly head in boston.
 
I agree. It's definitely a sound/style rather than time period. Classic rock is leaning into more Ozzy, Priest and 80s bands like Guns n' Roses and Def Leppard. With Oldies playing Beatles and the like, lots of the 60s stuff will go away eventually. Some of what they are playing is likely the new PDs trial rather than a serious change.
 
redbaron said:
I agree. It's definitely a sound/style rather than time period. Classic rock is leaning into more Ozzy, Priest and 80s bands like Guns n' Roses and Def Leppard. With Oldies playing Beatles and the like, lots of the 60s stuff will go away eventually. Some of what they are playing is likely the new PDs trial rather than a serious change.
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I disagree. Classic Rock is a time capsule; late 60's to the early / mid 80's.
But....you get a few songs that go a few years beyond in either direction.
By this logic (twenty years later), Pearl Jam would eventually become "classic rock", which it's not.
Radio has become a generational thing...in a few more years they'll throw the whole alternative thing in a time capsule and move on.
 
I'm 56, fall into the "older" classic rock category but there are a number songs in the 80's (or later) by such groups as Pearl Jan and Nirvanna that are true classics, hence they, in my humble opinion, fall into the category of classic rock.
 
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