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What determines which older songs get played in heavy rotation/played to death?
Posted on 12/14/14 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 12/14/14 at 7:33 pm
Old chart position? Music rights? Something else?
I will use the 80's as an example. There is a group of songs that get beaten over our heads on a regular basis (Come on Eileen, Jesse's Girl, etc.) while other great 'nostalgic' tunes from that decade seem to get very little airplay (Wham! songs, various soundtracks, etc). Any ideas?
CSB: For me 'Come on Eileen' has joined 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T' as an overplayed song that I never want hear again.
I will use the 80's as an example. There is a group of songs that get beaten over our heads on a regular basis (Come on Eileen, Jesse's Girl, etc.) while other great 'nostalgic' tunes from that decade seem to get very little airplay (Wham! songs, various soundtracks, etc). Any ideas?
CSB: For me 'Come on Eileen' has joined 'R-E-S-P-E-C-T' as an overplayed song that I never want hear again.
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Posted on 12/14/14 at 7:39 pm to weagle99
popularity 
Posted on 12/14/14 at 7:54 pm to weagle99
Popularity...
Also throw in I Will Survive. Such a fricking awful song that gets played way too much.
Also throw in I Will Survive. Such a fricking awful song that gets played way too much.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:02 pm to weagle99
Come On Eileen is a fricking awesome song
Dexy's rulez
Dexy's rulez
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:19 pm to weagle99
The program director at Eagle 98.1
Same 30 songs over and over for many moons.
Same 30 songs over and over for many moons.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:35 pm to weagle99
Stairway To Heaven
Free Bird
We're an American Band
The Joker
Wouldn't hurt my feelings if I never heard any of those again.
Free Bird
We're an American Band
The Joker
Wouldn't hurt my feelings if I never heard any of those again.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:38 pm to danman6336
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Come On Eileen is a fricking awesome song
So is Jessie's Girl
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:41 pm to HeadyBrosevelt
i saw rick springfield at the wharf once and it was not enjoyable.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 8:56 pm to CaptainPanic
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rick springfield at the wharf
Wouldn't a smaller casino lounge setting be mofo appropro for that dude? How the heck did he fill up that place? I saw eddie money @ casino on the westbank while I was lifeguarding one summer.
Posted on 12/14/14 at 9:01 pm to CaptainPanic
quote:lol. why?
i saw rick springfield at the wharf once
Posted on 12/14/14 at 9:03 pm to PaBon
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I saw eddie money @ casino on the westbank while I was lifeguarding one summer.
That sounds like the best thing ever
Posted on 12/14/14 at 9:08 pm to PaBon
quote:he didn't come remotely close
How the heck did he fill up that place?
quote:friend had like 12 free tickets. we weren't there for very long.
why?
Posted on 12/14/14 at 9:22 pm to weagle99
I've always wondered this. During the old AOR days they played more deep cuts and B-sides. I used to think with CDs it would be easier to play more tracks, but it went the other way. So many good old tracks, no need to play the same ones over and over and over 
Posted on 12/14/14 at 10:49 pm to H-Town Tiger
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During the old AOR days they played more deep cuts and B-sides. I used to think with CDs it would be easier to play more tracks, but it went the other way. So many good old tracks, no need to play the same ones over and over and over
I don't understand this either. There's only one station in Houston that plays 60-70's rock and they wear out the same Zep/ZZ/Boston, etc tracks. If they had a station that was similar to the original FM stations from the late 60-early 70's that play album/deep track cuts I think they would have a good following. Sirius/Xm has one station #27 that heads in that direction.
Posted on 12/15/14 at 6:59 am to weagle99
$$
Posted on 12/15/14 at 8:30 am to bleeng
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There's only one station in Houston that plays 60-70's rock and they wear out the same Zep/ZZ/Boston, etc tracks.
Actually it's two stations with the exact same programming.
The old KlOl 101.1 was great about playing classics and deep cuts with current rock.
Posted on 12/15/14 at 8:46 am to weagle99
Tainted Love needs to die.
Posted on 12/15/14 at 10:46 am to AlxTgr
Have an upvote.
The thing is, I grew up in the 80's and I don't even remember hearing some of these songs that much.
The thing is, I grew up in the 80's and I don't even remember hearing some of these songs that much.
Posted on 12/15/14 at 11:16 am to H-Town Tiger
It's because local radio is essentially dead. Media conglomeration means just a few companies own all of the stations across the nation, and they use the same playlist throughout their entire company. It leads to less and less interesting playlists, and there's no way for songs, particularly old ones, to crack the list. Then you have stations like JACK which is literally programmed by a computer.
A good DJ was like a curator. It's a long lost skill.
A good DJ was like a curator. It's a long lost skill.
Posted on 12/15/14 at 5:09 pm to weagle99
If you think about it's incredible how cookie-cutter these playlists really are. Think about the Kinks. Very famous band, sold millions & millions of records over a 20+ year career. And they are on classic rock radio all the time.
But every time the Kinks come on the radio it is always - and I mean always - one of three songs: All Day & All of the Night, You Really Got Me, or Lola. You could listen to 98.1 for five years straight and come away with the impression that those were the only 3 songs Ray Davies had ever written. And we are not talking about obscure tracks that get passed up - consider Sunny Afternoon. A heavily promoted single released by a major record label that spent several weeks on the top 40, hit #1 in England. Yet I have literally never heard it played on a mainstream classic rock station. Meanwhile, Lola has been on daily rotation for decades. It is a complete mystery to me why this is true.
And the Kinks are just an example; you could play this game with every rock band in history. Songs are either played constantly, or never played at all. No middle ground
But every time the Kinks come on the radio it is always - and I mean always - one of three songs: All Day & All of the Night, You Really Got Me, or Lola. You could listen to 98.1 for five years straight and come away with the impression that those were the only 3 songs Ray Davies had ever written. And we are not talking about obscure tracks that get passed up - consider Sunny Afternoon. A heavily promoted single released by a major record label that spent several weeks on the top 40, hit #1 in England. Yet I have literally never heard it played on a mainstream classic rock station. Meanwhile, Lola has been on daily rotation for decades. It is a complete mystery to me why this is true.
And the Kinks are just an example; you could play this game with every rock band in history. Songs are either played constantly, or never played at all. No middle ground
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