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Post by woolebull on Oct 10, 2012 23:58:36 GMT -5
When did you hit it? By that, I mean when did you stop listening to AT (or CT) 40 on a regular basis. For me, it was November 30, 1991, which might seem like an easy date to pick but I have my reasons. The last countdown before the "Hot 100" changed their format was Nov. 23, 1991 (as many of you know). On the last countdown, Curtis Stigers was in the Top 10 with, "I Wonder Why" at 9 with a bullet. I was excited to see what the new countdown looked like, and when I saw a copy of Billboard for the week ending November 30, and Stigers was at like 28 or so without a bullet, I was done. I was also a freshman in college so pop music was less on my radar. I would pick up the top 40's again a little later, but it was never the same for me. When was it for you?
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Post by pamelajaye on Oct 11, 2012 1:17:55 GMT -5
I'm not entirely sure when Real Life started taking more time than AT40. I moved to VA in January 1980, and I listened some when I was down there (from Boston, it's "down"). Then I moved back home in October and moved out again the next May. I think it was more a matter of time than of the music.
I can tell you when I hit the wall with Top 40 Music - 1983. Not sure when in 83 but that was the year I switched to AC. Punk did me in. I can still tell a couple of songs that were not playing on the station I was listening to, after 83 - they are set in my mind during specific years in Sept/Oct when I was traveling with a friend who listened to a different station (at home) from me. Who knows what she listened to in Arizona and Colorado. Total Eclipse of The Heart, All The Love In The World...
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Post by Hervard on Oct 11, 2012 7:57:35 GMT -5
I stopped listening to American Top 40 sometime in the fall of 2010. I'd decided that I'd had enough of the celebrity gossip crap and it was actually becoming painfully boring to listen to. Plus, of course, Top 40 music just isn't any good anymore (for the most part, anyway), so I just stopped listening.
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Post by BrettVW on Oct 11, 2012 8:11:05 GMT -5
As (one of the?) youngest members of the board, I didn't discover Casey until 8th grade, which was the year 2000 for me. I listened to AT40 and AT20 HAC weekly until 2004, and then I just followed AT20 and AT10 until the end. I still will catch Seacrest whenever I can, but setting an alarm or staying up until midnight to listen to Casey's shows in full each week is just for Casey. I also stopped following new music when Casey left the airwaves.
I never really listened to the 70s and 80s shows until AT20 went off the air, but now I am hooked on them. I have always been a fan of the oldies/classic hits genre, even as a kid in the 90s and early 00s, and now I can listen to two decades of Casey shows I have never heard. So, as a latecomer to the AT40 game, I still haven't hit my wall. For 12 years now I have listened to Casey shows, granted, in the opposite order that most of you did (his last ten years and now his first twenty) but I have no plans of stopping. However, to me, the enjoyment of the show is Casey's dialogue and hearing the music. I love the chart and chart facts, but whether it's Billboard, R&R, or even the Seacrest airplay chart doesn't affect my enjoyment of the show.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Oct 11, 2012 9:48:17 GMT -5
I never did hit the CT40 wall. I listened to it right to the transition to the second run of AT40.
However, and I am sure a lot of people did the same as well, I hit the AT40 wall in 2004 when Ryan Seacrest took over. He was definitely no Casey Kasem.
Oddly enough, I rarely listened to Casey Kasem hosting AT20.
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Post by tarobe on Oct 11, 2012 10:11:30 GMT -5
I stopped listening to AT40 regularly at the end of 1982, by which time I was only tuning in for the #1 song.
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Post by Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever on Oct 11, 2012 15:24:12 GMT -5
I stopped listening to AT40 after the 2000 YE show. The CHR charts from that point on, were filled with lots of music I simply had no interest in. When AT20 came to Memphis, I listened to that as long as it was there (until some point in 2006). From that point on, I would listen sporadically via the Internet until Jul 2009 when Casey retired. Since then, I only listen to the Premiere rebroadcasts and the shows in my own collection. I do hope that CT40 and AT40 from the 90s will be rebroadcast one of these days, but I'll believe it when I hear the first one. I may also begin listening to AT40 again if Ryan Seacrest were dropped and replaced by Casey or his son, Mike.
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Post by caseysawesome on Oct 11, 2012 20:16:10 GMT -5
Posted by BrettVW on Today at 8:11am
As (one of the?) youngest members of the board
I turned 15 on Monday
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Post by mstgator on Oct 11, 2012 20:40:38 GMT -5
However, and I am sure a lot of people did the same as well, I hit the AT40 wall in 2004 when Ryan Seacrest took over. Amen on that. I listened for a couple of weeks after Ryan took over, and that was it. It wasn't so much Ryan himself as the following... The dumping of chart trivia in favor of celebrity gossip; the odd feature where they played the same song twice in one show (I think that eventually went away); and the lack of a recurrent rule which led to less fresh new music in favor of songs spending up to a year or more on the countdown. |
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Post by doomsdaymachine on Oct 11, 2012 21:11:35 GMT -5
When did you hit it? By that, I mean when did you stop listening to AT (or CT) 40 on a regular basis. In the spring of 1983. I had just turned 17 and was working my first after-school job, in a fast-food place. Since I usually worked on Sunday night, when AT40 ran in my area, I rarely had the chance to catch it anymore. Still, it was another year-and-a-half or so before I stopped listening to Top 40 music and radio altogether! |
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Post by vto66 on Oct 11, 2012 21:27:53 GMT -5
For me, it had to be mid-1987, when KITS, the last station to carry AT40 locally during the Casey Kasem era, dropped the show.
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Post by pamelajaye on Oct 12, 2012 0:25:57 GMT -5
Posted by BrettVW on Today at 8:11am As (one of the?) youngest members of the board I turned 15 on Monday cool! If you tried to get me at 15 listening to music that my parents (I didn't know my grandparents - but I don't think they *had* radio as kids) listened to - no way! I remember finding "oldies" radio format. It was, at the time, Little Richard and that sort. I told my mother I had found her "kind of music" and I think she got indignant. My mum was Big Bands and Jitterbug. Her favorite singer was Billy Eckstine (I've heard one song and I don't see it) and my father (which is amusing cause he was such a bigot against black people that watching the news with him in the days of busing was torture) was Sarah Vaughn. I do like Broken Hearted Melody. When I was younger than 15 my parents tried to hook me on the Osmonds on Andy Williams. Nope. When I was 12, my best friend tried with One Bad Apple. Nope. At 14-15 my new best friend tried with Donny's new voice-change and The Twelfth of Never. That did it. I never heard an Osmond song on AT40 till I'm Leaving it All Up To You, and that's an AT40 story that probably was not told on AT40. Donny & Marie started singing together cause Donny could no longer hit the high notes. I believe it was in his autobiography, but I just thought of it this afternoon as I was listening to Go Away Little Girl (and Yoyo) twice. So, yeah, at 15, I was just getting into AT40. (and I never heard of CT40 till I either came here or read Rob Durkee's book) Most of my parents' music, when it had words, was like It Was A Very Good Year, My Way (though that was actually rock era - and, now, the end is near), and just a lot of "my life is nearly over, now" kind of songs. I swear, it really depressed me. I liked the "oldies" though - Neil Sedaka's Calendar Girl grabbed me and I stayed with that for a while before I switched to WRKO because of Cher. Oh, and I never heard Mike. I thought I read on Facebook (where 3 out of 4 Kasem kids have *Pages*) that he was in Singapore? |
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Post by pamelajaye on Oct 12, 2012 0:38:47 GMT -5
When did you hit it? By that, I mean when did you stop listening to AT (or CT) 40 on a regular basis. In the spring of 1983. I had just turned 17 and was working my first after-school job, in a fast-food place. Since I usually worked on Sunday night, when AT40 ran in my area, I rarely had the chance to catch it anymore. Still, it was another year-and-a-half or so before I stopped listening to Top 40 music and radio altogether! Okay, that's interesting. I thought I was the only one who stopped listening to radio, and it really wasn't my choice. (I did change formats by choice in 83) Can you say why? |
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Post by donwa001 on Oct 12, 2012 12:50:05 GMT -5
I listened until 1988 and Casey's last show. Then I listed to the next week and heard Shadow's debut show. Didn't care for his style so I stopped listening.
I was subscribing to Billboard so I knew I would still be able to follow the HOT 100 each week and didn't need to tune in to find out what songs were debuting in the Top 40.
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Post by quatermass on Oct 12, 2012 13:43:56 GMT -5
I stopped in 1991 after rap was starting to become popular and pop music was in serious decline. I was in radio at that time and was glad I did an oldies show.
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