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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 14, 2016 11:17:15 GMT -5
Casey lite does okay when they stick to talking about the tune's video. But when they try to venture out and talk about other things like the acts chart history you can see they know very little about music.
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Post by doofus67 on Mar 26, 2016 13:25:15 GMT -5
Here they go again...
On this weekend's countdown for 3/25/89, going into the song "Girl You Know It's True," the members of Milli Vanilli were referred to, not as Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, but as "Rob Morvan and Fab Pilates"! Wow.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 1, 2016 10:09:46 GMT -5
This isn't from the Big 40, but I think it's worthy of this thread all the same.
One night this past week, Mark Goodman played as a lost hit the song "Talk It Over" by Grayson Hugh. First, he claimed it was from 1988 (nope!). Then he stated that Grayson is also known for the song "How 'Bout Us?," adding "remember that one?"
Actually, Grayson remade that song and it barely scraped the Hot 100. Anyone who "remembers that one" would be thinking of the original by Champaign. Unless, of course, you work for SiriusXM.
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Apr 1, 2016 16:46:32 GMT -5
Man, and to think some of us, who know music, have a good voice and struggle to get noticed, couldn't get peed on if we were on fire!
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Post by mkarns on Apr 2, 2016 1:09:24 GMT -5
Here they go again... On this weekend's countdown for 3/25/89, going into the song "Girl You Know It's True," the members of Milli Vanilli were referred to, not as Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, but as "Rob Morvan and Fab Pilates"! Wow. Fab Pilates? Sounds like an exercise routine.
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Post by slf on Apr 10, 2016 19:49:32 GMT -5
During this week's 4-5-80 countdown, when introducing "Pilot Of The Airwaves", the VJ butchered Charlie Dore's last name (pronouncing the silent "e" so that it rhymes with "story") Good Grief!
Also, as another poster alluded to recently, I heard a couple of snide comments about the mellow nature of songs from that year. I believe one of the guys, when introducing Rupert Holmes' "Him", called it "saccharine".
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Post by doofus67 on May 14, 2016 22:48:22 GMT -5
Here they go again... On this weekend's countdown for 3/25/89, going into the song "Girl You Know It's True," the members of Milli Vanilli were referred to, not as Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, but as "Rob Morvan and Fab Pilates"! Wow. Fab Pilates? Sounds like an exercise routine. And a fabulous routine at that!
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Post by doofus67 on May 14, 2016 23:10:42 GMT -5
Here come two more:
This week's show went back to 5/11/85. Survivor's "The Search Is Over" (#38) was called the group's second top-ten hit. We all know "Eye of the Tiger" was their first. Their second was actually "High on You," which went to #8. The follow-up was "Search," which went to #4. Pretty typical, right?
The intro to Patti LaBelle's "New Attitude" (#17), however, was a hot mess. The VJ said the Blue Belles were her first group. This was true. But then the VJ credited "Lady Marmalade" to the Blue Belles, not to Patti's next group, Labelle. Patti's duet with Michael McDonald, "On My Own," was reported as having been released seven years after "Marmalade." If you do the math, that's 1975 + 7 = 1982. So I'm sure they must have confused it with the Patti Austin / James Ingram duet, "Baby, Come to Me" (which, ironically, featured Mike McD on backing vocals). Then, it was stated that "New Attitude" came out AFTER "On My Own." No, "On My Own" was in 1986! Oh, my goodness...
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Post by Michael1973 on May 27, 2016 22:02:52 GMT -5
It turns out these errors we love so much are not limited to the 80s channel. The other night, I heard Mark Goodman on The Spectrum playing the Counting Crows song "A Long December." He identified it as being from their 1993 debut album. First, that album came out in 1994, and second, that song was not on it -- it was from their second album. Whatever...
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Post by mkarns on May 27, 2016 22:44:44 GMT -5
It turns out these errors we love so much are not limited to the 80s channel. The other night, I heard Mark Goodman on The Spectrum playing the Counting Crows song "A Long December." He identified it as being from their 1993 debut album. First, that album came out in 1994, and second, that song was not on it -- it was from their second album. Whatever... Actually, the band's first album, "August and Everything After" was released in 1993 (though it didn't become big until 1994), so that part of it is at least technically correct. But "A Long December" was from the followup "Recovering the Satellites", released in 1996. And furthermore, that track became a hit single that was all over multiple radio formats in 1996-97. So that was a big failure of memory or research.
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Post by mellongraig on Jun 25, 2016 5:44:34 GMT -5
These errors are also happening on special shows as well - yikes!
Speaking of which, I might as well run down the errors this week (there are lots):
The definition of a "hit" appears to be in flux again as Tommy Tutone was given the one-hit wonder definition by the VJs but in reality they were a two-hit wonder with Angel Say No in the countdown this week.
Display error: Jim Photoglo - at that time it was just Photoglo. Also Nina said he was climbing six spots when it was the exact opposite.
VJs may have called MT's tune Twilight Zone/Twilight Zone and the display said Twilight Zone when it was Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone.
Slight error saying that Sexy Eyes was the start of the decade for Dr. Hook, but Better Love Next Time started it off when it peaked at #12 January 1980.
Error on Jermaine Jackson's LP - said it would reach #1 but only got to #6, and Nina said it was #15 this week which was actually #13.
They also said Brass In Pocket was The Pretenders first big one at #14 but Steal Away by Robbie Durpee made it the champ and a one-hit wonder although the followup Hot Rod Hears topped one spot lower.
Biggest blunder though - they played the studio version of Coming Up. Yikes! Should have played the live version.
I don't know if I have seen many errors show up like this but it may be a record, not sure though.
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Post by laura on Jul 1, 2016 20:21:24 GMT -5
Ouch, right out the gate Mark said that "Higher Love" was Steve Winwood's only #1 hit. There was also "Roll With It."
Also I think I heard Nina say that Heart was moving up the chart with "Nothin At All" when they were actually falling.
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Post by mellongraig on Jul 2, 2016 21:09:16 GMT -5
Ouch, right out the gate Mark said that "Higher Love" was Steve Winwood's only #1 hit. There was also "Roll With It." Also I think I heard Nina say that Heart was moving up the chart with "Nothin At All" when they were actually falling. Yikes - I think they really need to cancel the show and bring back Casey Kasem and Rick Dees to the 80s program schedule. If they're going to continue to make errors like this, then I just don't know how long they will continue to do this show.
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Post by skuncle on Jul 3, 2016 21:30:52 GMT -5
The errors have always been there. Also I think the only people who notice or even care about the errors are reading this board. Your average SXM listener doesn't pick up on these mistakes at all.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 24, 2016 10:02:23 GMT -5
No wonder they kiss Jim Ryan's a** at the end of every program. What other boss would let these clowns on the air to make gaffs every week.
There are the embarrassing ones, like saying Melissa Manchester sang the theme the Octo-007 movie.
There are the lazy ones; two DJs telling the same stories about Live Aid and Whitney's song.
And there are the inconsistency errors, like not being able to come up a definition of a hit. Like saying Kim Carnes had a big one at #15. Yet a few songs later say Cyndi's top tenner wasn't a big one. Or calling someone a one hit wonder when they had other top 40s. Yet giving someone else credit for hits that didn't make the top 40 or in some cases even the Hot 100.
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