Ever hated most or all of a chart?

[Deleted]

Ok, a few weeks ago I posed the question was there ever a show where you liked every song on the chart in a week. So, now the reverse. Has there ever been a show you hated most everything or everything in it. Let me preface this by saying this has to be at a time you liked the music and the show. "I hated everything last week and everything since Seacrest took over" is not what I'm referring to. So, in an era of music you liked and were listening regularly to and enjoying the show did this ever happen.

[mkarns]

Aug 15, 2013 15:46:15 GMT -5 @paul said:

Ok, a few weeks ago I posed the question was there ever a show where you liked every song on the chart in a week. So, now the reverse. Has there ever been a show you hated most everything or everything in it. Let me preface this by saying this has to be at a time you liked the music and the show. "I hated everything last week and everything since Seacrest took over" is not what I'm referring to. So, in an era of music you liked and were listening regularly to and enjoying the show did this ever happen.

It's sort of hard to square what you're saying--a time when you hated the chart, but liked the music and the show? Isn't the chart the music--or are you referring to liking music in general but not what was on AT40 at that point, or just liking Casey/Shadoe/Ryan's presentation?

Myself, I regularly listened to AT40 with Shadoe (and sometimes Casey's Top 40) in 1990 and early 1991 (later in 1991 it got better IMO), but while I liked the presentation the music left much to be desired. I got really tired of featherweight poppy hip hop (sometimes with stolen riffs), soundalike dance tracks, and sleepy AC ballads dominating the chart week after week, though there were always some good moments in there.

[Deleted]

More like the latter. I'll give you an example. I liked and still would listen to pop music in the late 90s. I either didn't like or didn't care about probably 30 songs on the chart each week for most of 96 and 97. So, whereas current music was still relevant to me and I would listen to the local stations on a regular basis and the countdowns most every week I wasn't a big fan of what was really popular at the time. Hearing a lot of it again now I'm even less a fan. Just very unmemorable stuff to me,

Basically I didn't want this question to become a thread where bitter and angry people could come and trash Seacrest, the current AT40 format, and all using the question as a means to do so. Admittedly I do not identify with or like CHR anymore. Although I've tried, I haven't since 2005. So, I'm not going to start trashing 05-on just because my tastes changed in a permanent way.

[jamie9012]

I am not sure if I have ever failed to like an episode. However, there are some years that feature many songs that I am not familiar with. I think that many of them would be in the early 1970's. Sometimes, I listen to only a part of an episode, and on a date in the future, I hear an episode from later in that year. I may recognize some songs from the earlier episode that did not have all of my attention previously. Some of them could be songs that are well-known.

I hope that this somewhat answers the question.

[matt]

I can't say I've ever hated most of a countdown, but there are a few that I have found to take much more effort to get through than others. Two that come to mind are the 1/13/73 and 1/20/73 shows--I found at least half of those shows to be songs that I had never heard before the classic AT40 - The 70's reruns, and not that many of the unknowns appealed to me. A few of the 1970 shows are that way as well. Hate is too strong of a word, but what I can say is that those aren't shows that I will likely make any effort to listen to again...they took enough effort already.

[OldSchoolAT40Fan]

Every show from 1994 and the four shows from 1995. Hated almost all of those charts.

I especially hated all of the chart songs on almost every show during the final two months (December 1994 and January 1995) of original AT40. The only songs I enjoyed on the final 3 weeks of AT40 was Toni Braxton's "I Belong To You" - the Roller Skate Radio Mix, and Jade's "Every Day of the Week". Everything else was just plain drab. December 1994 had the worst charts, in my opinion.

[ronnie21]

yeah I agree, didn't care for the 90's charts as much as the 80's/// Songs were either too corky and goofy or too harsh and serious...

[matt]

^1987 isn't my favorite year of the 80s overall, but there are several shows during that year that I really liked, most notably May-early August and late October-December.

Least favorite year in the 80s overall for me is, like most people, 1981. I like most '81 shows from May through October, but anything from January to March I would not go out of my way to hear.

Of course if we go beyond the Casey AT40 years, 1989 might take that dubious honor.

[pb]

Feb 23, 2016 13:42:48 GMT -5 matt said:

Least favorite year in the 80s overall for me is, like most people, 1981. I like most '81 shows from May through October, but anything from January to March I would not go out of my way to hear.

Funny, I just listened to 1/31/81 and enjoyed almost all of it. I've never heard a 1987 episode (I think I heard enough of that year's hits living through it).

[at40nut]

I can't say I've hated an entire chart, but certain shows/stretches of songs have had their moments. I recently listened to 8-7-82, and from Leslie Pearl up until Soft Cell was a less than a Spectacular stretch. For me, 1980 had a few stinkers as well as early 1981. 1987 was by far my least favorite year of 80's music. Bands like U2, Crowded House, R.E.M., Whitesnake etc. made 1987 for me bearable. Here's an even tougher question- If you were on a desert island, which 4 of your favorite shows would you have to have on that desert island? I can't even to begin to process that right now.

[Deleted]

Oh that's easy for me, in order:

1. 9/8/90
2. Top 40 Beatles Show from 81
3. Book of Records 80
4. 8/2/86 (currently, I reserve the right to change this one as I continue to listen chronologically)

[dougbroda]

Aug 16, 2013 15:57:29 GMT -5 matt said:

I can't say I've ever hated most of a countdown, but there are a few that I have found to take much more effort to get through than others. Two that come to mind are the 1/13/73 and 1/20/73 shows--I found at least half of those shows to be songs that I had never heard before the classic AT40 - The 70's reruns, and not that many of the unknowns appealed to me. A few of the 1970 shows are that way as well. Hate is too strong of a word, but what I can say is that those aren't shows that I will likely make any effort to listen to again...they took enough effort already.

January '73 is odd for me, too.

The earliest AT40 shows are before I was really listening to pop music, so understandably there's lots (most) there that I would not have known at the time. But 1973 is peak listening time for me, not quite 13, glued to WABC radio. I owned 45s of at least 20 of the 40 songs on the 1/13/73 chart. And yet, it has a number of songs on it, some pretty high up on the chart, that I am sure I did not know at the time. #11, #14, #16... three in the top 20, interestingly two by major artists who definitely got airplay on WABC with other songs. And same for another half-dozen songs lower down the chart. Outside of this period of time, I suspect no chart from early '72 though to the mid-80s has 3 songs in the Top 20 I didn't know at the time. (I looked at 12/30/72 and 3/3/73, to go before and after the period of these January charts. On the 12/30/72 chart, I am sure I knew every single song at the time; from 3/3/73, there are three that I don't recall hearing at the time, but they are all below #30 (#40, #38, #35).)

Wonder why January 1973 is like that?

[dukelightning]

Aug 5, 2016 20:29:57 GMT -5 @paul said:

Oh that's easy for me, in order:

1. 9/8/90
2. Top 40 Beatles Show from 81
3. Book of Records 80
4. 8/2/86 (currently, I reserve the right to change this one as I continue to listen chronologically)

I thought "Blaze of Glory" was a fave of yours. Isn't that on the 90 show. 8/2/86? Really and you said elsewhere that the top 9 on that show is all great songs. Is there a joke here I am missing?

[Deleted]

Yes it is. And there is no joke. I cannot remember any show I've listened to where I really, really like the entire top 9. So it's now #4. If I hear something that I like better, it'll be knocked off #4.

[dukelightning]

Ah the jokes on you then. Look at the title of this thread again. I think the show I heard last night might be one for this list for you....8/8/81 or something from that year anyway.