|
Post by matt on Feb 23, 2015 11:51:41 GMT -5
^1991 is one of my favorite years of the 90's. Maybe it's because it's the last full year that I was in high school--some good memories from those days...
|
|
|
Post by pointpark04 on Feb 25, 2015 10:36:57 GMT -5
At this moment it's 3/5/88.
Later, I'll be doing the CT40 from this date exactly 20 years ago.
|
|
|
Post by freakyflybry on Feb 25, 2015 23:26:11 GMT -5
AT40 from February 9, 2002. Now on, Natalie Imbruglia's "Wrong Impression" at #35.
|
|
|
Post by pointpark04 on Feb 26, 2015 9:22:34 GMT -5
{Snore] This morning is [snore] 3/1/80 [snore]. While it's [yawn] merely months since [snore] 1979 ended and [snore yawn] disco began to [snore] wane in popu[yawn]larity, pop music had turned [yawn snore yawn] decidedly...sleepy...[snore snore snore].
|
|
|
Post by matt on Feb 26, 2015 14:51:19 GMT -5
2/3/79 - a little love for the late John Belushi in this show. First, Casey highlights Belushi's career in the intro to "Soul Man", then plays the Kingsmen's "Louie Louie" in which he references Animal House.
|
|
|
Post by BrettVW on Feb 26, 2015 17:28:35 GMT -5
{Snore] This morning is [snore] 3/1/80 [snore]. While it's [yawn] merely months since [snore] 1979 ended and [snore yawn] disco began to [snore] wane in popu[yawn]larity, pop music had turned [yawn snore yawn] decidedly...sleepy...[snore snore snore]. I know how that goes. Particularly early 1980 and then late 1980/early 1981 are particularly brutal. Some of the summer 1980 shows aren't bad, and then by mid 1981 it starts to sound "like the 80s" for lack of a better term. But some of those charts are brutal to sit through, even with Casey.
|
|
|
Post by mga707 on Feb 26, 2015 20:28:00 GMT -5
{Snore] This morning is [snore] 3/1/80 [snore]. While it's [yawn] merely months since [snore] 1979 ended and [snore yawn] disco began to [snore] wane in popu[yawn]larity, pop music had turned [yawn snore yawn] decidedly...sleepy...[snore snore snore]. I know how that goes. Particularly early 1980 and then late 1980/early 1981 are particularly brutal. Some of the summer 1980 shows aren't bad, and then by mid 1981 it starts to sound "like the 80s" for lack of a better term. But some of those charts are brutal to sit through, even with Casey. ...and I (of course!) respectfully disagree. Love 1980 and 1981, two of my favorite pop music years. My '80s interest starts to wane about mid-1982, reaches it's nadir in 1983 through 1985, then slowly begins to revive during 1986. 1987 through the end of the decade (and beyond into the early '90s) are once again among my best-loved musical eras.
|
|
|
Post by SFGuy on Feb 27, 2015 0:50:46 GMT -5
I know how that goes. Particularly early 1980 and then late 1980/early 1981 are particularly brutal. Some of the summer 1980 shows aren't bad, and then by mid 1981 it starts to sound "like the 80s" for lack of a better term. But some of those charts are brutal to sit through, even with Casey. ...and I (of course!) respectfully disagree. Love 1980 and 1981, two of my favorite pop music years. My '80s interest starts to wane about mid-1982, reaches it's nadir in 1983 through 1985, then slowly begins to revive during 1986. 1987 through the end of the decade (and beyond into the early '90s) are once again among my best-loved musical eras. I'm with you with 1980 and 1981 but my interest drops off significantly in 1986 and beyond where I don't like most of the songs at the end of Casey's AT 40 era in 1988.
|
|
|
Post by dukelightning on Feb 27, 2015 10:14:12 GMT -5
Might as well weigh in on this because I hear shows from all these years and beyond. My interest ebbs and flows throughout this period. It does not really drop off until the mid 90s. Specifically when both countdowns (talking about AT40 and CT40) changed from rhythmic based charts to mainstreams charts. (Jan 1993 for AT40 and April 1994 for CT40). I like alternative but not as much as R&B. I think they switched charts to avoid having to play rap. But to quote a saying one of my Economics professors always said, I think by doing that they threw the baby out with the bath water. And I have an illustration to show what this chart change did. On the 2/26/94 AT40, "Understanding" by Xscape was played as a Sneak Peek. It NEVER made the survey! This, despite the fact it reached #16 on CT40 (AT40 had changed to a mainstream chart by this time but CT40 had not yet made the change) and the top 10 on the Hot 100. So the mid 90s are a low point for me before rebounding back in the late 90s.
|
|
|
Post by BrettVW on Feb 27, 2015 11:48:06 GMT -5
Since I grew up in the 90s, my exposure to 80s music was recurrent and gold airplay on the Hot AC format and the popular "80s weekends" of the time. So, I was exposed to what radio programmers chose to play.
Only through discovery of AT40 the 80s, which I didn't really get into until after Casey left in 2009, did I start to enjoy and appreciate the other hits of the era.
I have come around to 1980 and 1981 moreso than 1988-1989. And I still believe 1990-1994 was a rough patch in music. Unfortunately this all coincides with Shadoe's run, which is why I really have little interest in those shows.
|
|
|
Post by pointpark04 on Feb 27, 2015 11:56:55 GMT -5
Hi, everybody. Hope you all are doing well.
I'm listening to 2/27/76 right now. "Money Honey" by the Bay City Rollers was short-changed (pun intended) - with a run time of 3:17, the song received just 1:30 of play on the countdown.
|
|
|
Post by at40fansince1984 on Feb 27, 2015 18:15:23 GMT -5
Might as well weigh in on this because I hear shows from all these years and beyond. My interest ebbs and flows throughout this period. It does not really drop off until the mid 90s. Specifically when both countdowns (talking about AT40 and CT40) changed from rhythmic based charts to mainstreams charts. (Jan 1993 for AT40 and April 1994 for CT40). I like alternative but not as much as R&B. I think they switched charts to avoid having to play rap. But to quote a saying one of my Economics professors always said, I think by doing that they threw the baby out with the bath water. And I have an illustration to show what this chart change did. On the 2/26/94 AT40, "Understanding" by Xscape was played as a Sneak Peek. It NEVER made the survey! This, despite the fact it reached #16 on CT40 (AT40 had changed to a mainstream chart by this time but CT40 had not yet made the change) and the top 10 on the Hot 100. So the mid 90s are a low point for me before rebounding back in the late 90s. I completely agree & add that I'll include when they stopped using the Hot 100 as by then I'd been following it for about 7 years. I replaced it by having a Billboard subscription for awhile, copying it down at music stores (remember those) & later the internet. But I think it ended up hurting both shows as some of the stations that were playing the R&B & Rap songs that either weren't on the countdown or on it a lot lower than the Hot 100 & either moved it to a bad timeslot or just stopped getting the show. What is funny I still have some tapes of from when I listened to AT40 with Shadoe Stevens & Casey's Top 40 from 90-91 where I recorded the rap hits from it.
|
|
|
Post by mkarns on Feb 27, 2015 18:23:18 GMT -5
Might as well weigh in on this because I hear shows from all these years and beyond. My interest ebbs and flows throughout this period. It does not really drop off until the mid 90s. Specifically when both countdowns (talking about AT40 and CT40) changed from rhythmic based charts to mainstreams charts. (Jan 1993 for AT40 and April 1994 for CT40). I like alternative but not as much as R&B. I think they switched charts to avoid having to play rap. But to quote a saying one of my Economics professors always said, I think by doing that they threw the baby out with the bath water. And I have an illustration to show what this chart change did. On the 2/26/94 AT40, "Understanding" by Xscape was played as a Sneak Peek. It NEVER made the survey! This, despite the fact it reached #16 on CT40 (AT40 had changed to a mainstream chart by this time but CT40 had not yet made the change) and the top 10 on the Hot 100. So the mid 90s are a low point for me before rebounding back in the late 90s. R&B and rap were not the only musical styles shortchanged by the charts in the early 90s. Some alternative songs were as well. Last week Rick Dees played a countdown from 2/15/92, with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at #9 (its R&R peak). It never made AT40 at all, despite being one of the best known and most (over)played alt-rock hits, then and now.
|
|
|
Post by dukelightning on Feb 27, 2015 18:41:51 GMT -5
I said essentially the same thing the other day. Saying it was nonsense that Nirvana made the top 10 on R&R ad not at all on AT40. Then blackbowl explained that it was a nighttime only track and thus missed on the BDS tracking systems which evidently only tracked daytime plays. But throw in "Understanding" also doing well on CT40 and missing AT40 and countless others in between these 2 songs, it seems obvious that CT40 from 1992-early 1994 was the more accurate survey. After that they were basically the same and equally not representative of top 40 music IMO.
|
|
|
Post by saltrek on Feb 27, 2015 22:21:59 GMT -5
I took blackbowl's comment to mean that BDS was based on "gross impressions". With airplay relegated to 6PM and later, you are dealing with declining audiences. Even if the raw spin counts were good, the "gross impression's wouldn't be. Unless I'm mistaken...
|
|