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Post by albe on Feb 28, 2015 6:47:41 GMT -5
Been listening on heavy rotation to Information Society's What's on your mind...to the Vulcan who now resides among the stars above us.
Live Long and Prosper
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Feb 28, 2015 9:09:18 GMT -5
Top 100 of 1977 today. Looking forward to hearing one of my favorites: The Brothers Johnson.
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Post by keithr63 on Feb 28, 2015 19:27:19 GMT -5
KHND just switched to a high school basketball right after Burning Heart by Survivor
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Post by matt on Mar 2, 2015 15:00:39 GMT -5
Top 100 of 1977 today. Looking forward to hearing one of my favorites: The Brothers Johnson. Love the Brothers Johnson--some of my favorite songs from the late 70s are their hits. Listening to 2/12/83 right now...at #32, "Dirty Laundry". Funny things about this song: 1. This song dropped 25 notches--a pretty significant jump within the Top 40 (though maybe not so much during 1982-early '83). Casey mentioned that it dropped from #7 to #32 like it was no big deal. 2. Edits...this song was successfully chopped by either Premiere or AT40 all four times it was played this past winter (once on the 11/27/82, twice on the 1/15/83--including the top 3 recap, and once on this show). Couldn't they have let the whole thing play one of those times? Otherwise, a solid first hour. I'm liking this show better than the 1/15/83...
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Post by adam31 on Mar 2, 2015 15:28:12 GMT -5
Top 100 of 1977 today. Looking forward to hearing one of my favorites: The Brothers Johnson. Love the Brothers Johnson--some of my favorite songs from the late 70s are their hits. Listening to 2/12/83 right now...at #32, "Dirty Laundry". Funny things about this song: 1. This song dropped 25 notches--a pretty significant jump within the Top 40 (though maybe not so much during 1982-early '83). Casey mentioned that it dropped from #7 to #32 like it was no big deal. 2. Edits...this song was successfully chopped by either Premiere or AT40 all four times it was played this past winter (once on the 11/27/82, twice on the 1/15/83--including the top 3 recap, and once on this show). Couldn't they have let the whole thing play one of those times? Otherwise, a solid first hour. I'm liking this show better than the 1/15/83... Like how you say Casey is playing it cool on a song dropping 25 big ones lol. Seriously though what is the deal with chopping songs? Any four hour show should have had enough time to not butcher them! Oh yeah what was I listening to: AT40 from 3-9-91. Some significant chart history in this show. Madonna's "Rescue Me" moves up only one notch (15-14), after debuting on the Hot 100 the previous week with the highest entry since 1970. Shadoe hypes in the promo that it could be her 10th #1. The song would reach only #9. Is this the lowest peak for a song debuting the highest on the Hot 100? Mariah Carey becomes only the 2nd artist (and first woman) to have her first 3 singles hit #1.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 2, 2015 15:40:48 GMT -5
I was replying about the editing but yes the 6 notch difference between debut and peak is the closest of any debut that high. But it really perplexes me how 4 hour shows can have edited songs. Heard the 3/3/79 show and the last 2 songs in the third hour were cutoff. They obviously ran out of time and had no choice in their view anyway. But they had played a LDD right before those 2 songs so the cutoffs could have been avoided. Too much editing/cutoffs for me.
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Post by darnall42 on Mar 2, 2015 17:45:56 GMT -5
March 1st 1975 at the moment
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 2, 2015 18:47:50 GMT -5
March 1st 1975 at the moment I listened to that one today, myself, as well as 3/2/85. I'm listening to every 1975 and 1985 countdown this year, as it is 40 and 30 years, respectively, since those years.
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 3, 2015 15:45:57 GMT -5
Just about to enter the last hour of the CT40 from 2/29/92. Some great never-heard gems (IMHO) from that time: "I'll Get By" from Eddie Money, "Stars" by Simply Red, and the number one song "I Love Your Smile" by Shanice are chief among them.
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 4, 2015 10:52:12 GMT -5
Right now I'm restraining myself from breaking things in my office listening to 3/4/78. It's not the music that has me so flustered - it's the chop-jobs that have to be done on some of my favorite songs because AT40 was still just three hours in length at that time. This is why I only listen to one 1978 show per month until the change is made to the four-hour format.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 4, 2015 15:22:25 GMT -5
I hear you man. 1978 until October is about as bittersweet as it gets for me when it comes to AT40. This period is right near the top as far as my favorite periods for pop music. But the chops and edits on the songs are also close to the worst because songs really are getting long and yet they are still at 3 hours. So love the music, hate the way AT40 presented it. And when they play an extra, I hit the ceiling knowing they had no extra time to devote to it. Meaning that's 3-4 minutes of edits, chops, etc. to get the extra into the show!
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Post by pointpark04 on Mar 5, 2015 11:32:44 GMT -5
I've entered the top 10 of 3/5/77, a show in which I will wind up only skipping over one of the top 20 songs in the countdown - that being "I Like Dreamin'" by Kenny Nolan. This is a great year for music. Not as great as 1976, but then again, what year in the 1970s was?
I love how "The Year of the Cat" and "Night Moves" were chopped to bits, and then the next song was an extra, which took up over five minutes. And the same butchering happened to "New Kid in Town" at number two.
Extras and LDDs: Two things that make listening to AT40 shows less enjoyable than they otherwise should be.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 5, 2015 14:34:12 GMT -5
I don't mind extras especially if they're not overplayed or there's a good story behind them, but i often don't see the point in regularly putting them in the three hour 1975-78 shows when just playing the 40 charted songs usually required editing. This was probably a main reason they went to 4 hours, but the early such shows had so many extras they often feel padded to me.
I never much liked LDD's or R&D's either, but we may be the minority on that.
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Post by matt on Mar 5, 2015 18:26:54 GMT -5
^Sounds like there are a lot of people--at least those of us on the boards--that don't care for LDDs or at least they aren't a favorite part of the show. I usually don't care for LDD's because they either have a cheesy or depressing story, or the song is some sappy ballad, or both. Every so often the LDD is a good story--one that's happy, inspiring, etc., and/or the song is good.
I just got finished with the 2/12/83 show and thought the LDD in the 4th hour was a good one--where the girl is writing about her older half brothers and sisters she didn't know as a kid, but became close to as she got older. The song played was "We Are Family" - good story with a good song.
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Post by BrettVW on Mar 5, 2015 18:37:59 GMT -5
6/5/76 for me today as I recover from a nasty flu bug
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