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Post by lasvegaskid on Oct 18, 2019 13:25:17 GMT -5
1986? Again?? Hard to stay excited when it was also the only offering just three weeks ago. Someone on the staff must really love that year! They totally overdid it last year and it recently hit the "100 Club", yet it doesn't even look like any other years are going to reach that anytime soon. For some, when they think of 80s, 1986 is the epicenter. You don't have the Urban Cowboy/soft rock of the early 80s or the freestyle/rap crap from the late 80s so it's safe to overplay these songs.
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Post by keithr63 on Oct 19, 2019 10:11:56 GMT -5
It really depends on the show they are playing .I will pull up the list of the songs for that countdown and see what is coming up,especially if I find a show that has already started.If I find a string of songs I don’t like,I will not listen That especially seems true among the Top 40s after 1985.
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Post by matt on Oct 23, 2019 9:37:07 GMT -5
1984? Again?? Hard to stay excited when we just got it Sept 29th. Ain't mad at that -- I could listen to 1984 any day of the week...great year for music. Agree with you on 1986 for the most part -- also a great year, especially from the start of the year through the end of the summer.
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Post by at40nut on Nov 10, 2019 7:41:27 GMT -5
Next weekend is a prime example of why AT40 is still a thrill. We get to hear 11-17-79 with some lost hits, but 11-12-83 has some great first hour stuff. It was the only time that Michael Stanley Band's "My Town" was in the Top 40. Jo Boxers' "Just Got Lucky" was a great one, and Loverboy's "Queen Of The Broken Hearts" was good too, especially the keyboard melody that reminds me of "Vacation" by The Go Go's. Finally, Human League's "Mirror Man" which was badly underrated IMO. My recorder will definitely be busy next weekend.
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Post by mkarns on Nov 10, 2019 10:26:25 GMT -5
It's a thrill getting a new 1976 show and finally breaking the 1979 drought. However I truly hope we have heard the last of 84, 85 and 86 for the rest of 2019. We'll probably hear at least one of those three, in addition to whatever the year end show might be, as even if each year from 1980-83 plus 1987 gets a turn from next weekend on there's still one week left. If we have to have one of those alone I hope it's 1984 as that was last heard by itself in September.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 30, 2023 14:08:53 GMT -5
Rethinking this topic, I've came to the realization AT40 is still a thrill only in a different way. When I first discovered the classic re-airings, I gobbled up everything, everywhere I could. Like someone that hadn't eaten in 25 years. But now it is quality over quantity, whether that be getting a Supersized show, or hearing an episode that I've already heard via the classic series but this time on a station with a higher caliber stream where listening is more enjoyable.
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Post by LC on Jan 30, 2023 16:51:21 GMT -5
Since I only discovered AT40 in the spring of 1979, there's still a ton of shows I've never heard. I try not to consciously listen to repeats, but anything from my musical "sweet spot" of 1978-1982 is fair game. AT40 on Saturday morning is still my routine...just like it was back in the day.
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Post by woolebull on Jan 30, 2023 18:31:07 GMT -5
For me, I still get the same thrill as I got back in July of 1982 when I first heard the show. Like many of you, I have not only been able to listen to AT shows, but also have been able to procure quite a few of the other shows as well. As an 80's nut, I am just as excited to listen to a Top 40 Satellite Survey as I am to hear an AT show from that time so I have spent a ton of time (and money) finding old Survey shows. For me, no matter the show, it allows me to remember another time in a way that I still am gleaning information from.
Example: listening to Dees from the second week of January 1997 I found out that Courtney Cox had dated (for like six years) Michael Keaton. Dubious of what was said, I checked it out. Sure enough, they had.
Silly example but on any show, whether it is Casey, Shadoe, Ingram, Dees, Scott Shannon, John Leader, or Dave Sholin I always seem to pick up some useless info that I never knew. And that, maybe even more than the music, is why I keep on listening to radio shows from last week to 50 years ago!
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Jan 30, 2023 18:41:01 GMT -5
Absolutely! I joined the party late (April 2014) - found out through a co-worker about the re-airings. There's just something about the way Casey delivers the stories about the artists, the music, behind-the-scenes stuff you wouldn't hear almost anywhere else. I'll never get tired of listening. Quoting myself from 2017, and it's still true today. Ever since acquiring all the shows, I've heard many random selections, along with all the shows in order beginning with 1/7/1978, which also begins my sweet spot musically, and currently in September 1982. Casey set the bar very high (as did Bob Kingsley on the country side).
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Post by doofus67 on Jan 31, 2023 2:01:37 GMT -5
Since I only discovered AT40 in the spring of 1979, there's still a ton of shows I've never heard. I try not to consciously listen to repeats, but anything from my musical "sweet spot" of 1978-1982 is fair game. AT40 on Saturday morning is still my routine...just like it was back in the day. My discovery happened in very late winter of '79, March 18 to be exact. I figured out the date only by remembering that "Fire" by the Pointer Sisters was down to #7. (I wrote down the whole top 10, but "Fire" has stood out in my memory all these years.) WRKR in Milwaukee ran it on Sunday nights from 6 to 10. I played it on my GE clock-radio with a flip-number display. My sweet spot is 1976-1983.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 31, 2023 11:50:03 GMT -5
I first discovered AT40 on July 24, 1982 on OZ FM while on a road trip to Western Newfoundland. Considering that OZ FM aired the previous week's show every week until February 1991 due to unpredictable postal problems (i.e. weather delays, or a Canada Post strike - such as one that lasted six weeks in 1981), the episode in question was a Mark Elliott guest-hosted show; and OZ FM did skip the Star Trek tribute episode in February 1991 - and had since aired the corresponding week's episodes to the last day). Songs I vividly remember hearing include on that episode were "Don't You Want Me" and "Abracadabra". This was almost a year after MTV launched, and the music of that period was getting better and better as the years progressed. Despite my love for Saturday morning cartoons being in its prime until September 1983, and my love for top 40 music was on the rise. It wasn't until the fall of 1986 (in the wake of Lionel Richie's "Dancing on the Ceiling" video) that made me start to become hooked on top 40 music and MuchMusic (Canada's answer to MTV; later rebranded as MUCH and no longer plays music videos since 2020), and I agree that 1986 is perhaps the epicenter in terms of top 40 music in the 1980s. It makes sense that I would grow fond of AT40 in the fall of 1986, since my love for Saturday morning cartoons was in decline by that point.
However, just before Christmas 1986, we started to evolve into the rap crap and filthy freestyle music that would dominate radio heading into the 1990s - though I would take that over Nirvana and Pearl Jam any day. Although I like the first Casey era the most, there are some periods that I would shut out because of songs that cause earworms and/or songs I truly hate due to sparking bad memories of the period in general (i.e. November and December 1987).
I was even a dedicated listener of AT40 through its cancellation in 1995, despite the surge of rap, hip-hop, adult contemporary, R&B ballads, and grunge that dominated the charts during 1994 and 1995. This is perhaps why I didn't care much for the music 1994 had to offer (though some songs were good, particularly in spring and summer 1994), and 1995 was by far, the worst in the 1990s - plus I was going through a very rough period then - until I started owning a computer in 2004 which helped end my rough period. I even listened to the second run of AT40 on a weekly basis until Ryan Seacrest took over in January 2004 - and the show lost me as a regular listener. Even the spinoff countdown, AT20, was horrible despite being Casey hosted - but it's because it was nothing but newer adult contemporary material and such music was (and still is) awful. I did make one exception, however - I listened to the June 21, 2014 episode which was the weekend after Casey passed away. I listened to that show because of the intermittent Casey tributes throughout the show.
Someday, when I have extra money to spare, I am going to consider purchasing a few remastered Shadoe-hosted AT40 episodes from Shannon Lynn. There is a very low number of Shadoe era episodes as opposed to the Casey era (probably about 20, maybe slightly more), and I have nothing against Shadoe, but the reason for the low number is because of Christmas songs and certain songs during the Shadoe era that I absolutely hate due to being bad reminders of certain rough periods (thankfully, none of them cause earworms). I do know among the Shadoe shows I plan on buying is the penultimate episode from January 21, 1995 (I already have the final Shadoe show, as I got a copy around October 2011 just after I joined these boards. I may consider purchasing just one, maybe two Ryan-hosted shows, strangely enough.
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