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Post by BrettVW on Dec 1, 2017 14:26:27 GMT -5
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 1, 2017 17:43:39 GMT -5
The last phrase of that article says it all. Well almost. A lot of songs are in the 'not supposed to like it' category. But in truth, a lot of people especially listeners do like those songs. So taking songs off of playlists seems to be a bit too hasty on the part of PDs.
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Post by mkarns on Dec 1, 2017 18:06:48 GMT -5
The last phrase of that article says it all. Well almost. A lot of songs are in the 'not supposed to like it' category. But in truth, a lot of people especially listeners do like those songs. So taking songs off of playlists seems to be a bit too hasty on the part of PDs. The passage of time does often change opinion of songs for listeners and PD's. Ross mentions the Spice Girls' "Wannabe", which I'd much rather hear now than 20 years ago when the media was beating us over the head with them and similar teen-oriented acts. |
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Post by bobbo428 on May 20, 2018 13:36:11 GMT -5
I just read this piece and had been wondering why the 1990s revival was so slow in coming. I have been typing old journal entries of mine from 1990 because of the 28-year cycle. It was the pre-grunge/alternative era, and I was bored with pop radio. There were a lot of humdrum power ballads (from both hard rock acts and freestyle dance artists). Freestyle itself was becoming stale, but house records were getting only sporadic airplay in our area. Our CHR station (WAAL, in Binghamton, NY) was power ballad-heavy. I was age 29 in 1990, so I was listening to Dick Clark's "Countdown America" for sincere new songs because hair metal and the macho-sounding commercial rap didn't cut it for me. I was listening to Dr. Demento for novelty tunes such as the hilarious yuppie parody "Car Phone." Unfortunately, when the station that carried Demento in our area changed its format, I seldom heard his show again until 1998, when another station began to carry it. I listened to the college radio station for the occasional alt-rock fix. However, pop radio was the epitome of monotony that year--expect for a few artists--such as the melodic, retro-flavored Lisa Stansfield, Bruce Hornsby, and guilty pleasures such as "Ooh La La," by Perfect Gentlemen, which had an early-'70s sound. |
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Post by BrettVW on May 20, 2018 19:38:08 GMT -5
I think the early 90s are just so forgettable in terms of radio airplay that there was a period of time where Classic Hits/Adult Hits just wasn’t sure what to do. Now that the later 90s are approaching the 20 year mark, it is now becoming nostalgic to hear some of this stuff on the radio again. My local Classic Hits station, which was very 70s heavy as recent as 4-5 years ago regularly plays late 90s-early 00s now.
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