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Post by mellongraig on Mar 3, 2013 8:13:09 GMT -5
I think SXM should have an AT40 channel where they could play these shows unedited. It's getting ridiculous as to why this channel is worse now than it was back then.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 3, 2013 10:37:30 GMT -5
Yes a show that was already at breakneck speed trying to cram 3 and half or so hours of songs into a 3 hour show is made even faster with Sirius XM cutting jingles and such. And during the first hour the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" was an extra, though you'd never know it from SXM which cuts out any extras that predate 1970. It was probably a bear to have to work around "Bohemian Rhapsody" every week; right after it they only had room for a fragment of "Money Honey" to fill out the hour.
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Post by skuncle on Mar 3, 2013 11:40:44 GMT -5
SXM also cut the portion of Tracks Of My Tears by Smoky Robinson and The Miracles because it's from the 60's. What I don't understand though is why on the 80's channel this kind of editing isn't done. Wen they do the 1980 countdowns they'd re loaded with songs from 1979 and that's not a problem. Do they really think someone listening to the 70's channel is going to hear Good Vibrations and pull over and fire off a complaint because they want to hear 70's music not 60's. Their strick rules are idiotic.
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Post by pgfromwp on Mar 3, 2013 11:55:15 GMT -5
While listening to 2/28/76 on SXM today, I heard "The White Knight" for the first time. Besides that my wife and I agreed that it is unlistenable, I cannot see anyone mentioning that song in the same context as "Convoy", which IMHO is oustanding -- other to sharply contrast two songs about the same topic (conversation across CB radios).
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Post by matt on Mar 3, 2013 12:14:19 GMT -5
SXM also cut the portion of Tracks Of My Tears by Smoky Robinson and The Miracles because it's from the 60's. What I don't understand though is why on the 80's channel this kind of editing isn't done. Wen they do the 1980 countdowns they'd re loaded with songs from 1979 and that's not a problem. Do they really think someone listening to the 70's channel is going to hear Good Vibrations and pull over and fire off a complaint because they want to hear 70's music not 60's. Their strick rules are idiotic. I can't help but wonder if this is done to prevent people from recording complete unedited shows. If SXM and Premiere didn't edit down shows, you would have a number of bootlegged recordings from collectors, etc. that could be passed around, thereby diminishing the value of the current airings and providing the potential for piracy...just a theory for whatever it's worth.
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Post by mellongraig on Mar 3, 2013 14:07:59 GMT -5
Including the 1975 year-ender, that will make every year played at least once so far in 2013.
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Post by tzmac on Mar 4, 2013 20:46:19 GMT -5
Kudos to Sirius XM for a good quality broadcast in the 02.28.76 show. For the first time in my years of listening to both the Sirius XM shows and the Premiere shows - the 2.28.76 quality was better than the Premiere 03.01.75 show. Tim
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Post by mellongraig on Mar 9, 2013 20:05:46 GMT -5
3/10/73 is what they went with - although there are 40 songs in the countdown, less than half of them get played regularly on SXM.
I wished they go back to the old XM days and play these shows unedited, as well as all of the songs on the countdown played on a regular basis outside of AT40. But they just don't want to do it since the merger about 4 1/2 years ago...
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Post by cachiva on Mar 10, 2013 3:01:19 GMT -5
Casey sure had a lot to say on this week's show (March 10, 1973, played on Sirius XM.) Plenty of stories, including his second telling of how the Moody Blues were in a "rock band competition" with the Beatles, and lost! Not to mention impossibly long stories about Don McLean and Hurricane Smith!
And Casey has to find a way to mention the Beatles in every show. Has anyone else noticed this?
At this point in the show's history he is no longer whispering the intros to slow songs. Did that bother anybody when he would do that, like, on every Carpenter's song?
And I want to agree with the above comment about all of the great songs on the countdown that 70's on 7 never play: Big City Miss Ruth Ann, Master of Eyes, Hello Hurray, Good Morning Heartache, Kissing My Love, and Barbara Mason's version of the "Superfly" soundtrack gem, "Give Me Your Love". It's a shame that we have lost so many great songs.
Casey thinks the Temptations song is called "THE Masterpiece". And he called Al Green "The Green Machine". He always makes a point of calling The Eagles, just, "Eagles". Does anyone else do that? And I've never heard him acknowledge that the Blue Ridge Rangers were really just John Fogerty.
Before #31 and #25 there were jingles by the AT40 singers that I have never heard before!
"Here's David Bowie - from England!" Thanks, Casey. But he played a version of "Space Oddity" with a long, extended ending. Thanks Casey!
"Pig skins are used in the gelatin-making process", in the "Dead Skunk intro. Yuk!
But I think this week's show should be remembered for his story about how Bette Midler got her big break by performing to large groups of naked men! I don't think Casey ever danced around the big gay elephant in the room so deftly until he told the story about the "good looking he-men playing macho characters" in his May 1979 story about the formation of the Village People!
There is a lingering, chronic malaise here, constantly lamenting the heavily-edited presentation of these shows on Sirius XM. On their facebook page the show is widely praised. I am surprised that whoever "owns" these shows lets the product get treated this way. But I think that Sirius XM would like nothing better than to have Casey introduce and then play exactly 40 songs, without the extras, recaps, jingles and special edition shows. I don't think they have any alterior motive against any who collect these shows, or those who are just purists. I feel like they just want to play an efficient rundown of the top 40 songs from the week.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 10, 2013 7:29:46 GMT -5
Spot on re: the Barbara Mason song who thanks Curtis Mayfield BTW. Casey did mention that the Blue Ridge Rangers were really just John Fogerty on a few occasions, just not in this show.
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Post by skuncle on Mar 10, 2013 7:53:27 GMT -5
He always makes a point of calling The Eagles, just, "Eagles". Does anyone else do that? At the time they were known as simply "Eagles" and not THE Eagles. All of the albums just say "Eagles" no "the". It would be like calling them "The Heart" or "The ABBA" rather than "Heart", "ABBA".
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Post by jdelachjr2002 on Mar 10, 2013 19:52:43 GMT -5
He always makes a point of calling The Eagles, just, "Eagles". Does anyone else do that? At the time they were known as simply "Eagles" and not THE Eagles. All of the albums just say "Eagles" no "the". It would be like calling them "The Heart" or "The ABBA" rather than "Heart", "ABBA". Habitually I've referred to them as the Eagles because since I wasn't around during the '70s, I've heard DJs refer to them as "The Eagles". By either 1976 or by the time "Hotel California" was out, Casey referred to them as "The Eagles" more often.
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Post by mellongraig on Mar 14, 2013 18:41:14 GMT -5
I usually don't do this early but next week (March 23-24) we'll hear 1979.
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Post by skuncle on Mar 16, 2013 10:54:03 GMT -5
And still it continues....the playing of a Paul McCartney (or in some rare cases a track from another Beatle) song just before the countdown. I've asked at 70's on 7 why this occurs and I never get an answer. It's NOT just a coincidence, it's EVERY week a McCartney track is heard. Some have said that he had a bunch of hits so it just works out that way. That's not it, Stevie Wonder, The Carpenters, Elton John etc all had a bunch of hits in the 70's but every week, without fail a Paul McCartney song will be heard within 15 mins of the countdown. Doesn't seem to matter which day you listen either. I'm just curious as to why this is done? My guess is the programmer is a huge McCartney fan.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Mar 16, 2013 12:34:45 GMT -5
skuncle, is the same guy on before AT40? There used to be a guy on a Chicago station that *always* ended his show by playing "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond. And it was accepted as his signature song.
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