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Post by mkarns on Aug 11, 2023 23:06:57 GMT -5
Next week's show is 1980. Most likely 8/16/80 (an "encore" performance of what we hear from Casey this week), but maybe 8/23 given how they went ahead last week.
Despite the absurdity of playing two 1988 shows just two weeks apart, at least this time they got all the songs right (the one minor quibble being that the six minute plus album version of "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" wasn't needed; OTOH I'd have preferred that they played the full album version of "Sweet Child O' Mine".) They even apparently played the original 1962 version of "Do You Love Me"; the version we heard from Casey last week sounded like a re-recording or at least a remix.
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Post by laura on Aug 11, 2023 23:12:16 GMT -5
Good that we're getting back on schedule. And they played the correct song this time. Now if they can repeat a year so soon within the current year, why can't they do that for the new year?
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Post by Mike on Aug 12, 2023 0:50:06 GMT -5
(Fun fact about "Roll With It": it's the only song in the 1980s that hit #1 on Billboard's pop, rock, and adult contemporary charts.) And one of only three to even top both rock and AC within the decade (the second of which - "The Valley Road" - was just a couple months back).
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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 12, 2023 21:21:02 GMT -5
So, by repeating 1988 this week, they've once again taken a potentially good situation and ruined it.
Assuming they continue with the year order, without the 1988 repeat we would have had new charts from 1982 and 1984 in a few weeks. Instead, we can now expect a 1982 repeat from last year and a third time repeat of the *only* September 1984 chart ever played (out of five total charts that month.) Yippee??
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Post by laura on Aug 12, 2023 21:38:38 GMT -5
At least we're still getting a new August 1980 show and potentially 8/30/86 the next week.
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Post by jgve1952 on Aug 17, 2023 4:50:06 GMT -5
If my Math is correct, there are 20 Fridays left in 2023. If there aren't any Specials, each year would be featured twice if they do the same order 2023 started with: 80, 86, 82, 84, 87, 81, 89 (after the Presidential Special), 83, 88 and 85. Time will tell!
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Post by michaelcasselman on Aug 17, 2023 7:57:13 GMT -5
Unless they have special countdowns or programming when it comes to Labor Day weekend, or Thanksgiving, etc.
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Post by jgve1952 on Aug 18, 2023 4:44:08 GMT -5
Unless they have special countdowns or programming when it comes to Labor Day weekend, or Thanksgiving, etc. I would prefer an end of the year countdown, actually for the last two weeks of the year. Since they apparently have permission to use the Billboard charts, I would love to see two Top 40 countdowns of the year--maybe one from the early 80's, and one from the middle to late 80's.
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Post by laura on Aug 18, 2023 9:57:33 GMT -5
Unless they have special countdowns or programming when it comes to Labor Day weekend, or Thanksgiving, etc. I would prefer an end of the year countdown, actually for the last two weeks of the year. Since they apparently have permission to use the Billboard charts, I would love to see two Top 40 countdowns of the year--maybe one from the early 80's, and one from the middle to late 80's. They already did that a few years ago where they played all the year-end charts in a row. It was called the Big 1000.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 18, 2023 20:06:36 GMT -5
"8/22/80" chart... no Error Hunter
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Post by laura on Aug 18, 2023 20:06:49 GMT -5
Alan's on vacation for real this time so this'll go by quicker than the usual 1980 show. Plus no "good, bad, and ugly" comments.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Aug 18, 2023 22:44:53 GMT -5
Next week's Casey lite... 1987
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Post by mkarns on Aug 18, 2023 22:48:25 GMT -5
Next week's Casey lite... 1987 Oh whoopee, another Casey duplicate or near-duplicate. (Premiere has 8/29/87 scheduled; SXM might do 8/22.) The last time we got 1987 both Premiere and SXM did 7/4/87 the same week, and we haven't even cycled through all the other years since. I'd think that would mean that at least we won't get 9/12/87 for the umpteenth time, but we did just get two 1988 shows in three weeks so who knows....
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Post by laura on Aug 18, 2023 22:50:53 GMT -5
I can see them going with 8/29 though because they're doing 8/23/80 this weekend. But still, are they mixing things up again, or is the weird 1987 favoritism like last year rearing its head again? And again they squandered a chance to feature a new chart, because if they would have continued with the usual order, then 8/30/86 would have been next.
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Post by jgve1952 on Aug 19, 2023 7:42:38 GMT -5
I would prefer an end of the year countdown, actually for the last two weeks of the year. Since they apparently have permission to use the Billboard charts, I would love to see two Top 40 countdowns of the year--maybe one from the early 80's, and one from the middle to late 80's. They already did that a few years ago where they played all the year-end charts in a row. It was called the Big 1000. I was actually preferring a single countdown, not all 10 years at one installment. Also, if they did two Top 40 countdowns, that would be less chance for repeating the same music as the year transitions like 1985 to 1986, or 1983 and 1984, so there would be at least three weeks for that to occur. But as we know, they are going to do whatever they want.
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