Backtrax USA

[JMW]

(I'm talking about the 80s version.)

Has anyone here that listens to the show noticed that sometimes Kid Kelly gives the wrong year for songs or for certain events in the '80s?

I was listening to some of this week's show and heard him say during the "guess the year" segment that the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the debut of the Arsenio Hall show happened in 1987 instead of 1989 (and then played Bon Jovi's I'll Be There For You, also from 1989). Another example was from a show I heard sometime last year; he said that a song from 1988 was from 1983. I don't listen to the 90s version, so I don't know if the same thing happens on there.

[BrettVW]

Yeah, I've noticed that. I've even heard it where he intro'd one song, and another played. It seems just like poor production. Honestly, I can't even tell you the last time I listened to Backtrax. I used to listen all of the time, but honestly, if you listen to a show from 5, 10, 15 years ago, or this weekend's show, it is truly the same music, trivia, and pop culture clips over and over and over again. I understand you can't make an old decade "new", but Kid just sounds bored on the show and after almost 20 years in production, let's hear some new production. Or some type of special, focus on one hit wonders, a specific year, etc etc.

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Jan 23, 2011 22:44:48 GMT -5 BrettVW said:

Yeah, I've noticed that. I've even heard it where he intro'd one song, and another played. It seems just like poor production. Honestly, I can't even tell you the last time I listened to Backtrax. I used to listen all of the time, but honestly, if you listen to a show from 5, 10, 15 years ago, or this weekend's show, it is truly the same music, trivia, and pop culture clips over and over and over again. I understand you can't make an old decade "new", but Kid just sounds bored on the show and after almost 20 years in production, let's hear some new production. Or some type of special, focus on one hit wonders, a specific year, etc etc.

And it's the same songs, it's the same bumpers and jingles, etc. I know 2 or 3 times they at least changed the open to the shows, but last time I heard it they hadn't even done that in 5 or 6 years. This show sounds to me a lot like Dees's shows. Trying to stay relevant but not wanting to put any effort into doing so.

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

Remember that Kid Kelly was (and may still be) the executive to whom the Sirius XM Decades channel DJs report at some level above them. Thus another indication of his blandness on Backtrax USA carrying over elsewhere., considering how the playlists and programming quality on these SXM channels have changed for the worse since the merger.

[mkarns]

I liked Backtrax USA when I first heard it (mid-1990s), as Kid Kelly was playing a lot of songs that I hadn't heard in years, if ever. But as 1980s music became more widely played and the Backtrax playlist didn't go noticeably deeper, mostly rotating among the same songs being played elsewhere, I lost interest. Frankly, if Kid sounds bored I can't really blame him. However, he or someone on staff should at least catch the factual errors before broadcast, something that is also true for the SXM Decades deejays and even sometimes Larry's segments introducing the extras in Premiere's AT40 replays.

[Mike]

Jan 26, 2011 11:35:30 GMT -5 Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever said:

Remember that Kid Kelly was (and may still be) the executive to whom the Sirius XM Decades channel DJs report at some level above them. Thus another indication of his blandness on Backtrax USA carrying over elsewhere., considering how the playlists and programming quality on these SXM channels have changed for the worse since the merger.

This doesn't even seem like blandness, IMO...to me this feels like a blatant refusal to put effort in. It's like, "I've got a nice cushy job makin' me even more (bleep) money than I already have, so I don't need to worry about nothin'."

That's putting it a little crudely, but it's both deliberately catering to the lazy subscriber and deliberately refusing to even hear complaints from those who really care.

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Jan 26, 2011 23:28:58 GMT -5 Mike said:

Jan 26, 2011 11:35:30 GMT -5 Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever said:

Remember that Kid Kelly was (and may still be) the executive to whom the Sirius XM Decades channel DJs report at some level above them. Thus another indication of his blandness on Backtrax USA carrying over elsewhere., considering how the playlists and programming quality on these SXM channels have changed for the worse since the merger.

This doesn't even seem like blandness, IMO...to me this feels like a blatant refusal to put effort in. It's like, "I've got a nice cushy job makin' me even more (bleep) money than I already have, so I don't need to worry about nothin'."

That's putting it a little crudely, but it's both deliberately catering to the lazy subscriber and deliberately refusing to even hear complaints from those who really care.

100% agree. Did you see they have asked the FCC to remove the pricing freeze they have on them? They are apparently going to try and raise the price again.