Casey1505:
If you’re curious, I live in Spokane, WA and the station that switched formats was formerly a syndicated classic rock station.
Casey1505:
If you’re curious, I live in Spokane, WA and the station that switched formats was formerly a syndicated classic rock station.
NDP, I’m sorry to hear that
I was picking up what you were laying down, it just strikes me as funny that Tone Loc is considered hip-hop. I think of him in the same vein as Sir Mix A Lot and Biz Markie. Rap novelty acts. Admittedly, these are not my favorite forms of music (rap & hip hop). He doesn’t leap to mind when someone says hip hop, though.
Could be a Clear Channel thing… a local rock station did the same thing a few years ago-- all Led Zep, all the time. Shortly thereafter (once they started playing other stuff,) they announced that they were KTUX, black sheep of the Clear Channel family.
Of course, in the mid-80s, when the station first set up shop, they played nothing but They’re Coming to Take Me Away for two weeks straight…
-David
Last year, the only independant FM radio station in Fargo decided to change from a “Hot Talk” format to oldies. Before the change, they played nothing but construction sounds for two weeks. They followed this by announcing that they were now the “only Louie Louie” Station. They played NOTHING but all the various covers of Louie Louie for more than three weeks.
That was evil.
A station by me did that too, about 10 years ago. They played “Louie Louie” constantly for about 3 1/2 weeks (could’ve been more, I can’t remember exactly).
I never thought I could hate a song that much.
We had a station change from classic country to sports talk about a year ago. They announced the change by alternating “Rock ‘n’ Roll Pt. 2” by Gary Glitter with an overbearing promo extolling the virtues of Fox Sports Radio and Jim Rome.
For two weeks.
Ugh.
Can’t remember what station it was, but here in LA, someone announced a format change by playing the first phrase of “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls for 24 hours non-stop.
Like a lot of guitarists who took up the instrument in the 70’s, one of the first songs i learned was Stairway to Heaven. I liked Zeppelin then.
But now if I never hear them again, it won’t be too long a wait. It’s not that they’re bad, but, in retrospect, it just seems like the mainstream rock of those years was just so – mainstream somehow. It was boring. At least the psychedelic bands of the 60’s were trying to create a mood. And a lot has come out since the 70’s that I really like. But the 70’s generally was, for me, a grey period in rock.
Radio Shatner – All Shatner, All the Time. The Official Radio Station of Hell.
It seems that the worst song is now Little Room, at least according to those in the St. Louis area.
I disagree. I think it would be this one:
Whoever made that decision must be destroyed.
Just an update … today it’s …
“Van 97.3 … all Van Halen, all the time.”
We had a local station try to do this as a real format with all Beatle’s, post-Beatles and covers of Beatle’s songs.
Which is how I heard “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” done by William Shatner. :rolleyes:
He also tried to make it completely automatic, running off of a computer with no one at all at the station to make sure nothing went wrong. Unfortunately, the station was down for 3 weeks when one of their biggest promos was supposed to be going on.
Turned out he had inherited the station and was just holding the frequency until he could sell it (at least according to my ex - not the most reliable source of information ever)
Another station that switched from pop to light jazz played the sound crickets and other evening sounds for several days until the new format got cranking. I bet that screwed up a few people who used their radio alarm to get up!
A friend once told me of a station in the San Jose area that during a format change simply started playing a robotic (Think S. Hawkings vocoder) countdown…