This limited playlist thing isn’t, er, limited to commercial radio. I have satellite radio and given any station I listen to regularly, can almost guarantee three songs that will be played in an hour. It’s discouraging to have a gazillion stations and not be able to find anything you really want to hear, but on the other hand, if I DO want to hear, say, Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic” I can generally find it within a few songs.
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I have always thought it was strange that the local stations that advertise that they play “Top 40 Hits”, don’t play a lot of songs that I actually heard them play way back when.
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Other performers, such as Herb Alpert and the Tijiuana Brass, had several huge and long running hits back in the 60’s, but modern Top 40 radio just ignores them.
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Oldies stations cater mainly to people who were teens during the 60’s and Herb Alpert, despite his frequent airplay on Top 40 stations during the decade, appealed mainly to people who, at the time, were over 30.
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*Can we start a movement to strike The Headpins from the CanCon list?
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cough Trooper cough
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We get another version of this on top of that one with our Canadian Content rules here - not only do I get sick of the two Billy Joel songs they play, but they play the same handful of Canadian songs incessantly* (again, there must be thousands to choose from - one thing Canada has no shortage of is good music.)
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Does this mean that you at least get to hear Rush on the radio with some frequency? I only hear Rush on the radio once in a blue moon around here, and it’s always Tom Sawyer or Closer to the Heart.
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Do you hear Gary Glitter? I can’t remember if I have or not.
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The jokes write themselves, people.
[sub]I’m sorry, but that statement just absolutely cracked me up. My reaction: “Yeah, no kidding!”[/sub]
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Does this mean that you at least get to hear Rush on the radio with some frequency? I only hear Rush on the radio once in a blue moon around here, and it’s always Tom Sawyer or Closer to the Heart.
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Frequently, yes. Most often, Tom Sawyer or Closer to the Heart. Repeatedly.
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Frequently, yes. Most often, Tom Sawyer or Closer to the Heart. Repeatedly.
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What, your radio stations don’t play “The Spirit of Radio” nonstop?
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<snip> Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic” I can generally find it within a few songs.
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See, that brings up a great example of what we’re talking about. A very talented Canadian artist, Colin James, released a very good album* with a very good cover of “Into the Mystic” on it, and I think I heard it on the radio once. CanCon is supposed to help level the playing field for Canadian artists so they don’t get drowned in the deluge of music from our neighbours to the south who is ten times larger than we are. I think the radio stations are completely ignoring the spirit of CanCon and just adhering to the letter, which doesn’t make listeners (or probably artists) happy.
*The album is called “Limelight.”
And re-reading my post, I see I have strayed quite a way from the OP. Oops. My bad.
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Sorry to bump this thread but I had another question somewhat along the same lines.
Well, yeah, that was it. How come oldies (or at least, non-current music) stations always play the same songs from particular artists even when the artist in question had several hits? Billy Joel is a good example of this. The stations here only ever play Piano Man and Big Shot, occasionally spicing it up with Anthony’s Song (Movin’ Out). Why just those? I seem to recall a few other Billy Joel songs.
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Yeah, the Stranger was the first album i bought for myself, but do you really want to hear Always a Woman? 30 yers later that song still sucks.
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And re-reading my post, I see I have strayed quite a way from the OP. Oops. My bad.
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Pssst, featherlou–over here.