From the "What the heck?" newsroom........

[cisforkoke]

There are some great songs about self-gratification:
'I Touch Myself' - Divinyls

Eh? Does not compute.

 

[MUTigers]

And an album title:
Pete Townshend's "All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes"

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I'm not one of you wealthy Sirius radio people, but 'classic rock' format on regular radio is unlistenable.
A ot of Motley Crue, the Scorpions, an even stranger abundance of Billy Squier - that's what classic rock radio has become.
And it sucks, just as it did when it was new music.

I've really got nothing against Billy Squier, but those songs are better as a surprise once every five to 10 years. When you're getting Squier multiple times in a month on a station you listen to about 20 minutes per month, that's too much Squier.

There was an article maybe a year ago about how classic rock radio varies a lot by region. In San Antonio they play more Motley Crue than anything. NYC and NJ are heavy on Springsteen and Billy Joel. LA stations love Pearl Jam and in Boston they play more Allman Brothers than almost anywhere else.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

Found the article:

Why Classic Rock Isn't What It Used To Be

 

[Buck]

When I was undergrad outside Pittsburgh in late 1980s, a friend and I noticed a difference.
We were both from outside Philly, where you hear a lot of Stones, for example, on classic rock radio, but Pittsburgh radio at the time played more Skynyrd.


I guess what I'm really saying is Motley Crue and the Scorpions suck, and I've heard more Squier in the past four-five weeks than I ever heard or wanted to hear when I was in middle school.

 

[Chef2]

Everyone is subscribing to the BOB "format"....the "format" being there isn't one.

I think it cheapens the product. Great from an advertising standpoint. Little to no tune-out factor because you never know what you're going to hear next.
Great from a PD standpoint.......you just have a rack and go. Never been a fan of it though.

 

[Buck]

Most of time I'm listening to sports talk or playlist or podcast, so minor effect on me.
I get maybe 20-30 minutes of regular radio music format in a month.
Still bugs me.

 

[Starman]

Everyone is subscribing to the BOB "format"....the "format" being there isn't one.

I think it cheapens the product. Great from an advertising standpoint. Little to no tune-out factor because you never know what you're going to hear next.
Great from a PD standpoint.......you just have a rack and go. Never been a fan of it though.

That goes out the window if you play Billy Squier more than about once every three days.

 

[Chef2]

That goes out the window if you play Billy Squier more than about once every three days.

Fair point.

 

[Riptide]

Found the article:

Why Classic Rock Isn't What It Used To Be

But do radio stations rely at all on the institutional knowledge of their DJs to decide what to play? Nope. The role of the song-picking DJ is dead. "I know there are some stations and some companies where if you change a song it's a fireable offense," Wellman said, cavalierly ruining the magic.

End of days, man. End of days.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

 

[Twirling Time]

Terrestrial music radio in general is dreck. No matter the format, it's the same 20 songs in heavy rotation with about another 30 or so mixed in. Some of them may be songs you liked at one time, but you're tired of listening to them by now. I stick to talk radio, which sadly isn't much better.