Moonlit_Angel
Blue Crack Addict
My mom's had our local top 40 station on at work sometimes (it's one that will come in easily, she sometimes has issues with the others. And often it's between the top 40 station and the country one, so...). She says that station still plays a shitton of '90s music as though it were brand new stuff. But not the wide variety that Q101 was playing. Mainly more the same 5 or 10 '90s songs over and over, like Sugar Ray and that sort of thing.
Anywho, boy, that story sounds familiar! That happened with my dad all the time-he'd come in at a station and shake up the format a little, play lesser-known songs, not repeat the same ones over and over, focus more on listener requests, expand the genre a bit (if he worked at a rock station he wouldn't just play the same 10 rock bands over and over).
And listeners would love it! The station would become really popular. Then the higher ups would start to get all bothered because this music "just wasn't their thing" and they didn't get the new changes (one station my dad worked at didn't want Lionel Ritchie's "Dancing on the Ceiling" being played before 3 pm because they felt that song was a bit "too raucous" for the listeners). And then Clear Channel or some other corporation would come in, buy up the station, my dad would lose his job (or in one or two instances, he quit when he saw the shit starting to go down), the station would go back to restricted formats or become automated, and listeners would leave in droves. And yet without fail the station managers and corporate people would still insist they did the right thing
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I still love that album, too. It's just way too fun for words. Their second one remains my personal favorite, though.
I really hope they do a proper tour again soon, I'd definitely go see them if they came to my neck of the woods.
Anywho, boy, that story sounds familiar! That happened with my dad all the time-he'd come in at a station and shake up the format a little, play lesser-known songs, not repeat the same ones over and over, focus more on listener requests, expand the genre a bit (if he worked at a rock station he wouldn't just play the same 10 rock bands over and over).
And listeners would love it! The station would become really popular. Then the higher ups would start to get all bothered because this music "just wasn't their thing" and they didn't get the new changes (one station my dad worked at didn't want Lionel Ritchie's "Dancing on the Ceiling" being played before 3 pm because they felt that song was a bit "too raucous" for the listeners). And then Clear Channel or some other corporation would come in, buy up the station, my dad would lose his job (or in one or two instances, he quit when he saw the shit starting to go down), the station would go back to restricted formats or become automated, and listeners would leave in droves. And yet without fail the station managers and corporate people would still insist they did the right thing
!I still love that album, too. It's just way too fun for words. Their second one remains my personal favorite, though.
I really hope they do a proper tour again soon, I'd definitely go see them if they came to my neck of the woods.
