Beats the hell out of today's 'hits' for 39-47 straight weeks of the same old/same OLD song played ad infinitum and 'performed' by artists ... many of whom you WISH were dead...before it gets dropped into recurrent for another 39-47 weeks worth of daily air-play.  It's entirely debilitating.

Today's 'hits' and yesterdays 'classics'...literally.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last edited by Old Codger (March 20, 2016 10:18 am)

Jeff McArthur recently had as a 640 Toronto topic some rock band that had announced its retirement and invited comment.   A caller remarked that he has watched American Graffiti over 100 times.  McArthur jumped all over that (as an alert talk show host should) and asked what on earth anyone could get out of that film.    The caller responded that he always finds it entertaining

That could apply to Andy Frost's Psychedelic Sundays.    Week after week after week (except for the 1/2 hour album side which is unique) probably 90% of the tunes Frost hosts are the same as those heard the Sunday before.  Just the order is changed.   So why do we listen?    Could it be the same reason the AM 640 caller watches American Graffiti?     Familiar and oddly comforting?


 

Kilgore wrote:

Jeff McArthur recently had as a 640 Toronto topic some rock band that had announced its retirement and invited comment.   A caller remarked that he has watched American Graffiti over 100 times.  McArthur jumped all over that (as an alert talk show host should) and asked what on earth anyone could get out of that film.    The caller responded that he always finds it entertaining

That could apply to Andy Frost's Psychedelic Sundays.    Week after week after week (except for the 1/2 hour album side which is unique) probably 90% of the tunes Frost hosts are the same as those heard the Sunday before.  Just the order is changed.   So why do we listen?    Could it be the same reason the AM 640 caller watches American Graffiti?     Familiar and oddly comforting?


 

Isn't it interesting we treat movies and music so differently. I have no trouble blowing out an afternoon if I stumble across The Godfather on television but if I have to hear China Grove just one more time, there could be a body bag filled as a result.

The movie (like the song) never changes and we know what's coming but for some reason we'll sit and watch movies over and over so why do we get sick of the same songs over and over? Surely the song is just as good now as it was the first time, and it's nowhere near the time commitment that a movie is. And because I've just mentioned it, I now want to go watch The Godfather.

We can assume there is no punk in the format, because it isn't dead.

Charlie wrote:

I like Psych Sundays, but it could be so much more interesting from a musical standpoint, if they just mixed in a few lesser-known tracks.  Instead of playing the same songs over and over, dig a little deeper, and play other songs from those classic albums once in a while.  Even if they suck, at least we won't be subjected to Born To Be Wild for the 8,000th time.

ahhh, but "born to be wild" is scored as can-con.
 

StevieB wrote:

I went to the "Uptown backstage" Theatre no less than a dozen times to watch American Graffiti

My 4-year-old grandson can choose from a huge box of DVDs but will only watch Thomas the Tank Engine or Cars (favorite character is Mater)



 

Radio commercials would be ever-so-much-more entertaining if they employed a little 'tourettes' into the scripting.  They're too straight.  Too homogenized.  Too dammmm B O R I N G.  It's supposed to be entertainment.  Don't 'get serious' unless you're selling funerals.

Ferryman's on WKRP is classic.  Most commericals...aka 'spots'...are TUNE OUT factors 'cause they out and out suck.  And that's good for the client and the audience how exactly?

[That's right NO n in my 'damms'.  Dont' want to offend those who subscribe to the 'man in the sky' theory.  ]