Interesting article...

Post #103,866 by bepatient 5/28/03 4:48:40 PM Reply	Interesting article... ...found this [link\|http://www.radiodiversity.com/whokilledradio.html\|http://www.radiodive...okilledradio.html] For anyone who loves music, most commercial radio frustrates because it's programmed for everyone's benefit -- advertisers, record companies, the most casual listeners -- but their own. REV 105, by defining modern rock in a broad but informed way, and by avoiding the mindnumbing repetition that drives dedicated music fans crazy, violated two tenets of the ratings-obsessed radio programmer: Keep your playlist tight, and pound the hits till your most fickle listeners are familiar with them. Despite a weak broadcast signal, such renegade behavior earned REV 105 respectable ratings -- at one time a 5.4 market share of 18-to-34 year-old listeners -- and a loyal, grateful following in a town steeped in a musical risk-taking tradition. If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #103,944 by drewk 5/29/03 9:48:10 AM Reply	Depressing quote from that Philips sounds like the stodgiest Top 40 programmer when he talks about why a typical Prodigy song doesn't work well on 99X: "What are you supposed to do to it? There's nothing to sing along to; there's no lyric per se. There's no traditional melody or harmony. It's a little bit... abstract to work as a traditional radio song." Talk about lack of respect for your listeners. If you can't sing along you don't want to hear it? === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #103,946 by jbrabeck 5/29/03 9:52:27 AM Reply	Don't you remember singing along to . . . Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Rachminoff, etc.? They all had such catchy lyrics... [link\|mailto:jbrabeck@attbi.com\|Joe]
Post #103,951 by SpiceWare 5/29/03 10:02:26 AM Reply	Wagner "kill the wabbit" "kill the wabbit" Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #103,952 by Another Scott 5/29/03 10:14:35 AM Reply	Ha!
Post #103,957 by jb4 5/29/03 10:28:44 AM Reply	giggle Yes...my favorite piece of opera... jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #104,029 by Nightowl 5/29/03 7:59:59 PM Reply	Re: Don't you remember singing along to . . . Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Rachminoff, etc.? They all had such catchy lyrics... Hehehehe, actually, I sing all the time to classical music. I make up lyrics and sing to my birdie ;) Nightowl >8# "Only dead fish swim with the stream." Linda Ellerbee
Post #103,965 by jb4 5/29/03 10:39:17 AM Reply	"Too long, too down, no play!" This is the mating call of my second PD; it is the "excuse" he used not to play a cut. Sound familiar? jb4 "We continue to live in a world where all our know-how is locked into binary files in an unknown format. If our documents are our corporate memory, Microsoft still has us all condemned to Alzheimer's." Simon Phipps, SUN Microsystems
Post #103,966 by inthane-chan 5/29/03 10:41:19 AM Reply	Shine on you crazy diamonds?

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