There was a 'snipe comment to the effect that AL seems to post her threads later in the evening, and was that being done to cut down on requests. But it seems to me that she rarely plays requests for bustouts -- the requests that get played are for tried and true 10@10 staples -- so it doesn't matter when she posts.
And I think this is the primary difference between AL versions 1 and 2 - I do think in the previous era one of the requests would get played, and more than occasionally it would be something that wasn't a staple.
Yes, and iirc, a few of the regulary serial requesters noticed that she was more responsive to the calls for deep cuts than she was for the ones we've heard a bazillion times. So perhaps this is a conscious effort to avoid irritating the general populace?
Is there really a large contingent that is irritated every time they hear something they've never
heard before? Really? Or is it just catering to a small but vocal group of facepage users?
It may well be that, once again, I'm out of the mainstream. I just don't understand why KFOG,
particularly in the context of 10@10, isn't playing a lot
more different material. For some
older listeners it would be stuff they haven't heard in a while, and for the rest of the audience,
it is going to be something up their alley, musically.
As for the difference between AL 1.0 and 2.0, I don't know if it was due to facepage requests or
not... but in her first stint, she certainly seemed to be intentionally playing new (to 10@10)
stuff. I noticed it with Jefferson Airplane, Jethro Tull, and the Eno-Fripp axis, for some examples.
And some of this stuff won BOS, which seems to be a validation of playing it on the show.
