Good thing Mike was on a plane this morning. I suspect this would have elicited much complaining and moaning from his corner, save for the Herbie.
An instrumental set needs a lot of familiar tunes, or else the DJ is going to lose the entire audience save the diehards. So I completely sympathize with AL here.
Really? How is that any different from songs with lyrics? If listeners are going to lose interest
because of unfamiliar material, it seems to me it doesn't matter if it's instrumental or not. For
myself, if a song grabs me with the quality of the music, I'm going to listen regardless of whether
I've heard it before.
I think words are a hook for the non-diehard. You are a diehard, so yes, you could stomach the unfamiliar.
Well, I am a die-hard 10@10 fan, so I will listen to an entire show, good or bad... but most of
the music of the late '90s and beyond is unfamiliar to me. I find much of it undistinguished,
and it goes in one ear and out the other. If I wasn't purposefully listening to 10@10, I'd
probably change the station. The lyrics
might hook me (if I can even understand them),
but if they don't... for myself, I don't see much difference between that and instrumentals.
In one case the lyrics might hook you if the music doesn't, but that's not a given.
