I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
DC (a self-proclaimed Daft Punk fan) spun it on New Music Thursday this morning. Live 105 has also been playing it like every other hour.
I want to love it because it's funky as hell but I just can't get past the inane lyrics.
"We've come too far to give up who we are / I'm up all night to have fun / she's up all night to get lucky / we're up all night to get lucky" WTF...it's as if they're defining themselves by having random sex in colloquial terms.
A funky song with inane lyrics? Gee, that NEVER happens. 
TANC: I was about to comment that it's interesting that KFOG loves to add songs after Live 105 discovers them, but the opposite never seems to happen -- Live 105 isn't playing that OMD song, afaik. And I wish they would... anyway I saw and liked your FB comment about it. Does KFOG only play it on Thursdays?
Thanks man! Yeah, KFOG only plays the OMD song on Thursdays. I checked Mediabase and no AAA or Alternative stations have OMD in regular rotation, yet. It's a shame because they seem to be getting a LOT of buzz right now, and definitely more than their 2011 album (which was also a respectable effort.) I have not even heard the OMD song on Live 105's new music program, Soundcheck. But it does sound like something that would fit right in now, especially with all the electro-rock that's dominating the alternative chart and the new wave gems they've been throwing around lately. Live 105 is also the current format leader for the new Depeche Mode song, "Soothe My Soul" which is pretty much a rehash of "Personal Jesus"...and much inferior to OMD's "Metroland" in my opinion.
Although, Depeche Mode has somehow manage to stay relevant on alternative over the past two decades. They're the only new wave band that has, for some reason. The latest efforts by New Order or Simple Minds did nothing on any US chart, sadly. Duran Duran's stuff from the last decade for some reason only charted on Alice(!!!)-like stations.
The only shared songs I know of that KFOG for sure got to first are Alabama Shakes "Hold On" and The Mowgli's "San Francisco." Part of it has to do with the timing...a lot of songs are just plain released to one format first (usually the Americana-esque types are sent to AAA first, like Alabama Shakes, Lumineers, etc...but I couldn't tell who got to "Hey Ho" first because for an AAA station, KFOG was VERY late in picking that one up. But the Mumfords and Black Keys generally get sent to Alternative first.) KFOG also played Muse's "Panic Station" for a couple of weeks, way before Live picked up on it but KFOG has since dropped it and gone back to "Madness," whereas Live 105 is currently spinning the hell out of both of them.
That being said...KFOG on its own volition still rips off Live 105, because they've played a bunch of songs that other AAA stations barely touch and even sound out of format for AAA (Linkin Park, Passion Pit, M83, Neon Trees) and were onto a couple of others before they got released to AAA (Alex Clare, Grouplove.) I'd include Capital Cities in this bunch as I don't see how it's any more AAA-friendly than Passion Pit or M83, but for some reason it's doing decently on a bunch of AAA stations. I was rooting for KFOG doing this at first because after the changeover, in addition to ripping off a couple of Live songs, they also played songs that Live 105 should have played, but didn't (i.e. Airborne Toxic's "All I ever Wanted," Kooks, Givers.) But now Live's gotten significantly better while KFOG has stagnated, even regressed a bit and the electro-alternative tracks really don't sound too good alongside Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton or Joan Osblorf. I'm glad that both stations seem to be trying to out-do each other, though. Both of them are more exciting than they've ever been in the past 5 years in my opinion.
