Yecch, this set reminded me of Dave-type 90s sets. No BOS's, but HM's to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and John Hiatt.
WOS to Squirrel Nut Zippers. I HATE that song! (Although, it wasn't nearly as bad as that Cherry Poppin' Daddies song that was released slightly later...)
wow -- interesting. We (as a group) tended to dislike Dave's '90s sets: too much KFOG playlist fodder and not enuf outside-the-box stuff. But this set was not that at all, to my ears. Nearly 2/3 of it was Live 105 songs that KFOG completely ignored in '97.
As I stated earlier, '97 is by far my favorite year of that decade; and Dave only did one or two 1997 sets (and he did, to his credit, play Hanson's "MMMMBop" in one of 'em). It's a rare '90s set that elicits multiple BOS's from me; hope AL can keep it up.
I think what made this one (and Dave's 90s sets) a snoozer for me wasn't necessarily that it had too much old KFOG playlist stuff but that it was full of Hot AC recurrents - Sarah McLachlan, Mighty Mighty Bosstones (great song, but still Hot AC these days), Blur, Fiona Apple, and the Foo Fighters. I hear those daily on Alice or Star. (Funny though, speaking of MMMBop I actually heard that today on Alice for the first time in years!) I actually like the old KFOG staples because I had not discovered Triple A radio in 97 and by the time I did most stations had stopped playing those -- for instance I had never heard Huffamoose or the Big Head Todd version of Boom Boom & only heard that Knopfler tune once.
There is quite a bit of overlap between recurrents that are played on Hot AC nowadays and songs that were hits on Alternative and AAA stations back then. Dave's 90s sets had too much AAA/Hot AC overlap (i.e. Wallflowers) whereas Annalisa's previous 90s sets played Alternative hits with little to no overlap. (99, 90, & 94 were great!) But today's set had quite a bit of Alt/Hot AC overlap so that explains why I found it boring as hell.
Plus, that Sarah McLachlan song is IMO one of her blandest and most overplayed, not to mention an even more lethargic TOTHC than 99.9 F was a few days ago -- I thought "Sweet Surrender" would have been much better.
But, despite my hate for "Hell," I have to give her credit for it because it did make me stop and go, "ah, I remember that one!"