KFOG, But Not 10@10

[darryl]

I'm conducting the following survey on my FB and Google Plus:

Quick survey (although not using FB's Question gadget):
- Do you listen to the radio?
- If so, what station(s)?
- Do you listen to music other ways (CDs, MP3s, Pandora, Spotify, Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music, etc.)?
- Age range: <21, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51+?

Thanks -- it's just for personal knowledge (and discussion on a geeky radio forum I'm in), but I'll be happy to post results.

I agree that you guys are outliers though, so feel free to skip it.

[RGMike]

another observation: when the big switch happened last month, it seemed like they were hitting stuff like Neon Trees, Airborne Toxic Event and "Seven Nation Army" pretty hard. Now its back to being Soccer Mom Central: Sting's "Desert Rose" comes up a LOT, and we're getting John Mayer, Jazn Mrazzzzz and the like.

[darryl]

I finally heard "Seven Nation Army" tonight! But shortly thereafter, Rob Thomas + Santana's "Smooth". Ugh. And then not two songs later, the some old Matchbox 20. I'm sorry, but I'll take Mr.Az over Rob Thomas any day.

BTW, the song between them? Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks", which really, I liked the first 100 times I heard it, but now it is in *HEAVY* rotation on KFOG -- 5 times a day.  Damn.

[RGMike]

I finally heard "Seven Nation Army" tonight! But shortly thereafter, Rob Thomas + Santana's "Smooth". Ugh. And then not two songs later, the some old Matchbox 20. I'm sorry, but I'll take Mr.Az over Rob Thomas any day.

BTW, the song between them? Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks", which really, I liked the first 100 times I heard it, but now it is in *HEAVY* rotation on KFOG -- 5 times a day.  Damn.

"Pumped Up" is a HUGE record at Triple-A, nationally. Despite a lot of teeth-gnashing about the lyrics.

[darryl]

I finally heard "Seven Nation Army" tonight! But shortly thereafter, Rob Thomas + Santana's "Smooth". Ugh. And then not two songs later, the some old Matchbox 20. I'm sorry, but I'll take Mr.Az over Rob Thomas any day.

BTW, the song between them? Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks", which really, I liked the first 100 times I heard it, but now it is in *HEAVY* rotation on KFOG -- 5 times a day.  Damn.

"Pumped Up" is a HUGE record at Triple-A, nationally. Despite a lot of teeth-gnashing about the lyrics.

Funny - my wife was telling me what they were about and calling out the bits about "better run", "got my gun", and I had no idea. Whoa!

[darryl]

Watching the Live+Local Livestream of the KFOG Morning Show from Marin. I love it -- it's like watching sausage being made.

Greg, upon learning that they only ended up with two "talent show" contestants for the MUSE ticket giveaway: "Fuck!"

With Webster trying to decide what to play after Bonnie Raitt's "In The Nick of Time":
Webster: "How about some Neil Young?"
Greg: "Yeah... Oh wait, no, that's too many Golden Oldies in a row.  How about Matt Nathanson instead?"

"The Nick of Time" from 1989 is a Golden Oldie now? Hah!

[darryl]

Also, haha:
Greg: "I haven't gone to the bathroom all day"
Webster: "Yeah, coffee and cold weather..."

[RGMike]

Watching the Live+Local Livestream of the KFOG Morning Show from Marin. I love it -- it's like watching sausage being made.

Greg, upon learning that they only ended up with two "talent show" contestants for the MUSE ticket giveaway: "Fuck!"

With Webster trying to decide what to play after Bonnie Raitt's "In The Nick of Time":
Webster: "How about some Neil Young?"
Greg: "Yeah... Oh wait, no, that's too many Golden Oldies in a row.  How about Matt Nathanson instead?"

"The Nick of Time" from 1989 is a Golden Oldie now? Hah!

That is pretty funny, tho' he may have meant the age of the artists rather than the age of their songs. 

but it occurred to me that when Dave started 10@10 in '82, they went back, basically, 20 years*, with the occasional "Fifties Friday" just for fun.  And today we'll go back 42 years to 1969. So what DC is trying to do isn't exactly radical, to be fair.

* - there's a legendary Morey segue from the early days I read about somewhere: he was doing 1963 and they had a clip of the JFK assassination. Someone was saying "where did the shots come from?" followed immediately by the Drifters singing "up on the roof..."  Oh, Dave.

[RGMike]

Had another thought, re: the newly reconfigured KFOG... I wonder if they'll do "A-to-Z" again anytime soon, and what it will sound like if they do. 

And what happened to that new Cars album? they didn't exactly play that a whole lot -- safe to say it was a flop?

[radical347]

Had another thought, re: the newly reconfigured KFOG... I wonder if they'll do "A-to-Z" again anytime soon, and what it will sound like if they do. 

And what happened to that new Cars album? they didn't exactly play that a whole lot -- safe to say it was a flop?

FWIW, at the panel back in March DC said he was a huge fan of A-Z and is planning on bring it back.

Yeah, they spun the new Cars for about a month and the dropped it.  AFAIK it's the only song added since the DC takeover that's already been dropped (They're still spinning all of the ones he added back in March...Keane ft. K'Naan, Arcade Fire, Amos Lee, Michael Franti "Hey"x3, JJ - From the Clouds).  Too bad...IMO it's the best new song from an 80s band since Depeche Mode "Precious" back in 2006.  I don't think it's because the Cars are too "old" for the demo as they're still spinning a bunch of their old hits.  But it's not just KFOG, the Cars song isn't really getting spun too much anymore nationally.  Maybe the record company just decided to pull the plug.

[sundaygal]

Had another thought, re: the newly reconfigured KFOG... I wonder if they'll do "A-to-Z" again anytime soon, and what it will sound like if they do. 

And what happened to that new Cars album? they didn't exactly play that a whole lot -- safe to say it was a flop?

FWIW, at the panel back in March DC said he was a huge fan of A-Z and is planning on bring it back.

Yeah, they spun the new Cars for about a month and the dropped it.  AFAIK it's the only song added since the DC takeover that's already been dropped (They're still spinning all of the ones he added back in March...Keane ft. K'Naan, Arcade Fire, Amos Lee, Michael Franti "Hey"x3, JJ - From the Clouds).  Too bad...IMO it's the best new song from an 80s band since Depeche Mode "Precious" back in 2006.  I don't think it's because the Cars are too "old" for the demo as they're still spinning a bunch of their old hits.  But it's not just KFOG, the Cars song isn't really getting spun too much anymore nationally.  Maybe the record company just decided to pull the plug.

...and yet, they're still playing that Snow Patrol song (which was never great in the first place).  I'd rather hear Piano Man 5 times a day on Oldies 103.7 than this crap.

[RGMike]

Had another thought, re: the newly reconfigured KFOG... I wonder if they'll do "A-to-Z" again anytime soon, and what it will sound like if they do. 

And what happened to that new Cars album? they didn't exactly play that a whole lot -- safe to say it was a flop?

FWIW, at the panel back in March DC said he was a huge fan of A-Z and is planning on bring it back.

Of course in March he was still in "Old KFOG" mode -- not sure if he realized that the current situation would be happening.

[RGMike]

...and yet, they're still playing that Snow Patrol song (which was never great in the first place).  I'd rather hear Piano Man 5 times a day on Oldies 103.7 than this crap.

and don't forget Coldplay, "Every Teardrop is Another Piece of Jewelry For Gwynneth"

[radical347]

...and yet, they're still playing that Snow Patrol song (which was never great in the first place).  I'd rather hear Piano Man 5 times a day on Oldies 103.7 than this crap.

Oh no you didn't!    

[radical347]

Had another thought, re: the newly reconfigured KFOG... I wonder if they'll do "A-to-Z" again anytime soon, and what it will sound like if they do. 

And what happened to that new Cars album? they didn't exactly play that a whole lot -- safe to say it was a flop?

FWIW, at the panel back in March DC said he was a huge fan of A-Z and is planning on bring it back.

Of course in March he was still in "Old KFOG" mode -- not sure if he realized that the current situation would be happening.

Good point.  But I hope the bigwigs realize that there's enough contemporary-ish songs to let DC give A-Z a go.  It just better not suck like the 2001 set.