10@10 - Discussion of KFOG's show in general

[dischead]

I noticed KFOG's using rdio instead of Mixcloud (or SoundCloud) now...

Okay, so I bit, because I wanted Monday's set...

Apparently the 10@10 shows are no longer available to be streamed.  No intro, no backsell,
no sounders, no clips.  I had no problem using a bogus e-mail address to start, but it led to
a rdio playlist of just the songs.  And while Monday's set used the live version of Jefferson
Airplane's Volunteers from the Woodstock soundtrack (including Grace's "morning maniac
music" line), the one on the playlist was from the studio album.

Bah.

[CapnJack]

I noticed KFOG's using rdio instead of Mixcloud (or SoundCloud) now...

Okay, so I bit, because I wanted Monday's set...

Apparently the 10@10 shows are no longer available to be streamed.  No intro, no backsell,
no sounders, no clips.  I had no problem using a bogus e-mail address to start, but it led to
a rdio playlist of just the songs.  And while Monday's set used the live version of Jefferson
Airplane's Volunteers from the Woodstock soundtrack (including Grace's "morning maniac
music" line), the one on the playlist was from the studio album.

Bah.

Actually, that's the one set from this week that has been uploaded to Mixcloud:

https://www.mixcloud.com/KFOGRadio/08-03-2015-1010-kfog-local-music-month-of-mondays-vol-1/

Enjoy!

ETA: If you want to download said set (it's in .m4a format, IIRC), you can use:

http://www.download-mixcloud.com/

[MGBMAC]

So I may be slow but just to be clear, the 10@10 shows are no longer being stored on Mixcloud?   But they are streamed live on the KFOG website?  Any recommendations for my ability to record and listen later would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

[urth]

So I may be slow but just to be clear, the 10@10 shows are no longer being stored on Mixcloud?   But they are streamed live on the KFOG website?  Any recommendations for my ability to record and listen later would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I think what's being streamed from the KFOG site are Rdio playlists consisting of the 10 songs from that day's set, but there's none of the other content that goes with it -- no clips, no intro, no backsell. And nothing new has been posted since last Friday.

Nothing new has been posted to Mixcloud since the first Local Artists set on Aug 3.

[dischead]

I suspect we really are getting all-'90s this week, so that the Saturday marathon matches the rest of the "Nuthin' But Nineties" weekend. If so, it'll be the first all-one-decade week since Dave was forced to go all-'80s on that fateful month 15 years ago.

Will Rosalie have to do an all-'90s Acoustic Sunrise?

ETA: Renee said we're getting another '90s year today. I have a sneaking suspicion that next week, we'll discover that '70s sets are gone forever.  It'll be 2 '90s, 2 '80s and an '00s set each week and '04 and '05 will make their debuts in short order. Just my random prediction.

I can always count on you to look on the bright side of things!   

I don't think that '70s sets will be eliminated, but they will continue with only occasional appearances, just as '60s
sets did.  For some perspective, older readers should consider what they would think if they were listening to a radio
station during the '70s that played lots of depression-era music from the 1930s.  The one big difference being that
"rock & roll" in its present form (depending on where you put your yardstick) has been dominant form of popular music
for fifty to sixty years.

[Big Fingers McGee]

I know there are reasons and all, but KFOG really needs to come up with a contingency plan for when AL is out for extended periods of time.

[ggould]

I suspect we really are getting all-'90s this week, so that the Saturday marathon matches the rest of the "Nuthin' But Nineties" weekend. If so, it'll be the first all-one-decade week since Dave was forced to go all-'80s on that fateful month 15 years ago.

Will Rosalie have to do an all-'90s Acoustic Sunrise?

ETA: Renee said we're getting another '90s year today. I have a sneaking suspicion that next week, we'll discover that '70s sets are gone forever.  It'll be 2 '90s, 2 '80s and an '00s set each week and '04 and '05 will make their debuts in short order. Just my random prediction.

I can always count on you to look on the bright side of things!   

I don't think that '70s sets will be eliminated, but they will continue with only occasional appearances, just as '60s
sets did.  For some perspective, older readers should consider what they would think if they were listening to a radio
station during the '70s that played lots of depression-era music from the 1930s.  The one big difference being that
"rock & roll" in its present form (depending on where you put your yardstick) has been dominant form of popular music
for fifty to sixty years.

FM Rock radio essentially started in '67

[RGMike]

I suspect we really are getting all-'90s this week, so that the Saturday marathon matches the rest of the "Nuthin' But Nineties" weekend. If so, it'll be the first all-one-decade week since Dave was forced to go all-'80s on that fateful month 15 years ago.

Will Rosalie have to do an all-'90s Acoustic Sunrise?

ETA: Renee said we're getting another '90s year today. I have a sneaking suspicion that next week, we'll discover that '70s sets are gone forever.  It'll be 2 '90s, 2 '80s and an '00s set each week and '04 and '05 will make their debuts in short order. Just my random prediction.

I can always count on you to look on the bright side of things!   

I don't think that '70s sets will be eliminated, but they will continue with only occasional appearances, just as '60s
sets did.  For some perspective, older readers should consider what they would think if they were listening to a radio
station during the '70s that played lots of depression-era music from the 1930s.  The one big difference being that
"rock & roll" in its present form (depending on where you put your yardstick) has been dominant form of popular music
for fifty to sixty years.

FM Rock radio essentially started in '67

I'm happy to say dischead's optimism has been rewarded, as we began this week with a swell '76 rerun and ended with '68.  In-between: '85, '01 and '80 -- not a '90s set to be heard.  Whether this was an aberration or the beginning of more variety remains to be seen. Hard to tell who or what the KFOG audience is these days -- when I listen to the younger end of the demo playing Mind the Gap and hear how clueless they are  about fairly obvious stuff (nobody's asking them to name a Chocolate Watchband LP; but not recognizing Bowie's voice on "Heroes"? That seems sad to me -- what was playing in the homes they grew up in?).

Interestingly, today was National One Hit Wonder Day -- woulda been an excuse for AL to do one of those theme sets that cover 4 or 5 decades, but she went with '68.  Time will tell...

[RGMike]

Happened to get up around 6:50 to take a leak and flipped on the bathroom radio -- they were 4 songs into 1976, which means it was either the first set (and started really late) or the second (and started really early).

later, they did the "mystery" 1980 set at 9am and (unsurprisingly) 2001 at 10.

[RGMike]

Fully expected '90s today and we got '87 -- close, yeah, but no cigar.  It has been 12 days since we had a '90s set (tho' there was a 2001 in the mix). Is it possible that the "nuthin' but nineties" weekend and surrounding emphasis on that decade engendered some audience push-back? or worse, that the ratings weren't as stellar as hoped? Funny that they crave a younger demo but need a certain amount of older folks to pad the overall numbers. Plus: without "geezers" there's no Mind the Gap.

[urth]

Fully expected '90s today and we got '87 -- close, yeah, but no cigar.  It has been 12 days since we had a '90s set (tho' there was a 2001 in the mix). Is it possible that the "nuthin' but nineties" weekend and surrounding emphasis on that decade engendered some audience push-back? or worse, that the ratings weren't as stellar as hoped? Funny that they crave a younger demo but need a certain amount of older folks to pad the overall numbers. Plus: without "geezers" there's no Mind the Gap.

Not sure if this still holds true, but when they were still posting the sets on soundcloud for on-demand replay, you could see the number of plays for each set. And the older the set, the more spins it would get, or so it seemed. If that extrapolates to actual listener demographic, we may be closer to being "typical" fogheads than they would care to admit.

[dischead]

Why is it that the best set of the week, if not the month (1970), is the one that gets
played at 6 a.m. during the Saturday morning marathon?  Sigh.

[RGMike]

Why is it that the best set of the week, if not the month (1970), is the one that gets
played at 6 a.m. during the Saturday morning marathon?  Sigh.

This seems to be the rule for the '70s set of the week. I understand it -- less listeners at that hour -- but it's still annoying.

[Big Fingers McGee]

I can't be the only one who's this irritated about the frequency of classics, right?

[urth]

I can't be the only one who's this irritated about the frequency of classics, right?

My assumption is that it has to do with some sort of personal matters going on in Annalisa's life, so while the "classics" aren't ideal, it's hard to be irritated about that. It can't be helped.