10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: RGMike on January 04, 2016, 08:52:16 AM
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Been listening for about an hour; we're in the "All" songs. First mild surprise of the day: "All Mixed Up", which is not one of the half-dozen Cars songs that KFOG plays 27 times a week. Once again we're getting songs that show up on 10@10 but not in regular rotay -- here's Henley's "All She wants to Do is Dance"
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Once again we're getting songs that show up on 10@10 but not in regular rotay...
Which resulted in the odd coincidence of hearing the Hooters twice in an hour: "All You Zombies" and "And We Danced"
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Once again we're getting songs that show up on 10@10 but not in regular rotay...
Which resulted in the odd coincidence of hearing the Hooters twice in an hour: "All You Zombies" and "And We Danced"
Not that KFOG would ever play her in this context, but on our 2015 road trip, where I had my iPOD loaded alphabetically, we heard Neneh Cherry's "Buddy X" followed by her "Buffalo Stance".... 20,000 total songs, only about 25 of which are from Cherry - what are the chances?
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Currently Jack Johnson, "Breakdown". Webster said there were a couple of them, so I'm assuming Tom Petty is next. This A to Z is skewing way towards newer things, however, so maybe not.
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I'm seeing a tad more '70s than last time, though it could just be the luck of the draw. in the past hour:
Brooce, Born to Run
J Browne, Boulevard
Bohemian Rhapsody
Dead, Box of Rain.
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I'm seeing a tad more '70s than last time, though it could just be the luck of the draw. in the past hour:
Brooce, Born to Run
J Browne, Boulevard
Bohemian Rhapsody
Dead, Box of Rain.
Just goes to show how much attention I am able to pay while I'm working. The songs are playing, but nobody's home. I tend to find myself with random songs stuck in my head on the way home from work, with no idea how they got there.
BTW, for those scoring at home, Tom Petty was indeed next, and then we had some breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Woke up today to the "Come" songs. Heh. NoName, who used to work at KOME, was quite amused.
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Woke up today to the "Come" songs. Heh. NoName, who used to work at KOME, was quite amused.
Speaking of NoName, one morning last week my alarm clock woke me right when Renee was playing someone doing "Helplessly Hoping". It was a very nice, pretty straightforward version, the harmonies very precise. NoName says he likes it, thought it reminded him of "Crosberry Stills and Young". Renee pointed out that it was of course a cover of CS&N. NoName at least had he good grace to admit how embarrassed he was ...
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Woke up today to the "Come" songs. Heh. NoName, who used to work at KOME, was quite amused.
Speaking of NoName, one morning last week my alarm clock woke me right when Renee was playing someone doing "Helplessly Hoping". It was a very nice, pretty straightforward version, the harmonies very precise. NoName says he likes it, thought it reminded him of "Crosberry Stills and Young". Renee pointed out that it was of course a cover of CS&N. NoName at least had he good grace to admit how embarrassed he was ...
He's still smarter than the Mind the Gap contestants today. (all the answers began with "C", of course) The geezer had never heard of Creed (the movie) and they played the hipster a clip from Caddyshack (she had no clue) and when they played the Clash covering "I Fought the Law" and asked her to ID the band, she said "Creedence".
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Whatever else you might say about A-Z, at least we don't get any of the small roster of
Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, etc. songs that are usually played immediately after 10@10.
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Dirty Vegas - “Days Go By” - surprised to hear it on KFOG. Although, something tells me this has appeared on A-Z before and I was surprised to hear it then too.
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Dirty Vegas - “Days Go By” - surprised to hear it on KFOG. Although, something tells me this has appeared on A-Z before and I was surprised to hear it then too.
It's made a couple of 10@10 appearances, which seems to be prerequisite for any song not in regular KFOG rotay.
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Yesterday I awoke to the "Come" songs; now before 10@10 it's the "Head" songs. Hrm.
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hey-oh-ma-ma-ma: we're in the L songs.
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We're in the Ms.
Mexican Radio > Mickey
Kind of an odd juxtaposition of two rather odd songs.
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We're in the Ms.
Heh
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3 INXS songs in 25 minutes...Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, and New Sensation.
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3 INXS songs in 25 minutes...Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, and New Sensation.
And all from the same album...
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3 INXS songs in 25 minutes...Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, and New Sensation.
And all from the same album...
If the fourth single had been "Nevil Inside"...
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Renee said this morning that "Ordinary World" was Duran Duran's "biggest hit". Er... no, honey, It peaked at #3 and they had two #1s and a #2 before that.
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Renee said this morning that "Ordinary World" was Duran Duran's "biggest hit". Er... no, honey, It peaked at #3 and they had two #1s and a #2 before that.
Maybe she was referring to the R-n-R charts, where it did indeed spend two weeks at #1, as opposed to a single week each for "Reflex", "Wild Boys" and "A View To A Kill". But somehow I doubt that's what she meant.
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Yesterday I awoke to the "Come" songs; now before 10@10 it's the "Head" songs. Hrm.
and now it's "Pump". I sense a pattern.
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3 INXS songs in 25 minutes...Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, and New Sensation.
Yesterday afternoon I tuned in just to see where they were and heard two Counting Crows songs back-to-back -- Mr. Jones and Mrs. Potter's Whateveritscalled. Painful.
They do seem to be hitting the current playlist harder than in past years, and fewer deep catalog songs, and VERY few older than 1980.
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3 INXS songs in 25 minutes...Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart, and New Sensation.
Yesterday afternoon I tuned in just to see where they were and heard two Counting Crows songs back-to-back -- Mr. Jones and Mrs. Potter's Whateveritscalled. Painful.
They do seem to be hitting the current playlist harder than in past years, and fewer deep catalog songs, and VERY few older than 1980.
Yeah, it's "stuff we play all the time" and "stuff we play on 10@10". Which is misleading to anyone who's new to KFOG, thinking they're gonna hear a lot of Don Henley or Culture Club when A-to-Z ends. (and they can get that on Oldies 103.7, anyway)
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As has been the case in recent editions of A-Z there have been some strange omissions. Like on Monday they went to commercial after "Bizarre Love Triangle", and I told myself, cool, now we're going to hear two or three songs that start with 'Black'. But instead they went straight into a couple 'Blue' songs.
Tellingly, on the "Mind The Gap" bit this morning the questions all had answers with the letter M, since when Irish Greg prepared them earlier in the week he figured they'd be in the M's, and not 2/3 through the P's. Later Renee said this would go into next week, but I will be shocked at this rate if they don't wrap up easiy on Sunday.
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Renee said this morning that "Ordinary World" was Duran Duran's "biggest hit". Er... no, honey, It peaked at #3 and they had two #1s and a #2 before that.
Maybe she was referring to the R-n-R charts, where it did indeed spend two weeks at #1, as opposed to a single week each for "Reflex", "Wild Boys" and "A View To A Kill". But somehow I doubt that's what she meant.
I generally refer to Ordinary World as Duran Duran’s biggest hit too, for that exact reason.
http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/duranduran.html
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Well, I’m glad they played Run by Snow Patrol. IMO their best song, one that doesn’t get as much airplay as it should considering how much this format loves their other songs esp. Chocolate, Chasing Cars, and Called Out in the Dark.
Songs I thought had a chance but was disappointed not to hear:
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter
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Songs I thought had a chance but was disappointed not to hear:
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
That's surprising, given its popularity on 10@10 (and the 10@10 bias this A-to-Z has been showing).
Speaking of, I just tuned in and they were playing all-time LN "Walls Came Down" by the Call. Which means A-to-Z should easily wrap up before midnight tomorrow night.
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Songs I thought had a chance but was disappointed not to hear:
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
That's surprising, given its popularity on 10@10 (and the 10@10 bias this A-to-Z has been showing).
Speaking of, I just tuned in and they were playing all-time LN "Walls Came Down" by the Call. Which means A-to-Z should easily wrap up before midnight tomorrow night.
That song files under "The" -- "The Walls Came Down" -- so that will spread it out more.
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I heard the "Stay" songs earlier today, and they did not play David Bowie's "Stay". Bummer.
Lisa Loeb got a spin, of course.
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Songs I thought had a chance but was disappointed not to hear:
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
That's surprising, given its popularity on 10@10 (and the 10@10 bias this A-to-Z has been showing).
Speaking of, I just tuned in and they were playing all-time LN "Walls Came Down" by the Call. Which means A-to-Z should easily wrap up before midnight tomorrow night.
That song files under "The" -- "The Walls Came Down" -- so that will spread it out more.
So they did "The" songs but not "A" songs? OK...
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Now playing: Muse - Undisclosed Desires. This is the type of "rarity" (other than 10@10 faves) this A-Z has been good for the most -- songs that were on KFOG's playlist 3-5 years ago that they don't play anymore.
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And the list picks up (after Acoustic Sunset) with the Cranberries' version of "Wild Horses". No Stones?
I fully expected the next tune to be "Wild Night" by Mellencampodegeocello, but no: it's "Wishing Well" by TTD, one of the all-time 10@10 FFs. Will we make it to "Zooropa" by midnite? Rockwell seems to think not.
Looking back a few hours, I note there were only 3 "Who" songs, 3 "White" ones, 3 "Where"s and 4 "When"s. Whole lotta "What", however.
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I heard the "Stay" songs earlier today, and they did not play David Bowie's "Stay". Bummer.
They'll be regretting that decision now.
I could fall asleep at night
as a rock & roll star
I could fall in love all right
as a rock & roll star.
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I heard the "Stay" songs earlier today, and they did not play David Bowie's "Stay". Bummer.
They'll be regretting that decision now.
I could fall asleep at night
as a rock & roll star
I could fall in love all right
as a rock & roll star.
the list ended in the 6:00 hour with "Zombie", "Zooropa" and "Zoot Suit Riot". Wondering if they slipped in "Ziggy Stardust" last nite.