DC Tom Posted May 29, 2019 Posted May 29, 2019 1 hour ago, Misterbluesky said: I don't give two ***** what he thinks....about anything. he is a bright bulb,though. Told ya, @ExiledInIllinois 1
BuffaloBill Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 On 5/28/2019 at 1:38 PM, Gugny said: Any list that has Freebird as #2 is pure crap. After a quick browse, I also saw that "Dude Looks Like a Lady" ranked higher than, "Let it Be. Okay. It's crap. I will say this .... I think "Under Pressure" (Queen/Bowie) is one of the greatest rock songs ever and it never gets due credit on these crap lists. A part of the issue is - what is rock? Many would consider Bowie to be “alternative” and not rock. The nature of music lists is that no two people will agree. What you like to listen to is subjective. 8 hours ago, Rico said: I remember listening to radio in my car, back in the day before Spotify and my smart phone. I even remember 8-track tapes. 8-track tapes sucked
PromoTheRobot Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 (edited) On 5/28/2019 at 12:18 PM, The Real Buffalo Joe said: I've listened to this every year since I was a little kid. Even after I moved I stream it online. Tradition that's been in my family since as long as I can Remember. Anybody else listen to this? These were the top 25 according to this years listener votes. Full List Here 1 Stairway To Heaven Led Zeppelin 2 Freebird Lynyrd Skynyrd 3 Bohemian Rhapsody Queen 4 Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd 5 Hotel California Eagles 6 Kashmir Led Zeppelin 7 Satisfaction Rolling Stones 8 Turn The Page Seger, Bob & The Silver Bullet Band 9 Simple Man Lynyrd Skynyrd 10 Dream On Aerosmith 11 Won’t Get Fooled Again Who 12 Layla Derek & The Dominos 13 Sweet Emotion Aerosmith 14 Highway To Hell AC/DC 15 Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) Pink Floyd 16 We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions Queen 17 Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd 18 More Than A Feeling Boston 19 Don’t Stop Believin’ Journey 20 Black Dog Led Zeppelin 21 Livin’ On A Prayer Bon Jovi 22 Free Fallin’ Petty, Tom 23 You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC 24 Walk This Way Aerosmith 25 Sweet Child O’ Mine Guns N’ Roses I lived these weekends. In radio it's basically taking your usual small library of a few hundred songs, shuffling the deck, and call it a countdown. Magic. See also: Double shot weekend, triple shot weekend, rock block weekend, A-to-Z weekend, no-repeat weekend, the (insert number) days of summer weekend, the top (insert number) countdown weekend, all-request (as long as you ask for what we plan to play anyway) weekend, etc. etc. The same 450 or so songs shuffled and labeled. Edited May 30, 2019 by PromoTheRobot 1 1 1
Buffalo716 Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 3 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said: I lived these weekends. In radio it's basically taking your usual small library of a few hundred songs, shuffling the deck, and call it a countdown. Magic. See also: Double shot weekend, triple shot weekend, rock block weekend, A-to-Z weekend, no-repeat weekend, the (insert number) days of summer weekend, the top (insert number) countdown weekend, all-request (as long as you ask for what we plan to play anyway) weekend, etc. etc. The same 450 or so songs shuffled and labeled. Truth ? but I love those 450 songs lmao
PromoTheRobot Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 8 hours ago, Buffalo716 said: Truth ? but I love those 450 songs lmao Hence, why things are the way they are.
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted May 30, 2019 Author Posted May 30, 2019 13 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said: I lived these weekends. In radio it's basically taking your usual small library of a few hundred songs, shuffling the deck, and call it a countdown. Magic. See also: Double shot weekend, triple shot weekend, rock block weekend, A-to-Z weekend, no-repeat weekend, the (insert number) days of summer weekend, the top (insert number) countdown weekend, all-request (as long as you ask for what we plan to play anyway) weekend, etc. etc. The same 450 or so songs shuffled and labeled. Are polls like this used for any actual analyzed data that the station uses to decide what their demographic listens to?
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 Actually looking at the length of the top 3, they’re ‘bathroom’ records. Lengthy enough that the on air personality has time to duck out and use the washroom, burn one, etc.
PromoTheRobot Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 2 hours ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: Are polls like this used for any actual analyzed data that the station uses to decide what their demographic listens to? It's different with every station. Most big city stations invest in their own audience research, so they know what songs score highest. Smaller stations either get a list from their corporate programming consultant, or they use a monitoring service like Mediabase to rank the most-played songs nationally in a given time period.
bbb Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 6 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said: It's different with every station. Most big city stations invest in their own audience research, so they know what songs score highest. Smaller stations either get a list from their corporate programming consultant, or they use a monitoring service like Mediabase to rank the most-played songs nationally in a given time period. How the ***** is it that in 1981, I saw Journey get booed off the stage because everybody hated them and wanted The Stones..................And, somehow now I'm more likely to hear a Journey song on 97 Rock than I am a Stones song?!? 1
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted May 30, 2019 Author Posted May 30, 2019 26 minutes ago, bbb said: How the ***** is it that in 1981, I saw Journey get booed off the stage because everybody hated them and wanted The Stones..................And, somehow now I'm more likely to hear a Journey song on 97 Rock than I am a Stones song?!? A few reasons. Journey isn't a good fit to open for the Rolling Stones. They're almost a pop band as opposed to the Stones being a harder rock. Second, Journey's somehow gained this new found almost ironic nostalgia. I think it started with The Sopranos, and now, for better or worse, they're probably more popular now than back when Steve Perry was with the band. Third, the "Classic Rock" format changes. It's for the middle aged guys. So back 10-20 years ago, the middle aged people were teenagers in the 60s-70s, now they were teenagers in the 70s-early 90s. 1
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted May 30, 2019 Posted May 30, 2019 31 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: ...Journey's somehow gained this new found almost ironic nostalgia. Tom Petty, Ric Ocasek, Steve Perry...all whiney singers. ?
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted May 30, 2019 Author Posted May 30, 2019 2 hours ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: Tom Petty, Ric Ocasek, Steve Perry...all whiney singers. ? The Cars were always too poppy for me, along with Journey. I am a Tom Petty fan, but can see where you're coming from.
Doc Brown Posted May 31, 2019 Posted May 31, 2019 Is it possible to be a good song and criminally overrated? Stairway to Heaven seems to pull it off. Also, no Beatles? WTF. Let's have a HOF reunion and not invite Jerry Rice.
T&C Posted June 2, 2019 Posted June 2, 2019 On 5/29/2019 at 1:04 PM, Rico said: I remember listening to radio in my car, back in the day before Spotify and my smart phone. I even remember 8-track tapes. Not sure why that reminded me of this but it did... and I remember 4-track tapes. 1
Rocket94 Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 On 5/28/2019 at 11:22 AM, Pete said: no Gimme Shelter, but Bon Jovi made it I know! Bon Jovi? Seriously...isn't he more like borderline glam rock? Over the Stones? ouch. On 5/30/2019 at 5:41 PM, The Real Buffalo Joe said: The Cars were always too poppy for me, along with Journey. I am a Tom Petty fan, but can see where you're coming from. The first Journey album was rock...has a progressive sound. Way before they top 40'd out.
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted June 3, 2019 Author Posted June 3, 2019 13 hours ago, Rocket94 said: I know! Bon Jovi? Seriously...isn't he more like borderline glam rock? Over the Stones? ouch. The first Journey album was rock...has a progressive sound. Way before they top 40'd out. Maybe I'm just holding a grudge, but anybody from Buffalo who still supports Bon Jovi should pack their bags and leave. And I agree on the Journey part. I was surprised to read that Journey was actually a spinoff group from a few guys who were in Santana. 1 1
Gugny Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 (edited) 38 minutes ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: Maybe I'm just holding a grudge, but anybody from Buffalo who still supports Bon Jovi should pack their bags and leave. And I agree on the Journey part. I was surprised to read that Journey was actually a spinoff group from a few guys who were in Santana. I still don't understand why people are mad at Jon Bon Jovi. Edited June 3, 2019 by Gugny
The Real Buffalo Joe Posted June 3, 2019 Author Posted June 3, 2019 25 minutes ago, Gugny said: I still don't understand why people are mad at Jon Bon Jovi. I don't think Bon Jovi himself wanted to move to Toronto. He just wanted the fun of owning an NFL team. But the fact that he was leaching on to people who clearly wanted the team in Canada is what bugged people. Even if he wanted to keep the team in Buffalo, he was only gonna be like 1/3 ownership so it didn't really matter.
Gugny Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 1 minute ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: I don't think Bon Jovi himself wanted to move to Toronto. He just wanted the fun of owning an NFL team. But the fact that he was leaching on to people who clearly wanted the team in Canada is what bugged people. Even if he wanted to keep the team in Buffalo, he was only gonna be like 1/3 ownership so it didn't really matter. I don't think he sees owning an NFL team as a hobby or something fun to do. It's apparent that he's wanted to do this for quite some time. Teams don't go up for sale very often and I will never begrudge him for chasing his dream. Not everyone has billions of dollars laying around to just buy a team. He had to become part of the ownership group that was willing to work with him. If he thought that an NFL team in Toronto was going to be a sound investment, and this was the opportunity that presented itself, then I have zero issue with anything he did.
T&C Posted June 3, 2019 Posted June 3, 2019 1 hour ago, The Real Buffalo Joe said: Maybe I'm just holding a grudge, but anybody from Buffalo who still supports Bon Jovi should pack their bags and leave. And I agree on the Journey part. I was surprised to read that Journey was actually a spinoff group from a few guys who were in Santana. They also had Aynsley Dunbar as the drummer, fresh off Zappa's Mothers. His work on The Grand Wazoo is incredible... so yeah, they started off the right way. From Wiki, the source of all knowledge lol: "Dunbar was later the drummer for Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, playing on albums such as Waka/Jawaka, and The Grand Wazoo, as well as the film 200 Motels. In 1974 he played on the soundtrack of Dirty Duck, an adult animated film directed by Charles Swenson. In the mid-1970s Dunbar played drums for former Grin leader, Nils Lofgren, before joining Journey for their first four albums."
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