Your new OLDIES Station. Have no idea how old...

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Old? Van Halen?

or Old as in L Welk? Big band? etc?

They have a full press release, which might be the most press they ever get, and no real info...lol

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Yeah, no one's playing the Eagles anywhere these days, except for K-Hits, WLS-FM, the Loop, XRT, and the Drive.

Other than that, I have some faith in this because Weigel does good work on the television side. I saw some rumors that it would be a "dusty grooves" station with lots of album cuts from soul and R&B, kind of like the Jammin' Oldies fad that some of you may remember from the turn of the millennium but without the super-narrow playlist that was its eventual undoing -- how many times, after all, can someone hear "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang before the novelty wears off. I like that idea a lot, but if this is just an oldies station that picks up where WLS-FM left off, then even that's going to do well, too.

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why not just loop the ben finfer rant and the 9 months of stupid things david haugh said.... call it dumb and whiny radio

If they play random songs that I have never heard before from that era, then I'm in. If I have to hear another "LA Woman" or "Witchy Woman" then I'm out.

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

Just saw that this is up and running. First song I hear is "Like a Rolling Stone." I'll jot down the playlist through the night and see if I can get a read on them.

Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"
Bobby Darin - "If I Were a Carpenter"
Bob Seger - "Against the Wind"
Bob Lind - "Elusive Butterfly"
Bob Welch - "Sentimental Lady"
Bobbi Martin - "For the Love of Him"
Bobby Bloom - "Montego Bay"
Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billy Joe"
Bobby Goldsboro - "I'm a Drifter"

okay clearly they're just running through the library in alphabetical order for now. Still, it seems to be pretty mellow and folky. Not quite oldies like the Oldies 104.3 of my youth, but definitely not like the "classic hits" stations gumming up the airwaves today. Kind of reminds me of what the Drive was like before consultants told them to play more Blue Oyster Cult.

Man, they're gonna play the shit outta some Dan Fogelberg by 3 a.m., aren't they. I hope I'm back in bed in time for that.

This is all automated, of course, as the press release stated above. Imaging is minimal; maybe one sweeper every four songs.

EDIT: The run of Bobs is broken by "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac! That song blows, though.

EDIT AGAIN: back to B with
Bobby Sherman - "Julie Do You Love Me"
Bread - "It Don't Matter To Me"
Boz Skaggs - "What Can I Say"

oh god, BREAD?!? ugh ugh ugh

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As for the interruption, I'm guessing one of two things:

1) big hits like "Don't Stop" have already been flagged as heavy-rotation and will pop up more often, though other levels of rotation haven't been delineated yet, so everything else is just running alphabetically until they finish programming.

2) Someone mislabeled them as "Bleetwood Mac."

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"The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby came up. I looked it up and saw that it was 1986, much newer than anything else I've heard in the hour. Also, I read that Sean Hannity used it as his theme song on his radio show until Hornsby asked him to stop. I'm glad: a song about segregation and injustice in America with a chorus that goes "that's just the way it is, some things will never change" as employed by a conservative who demonstrates as much nuance as a cinderblock wall is goddamn terrifying.

And there's "My Hometown" by Springsteen, so maybe we are into '80s stuff now. I think that's the only cut off Born in the USA that I actually like, or that I'm not sick of.

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"Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain and Tennille at the top of the hour. We have hit the Cs, and we have hit YACHT ROCK. No top-of-the-hour legal identification, though.

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The inevitable Carpenters at 2:07.

Carly Simon, the Carpenters, Bread, this is the kind of stuff that my parents listened to or played at their station. Whereas album rock from that time has lived on and will live forever, this stuff is mostly forgotten in comparison. Probably because of how much it sucks.

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Carly Simon and James Taylor - "Mockingbird"
Carpenters - "Superstar"
Cat Stevens - "Wild World"
Cher - "The Way of Love"
(at this point I got up to go the bathroom and make something to eat. It should go without saying that these were separate trips.)
Chris Montez - "The More I See You"
Chris Norman & Suzi Quatro - "Stumblin' In"
Christopher Cross - "Ride Like the Wind" MORE YACHT ROCK!!! Changing my avatar in tribute.

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"Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House? That doesn't fit the format at all.

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Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
David Soul - "Don't Give Up On Us"
Delfonics - "Didn't I Blow Your Mind"
David Gray - "Babylon" this is a triple-A artist with a song from 1998, what gives, I mean I like it better than that David Soul shit but this is going to make my mom and dad change the station if they hear it because they'll recognize everything else but not this and get mad
Diana Ross - "Love Child"
Dionne Warwick - "I Say a Little Prayer"
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "An American Dream" - artist presumably labeled "Dirt Band, Nitty Gritty" in the computer, making one wonder: are there other varieties of Dirt Band?
Don McLean - "And I Love You So"
Donovan - "Jennifer Juniper"
Doobie Brothers - "Black Water"
Doors - "People Are Strange"
Dream Academy - "Life in a Northern Town" I unapologetically love this song but you're losing Boomers on this one
Double - "The Captain of Her Heart"
Drifters - "Up on the Roof"
Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"
Eagles - "One of These Nights" at 3:50, so unless they're filed under "Don Henley" or "Dgles," I dodged Fogelberg!
Earth, Wind & Fire - "That's the Way of the World"
Eddie Holman - "Hey There, Lonely Girl"


Top of the 4a hour and I think that's more than enough for now. Back to bed for an hour. I'll miss the Fs, Gs, and Hs while I'm running, swimming, showering, and eating, but I'll pop back in for some I-initialed soft-rock cheez at 8, I guess.

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After the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band fiasco, I'd imagine you'll get some Fogelberg, preceded by a reprise of "Don't Stop" and followed by "Slow Ride."

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I was seeing this girl back in the fall who loved Dan Fogelberg. I tried and I tried, but I could not find any merit whatsoever to his crappy milquetoast music. I don't want to attribute my failed relationship to Dan Fogelberg, but it certainly couldn't have helped. At least it softens the blow somewhat: it's not like things fell apart with a girl who loved Brian Eno.

Ooh, "Dust in the Wind" just came on. I like that one.

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I love you Blue

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Was on weekend before last.

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You know what? Screw you, Hair. If? Come on, man. If!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTsaixdX4f8

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Tell me how a picture paints.

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It's "pitcher."

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Yay, they're playing "Gypsy"! YOU SEE YOUR GYP-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY

EDIT: goodwill squandered with "You've Got a Friend" by James Taylor.

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I hope they loop around again soon... it was too long ago, too long apart, I can't wait another day for, "The Captain Of Her Heart."

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"All crowds boycotting football games shouldn't care who sings or takes a knee because they aren't watching." - Nas

0.6 in the most recent ratings. That's not too bad for '70s adult contemporary in 2015. I think it's better than The Game was doing.

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They play the deep cuts. I've heard shit on there that I've never heard before.

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Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Holy crap they just hit it out of the park with these 3 in a row.

Time Passages -Al Stewart
You're the Only Woman -Ambrosia
One on One -Hall and Oates

Loved every minute of it.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Those are all good songs.

Have they played Jackie Blue by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils? I fuckin' love that song.

Like JORR said up thread, they play some pretty obscure songs. Don't think I've heard Jackie Blue yet but I'm sure they play it.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I was just watching the video for Donnie Iris' Ah Leah on YouTube. That always kills me.

Now I'm watching Billy Squier's In the Dark and Everybody Wants You. I think I bought the 45 of the latter.

Did you ever make it down to Kroozin Music on Archer?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

I find myself listening to this station a lot. Usually takes like a Glenn Fey solo song for me to lunge at the button. Which slogan do you guys like better:

87.7 FM. You Can Hear the Chest Hair

or

Chest Hair for your Ears. 87.7FM

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87.7: The Hair You Can Hear.

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I think I had been there a few times. I do remember buying a super cool acid-wash jean jacket from the Pants Box in '87 or '88.

CH: The Hair You Can Read.


I enjoy the station.

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