They are playing it a LOT from what I hear. Their format is Rock & ROll...they go for the edgier college type of stuff...and are very well respected as a really good radio station.

So there IS a market on the radio for the song. I'm willing to bet they are playing it because they like it...not because they are being paid to do so.

XRT also played Get On The Boat.

yeah well i hope he proves us all wrong and the song becomes a big hit
god knows the man deserves a break on radio with their shitty blacklist
propaganda for the past decade.

if anything, they need to just respect his craft and play his songs a
few times a day. if they can play maroon 5 up to 36 times daily until
my ears bleed and i'm about to run outside and kill total strangers,
i think they should be able to give a good song like Fury some spins

http://www.mmr247.com/mmr...et=WXRT-FM


wow ...Get On The Boat #9 on their playlist

newpower99 said:

This playlist is heaven:

lw TW Artist Title TW lw +/- Reach/
Mill
6 1 DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Crooked Teeth 20 13 7 0.3908
1 2 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Dani California 20 21 -1 0.3682
5 3 PEARL JAM World Wide Suicide 17 14 3 0.3154
3 4 K.T. TUNSTALL Black Horse & The Cherry Tree 17 18 -1 0.3514
2 5 DAVID GILMOUR On An Island 16 18 -2 0.3238
4 6 JACK JOHNSON Upside Down 13 16 -3 0.3096
26 7 O.A.R. Love And Memories 10 7 3 0.1922
155 8 M'S Future Women 9 1 8 0.1346
39 9 PRINCE Get On The Boat 9 6 3 0.143
65 10 GUSTER One Man Wrecking Machine 8 4 4 0.1404
23 11 BEN HARPER Better Way 8 7 1 0.1638
25 12 SHAWN MULLINS Beautiful Wreck 8 7 1 0.1552
27 13 RACONTEURS Steady, As She Goes 8 7 1 0.1154
9 14 SNOW PATROL Hands Open 8 10 -2 0.1694
15 15 NEKO CASE Hold On, Hold On 7 8 -1 0.1146
48 16 FLAMING LIPS The W.A.N.D. 7 5 2 0.1436
52 17 JON LANGFORD Lost In America 7 5 2 0.1016
21 18 AQUALUNG Brighter Than Sunshine 6 7 -1 0.1244
44 19 ARCTIC MONKEYS I Bet You Look Good On The... 6 5 1 0.0636
29 20 BECK Girl 6 6 0 0.1438
30 21 BELLE AND SEBASTIAN The Blues Are Still Blue 6 6 0 0.1122
89 22 JOHN BUTLER TRIO Zebra (Live) 6 2 4 0.087
34 23 MIKE DOUGHTY Looking At The World From... 6 6 0 0.071
80 24 EUPHORIA Back Against The Wall 6 3 3 0.1486
62 25 FOO FIGHTERS Cold Day In The Sun 6 4 2 0.1018
50 26 FRANZ FERDINAND Do You Want To? 6 5 1 0.1018
51 27 FRANZ FERDINAND Walk Away 6 5 1 0.1502
16 28 GOMEZ How We Operate 6 8 -2 0.045
11 29 KILLERS Mr. Brightside 6 9 -3 0.1242
24 30 MARK KNOPFLER/EMMYLOU HARRIS This Is Us 6 7 -1 0.1212

IstenSzek said:

I wake up to a R&B radio station. At least once a week they play him. But I'd wish they would play something other than

I wanna B your Lover
When Doves Cry
Little Red Corvette
Kiss
Raspberry Beret
Erotic City

I know he has more hits than that! It's an R&B station fer chrissy sakes! They could easily play...

Uptown
When U were mine
I feel for you
Pop Life
Take Me with U

So many others...damn even Call my Name would be nice.

newpower99 said:

You know it might be that one...my friend said it had a lot of horns in it. I checked online and I saw Fury and naturally assumed it was that one. How lovely to play a song that is not even considered for release.

superspaceboy said:

Yeah someone at my job said the same thing, "a lot of horns".
I wouldn't have guessed they were playing Get on the Boat cause
who plays Prince, new Prince for that matter much these days in Chicago.
Pleasantly surprised I am.

stillw8ing said:

ANd Who'd play Get on the Boat? It's funky...but it's riddled in JW (which we get but I doubt the gen public does)

Yea "get on the boat" is great, the one i play before anything else of his right now, specially in the morning real loud.
"Fury" and "Te amo corazon" are the absolute best tracks on there.
The PR people should stay far away from the embarrassing and patronizing teeny-bopper tunes like "Love" "lolita" and 'black sweat"
He'll never get that demographic anyway, long time fans know he's way better than that, we stayed away from that crap he was peddling in the 90's, he should take a hint, we dont want our music dumbed down
.

ingela said:

Black Sweat is GREAT. A really strong song. I don't consider it teeny bopper...nor do I do Love.

Lolita is the only one that so smacks of "single" but in the bad way like Cream or U got the look.

superspaceboy said:

blashpheme!

XRT has been a long supporter of Prince...way back since Dirty Mind. They play the more rock-orientated songs from just about every album the guys done...I have heard Holy River, In This Bed I Scream, Chaos & Disorder, I Love U But I Don't Trust U, Baby Knows, Cinnamon Girl and Musicology over the years...I swear its THE only station in Chicago that will play his new stuff these days.

Jackeblu said:

That sounds very cool. Too bad I live in Northern Virginia.