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PrintablePFunkjazz said: NDRU said: I kind of feel it got overplayed. Flashlight, too.
But that's what happens to virtually every classic on the radio. This happens to any artist's big hit; ain't a damn thang changed. exactly, imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio. My Legacy
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NDRU said: PFunkjazz said: This happens to any artist's big hit; ain't a damn thang changed. exactly, imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio. Yeah, but that's a good thing. We don't need any more over-played staples than we already have. | |
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Illustrator said: NDRU said: exactly, imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio. Yeah, but that's a good thing. We don't need any more over-played staples than we already have. er, uh, I guess  My Legacy
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NDRU said: imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio.
Usually it was the best stuff! And not only ignored by radio, but the tons of songs and albums that never made the transition from vinyl to CD. Thank God that back in the day, we didn't rely on the radio to tell us what the hits were. We relied on those weekend basement parties, with the one red light bulb screwed into the ceiling!   | |
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Illustrator said: NDRU said: exactly, imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio. Yeah, but that's a good thing. We don't need any more over-played staples than we already have. No, it's not a good thing. If the radio would play more than just one or two songs by an artist, and even some songs by artists that weren't huge hits, they wouldn't have time to overplay particular songs and radio would be much more entertaining. Andy is a four letter word. | |
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Thank god for indie and college radio. I agree with classics getting overplayed. It's sad that you can't appreciate it, but what's even worse is when those songs are sold to a million different companies. With radio it's different, you can still at some point enjoy it, but when it's been in a million bad movies or tv shows or in burger commercials it takes something away from it bit by bit. It's like from a lovely woman to a veteran hooker. There's no soul there. | |
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PDogz said: NDRU said: imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio.
Usually it was the best stuff! And not only ignored by radio, but the tons of songs and albums that never made the transition from vinyl to CD. Thank God that back in the day, we didn't rely on the radio to tell us what the hits were. We relied on those weekend basement parties, with the one red light bulb screwed into the ceiling! Take me back PDogz, although we don't have many basements in my area. I do remember the Red or Black Lamps and the thrash can punch spiked with Thunderbird and Everclear. Back then we had many hits & deep cuts on an album, We had a station that played plenty of the deep cuts. Today you're lucky to get three good cuts, because there are no deep cuts...just 12 or 15 bad ones.   National Funk League✮✮ | |
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Dance said: Thank god for indie and college radio.
Thanks to those greasy rock boys who think adding "Atomic Dog" to their show's playlist just made their set a little more eclectic.  | |
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Cinnie said: Dance said: Thank god for indie and college radio.
Thanks to those greasy rock boys who think adding "Atomic Dog" to their show's playlist just made their set a little more eclectic. That's what the answer is, you got ta be placed in the dipper and po'd back down on da wurl and then men will see your good works and glorify god Jehovah. | |
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PDogz said: NDRU said: imagine how many unmined classic album cuts are ignored by the radio.
Usually it was the best stuff! And not only ignored by radio, but the tons of songs and albums that never made the transition from vinyl to CD. Thank God that back in the day, we didn't rely on the radio to tell us what the hits were. We relied on those weekend basement parties, with the one red light bulb screwed into the ceiling! Actually, we did rely on the radio a lot back then. Radio was just 1,000 times better back then. For instance, Rick James' "Fire and Desire" was never a single but it got major airplay. Neither was Prince's "Lady Cab Driver", The Barkays "Traffic Jammer" and a ton of other album only cuts. The radio stations and DJs were free to play whatever they felt would be hot in the area whether it was a single or not. I relied mainly on the radio back then because it influenced my decision on which albums I was going to buy. If I heard three, four, or five cuts from the same album and they all were hot, I knew that was going to be a good album. If I heard only one fast song from an artist and all the rest of the tracks played on the radio from that artist was slow, I knew that album wasn't going to be shit and I would buy the 45 of the uptempo song (uptempo songs were usually lead singles back then).
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vainandy said: Actually, we did rely on the radio a lot back then. Radio was just 1,000 times better back then. For instance, Rick James' "Fire and Desire" was never a single but it got major airplay. Neither was Prince's "Lady Cab Driver", The Barkays "Traffic Jammer" and a ton of other album only cuts. The radio stations and DJs were free to play whatever they felt would be hot in the area whether it was a single or not. I relied mainly on the radio back then because it influenced my decision on which albums I was going to buy. If I heard three, four, or five cuts from the same album and they all were hot, I knew that was going to be a good album. If I heard only one fast song from an artist and all the rest of the tracks played on the radio from that artist was slow, I knew that album wasn't going to be shit and I would buy the 45 of the uptempo song (uptempo songs were usually lead singles back then).
. . [Edited 12/28/07 10:57am] U are absolutely correct on that. Matter of fact, if folks look at their old billboard magazines you'll see on the singles/dance charts the name of the album and it would say LP tracks. | |
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sosgemini said: folks...lube up...the last time the org discussed this song things got a lil ruff.
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vainandy said: Actually, we did rely on the radio a lot back then. Radio was just 1,000 times better back then. For instance, Rick James' "Fire and Desire" was never a single but it got major airplay. Neither was Prince's "Lady Cab Driver", The Barkays "Traffic Jammer" and a ton of other album only cuts. The radio stations and DJs were free to play whatever they felt would be hot in the area whether it was a single or not. I relied mainly on the radio back then because it influenced my decision on which albums I was going to buy. If I heard three, four, or five cuts from the same album and they all were hot, I knew that was going to be a good album. If I heard only one fast song from an artist and all the rest of the tracks played on the radio from that artist was slow, I knew that album wasn't going to be shit and I would buy the 45 of the uptempo song (uptempo songs were usually lead singles back then).
. . [Edited 12/28/07 10:57am] ESPECIALLY AM RADIO!!!!! IN BUFFALO WE HAD A STATION CALLED WUFO 1080 AM THAT HAD TWO OF THE DOPEST DJs EVER- MARK VANN & THE LATE GREAT KEITH "DISCOTIZER" POLLARD!!!! I ALSO GOTTA MENTION THE LATE AL PARKER FROM SUPER SOUND 12 WNIA IN NIAGARA FALLS, NY!!!! ALTHOUGH WBLK WAS ON THE FM DIAL, IF U REALLY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WAS UP, U KEPT IT ON THE AM DIAL!!!! I'M LOVING THIS THREAD!!!!  | |
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