- Sep 29, 2000
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Further to my thread titled Why are pop radio stations such CRAP? 1, I found another radio station that does the body good...kinda.
Unlike the original station I mentioned that plays the same garbage pop music all day long (it's not necessarily bad the first time, but the 3rd run of the new N'Sync song in the same day is too much for any man to bear), this one teases me with Matthew Good Band, Radiohead, Soundgarden, etc.
However, it would seem this station has the same problem as the first! The only reason I can handle it is because the quality of music is better. Let's take Stone Temple Pilot's "Plush". A superb song of course, but was it ever particularly popular? Not really...and yet they play this song twice in three days average. There is another STP song from the same album that is played constantly.
Also every single day either Soundgarden's "black hole sun" or "spoonman" is played every day. I will never go truly weary of any of these songs and they have much more staying power than the crap on most pop stations but it is as if this radio station has picked, almost arbitrarily, a song from the past and continually plays it.
Is there some law that states no radio station can have more than 150 songs in their music library? What I've seen is analogous to taking a current song now - perhaps Staind's "Been a while" - although one significantly less popular - and just playing it constantly 5 years from now. I will never understand it and have thus decided to give up trying.
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1 This dealt with my dissatisfaction at most pop stations and their tendency to play the same songs all day long from a seemingly 10 song library until nobody with functional hearing can stand it anymore.
Unlike the original station I mentioned that plays the same garbage pop music all day long (it's not necessarily bad the first time, but the 3rd run of the new N'Sync song in the same day is too much for any man to bear), this one teases me with Matthew Good Band, Radiohead, Soundgarden, etc.
However, it would seem this station has the same problem as the first! The only reason I can handle it is because the quality of music is better. Let's take Stone Temple Pilot's "Plush". A superb song of course, but was it ever particularly popular? Not really...and yet they play this song twice in three days average. There is another STP song from the same album that is played constantly.
Also every single day either Soundgarden's "black hole sun" or "spoonman" is played every day. I will never go truly weary of any of these songs and they have much more staying power than the crap on most pop stations but it is as if this radio station has picked, almost arbitrarily, a song from the past and continually plays it.
Is there some law that states no radio station can have more than 150 songs in their music library? What I've seen is analogous to taking a current song now - perhaps Staind's "Been a while" - although one significantly less popular - and just playing it constantly 5 years from now. I will never understand it and have thus decided to give up trying.
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1 This dealt with my dissatisfaction at most pop stations and their tendency to play the same songs all day long from a seemingly 10 song library until nobody with functional hearing can stand it anymore.
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