Which song does your local classic rock station overplay?

[Ivan Zero]

Here in rrrrockin' Reno, Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" is played into the ground.

[theoceansnerves]

1. slow ride

and black magic woman.

[Flagius]

2. The answers to all of them are...

Freebird, and Stairway to Heaven.

[Don_G]

3. I Have A Classic Rock Station?

Around here, it's NPR or Clear Channel so my Shortwave Reciever gets the action my computer dosen't.

[MissMillie]

4. Turn the Page

:puke:

Sorry, I know Seger is a good liberal and a lot of you like his stuff. I just don't.

[Radical Activist]

5. That's my least favorite Seager song

and its on the radio all the time!

[sendero]

13. I like some of his stuff...

... but I hate each and every one of the "poor rock star me" variety and this one is one of the worst :)

"every ounce of energy, you try to give away"

Uh, no Bob, at $20 a ticket you aren't giving away jack :)

[Ivan Zero]

16. Round here, "Turn the Page" would be a refreshing change

from the quadrillionth spin of "Old Time Rock N Roll". Those opening piano chords now evoke in me the same dread intended by the theme from Jaws.

And "Like A Rock" ... OHHHHHHWWWWWWWLIKE A ROCK ... just drop that half-ton on me and get it over with.

I can only take Seger sparingly. His yowling histrionics when he gets up a full head of steam are just too much.

[masshole]

19. YES!!!

That g-damn saxophone feels like toothpicks are piercing my eardrums.

Truly one of the most ANNOYING songs EVER recorded.

I actually like Bob Seeger too. Saw him live waaay back around 1977. But "Turn the page" ain't some of his best work.
The Metallica cover is tolerable at least. No sax.

[AVID]

6. billings MT - zz top haven nt

[Radical Activist]

7. Shouldn't the answers be the same everywhere?

It seems like every city I go to has the same cookie cutter classic rock stations owned by the same two or three companies with music programmed centrally in LA or someplace. There are so many good classic rock songs that are never played while the same set of songs are on over and over and over again.

[Bossy Monkey]

11. Correct. They buy the playlists from the same source

This started with the "rocknroll radio renaissance" of the early 80s, when KROQ conquered LA's FM wars and started selling their playlist nationally. Other formats followed. KROQ's success also gave birth to MTV; maybe someday I'll forgive them.

(The probability is that it wasn't in fact KROQ selling the playlists, but somebody imitating their success; somebody with more exact information is welcome to correct me.)

[Ivan Zero]

14. Whoever's programming it, they're obviously not music lovers

I did already suspect that this beast was semi-originating from centralized no autonomy Clear Channel hell, and all the songs named herein do get a lot of play play play.

The Songs That Never Get Played list is long - thousands of songs that at one time meant something to millions of people over 5 decades, that could come to mean something for new ears, and they've been consigned to airwave oblivion, apparently due to some calculus that concludes they might make x amount of listeners tune out in befuddlement.

Someday we just might have that groovy hi-speed Every Song That's Ever Been Recorded ON DEMAND! service, but it still won't replace the sublime pleazure of listening to a DJ who played what s/he liked and frequently sent you running to the record store howling "what's that song?"

[HEyHEY]

8. All five of the only songs they play

I'll say ROADHOUSE BLUES THOUGH....every friday at 4:30

[Redneck Socialist]

9. I don't know about one song, but

I've contemplated breaking into my local station and stealing all their Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC and Van Halen albums. It wouldn't leave them much to play. I'd be curious what they went to as a back up.

[Flagius]

10. Oh, they would just play

HonkeyTonk Woman by the Stones 24/7.

[name not needed]

12. 95.9 the WRAT in Point Pleasant, NJ

It overplays all Metallica songs. Literally, they will play blocks of Metallica songs. I don't need to hear 6 Metallica songs in a row. I have 4 of their cds, so if I wanted to listen to that many of their songs in a row, I'd have brought one of them.

[Az]

15. Don't listen to them. It just incourages them

:evilgrin:

[Kat45]

17. They stick with the middle-of-the-road hits for the most part.

Too much Steve Miller, Seger--that kind of shit. I also notice that the stations around here tend to take out a particular song and play the shit out of it for the period of time that it's in rotation (and I'm not sure what the period is, perhaps a month, or a few monts). Then you never hear it again. You even get sick of songs you like, and you get pissed that they're not playing other songs by the artist.

They sometimes pick weird ones to play. For a while, the Aerosmith song they were playing was "Remember (Walking in the Sand)". WTF? It's a cover song that was on an album that was certainly not one of their best; I just didn't get the decision to play the shit out of it when there were so many great Aerosmith songs they could have played.

For a long time, they were playing "Spirit in the Sky." I was enjoying hearing it, since I hadn't heard it since it was out. But I kept hearing it. And hearing it. It got ridiculous. And after that rotation passed, I never heard it again. Which is too bad, because I would like to hear it again. :shrug:

[PittPoliSci]

18. the following offenders

Freebird, Stairway, Magic Carpet Ride, All Hendrix, All Zeppelin while I'm on it.

[BensMom]

20. Don't need Dreamboat Annie

Didn't like it the first go around.

[solinvictus]

21. Chattanooga, TN

"Freebird" by Skynyrd. We have 2 classic stations, so it can be heard several times per day.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. Neil Young's "Keep On Rockin' In The Free World" used to be played

quite a lot on Southern California's 93.1 FM. But since Fahrenheit 911 came out, I haven't heard it once. As you know, it's the closing music to the film as the credits roll at the end. I sent an e-mail last week to one of their DJs who answered me back that the song had recently been dropped from their station's entire play lists. I wonder why.

[ChoralScholar]

23. KKPT - The Point-94.1

plays the hell out of 'Lights' by Journey.

I love me some Journey, but that's the only song they play!

[Archae]

24. The "introspective rock" shit.

Styx, "Come Sail Away," Kansas, "Carry On Wayward Son," cliche city, and anything from Steve Miller Band, the first band that sucks worse than Spinal Tap, and Spinal Tap is a satire!

Milwaukee's WKLH 96.5 (I have it on right now)

And every so often they play a "deep cut" from an album, that they say isn't played on the radio.
I can tell exactly WHY they don't! It's filler crap!