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« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2008, 07:42:06 AM » |
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It's called cancon, gotta play some canadian stuff. Not sure of the regs now as I heard they were going to be relaxed but back in the early 90's when I was doing the radio thing( mostly just university) FM stations had to play 30% canadian content by law. So whatever fit the format and was canadian it got played.
The was just as much Cancon in the 80s -- if not more -- than in the 60s and 70s. At least I haven't heard them play Anne Murray yet, but it may not be far off. They have played such titans of the industry as Pagliaro and Five Man Electrical Band while wearing out the usual suspects -- Brian Adams, the Guess Who and Burton Cummings. Their playlist continues to be schizophrenic. You might hear 4 or 5 80s tunes in a row and then they play the Beatles and Stevie Wonder from the late 60s. Nuts. |
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« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2008, 09:24:22 AM » |
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 sounds like the AM stations in the rural areas, every style and type every hour.
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« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2008, 04:46:55 PM » |
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At least I haven't heard them play Anne Murray yet, but it may not be far off. They have played such titans of the industry as Pagliaro and Five Man Electrical Band while wearing out the usual suspects -- Brian Adams, the Guess Who and Burton Cummings.
I've heard Gordon Lightfoot the past couple of days...nothing against him, but if I wanted to hear him, I'd listen to CJ. |
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« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2008, 05:15:24 PM » |
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I visited their website this morning and they have a song-by-song playlist for their last few hours. It was bizarre in that they would have 5 or 6 decent 80s tunes but then a block of moldy oldies. Add into the mix a bunch of Canadian stuff sprinkled in from anywhere from the 60s to the 90s and you have a very strange format. I then tried listening to Kelly Rickard's shift for an hour or so but had to turn it off -- it was just too frustrating given the strange playlist.
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« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2008, 12:49:15 AM » |
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Cripes, now they're playing Neil Diamond. Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show is the LAST thing I wanted to hear this time of night  |
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« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2008, 05:27:25 AM » |
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OK, between then and 5 it was mostly pretty good (except for Seger). Then it happened. More fuckin' Joni Mitchell. And note even tolerable Joni, like Big Yellow Taxi. No, couldn't have that. It was Raised on Robbery. God, I hate that song. Shitty song to begin with IMO, and Oldies 96 played it absolutely to death. If this is what I can look forward to on Kool, I'm buying an iPod.  |
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« Reply #21 on: March 25, 2008, 08:44:39 PM » |
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OK, between then and 5 it was mostly pretty good (except for Seger). Then it happened. More fuckin' Joni Mitchell. And note even tolerable Joni, like Big Yellow Taxi. No, couldn't have that. It was Raised on Robbery. God, I hate that song. Shitty song to begin with IMO, and Oldies 96 played it absolutely to death. If this is what I can look forward to on Kool, I'm buying an iPod. Maybe I'm the only person who prefers Raised on Robbery to BYT... But in any event, they have gone into the shitter bigtime. The Beatles, Paul Simon, Mamas and Papas, Neil Diamond, plus every Guess Who/Burton Cummings/Bryan Adams/Cancon song ever released... even this past weekend, which was supposed to offer stuff you don't usually hear on radio, was just more of the same old stuff. Sad. |
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« Reply #22 on: March 25, 2008, 11:21:56 PM » |
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Maybe I'm the only person who prefers Raised on Robbery to BYT... Must be. When it comes to songs that I despise with every fibre of my being, Raised is on a very short list: Raised on Robbery Put Your Hand In The Hand Most Elvis songs Anything by Alannah (sp?) Myles (especially Song Instead Of A Kiss) Beatles I can live with, M&P & Neil - yeah, overplayed, don't mind Guess Who/Cummings, Bachman's solo stuff is kinda old, Adams tends to push it... Oh well, at least they aren't playing Anne Murray yet.  |
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« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2008, 03:58:33 PM » |
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I just did another one of their online music surveys. This has to be the worst one yet. I basically picked "Never liked this song" and "Very tired of this song" for everything they played. The only two I gave a "Like it a lot" response to was a Genesis song and a Duran Duran song.
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« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2008, 04:07:43 PM » |
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If anyone is still listening to Kool, you'll notice they are playing promos that are supposedly phone calls from listeners saying how much they like the music, But they have 2 versions: one, which I had heard on there a long time ago when they were in their previous format of all 80s, which is downright false advertising because they are no longer in that format. There is a newer one that I heard this week for the first time with different phone clips, but I find it hard to believe anyone would be calling to congratulate them on playing "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" or "Cecelia".
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« Reply #25 on: April 06, 2008, 09:44:04 AM » |
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I just did another one of their online music surveys. This has to be the worst one yet. I basically picked "Never liked this song" and "Very tired of this song" for everything they played. The only two I gave a "Like it a lot" response to was a Genesis song and a Duran Duran song.
Just did the lastest one last night...IIRC, the only two I gave high ratings to were the Duran Duran song and a Dan Hartman song. BTW, what do I hear last night? Mamas and Papas. And some new liner that says "favourites of the 60s, 70s and 80s". Oh, and add "Your Mama Don't Dance" to the list in my above post. |
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« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2008, 04:06:01 PM » |
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Another new survey this weekend... no better, maybe even worse. I see their ratings in the latest book are down 10%; surprised it's not a bigger drop.
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