Tuesday, July 7, 2009

What We Play

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Posted by joeknapp at 9:23 AM
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  1. LaurieJuly 8, 2009 at 12:47 AM

    I appreciate the background on radio station playlist selection! I suspect that more often than we realize, the songs that have a "oh wow" factor right away do end up getting burned out more quickly when they're only playing those 40 songs. Consider what would happen if oldies stations did what the contemporary stations do and changed the entire playlist of 40 every so often. It would be as though we were actually back in the seventies, and the catalogue of hits was being slowly replaced as new songs came in.

    The flip side of that is: do I want to hear "seventies music" or do I simply want to be able to tune in and have a chance of hearing my favorite 70s song? If the latter were the case, I wouldn't want the station to change up the playlist, nor would I want them to play such a wide variety of songs that my song only came up every few days. So there's a completely different paradigm here. Each seem legitimate, but the stations serve different purposes. One is like a jukebox, the other is a museum.

    I get the sense that MusicMaster Oldies is more of a museum, catering to those who want to hear fifties and sixties music, rather than one or a dozen particular songs. And I love it! You're finding music to play from the same selection that radio programmers had back in "the days": a hundred thousand songs to choose from, both good and bad, popular and obscure, cheesy and enduring. If there's a station that can conquer the oxymoron of "new oldie" then I want to hear it!

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  2. UnknownJuly 8, 2009 at 5:07 AM

    One reason why radio is not popular anymore as it used to be is toouch boring repetition on too tight playists. I appreciate the variety and the surrise factor, hearing stuuf ahve never heard or not heard or a long time...therest I cn do on my Ipod filled with 14.000 songs.

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