The classic rock station is on at restaurant and it's playing "Stairway to Heaven." Do boomers actually want to hear that again?

[Mick_Mickerson]

Constantly playing Stairway, Come Together and Take the Money and Run on a loop for past 45 years. They're all good songs but holy fuck...how many times can you want to hear them???

 

[RedHeadpw2]

Constantly playing Stairway, Come Together and Take the Money and Run on a loop for past 45 years. They're all good songs but holy fuck...how many times can you want to hear them???

It really is about 20 songs over and over, every damn day. Led Zeppelin, Eagles, CCR, Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, Ozzie, AC/DC... 1 or maybe 2 randoms per day. Kinda sucks.

 

[TheGhostOfAbeVigoda]

Oh, no, no, there's no bustle in my hedgerow.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

Constantly playing Stairway, Come Together and Take the Money and Run on a loop for past 45 years. They're all good songs but holy fuck...how many times can you want to hear them???

Don’t forget Slow Ride from Foghat. I don’t know why people still want to hear that song.

I looked up my cities big “modern” FM rock station and I couldn’t believe how little the playlist has changed over 20 years. They’ll play some new stuff but still play Smells Like Teen Spirt, Even Flow, Enter Sandman, Thunderstruck, Welcome To The Jungle, Interstate Love Song, Basket Case, etc every day.

 

[wbgreen]

Stairway on the radio used to be a big deal because FM stations don't play songs that long. It let the DJ act like radio rebel, a DESTROYER if you will. The bosses upstairs aren't going to like this, but I'm doing it. Here's Stairway...

 

[RealTonySchiavone]

The thing is, if people truly didn't want to hear the same bullshit over and over, they wouldn't play it. They've done the research and it shows that people that listen to the radio pretty much only want to hear familiar stuff.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

The thing is, if people truly didn't want to hear the same bullshit over and over, they wouldn't play it. They've done the research and it shows that people that listen to the radio pretty much only want to hear familiar stuff.

I get that but I don't understand how it's possible for a 70 year old to want to hear Tuesday's Gone again after having listened to it for 45 years

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

The thing is, if people truly didn't want to hear the same bullshit over and over, they wouldn't play it. They've done the research and it shows that people that listen to the radio pretty much only want to hear familiar stuff.

"Normal" people don't have a lot of variation in their music tastes.

 

[captain_kamala]

My mom has listened to this shit my entire life. And definitely longer than that. I want to go on a murdering spree everytime I hear space cowboy. I don't think she's ever had a single day without hearing it. I'm a smoker I'm a joker FUCK YOU¡!!!!!!!!

 

[captain_kamala]

And now they have the hip hop/r&b throwback stations. No scrubs is an awful fucking song and they play it every hour. And there's no reason at all for the gay ass I'll be missing you song diddy made after biggie died to have lasted beyond that moment. Fucking sucks so bad.

 

[DiarrheaDick]

The thing is, if people truly didn't want to hear the same bullshit over and over, they wouldn't play it. They've done the research and it shows that people that listen to the radio pretty much only want to hear familiar stuff.

If we're being honest, most terrestrial radio is just playing as background music in waiting rooms, construction areas, and auto shops. Even then more and more people have ear buds or Bluetooth speakers since they've gotten cheaper.

 

[ミスタースパーコル]

I want to go on a murdering spree everytime I hear space cowboy.

Hate Cowboy Bebop.

If we're being honest, most terrestrial radio is just playing as background music in waiting rooms, construction areas, and auto shops. Even then more and more people have ear buds or Bluetooth speakers since they've gotten cheaper.

Thanks to blewtooth I can listen to fag music without getting weird looks.

 

[nasty twp]

They've done the research and it shows that people that listen to the radio pretty much only want to hear familiar stuff.

Can’t remember where I heard this chestnut or who from, but someone once said that the human ear craves the familiar while the eyes crave novelty.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

They say after a certain age people stop “looking” for new music and settle with what they’ve been listening to for the rest of their lives. I remember the Eagles who broke up in 1980 said classic rock stations started shortly after 1980 and played a lot of their stuff on rotation so they lived on without having to do anything.

 

[Smeckler's Powder]

terrestrial radio stations have been garbage since about 2000. All of these complaints I've had for two decades. There's so much great classic rock that is just disappearing. Even Sirius fucked over their main fanbase by moving Deep Tracks to some channel you have to have their faggot ass app for. People set this shit up so they could have a RADIO, and now you're trying to get your most loyal customers to download an app when they are mostly 60+?

April Wine
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush
Legs Diamond
Robin Trower
Pat Travers

I could go on and on listing shit that is great that hasn't been played in 30+ years so they could play "Heartache Tonight" 13 times a day

 

[captain_kamala]

They say after a certain age people stop “looking” for new music and settle with what they’ve been listening to for the rest of their lives. I remember the Eagles who broke up in 1980 said classic rock stations started shortly after 1980 and played a lot of their stuff on rotation so they lived on without having to do anything.

I remember when I was very young my parents would at least listen to Michael Jackson and madonna and whatever was popular at the time. They gave up on that pretty quick and never revisited it.
I don't think I can ever become like that. New soca releases every carnival season is a big deal

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

terrestrial radio stations have been garbage since about 2000. All of these complaints I've had for two decades. There's so much great classic rock that is just disappearing. Even Sirius fucked over their main fanbase by moving Deep Tracks to some channel you have to have their faggot ass app for. People set this shit up so they could have a RADIO, and now you're trying to get your most loyal customers to download an app when they are mostly 60+?

April Wine
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush
Legs Diamond
Robin Trower
Pat Travers

I could go on and on listing shit that is great that hasn't been played in 30+ years so they could play "Heartache Tonight" 13 times a day

It really pisses me off how even Sirius is pretty limited for selection on the music channels. They won’t even dare play deep tracks from the artists they play to death. Thanks to FM rock radio being shit in the late 90s / 2000s pretty much any group I like I HATE their biggest songs because of how they played the songs to death. Like I said earlier, I looked up my cities big rock station and the setlist is 60-75% the same from 20 years ago but will mix in some current groups here and there but will still play “Even Flow” 3-4 times a day. They act like Nirvana’s “In Bloom” is a deep track.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

I remember when I was very young my parents would at least listen to Michael Jackson and madonna and whatever was popular at the time. They gave up on that pretty quick and never revisited it.
I don't think I can ever become like that. New soca releases every carnival season is a big deal

Yeah my dad who has an insane talent of knowing the artist / song title for pretty much all the late 60s / 70s songs (what he grew up with) around 85/86 stop keeping up with what was new. A few times he would get into a new group like Boyz II Men but for most part doesn’t even bother with current stuff. I think the most recent artists he liked was Bruno Mars.

 

[Ants Hard Drive of Horror]

At least classic rock (shitty) has songs that sound different. I cant imagine the corollary for horrible 3rd world music or zoomer mumble rap where the songs share the same rhythm and the artists are indistinguishable.

 

[satanssockpuppet]

Does anyone remember laughter?