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The Polack MSgt

(13,159 posts)
Sun May 15, 2022, 02:03 PM May 2022

Classic Rock bands whose discography has been whittled down to 2 or 3 songs by FM radio - A thread

The Classic Rock format has been doing its part to destroy the audience for quality music since I was tiny

On a side note, Blue Oyster Cult is synonymous with fucking cowbell to an entire generation and it infuriates me



Foghat has plenty of great songs that aren't Fool for the City



Thin Lizzy is much more than Jailbreak or the Boys are Back


The Clash single "Rock the Casbah" is garbage, but that's about all you'll ever hear on the radio now

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Classic Rock bands whose discography has been whittled down to 2 or 3 songs by FM radio - A thread (Original Post) The Polack MSgt May 2022 OP
I feel ya.... stevil May 2022 #1
Also .... "Love Ain't For Keeping" from The Who Diamond_Dog May 2022 #7
FM radio is dead, I switched to Sirius three years ago Shermann May 2022 #2
Shallow Tracks Loge23 May 2022 #4
The Boneyard was good for a while. The Polack MSgt May 2022 #5
Sirius has a "Deep Tracks" channel for classic rock Shermann May 2022 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author The Polack MSgt May 2022 #6
I'd have picked other bands (apart from The Clash) to illustrate personally, but I get the point Hugh_Lebowski May 2022 #3
You left out Golden Earring. But I agree in general about the narrow playlist on classic rock highplainsdem May 2022 #9
I've learned more about Golden Earring from your posts this last little while The Polack MSgt May 2022 #11
Hope I haven't been boring you. I love what I've been learning from you highplainsdem May 2022 #12
Rush is so much more than VMA131Marine May 2022 #10
Man, Rush has like, what, six or seven albums? Dr. Strange May 2022 #13
Indeed, it is! VMA131Marine May 2022 #14

Shermann

(7,355 posts)
2. FM radio is dead, I switched to Sirius three years ago
Sun May 15, 2022, 02:11 PM
May 2022

Sirius is actually quite repetitive as well, however there are so many channels to choose from.

FM radio is not kind to Rainbow, their whole catalog boils down to "Since You've Been Gone".

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
4. Shallow Tracks
Sun May 15, 2022, 02:33 PM
May 2022

Sirius/XM is falling into predictability also.
The other day, I noticed "Running on Empty", the commercial radio Jackson Browne standard playing on Deep Tracks.
A "deep track" it is not. Even Jackson must hate playing this tune by now.
The Loft still is a good mix, relatively, but even that has a repetitive playlist at times.

The Polack MSgt

(13,159 posts)
5. The Boneyard was good for a while.
Sun May 15, 2022, 02:37 PM
May 2022

I no longer have Sirius, but when I'm on the road I get it in my rental...

It's no better than broadcast radio at this point

Shermann

(7,355 posts)
8. Sirius has a "Deep Tracks" channel for classic rock
Sun May 15, 2022, 02:55 PM
May 2022

It is playing "The Gamma Goochie" by Joe Walsh right now.

It is better in the way you are concerned with.

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Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. I'd have picked other bands (apart from The Clash) to illustrate personally, but I get the point
Sun May 15, 2022, 02:17 PM
May 2022

Really infuriating to me along these lines is, the iconic KFOG of San Francisco went out of business a few years back after they were bought up by some conglomerate who changed the format to be much more 'what everyone doing AOR plays' vs what it had successfully been for decades ... which was a place to hear both the more obscure artists, and more obscure tracks by popular artists you know, and also live tracks.

Then it died shortly after. RIP KFOG, so many memories

It's all just about dollars and cents man. The public, in general, who listen to rock stations ... listen in order to hear the shit they already know and heard 100 times.

Frankly, it's not much different in the MAG group, as you of all people would know

highplainsdem

(48,727 posts)
9. You left out Golden Earring. But I agree in general about the narrow playlist on classic rock
Sun May 15, 2022, 03:05 PM
May 2022

stations. It's so damn boring. Besides misrepresenting the artists' achievements.

Not that "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone" aren't great songs -- and thank God they're still getting airplay -- but the Earring were so much more...









The Polack MSgt

(13,159 posts)
11. I've learned more about Golden Earring from your posts this last little while
Sun May 15, 2022, 06:25 PM
May 2022

Than I ever knew about them before.

Which is the point of the forum after all

VMA131Marine

(4,124 posts)
10. Rush is so much more than
Sun May 15, 2022, 03:39 PM
May 2022

Tom Sawyer, Time Stand Still, and Spirit of Radio

Then again, what stations will play the entirety of 2112, or Xanadu, or Hemispheres, or Natural Science, or La Villa Strangiato.

Dr. Strange

(25,898 posts)
13. Man, Rush has like, what, six or seven albums?
Sun May 15, 2022, 10:03 PM
May 2022


Nineteen studio albums and eleven live albums...I guess that's why they called them
They called them the working men.
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