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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19374 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 6:18 pm Post subject: Overplayed Songs No Longer Overplayed How Things Change! |
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I was listening to 'American Pie' on Drivetime's Tuesday Tunes long songs tonight when a thought struck me, and not for the first time in recent weeks, so thought I'd mention it.
Until recently I would refer to 'American Pie' as one of those overplayed songs that always seem to crop up on 'so called' request and other shows on Radio 2. 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and 'Dancing Queen' are a couple of others that spring to mind, I'm sure you get my drift.
But, and here's the point, as I listened I thought I really can't remember when I last heard it and it got me thinking. Is time passing so quickly that these and others like them are no longer the overplayed ones and giving way to the much newer stuff that Radio 2 is now playing?
Maybe I'm just getting old...........
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I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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ruddlescat
Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 18010 Location: Near Chester
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Apparently Helen the human brain is quite similar to most modern computers so as we get older our brains delete certain information in order that we can remember more important things as the brain has a huge but nevertheless limited capacity
That might go some way to explaining why we have the feeling that a certain track is played too often but in actual fact our brains don't retain the evidence to support this impression
Just a theory - I could be completely wide of the mark _________________ Are you ready for a Ruddles? |
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Helen May
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19374 Location: Cheshire
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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You may be right Ruddles but I was thinking more that the 'new' overplayed songs belong to a different (more recent perhaps?) decade so 'our' overplayed songs are sidelined in their favour. In a similar way that you don't hear Sinatra or Matt Monro on many daytime shows these days.
Just a thought!
H _________________ 88 - 91 FM this is Radio 2 from the BBC!
I said it live on air in the studio with Jeremy Vine on 10/3/2005 |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3608 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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I think you're probably right. About 10 years ago they'd play Brown-Eyed Girl and Year of the Cat pretty much every day, but no longer (thankfully).
Still many of the same old artists though - the Top 10 most-played acts on the station include Rod Stewart, Elton John, Santana, and ELO. |
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Schizoidman
Joined: 20 Sep 2010 Posts: 1140 Location: Rural West Sussex
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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I think we often assume that certain songs are played all the time when in fact they are not. I don't think I've heard Bohemian Rhapsody or A Whiter Shade Of Pale on Radio 2 for a long time.
However, on the rare occasions that I hear local radio, there does seem to be a surfeit of the usual predictable rubbish: Baker Street, Dancing Queen and Come Up And See Me. |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2016 10:34 am Post subject: Re: Overplayed Songs No Longer Overplayed How Things Change! |
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Helen May wrote: | I was listening to 'American Pie' on Drivetime's Tuesday Tunes long songs tonight when a thought struck me, and not for the first time in recent weeks, so thought I'd mention it.
Until recently I would refer to 'American Pie' as one of those overplayed songs that always seem to crop up on 'so called' request and other shows on Radio 2. 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' and 'Dancing Queen' are a couple of others that spring to mind, I'm sure you get my drift.
But, and here's the point, as I listened I thought I really can't remember when I last heard it and it got me thinking. Is time passing so quickly that these and others like them are no longer the overplayed ones and giving way to the much newer stuff that Radio 2 is now playing?
Maybe I'm just getting old...........
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Sweet Home Alabama is still overplayed on R2 |
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