STOP PLAYING 80'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[davereichel]

It's that simple. It's sounds awful & goofy to go from a 60's sounding jingle to an 80's Mtv band. Stick w/ 50's - 79 and thats it. A few weeks ago arond 6:30pm I heard "Night Shift" by the post LIonel Richie Commodores from 1983! That song is awful!

[John Quincy]

Is your message directed to one radio station specifically?

I played "Nightshift" ad nauseum when it was a current. That's one song you'll never find on my iPod! :-)

[kevin502]

When I was in San Diego in Navy boot camp we were allowed one hour a day of radio.

"NightShift" and Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" were the two songs I remember.

If you were in Boot camp you know that there is very little connection to the outsdie world --esp. during the first few weeks. So hearing those songs reminded us there was life out there.

[bruiser]

When I was in basic training in the Army, we weren't allowed to have a radio. Only "music" we had was "singing" good ol' marching songs. LOL

[Max]

Jul 17, 2008 14:46:07 GMT -5 kevin502 said:

When I was in San Diego in Navy boot camp we were allowed one hour a day of radio.

"NightShift" and Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" were the two songs I remember.

If you were in Boot camp you know that there is very little connection to the outsdie world --esp. during the first few weeks. So hearing those songs reminded us there was life out there.

Oh, my gosh, Kevin...you were in bootcamp in San Diego when I was there for my C school...we've absolutely got to have dinner soon!

[davereichel]

Jul 17, 2008 12:57:28 GMT -5 John Quincy said:

Is your message directed to one radio station specifically?

I played "Nightshift" ad nauseum when it was a current. That's one song you'll never find on my iPod! :-)

Yes WAKY! STOP PLAYING 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bruiser]

I tend to agree. 1980 is a good place to stop.

[Scott Cason]

Hey, I kinda like some early 80's music.

[Max]

While I do like 80's music, it was not, I repeat NOT part of the WAKY experience! If you want to brand yourself the second coming of WAKY, don't try to reinvent WAKY at the same time. The only 80's that was a part of 790 was 1980 thru March 1982.

This is what alot of businesses, especially restaurants do to excess-try to be all things to all people. Hamburger restaurants selling fish and taco's and such.

[John Quincy]

You might have a point if 103.5 was trying to be "just like" the original WAKY.

However, if they were the original WAKY they'd be a Top 40 station playing the music of 2008, and very few people reading this would be listening to it.

They'd also be doing a bunch of other things the other WAKY did -- like having a multi-person news department and giving away large sums of cash and big prizes -- and they'd be one of the top three stations in the Louisville market.

However, WAKY-FM is a 2008 oldies station that uses jingles, phrases and original DJs (one anyway) to conjure up the feeling of the original pre-1979 WAKY-AM.

And whether you like it or not, the relatively few oldies stations still left these days -- whether they have classic call letters or not -- are mixing in songs from the 80s. They have to do this to grow their audience.

(Heck, the term "oldies" is being dropped in favor of "Classic Hits" or "Classic Top 40" as a station slogan.)

As a general rule, a person's favorite music is the music they listened to in high school.

If you graduated in 1988 -- 20 years ago -- you're 38 years old or thereabouts. I'm sure WAKY-FM's advertisers would love to have some 38 year olds listening. If the demos are all 45 years old and above, those 25-year-old female ad agency media buyers won't even give the station a second look...even though the people over 45 have all the money!

Now that doesn't mean WAKY-FM should play "Wild Wild West" by Escape Club or "Angel" by Aerosmith.

But "Got My Mind Set On You" by George Harrison or "Roll With It" by Steve Winwood would sound good mixed in with the '60s and '70s hits on WAKY-FM.

(All of the songs mentioned above are from 1988.)

If the right songs from the '80s are selected...and programmed accordingly...it could sound quite good.

Myself, I'd go for the faster, poppy, non-edgy tunes like "Freeway of Love" by Aretha Franklin and "Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & The News. Both would sound quite nice coming out of the WAKY-FM top-of-the-hour ID.

I would't play a '50s song next to an '80s tune (or vice-versa) though. But the oldies station of 2008 still playing music from the '50s is a rarity these days. To some people, a record from 1956 might as well be a Glenn Miller tune -- it sounds that old.

Maybe some Depeche Mode would sound good on WAKY-FM too.

No, just kidding on DM. :-)

I'm going to get a pedicure at Perfect Nails now.

[Chad]

I agree. This is ridiculous sounding. While I don't listen to broadcast radio anymore (after having XM for a few years now) it sounds stupid. To me oldies are 1950-1974. Since I remember 80's music when it was new it will never be oldies. Also IMHO good music died somewhere around 1990 or so. Therefore anything after it doesn't figure into my listening time. I like quite a bit of 80's music including a ton of new wave, but it does not belong on an oldies station, period.

[John Quincy]

While I'm personally burned out on the tune that started this thread ("Nightshift" by the Commodores), in WAKY-FM's defense, the song *IS* about two oldies artists: Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson.

BTW, when Roy Orbison's "You Got It" came out in 1988, many oldies stations at the time played it even though it was a "current". Many oldies purists protested, but most listeners enjoyed it.

[Travis]

Steve Winwood's "Roll With It" always reminds me of Sam & Dave's "Hold On (I'm Comin')," so it would always work with coming out of a WAKY jingle.