Monday Music Mambo
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Top 40 music you either love it or you hate it. That's what we're mamboing about this week guys.
The dancing dude is here and he's ready for some Mambo action. Are you?
Let's get started with this. Tell us your feelings about top 40 music, using the letters T-O-P F-O-R-T-Y. Tell us why you love it. Tell us why you hate it. Tell us anything you think we might want to know about it. Go ahead, you can do it!
Too much airplay can make even the best songs annoying.
Older bands seldom make the top 40.
Plenty of crap makes it there!
Few of the bands that I like have had recent top 40 hits.
Only time will tell if something from Unbreakable makes it there.
Really good music seems to have disappeared from the top 40.
Try though I may, I just don't like much of the new top 40 music.
Yuck!
Now it's time to really get down and mambo.
1. What song from the recent top 40 charts is your favorite? (Recent being that last 6 or so months)
I don't listen to the radio, so I don't much know what's in the top 40. As a rule, I only hear music by newer bands when my kids play it. Some of it I like, some of it I don't. If I really like a particular song, I'll ask who it is. The last song that I asked about was by Linkin Park, but I can't remember what it was called.
2. Do you think that most songs in the top 40 are overplayed or not? Tell us why you feel that way.
I was involved with a guy who worked in radio once upon a time. That being so, I know a good bit about how the music rotations work for most stations. Believe me, these rotations are designed so that current top 40 material (the hot list) gets the most airplay. Recurrents, songs over six months old, come in next, and once a song is over a year old it is classified as an oldie, giving it nearly no airplay at all!
3. What band do you think most deserves a top 40 hit, but hasn't had one yet, or hasn't had one in a very long time?
I don't know if The Scorpions have had a top 40 hit in the U S since Wind Of Change , but certainly just about every song on the new album deserves that honor.
It would also be nice to see a new song by Def Leppard in the top 40.
4. In the recent past, Top 40 was mostly rock/pop music. How do you feel about the inclusion of other genres into this grouping?
In the 60's, a lot of soul music crossed over into the top 40 charts. In the late 70's and early 80's there was a lot of country crossover material. I think that this was a good thing. Crossover material helps to introduce people to artists and music that they might have otherwise overlooked.
5. Radio airplay helps to determine how well a single or album sells. Do you think that listeners should have more input into what radio stations play?
In a perfect musical world, the listeners would be the only ones deciding what gets played. Unfortunately, we do not live in that world. Radio is about making money. The advertisers have the most say in what gets played, and they think that the music that is supposedly hot will help them to rake in the most bucks! That is the way that it is and probably always shall be...
