The clip shown above is from a 1967 Philco-Ford production entitled Year 1999 A.D., a cheery look at the future where the wife still shops and the husband takes care of all the bills. Ah, those were the days, ay ladies?
Well, I came across more depressing news and a crappy idea from the powers that be in the music industry. Check out this article from the New York Times entitled “Radio’s Newest Strategy: Play a Hit, Again and Again.” Giving the people what they want right? The article refers to a song by rock band OneRepublic called “Apologize”, which has broken the record for the most plays on US Top 40 stations since such computerized tracking began in 1990.
WIOQ-FM, a pop station in Philadelphia, played the song 123 times last week, letting as little as 50 minutes tick by between repeat spins.
Oh brother, I wish I could’ve been a fly on the wall during that brilliant, decision-making meeting. Yeah, that’s what will save the commercial radio and music industries… MORE REPETITION!
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Afternoon!
Ah yes – the radio industry just gets better and better. Every single day, a fresh hell awaits.
Donita and Fini!
Went and saw Flogging Molly Wednesday night at a small venue called The Starry Night in Portland.
What a show.
That was the most fun concert I think I have ever been to. Even the band was having fun.
If you EVER get a chance to see them in a small setting, go.
What a hoot.
That vid was pretty cool!
I guess radio execs have some serious short term memory loss. It was the mindless repetition of Top 40 radio that led to the rebellion and rise of the “underground” FM and AOR in the late 60s/early 70s.
Hey Donita!
Hey Fini!
Wow – I am hooked on this groove!
NO! NO! NO!
Howdy Hi Hep-cats and kitties!
Finidonita!
‘More repetition’ has been a radio mantra for decades, since Drake & Chenault. It was a cornerstone of the Abrams ‘Superstars’ format which gave hugeness to AOR FM radio in the 70’s.
And it sucks.
;>)
Hey, hi, howdy one and all firepups! I hate repetitive anything, repetitive anything, repetitive anything, repeti- [THWACK!]
Hi fini!
Hi Donita!
Now you’re going to get it.
;>)
I have had a number of friends who were/are radio DJs over the years and they absolutely hate these boneheaded radio consultants that the programmers all listen to who have killed the business. There is nothing more useless in life than a radio industry consultant. These are the used car salesmen of the music business and are about as brilliant as a Bush Administration staffer.
Love the avatar, D.
Did you see we made the top 10?
http://www.cracked.com/article_15682_p2.html
Donita -
Please forgive the music o/t but just wanted to let ya’ll know they’re havin’ a lot of fun over at TP with one of our favorite twits:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/…..rshippers/
I survived the consolidation wars of the 1990’s in US’s fourth-largest market, barely.
No one who has a fucking clue of what to do about running a radio station is left there – all usurped by corporate yes-men in kneepads and “savvy” businessmen who make decisions based on the lowest common denominator.
The Internet’s where it is now, baybee! Like Donita – picking out fresh meat for us every week!
THank you very much, and a big shout out to fini, may he be enjoying his new digs.
those were the days, my friend
A certain local radio station here in Portland that shall remain unnamed ( Cough, KGON ,cough)has an unhealthy fixation on Led Zeppelin.
They play LZ constantly and have for 20 years that I know of.
Once they had a “Led Zeppelin Weekend” and played LZ for 48 hrs straight.
I couldn’t hang.
Come Monday morning at 6 AM, they were STILL playing Led Zeppelin, it’s what woke me up on my alarm clock.
I snapped.
I called them and got exactly four very unpleasant words out before I got hung up on.
I’ll give you three guesses what is going on there now that They are getting back together for one concert.
You guessed it.
AAAauuuuggghhh!
Holy crap! I don’t know if I am offended or overjoyed! That was awesome!
Hello everyone.
Why do you think it’s depressing? Isn’t it only bad for the stations, when the listeners get fed up? I remember a song a couple of years ago: Nickelback – How you remind me. Great ballad, but darn it was overplayed, effectively ruining it for me.
Not so wrong that prediction, if you take away the stylish 60s look.
Long live emancipation!
Hey Donita, what do ya think of this?
http://i230.photobucket.com/al…..DSArmy.gif
I got the idea for it when you had mentioned the “Donita Sparks Army” a few weeks ago. I thought you might find it amusing :)
No I hadn’t seen that Lady J. Warms my cold cold heart.
Whoa!
Hardcore lady!
Payola is alive and well.
Ooooh…bugs in the template!
Jane, the new site design is most awesome, I love what you’ve done with the place. Looks like we both got new digs this week!
Yeah, I moved this week, still in the Indianapolis area for another year but now officially out of the ghetto I was in and in the hoity toity area of town in a single wide trailer! YEEHAW!
I am definitely fly in the ointment in this neighborhood, so I love it here. It even has that new trailer smell in here (until I start cooking for real here anyway).
Donita!!!!!!!!!!
Sending love to you from NYC!!
xoxo
What dakine said!
Where in the world do you come up with this stuff?
Repetition? Well, as Mark E. Smith once pointed out, “President Carter likes repetition. Repetition, repetition, repetition.” Then, of course there was Bowie’s “Repetition” covered by Au Pairs.
Me, I’m all into the , which is not repetitious at all, and which seems to have been endorsed by the Right Reverend Ivan Stang. If a radio station played nothing but this ditty, I’d be tuned in all the tim.e
It builds “cume” is the problem. If you’re being measured by Arbitron, you want to build cume or lose your job.
I like Der Komissar too.
Here’s Jeff Beck with a young woman named Tal playing bass. She is awesome.
I love it Young Jess. Good work soldier!
I’m convinced he scours YouTube for the whole week just to come here and screw with my head like that. Not that I mind or anything, it’s one of the treats of doing this every week!
No luck posting the link to Bobo Skinny Watten Tatten above, so here’s the raw:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4QOoe5o3c
and another try at the link.
A few years back, friends of mine were driving cross-country, and somewhere in the midwest, they came across what was apparently an all-Macarena station.
A little OT question: Does the preview function of the “Leave your response” box work for you? It doesn’t for me and I tried several browsers/computers.
In response to YoungJess @ 20
Oh, we can make fanart now? Cool! Maybe I’ll come up with something for next week, if I don’t forget it again.
Thanks!! I’m glad you like it!!
Wow – watching that “Shit List” video was great!
I think I’ve admitted here in this very place that I saw NBK 18 times in the theater… .all before I knew anything about … well, anything.
Juliette Lewis rocked – the music RRRRRRRAAWWWWWKKKKKEEEEEEDDDDD and the message – it was something that I knew as truth but had never been talked about, anywhere.
Thanks to you, ladies – For helping create change… and being such stars in the universe…
You go boy. 20 years, Jesus.
New trailer? DAYUM!
;>)
sounds like the nightmare on main street
Thats what I got when I clicked your link.
I meant to say…DAYUM!
;>)
I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you . . .
Quite impressive.
Damn, I didn’t realize Donita sang ‘Shitlist’.
Very cool song.
No — but be patient. I think the tech folks behind the curtains have that on their “to-do list.”
This past summer, I moved from the SF Bay area to Kansas City. I have great sympathy for Jane and the tech crew for the virtual moving that they’ve been doing here at the ‘Lake.
LMAO! I think one of those dudes is my neighbor across the street!
Seriously though, it’s not the typical mobile home park here. My roommate and I had to get criminal background checks and credit scoring before they would rent to us. We did get a hell of a deal though, its a new 2007 model, 3 bedrooms 2 baths. The rooms are pretty decent sized and, most importantly for the studio gear I have, brand spanking new electrical service and outlets. Clean power, nothing like it!
Oh my god. That was fantastic.
And kudos to the mods. I haven’t noticed any problems with troublemakers – ok, I haven’t taken a deep look yet. But if politicians are willing to be on this site, As Mrs. Clinton was, I’m sure all those Bill’Os would look very close for some harsher lines only to discredit the whole place and the politicians that come here.
Fini, I’ve never heard of a trailer park with background checks. Do you live in a gated community now?
Clean power, indeed.
I salute your ascendancy, sir.
;>)
She’s amazing.
I have, it took a month for me to get in mine.
Evil genius that I am, I managed,just.
Now you’re talkin’.
Dude’s got golden hands.
;>)
Well this trailer park is at the southern edge of the neighborhoods around Geist Reservoir, the highest priced real estate in Indiana. As trailer parks go it is pretty high end. Most of the trailers in here are less than 5 year old models and they really are very nice.
For you and anyone else with a tech issue, drop Siun a note. She posted this on an earlier thread:
The sad thing is, back in the day WIOQ in Philly was a great progressive rock station.
In my December Grameen Foundation newsletter there was a link to
Our Stage which I have to admit, I never heard of.
In the little time that I have spent there, it seems to be a way to support independent artists, for fans to vote for independent artists who win prizes and gigs, and the people who run the site, will donate $2 to the Grameen Foundation for any one who signs up through the link.
For those who aren’t familiar, Grameen provides microfinancing for poor,mostly women start businesses.
Evil genious, eh? What, you threatened not to fix the
condotrailer park board members’Bentleyspickup trucks until Spring?(all in fun — I’ve got lots of friends in trailer parks who drive pickups. OTOH, not so many in condos with Bentleys.)
Gee! Throughout my childhood radio music was repetitious so I knew all the loony tunes. Same was true during my teen years, twenties, thirties, forties, etc., etc. So, I listen to classical music and jazz stations. Come to think of it, that’s why I invested in records, tapes, CDs and now….Radio is the same old same old.
I didn’t want to spam. If on a website that is viewed as often as this one, every user would send mails to the admins and complain about little things like that …poor admins.
I think the background check thing is becoming way too common in American society. Who needs official government fascism when private sector fascism will do just fine controlling the population’s movements and living habits?
hey donita
great post & playlist as usual!
i haven’t listened to music on the radio in ages….it’s just too horrible. so sick of the same oldies, over and over, and the new stuff they’re playing is just unacceptable. it’s CDs, air america, & NPR.
now if they’d play FALCO more, i just might tune in!
Busted Knuckles @4,
They’ve been a favorite of mine for a while now. I’ve seen them 5 times – This last tour, the tickets sold out before I could get them.
Definately a fun experience.
I love Falco, it’s a shame he died. He had some great music he released right before he died in a car accident.
I know, it’s sad. Don’t we own the airwaves???
Unlike Morrissey, I like it when my friends are successful.
;>)
“Find my nest of salt
Everything’s my fault”
You aren’t spam!
and besides you’ll be helping others.
I know, whodathunk trailer parks had standards?
They most certainly do now.
I got lucky, mine isn’t real new,anything over 10 yrs old they don’t want.
Course the stories I could tell you about some of my past neighbors would flat scare the hell out of ya.
Luckily my reputation preceded me, no one dares mess with me.
It’s that evil genius thing.
In my experience here in comments… ELO, Soul Coughing, and Falco seem to be on the Mount Rushmore of The Spin I’m In readers’ favorites. Who o who holds the fourth spot????
That’s a tough one to call, but you are right about the other three. I happen to know there are a number of jazz fans here, so maybe John Coltrane or Miles Davis might be good choices.
ok, more music
Wir sind Helden – Wenn es passiert
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw4OMxYTJpA
Florence Foster Jenkins.
;>)
I’d imagine it’s all personal to the individual.
Me? Otis, Birdman, Duane, and Fats Waller
I’ve barely scratched the Liberace surface, but I must dash to Fed Ex. Keep having fun everyone. Happy Weekend!
Hoooo leeeee Shitonashingle!
Hi all, sorry to go OT so soon, but is this an old story? and has it already been discussed already?
U.S. checking possibility of pumping oil from northern Iraq to Haifa, via Jordan
By Amiram Cohen
The United States has asked Israel to check the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to the oil refineries in Haifa. The request came in a telegram last week from a senior Pentagon official to a top Foreign Ministry official in Jerusalem.
The Prime Minister’s Office, which views the pipeline to Haifa as a “bonus” the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq, had asked the Americans for the official telegram.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/p…..tSrc=Y#top
Falco. he he he. Where oh where is my day-glo t-shirt?
punaise – Carefully, put down that poll vault.
They’ve been doing that for sometime already. Oil is piped to those refineries and then delivered to the US military as gas via the road through western Iraq to Jordan. Theyve been doing that for over a year already but its all hush hush still for some reason, despite it being common knowledge to anyone living along that road. That’s why so many resources were poured into Anbar Province last year, to reassert US military control of the road to Amman.
Oh yes, After all isn’t THAT why we are there?
happy friday to you donita!
thanks for the shonen knife! love it!
to quote the ramones: WE WANT THE AIRWAVES!
Well I must run along now to cook dinner, enjoy your weekends!
G’bye!
DAYUM!
;>)
Have a good weekend, y’all.
Bye!
See ya’s.
Donita!
.
Just finished the playlist.. much fun. Fini, was it yours this week?
punaise – Carefully, put down that poll vault.
no problem – I’ll take the elevator to the mezzanine
Apparently I don’t spend enough time at YouTube.
Hmmm…
.
OT for old coastie and others via TPM:
Heh, …is it really funds, or was it the lack of necessary signatures that waylaid their grand scheme…?
don’t you just love Old Coastie and friends?
I guess this means OC won’t be stalking folks in parking lots this weekend. *g*
Mission Accomplished! ;-)
About as OT as it can get . . .
Right now, as I’m looking at the ‘Lake, there’s an Ann Coulter ad up at the top. “Sign up to get Ann Coulter’s latest articles by email — free!”
Somehow, Ann Coulter advertising around here is beyond amusing. By all means, Ann, please send us your money. The notion that you think you’ll find subscribers here . . . priceless!
Made me think of Paved Paradise and I found a great recording of it.
To Old Coastie
Ding!
Under Jane’s last Joke Line post there was an advertisement for TIME.
aHAHAHAHAHA
FYI, New post upstairs.
heh, i always like Nirvana’s All apologies
btw new thread
Donita,
You missed the fact that today, December 7th, is the 27th anniversary of Darby Crash’s death.
Rock On!
P.S. I liked your new video, “Infancy of Disaster.” When can I see you play in the Detroit area (Ann Arbor to be exact.)
Funniest thing/think about this, late 70’s or early 80’s a VP asked, rhetorically asked, in one part harmony, I suppose, kid?, can I push a button and print. I pressed a button, not connected to his suit mind you, and the pin wheel non-dotted matrix printer began to type.
About the only thing I listen to on commercial radio these days is sports. For music, it’s my iPod. On shuffle.
I haven’t listened to commercial music radio for about 30 years, and I have no intention of starting up. Crap is crap and that’s all radio plays, unless it’s Spanish language. Sometimes that’s OK, if they play Tejano or Conjuto.
I have plenty of that on my iPod anyway, so why listen to the radio at all? Vote with your fingers! Boycott commercial music radio.