Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Thoughty2"
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Part of hit radio's listenability reduction is the lower quality of the music generally. But part of it is the narrowing of the format. Regardless of the genre (pop, rock, country) modern stations have such a narrow format for how old a song can be, and such a strict genre restriction, that the same few songs keep getting played over and over again. This may be acceptable for the target audience if it is short trip auto commuters. But certainly for trying to get through a night shift in a factory, or any other extended play scenario, this drives anyone with higher than a room temperature IQ up a wall.
This decline for most stations started in the 70s. I can remember when I was little (in the 60s), EVERY music station played "golden oldies" every once in a while and the standard of longevity of what was considered a relatively modern song was much greater. The stations were not generally as purist restrictive in terms of genre. Few made much of the distinction between rock and pop and folk in the pop stations and C&W and bluegrass and maybe even southern gospel on the country stations, and a few genre bending artists, like John Denver, got play on both sides.
Of course, nowadays oldies stations have a much larger body of work to choose from than hit stations, even if they restrict themselves to one or two decades. But even then, many miss the mark in terms of variety. My favorite oldies format is one that draws from the most decades and every hour pulls in something I haven't heard in years, and once a day or so pulls out something I've never heard before. Even though such a station will often play something I don't like as much, that is a price I am willing to pay for variety. All too many station programmers today couldn't parse the phrase "no repeat workday" to save their lives.
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