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10.7.12 80's Show from China Oct 7, 2012 22:06:57 GMT -5

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Ok, so what I really logged on to say was that the next time I catch myself feeling shitty about the impact Adam has had on the radio world, I am going to rewatch that Joseph video. It will put it all in perspective. Course I could also rewatch the 80s Show or Dr Bri's tweets to Adam...so much good that isn't going away.

ps. Thanks Q3!

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Oct 7, 2012 20:00:16 GMT -5 irish1139 said:

I remember a song by Janice Ian or something like that about being 17 and how awful it is. Somebody remember this with me and let me know the name of the song. I am getting old but this song got me through some things when I was young. I know some of you out there will remember it.

I could relate to the song and knew someone else was experiencing the same things. :'(

The name was Seveteen -- that whole album was very good.

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Oct 7, 2012 20:00:16 GMT -5 irish1139 said:

I remember a song by Janice Ian or something like that about being 17 and how awful it is. Somebody remember this with me and let me know the name of the song. I am getting old but this song got me through some things when I was young. I know some of you out there will remember it.

I could relate to the song and knew someone else was experiencing the same things. :'(

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10.7.12 80's Show from China Oct 7, 2012 22:37:09 GMT -5

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Oct 7, 2012 21:25:46 GMT -5 wal said:

Trespassingghost ‏@coconutghost007
Looooook @shoshannastone he is coming here Eeeeeeep (if you had anything to do with it, thanks) lockerz.com/s/251244654

shoshanna stone ‏@shoshannastone
@coconutghost007

Wait a minute... I thought this twitter id is from Finland? :dunno:

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Oct 7, 2012 22:37:09 GMT -5 adamme said:

Oct 7, 2012 21:25:46 GMT -5 wal said:

Trespassingghost ‏@coconutghost007
Looooook @shoshannastone he is coming here Eeeeeeep (if you had anything to do with it, thanks) lockerz.com/s/251244654

shoshanna stone ‏@shoshannastone
@coconutghost007

Wait a minute... I thought this twitter id is from Finland?

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If you think about it, a ghost can never really Trespass, can it? Views here aren't my own but the Alien inhabiting my brain....
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There is a similar twitter name, @coconutgrove0. If she is the same one I thought she is, then she is also a member here.

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10.7.12 80's Show from China Oct 7, 2012 22:57:26 GMT -5

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Oct 7, 2012 21:52:11 GMT -5 mshadows77 said:

Q3 comment: Moved to Social Action Section of news.

I move a couple of other posts there too.

Done! Thank you for calling my attention to this. As a UW Madison grad and animal over, it sickens me that this cruel research is taking place. I personalized my letter and was very vocal in my promise to withhold any further donations to the UW. I remember many years ago, my husband had to quit his job doing research at the Medical College of WI because of what they did to the research dogs and the sketchy way that that acquired these poor animals. The money just wasn't worth the grief.

OK, back to Adam now. As Tim Gunn would say, "Carry on!"

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10.7.12 80's Show from China Oct 7, 2012 23:02:32 GMT -5

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Oct 7, 2012 21:29:40 GMT -5 Q3 said:

Oct 7, 2012 20:50:01 GMT -5 cheriemelissa said:

I'm obsessed too. Just can't help it! Radio sucks and I think its really changed since I listened to it regularily. I was watching an info commercial last night about sixties music. You know, the Time Life collections. Back then the radio played everybody. There were hundreds of bands. Between the British invasion and US music, the variety was amazing. Groups, duos, single artists of all genres. It was an amazing time in music.

Top 40 Radio was pretty bad in the 60's -- and worse in the 70's. The difference was FM radio was not controlled by programmers in the late 60's and first half of the 70's. Now there is internet radio serving the same function.

Here are the BB Top 20 songs from 1970 (based on radio airplay):

I love a few of these songs, like many, can sing every line of all of them. BUT IMO these radio hits were not the best music of the time.

Rank Song Artist
1. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head B. J. Thomas
2. I'll Be There The Jackson Five
3. I Think I Love You The Partridge Family
4. Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon and Garfunkel
5. (They Long to Be) Close to You Carpenters
6. My Sweet Lord/Isn't It a Pity George Harrison
7. War Edwin Starr
8. American Woman/No Sugar Tonight Guess Who
9. Let It Be The Beatles
10. I Want You Back The Jackson Five
11. The Tears of a Clown Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
12. We've Only Just Begun Carpenters
13. One Less Bell to Answer 5th Dimension
14. Ain't No Mountain High Enough Diana Ross
15. Abc The Jackson Five
16. Mama Told Me (Not to Come) Three Dog Night
17. Band of Gold Freda Payne
18. Make It With You Bread
19. Spirit in the Sky Norman Greenbaum
20. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) The Temptations

This top singles had little to do with the best albums of 1970, which were also all best sellers ...

Neil Young "After The Gold Rush"
Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin III"
Black Sabbath "Paranoid"
Van Morrison "Moondance"
The Stooges "Fun House"
The Velvet Underground "Loaded"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young "Déjà vu"
Creedence Clearwater Revival "Cosmo's Factory"
Santana "Abraxas"
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison "All Things Must Pass"
James Taylor "Sweet Baby James"
The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie "The Man Who Sold the World"
Elton John "Elton John"
The Kinks "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One)"
Joni Mitchell "Ladies of the Canyon"

But you could hear album tracks from these albums on the the great FM stations of the time -- like WMMR in Philadelphia.

ETA: Elton John's first #1 hit and US Platinum song was not the beautiful "Your Song", it was "Crocodile Rock".

ETA: can't fix you're that should be your cuz can't scroll on phone.

ETA2: I should mention that I like nearly all the Top 40s hits cited from the 60s as a little kid and had, I think, every single 45, but the point that Top 40 was not necessarily more diverse at any time is well taken. It does occur to me the the 60s was when youth culture started to overtake popular music (for better or worse, better cuz I was a little kid then; worse cuz I'm old(ish) now!

But people in their 30s and 40s definitely had more currency both literally and figurative on what defined music business. I wonder with all these Boomers are going to tip the scales again (I know, everyone is sick of the boomers' influence but so many of them/us still). I'm on the borderline between boomer and Gen x and I totally get the difference and skirt both sides (hippie idealism versus punk alienation). Hubs doesn't get the punk attraction but he's ten years older

I was thinking the same thing. I didn't like Top 40 except for a brief period in the 90s. I was a fan of a cult TV show in the 90s that was set in the early 80s and I met a lot of people who revered me for having spent my early adulthood in the early 80s. I didn't have the heart to tell them the 80s really sucked! Especially music wise.

If anyone remembers one of my fave movies that actual dealt with late 1970s called Dazed & Confused, you will understand the laugh line when the red-haired girl (someone Giobisi) says, "We all know the 60s rocked, the 70s totally suck. Maybe the 80s will be something unbelievable!" I'm paraphrasing, but it was intended for laughs because I remember have that same thought--and it turned out to pretty much suck. Reagan was president for eight years. No matter you're politics, it wasn't exactly an enlightened time. More like a completely futile attempt to take us back to the 50s.

Anyone, AOR (album-oriented radio) came in in the 1970s on FM to save us all from top 40. Stations would play entire album sides (also the heyday of "concept albums"). This would be unheard of today.

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10.7.12 80's Show from China Oct 7, 2012 23:27:57 GMT -5

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Anyone, AOR (album-oriented radio) came in in the 1970s on FM to save us all from top 40. Stations would play entire album sides (also the heyday of "concept albums"). This would be unheard of today.

They are all gone now!!

There has always been good music -- and some of it even gets on the radio

"Now there’s an audience for me being exactly who I am. There’s permission given.” Adam Lambert

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Oct 7, 2012 23:27:57 GMT -5 Q3 said:

Anyone, AOR (album-oriented radio) came in in the 1970s on FM to save us all from top 40. Stations would play entire album sides (also the heyday of "concept albums"). This would be unheard of today.

They are all gone now!!

There has always been good music -- and some of it even gets on the radio

Not on the station my daughter listens to, but I try