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And if I hear One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer one more time....

Thudfark: Gulper Eel: Thudfark: Why do we put with it for other genres?

Because people use the stations differently. They have the rock station on for maybe a half hour in the morning and a half hour on the way home, and maybe on in the background at work. For ever four times your local top-40 station plays a Katy Perry song, the people at work don't hear three of them - so they still think it's fresh.

Not a lot of classical radio listeners listen that way, and not a lot of pop-music fans listen to the radio the way a classical listener would. Next time something like "No Reply At All" comes on the radio at work, see if any of your co-workers demands utter silence to appreciate Mike Rutherford's bass line.

People who are casual music fans often never get sick of the same familiar songs. They carry a few hundred around in their brains, whereas people like me or you carry tens of thousands - and nobody has yet found a way to broaden their tastes, especially when they'd just as soon be watching Oprah or porn.

I can get down with what you're saying. Fortunately, for me anyway, when I did work in an office I had the headphones on. One cubicle farm I was in had PC destruction next to us. They seemed to like thrash metal, fark that was annoying.

Back to the low-brainers and their unfortunate listening habits. I can see the format for pop top 40 being the way it is because the listener is likely to have the attention span of a brain dead mole and the musical taste of a freshly swatted gnat. What does irk me is that rock stations seem to have tightened their rotations to whatever greatest rock hits cd the programming department's uncle just bought.

When I used to listen to radio, they played a lot of stuff, even drive time was not overly repetitive. If we stick to rock as a format, you do not have to be overly creative to field a rotation that is at once recognizable yet not played to death. You could play one known song from each month that rock has been around for and not get a repeated song for about 200 years. Maybe I exagerate a tad, but you get the point. This is what I used to love about radio. You heard stuff that you didn't know existed on a fairly consistent basis, and that is my main philosophy when I DJ. I introduce people to new stuff or stuff they'd forgotten about, while also managing to play "hits". Why is this concept so difficult to grasp?