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One more thought before I go get ready for rehearsal: I think the reason there were so many tunes on that Top 100 meme list that I couldn't remember, is that it's a "pop" (that is, "Top-40") list, and at that time I had already switched from "Top-40" radio to "Album Rock" format stations. Obviously there is some overlap between the two playlists, but the last time I can rebmember being able to enjoy more than a few minutes of Top-40 format at a time (or stand more than three quarters of an hour of it) was around eighth grade. I think the prevailing aesthetic of pop music changed more than my own tastes did, at first, but once I had been listening to album-rock stations a while, my tastes did shift a little more away from even the Top-40 I'd liked earlier. (Not that I ever outgrew ABBA, mind you!)
Eventually even mainstream album-rock radio became tiresome -- I wonder how much of that was that it changed away from what I liked, or simply stagnated, and how much was my having learned how much else is out there -- but that happened much later.
Okay, I'm off to go hum "Tiger", "Dancing Queen", and "Dum Dum Diddle" in the shower. Then to figure out how I'm getting the double bass out of the house.
I think the name itself says a lot
While I found a lot of it boring there were a few songs a liked and one in
particular that had the refrain "shake your thing". They played it so much
that I absolutely hated Shake your thing three months later. So if the radio
played top 400 rather than top 40 (and that the top 400 actually was the top
400 rather than a 400 selected by a corporate rigged scheme) we'd have
decent music on the radio again.
Re: I think the name itself says a lot
But some "alternative" stations take the same idea to a less extreme (and more more thought-out -- as in having an actual DJ put together a program) degree, striking a balance between familiarity and heard-too-many-times.
You'd think that any "oldies" or "classic rock" station would do the same, but no ...
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I did know 90% of that list, though. Some of it was odd--"Wait for Me" as the only Hall & Oates entry when they had "Kiss on my List", "You Make my Dreams", "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling", and "How Does it Feel to be Back" in the same time period?