I remember working in a place where they played african american top 40. 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.
I guess to some extent that's what the "Jack" format is supposed to fix -- take so many songs from four decades that nothing gets repeated often enough to get tired of it. Alas the one example of that format I've listened to had zero personality -- it felt like it was just a big record library on "shuffle".
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 ...
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 ...