Songs that were...
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Topic: Songs that were...
Posted By: YESESIS
Subject: Songs that were...
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 15:20
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popular when they came out(played on the radio a fair amount), but now never get played. The song Physical by Olivia Newton John comes to mind for me. I remember it being really popular in the early 80's and hearing it a lot. But now.. nothing! Maybe it was decided that the lyrics were too risqué or something, who knows. There are two radio stations around me that play mostly 80's music, and I literally never hear that song on them. Anyway, what are your thoughts and what other songs(if any) do you remember hearing on the radio when they came out, but now(for whatever reason) never get played. |
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 15:44
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Not exactly popular songs that vanished, but still a related prog story... Beginning in the mid 70's, the biggest rock radio station in San Jose was KOME. They had a big tie to prog with the DJ Greg Stone and his Sunday night prog radio show, "Stone Trek". For both Going for the One & Tormato, KOME played the albums in full the night they were released! That should give an idea of how huge Yes was back then on rock radio. Anyway, that was obviously the last time I ever heard Awaken, Parallels, Future Times, Release Release or On the Silent Wings of Freedom again on radio  Along the same lines, on Christmas eve of 1976 KOME played a radio simulcast recording of the Genesis Trick of the Tail tour show recorded earlier that year in Pittsburgh! Obviously that was the one and only time I ever heard Robbery, Assault & Battery on the radio  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 20 2017 at 16:08
Yeah, not exactly what I was talking about but thanks for sharing.. that sounds like an awesome radio station. Is it still around?
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The.Crimson.King wrote:Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 23 2017 at 19:52
| Another one is On The Loose by Saga. I distinctly remember that playing on the radio in the early 80's, but now as far as I can tell it never does. |
Posted By: Frankh
Date Posted: October 23 2017 at 20:51
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Of course there was Short People by Randy Newman. Huge hit. Utterly non - politically correct. Blatantly. That was the point! Disappeared like it never happened. You can kind of call this revisionist history in music. ------------- Perhaps finding the happy medium is harder than we know. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 23 2017 at 22:02
Ironically i was in a thrift store today and they were playing 80s diva music. Of all things to emerge was Phyiscal by Olivia Newton-John! Hadn't heard that in a while not that i listen to Olivia or radio much any more but it was a #1 hit in the day -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 23 2017 at 22:03
Just got this album not too overly long ago. I like that song and the album is pretty good too. Makes me wanna check out more Saga since i'm not overly familiar with them ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 23 2017 at 23:35
Too Shy by Kajagoogoo !! Yep, still love me some Kaja........Nick Beggs’ bassline is up there with Luminol 
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 10:58
I'm outta here.  ------------- |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 17:29
If you like that you should check out 'Silent Knight.' It's a little more consistent imo, strong all the way through.
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 17:34
Haha, my brother and I used to laugh about how much of a 'one hit wonder' they were. Like whenever that subject would come up, one of us would say Kajagoogoo!!! We were pretty young and just silly. Anyway it is a cool song though, surprised they didn't have more hits.
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 17:39
Yeah I VAGUELY remember that song(born in '71). But you are right, that one NEVER plays anymore. Great example there.
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Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 18:17
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"One Tin Soldier" - Coven "The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace "Longfellow Serenade" - Neil Diamond "Werewolves in London" - Warren Zevon anything by the Kinks, Greg Kihn Band or Jackson Browne. Used to hear these all the time in the mid-70s but I haven't heard any of them in years. ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 19:52
| I remember hearing "99" by Toto an awful lot on easy rock radio back in the early 80s. I still hear a few of their other hits quite a bit, but never that one. Shmaltz, but with nostalgic value. |
Posted By: ForestFriend
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 19:55
That one and Wind Him Up still get played fairly frequently here in Canada - mostly because classic rock stations (well, all radio stations) here need to get their quota of Canadian content. ------------- https://borealkinship.bandcamp.com/releases" rel="nofollow - My prog band - Boreal Kinship |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 19:57
On a related topic, one of my favorite memes:  ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 20:49
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hmmm one song that comes to mind is SR David Words, very precious song yet hardly played anymore. -------------  
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: October 24 2017 at 22:09
Nah, KOME shut down back in '98...Greg Stone stayed on SF bay area radio until around 2004... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 03:26
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 03:30
| I recall Rick Wakeman had a couple of tunes they played on the airwaves for a brief moment in history, but they flopped I guess : White Rock and Elizabethan Rock, from memory. Rock Wakeman, anyone ?? |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:00
Some of those yeah although the radio station I listen to does play a fair amount of Jackson Browne.
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:01
Right on man, both great songs!
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:05
Hmm, I listened to a little of that on youtube and didn't recognize it! Must really never play lol.
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:07
They were probably more popular in Europe. Where I grew up(upstate NY), I only ever remember hearing that one song from them.
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:08
Yeah, good call.
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Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 17:05
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Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2) - a great instrumental stomper from the early 70s glam rock scene by some guy called Gary Glitter. Never hear it anymore on radio or TV - can't think why? ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: stegor
Date Posted: October 25 2017 at 21:01
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Jump Into the Fire by Harry Nilsson. Such a great and unique song. I just loved it when I was about 12, still do. First album I ever bought. I still catch a glimpse of it once in a while but it's always in a commercial or bumper music on a talk show, never being played on the radio. |
Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: October 26 2017 at 05:51
Gary Glitter has a 20+ year history of pedophilia and child sex abuse, is a lifetime registered sex offender in the UK, and is banned in more than 20 countries. That may have something to do with radio stations not wanting to play his songs anymore ... ------------- "Peace is the only battle worth waging." Albert Camus |
Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 26 2017 at 17:54
Totally makes me want to watch some hockey!
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Posted By: YESESIS
Date Posted: October 26 2017 at 17:59
I think you're right, that one literally never plays on the radio anymore.
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