1979

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 presdoug wrote:

I started actively listening to the radio around 1976, when FM radio was changing from it's alternative, "underground" music haven, to a kind of merging with the more mainstream pop diet existing on the AM Band. There was still underground music on FM radio, but it was just becoming harder to find, and rock radio was gravitating to a more mainstream approach. But even then, I feel that mainstream pop was of a better quality. I remember hearing Ambrosia's Holding On To Yesterday, Boston's More Than A Feeling, Alice Cooper's Only Women Bleed, and Dire Strait's Sultans Of Swing, and thinking they were pretty cool songs. But gone were the previous years where you might hear a side long prog epic or full album from a band like Yes or Triumvirat, and I got schooled in real progressive rock more from listening to friend's albums than on the so-called "alternative" FM radio. Still, radio had a role to play in the development of my music appreciation. 

That's pretty well it, isn't it???   By 76/77, most FM radio stations had taken over the AM radio playlists... Only a few radios were left playing less commercial stuff - and even then it was late evening or nightime only. 

Of course during daytime, they also played the stuff you mention (Aerosmith and Zeppelin were there too), but it was mixed with Bob Seger, Bruce Sprinsgsteen, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Al Stewart, etc.... and with a strong dose of the AM stuff (including disco). 

 siLLy puPPy wrote:

Did you hear this one?

actually I never heard this one (until this morning), but the French-speaking sex-obsessed youth I was preferred this one: