We play anything.....well, almost everything......

[poltr1]

So there's another new radio station in town: Fly 92.9. Their slogan is "We play anything".

I'd like to challenge that.

In the past two weeks of listening to them in the car, I've yet to hear any Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Bjork, Gowan, Kim Mitchell, Saga, Marillion, Renaissance, the Grateful Dead, Phish, or John Valby. And I probably never will because these artists are too obscure for the average American radio listener. Either that or they've never had any top 40 hits in the States. (Okay, there's "Running Up That Hill" and "Touch of Grey", but that's about it.)

Despite my quibble, I do like listening to the station. They're not limited to any particular genre or era. (I've noticed the Eagle doesn't play anything released after 1979.) I've heard songs on there I haven't heard in years, or have never heard at all. But it seems that the only limiting factor in air play is that the song must have cracked the top 40.

I'll keep listening. And when I get tired of it, I'll change the station.

Comments

Anything? Not so much.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I don't think I own even a single album with even a single track that ever cracked the top 40. Other versions of songs that were top 40, of course, but not the versions sanctioned by Billboard. I don't have what I think of as a big music collection but I think I could go a couple weeks (24 hours a day) without either a repeat or a track that I didn't think was more worth listening to than a lot of what I do hear when do I hear a commercial station.