Classic Rock round-up
I heard the final ten songs of the local Classic Rawk station’s “Top 929 Classic Rock Song” list. I did not hear any of the other 919 songs on the list; I just happened to tune into the station at that time. The station in Yakima, 94.5, used to do something to the effect (play every song in their database… or play the top 945 Songs… or go through the top 945 albums… or something), but the last time I was in the Yakima Valley, it was clear that Clear Channel had altered the format for the station somewhat such that it plays this category of “Hard Rawk” — your “Nu Metal” that creeped into vogue in the late 90s and lingers around… so one tired format is a different tired format and the hackneyed schemes of Classic Rock radio no longer apply.
Anyway, it’s a countdown to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”, and that’s just sort of understood. Nonetheless, the dj (thankfully not the one with the nome de plume “Marty Party”) went to a commercial break with “And after this, we’ll play the Top 3 songs… And I think you’ll be suprised.”
The surprise was that the #3 song was Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid”. The dj makes the comment “That threw us all for a loop.” The con game of the dj was that the logical “surprise” he was trying to instill in the audience is that #1 is something besides “Stairway to Heaven”. I think its contractually obligated that the dj at KGON makes that comment “I think you’ll be surprised” as he enters the commercial break before the final 3 play, because I swear I’ve heard that before. Whether “Paranoid” at #3 is a huge surprise or not, I do not really know. I’m a bit of an Ozzie fan, so it works for me, to the degree that I care.
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Don’t worry. I have a blog entry about the 1924 Presidential Election coming up. I know that’s the sort of thing that has people reading the blog. (Ugh.)