Re: Who hates who

["Eddie W. Presley Jr." <epresley@iu.net>]

LP wrote:
 
>I think it's not so much a question of playing the bands you mention too 
>much so much as it is one of playing the 2-3-4 most famous, most >annoying
songs by each band.  Led Zeppelin had at least 5-10 good songs >that I've
never heard on the radio; I don't ever remember hearing >anything other than
Free Bird or Sweet Home by Skynyrd; etc.  I wish >every time the DJ's hand
starts for Stairway, he'd pull out an underrated >classic like "I'm goin'
home" (Ten Years After) or something like that.

        Yes, this is the crux of the biscuit, to steal from Zappa. And even
these over-played songs aren't terrible, they are just over-played. No
matter how much you may have thought you liked Sweet Home Alabama, after
hearing it as one of the 3 different Skynard cuts they always play, you
never want to hear it again. Actually though, having been in the record
trading business, I've traded with a lot of DJ's for their promos, (and
you'd literally be sick if you knew how much shit they just throw away as it
clutters their office), and a lot of what they play, besides being dictated
by computer generated play lists from the ever distant and vague 'home
office', are DJ greatest hits CD's. These are special CD's from the labels
that compile an artists 'hits' in one place to reduce the need for
maintaining huge back catalogs. You only hear the same 10-15 songs or so by
some artists because that's all that's on the CD. Some of them can be worth
a small bit of money... I've sold Motley Crue, G'N'R and Queensryche DJ CD's
for around $30-$50. You'd like them to play a 'deep cut', but some stations
just don't physically have the CD with that cut on it to play. Though, a lot
of stations are making an effort to go 'into the vault', I guess the jocks
are bringing their CD's from home in... My local classic rock station
regularly plays their entire station catalog A-Z on the weekends. You think
you'd hear all of Tommy... nope... just what's on their Who disk or on their
Super Hits of the 60's and '70's disks! Good news though (?), they are
playing new material by bands that are no longer being played on 'modern
rock' stations. I'd like to add Boston to the list of overplayed. With only
a small back catalog, they do get rather tedious!
        I also think its a shame that entire band's histories have been
reduced to two or three songs. After 13 lps and 26 years, Blue Oyster Cult
now has only 2 songs to their credit: Godzilla and Don't Fear The Reaper.
Kansas has 2 only two songs to their credit: Point of Know Return and Carry
On Wayward Son. Yes, with a wealth of material is now reduced to Roundabout
and I've Seen All Good People. Black Sabbath is Paranoid. What known songs
and bands do you never hear on the radio? What bands have seemed to have
disappeared in your area?