Your Wish List For The New Party FM 87.7

[Tony Santiago]

most people associate 'dance' with 'gay', that's just the way it is;
and as a gay male, I have no problems with that, but the 'fan in the street' obviously does

I'll NEVER forget this post as long as I live.

Back in the days of the newsgroups, someone posted something in alt.music.dance wanting to know a good underground nightclub in New York City to hit that didn't have gays in it.  I told him, go to New Jersey because YOU WILL NEVER find an underground club in NYC that doesn't have gays in there.  Being straight, I could care less....I have many gay male friends and in a club, the dance floor does NOT discriminate   But it's that "fan in the street" that has issues with it and throw on this "stereotype". 

I was just responding to another thread just now about the gay issue and the other stereotypes..."clubbers trippin on e" and the "guido" mentality.  Yes, gays like dance music....they also like rock, hip-hop, R&B, jazz, classical, country..you name it.  Not everyone going to clubs is looking to score some crystal meth, nor are all people from Brooklyn or Staten Island with spiked out hair, a t-shirt with a chain raising fists up all the time!   

Granted, every aspect of music has some sort of "stereotype" attached.  Going back to "Disco Sucks", I think this music has been picked on so heavily that the stereotypes unfairly push hard on the negatives instead of the positives...that the music is fun, anyone can enjoy, has no creed, color, religion, sexual preference to it.

It's gonna take time to fix the "damage", but that's where education comes in.

[d21ofnj]

You know, I don't think I ever done my wishlist...here goes.

1) I wish Party a success and the best in their future endeavours and one day will get that 70% dance/30% hip hop formula like back in the days.

2) Nothing against Harry Legg, he is a great VO, but I do miss Pat Garrett as Party's VO guy.  Hopefully Party will bring him back as a VO 

3) **This should've been the first on the list****  PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT 87.9 COMPACT FM PIRATE IN NEWARK!!

[trock]

You know, I don't think I ever done my wishlist...here goes.

2) Nothing against Harry Legg, he is a great VO, but I do miss Pat Garrett as Party's VO guy.  Hopefully Party will bring him back as a VO 

Isn't Pat Garrett doing VO"s for WBLS right now?

[d21ofnj]

Sure is, and he's also the VO guy for 100.1 WJRZ in the Jersey Shore.  WBLS also had George "Apollo" Fetherbay around 2004 or 2005, and I worked with Apollo when I was running 967party.com earlier this year and may have him again for the new Blazin967.com stream.  I was interested to use Pat for my stream, but he was only open to retainer packages only.  

[KDM 7000]

A user with the handle "DanceEverywhere"... NOW I've seen everything...

You haven't seen everything yet.
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,119598.0.html

Anyway, now I'm going to go listen to "wishlist" by Sharyn Maceren, so, have a great week.
http://dancemusichub.com/?redirectTo=http%3A//dancemusichub.com/catalog/tracks/view/33173/Wishlist

[DanceDiva3]

Pulse 87 did NOT fail. It was such an influential station and one that can never be duplicated unless all the same people and more are involved.  I wish Party Fm success, Eventhough I won't be listening. I'd much rather listen to Now FM or Z100 which play the same music.

My suggestion:   Keep trying to be everything for everybody.   It's soup with every ingredient in it.
The best of Luck!

[lalumia]

it's Z100 in the car, tooling round town...
CBS FM at home, an amazing radio station I must say..

[Tony Santiago]

Pulse 87 did NOT fail. It was such an influential station and one that can never be duplicated unless all the same people and more are involved.  I wish Party Fm success, Eventhough I won't be listening. I'd much rather listen to Now FM or Z100 which play the same music.

My suggestion:   Keep trying to be everything for everybody.   It's soup with every ingredient in it.
The best of Luck!

DanceDiva3, you are right!

Pulse didn't fail in the sense that it drew the dance music community together and caused major influence.  Heck, if it wasn't for a Pulse 87, JVC Broadcasting would not have rushed to get the signal once Mega Media went bankrupt. (for matters that occurred BEFORE Pulse came into the scene).

Often I hear this analogy from many former Pulse staffers and I agree...the station was "family".  The on-air personalities certainly made you feel that way.  To that, I think that's another "problem" as well with the PartyFM transition.  The music they are playing is "similar", adding hip-hop in there.  Yet with the on-air personalities, (outside of Vic Latino, who a lot of dance music fans are familiar with his run on 'KTU) some fans are still "struggling" with them.  Now granted, they ARE good; I do know Pulido and have spoken with Natalia and Nikki and Eddie Tegone.  Yet some fans are still struggling because these personalities are not "Borasio, Niko and Andre". 

It's as if you're in a "house" with a "family" that people have been comfortable with.  That "family" leaves and a new family comes in that appears similar yet something different about them that one isn't used to. 

In that regard, I do say...still give PartyFM a chance.  Not for nothing, but I'm glad I'm hearing more female voices besides Ruby Tuesday on a Sunday! lol.  Pulido's a good guy .  There are going to be those that "hate" and that's okay.  And if you're going to tune in elsewhere, that's cool...that is certainly one's perogative to do so.  It's still an "adjustment" and I still see "The Big Picture" down the road, as long as JVC remains financially healthy.

[ilirnyc23]

I think the comment on #6 is excellent, sometimes we have to mix other songs that are not so popular yet.  It brings it out to us. peace ilir aka dj ill nyc