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« Reply #160 on: January 09, 2012, 06:13:20 PM » |
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In the grocery store Saturday, I remember these three songs: "After the Love Has Gone" by Earth, Wind and Fire, "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado, and "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac.
I'm guessing the mix isn't like what's on radio.
Sounds like FM-1....Heard "Time Passages" by Al Stewart the other day...great to hear again!! |
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« Reply #161 on: January 16, 2012, 03:48:36 PM » |
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In the grocery store Saturday, I remember these three songs: "After the Love Has Gone" by Earth, Wind and Fire, "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado, and "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac.
I'm guessing the mix isn't like what's on radio.
Sounds like FM-1....Heard "Time Passages" by Al Stewart the other day...great to hear again!! That one plays on my favorite station now, which is not AC. I have heard only that the store gets its music from Muzak, but at one time it was a custom program, not FM-1. That may have changed. Last Saturday I heard "Everybody Plays the Fool" (not sure which version, but I don't think it was The Main Ingredient, which my station played a few minutes ago) followed immediately by "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne. Later I heard "You Make Lovin' Fun" by Fleetwood Mac. There were four or five other songs, two of which I heard lyrics from, but then I forgot them. Most of them seemed newer. |
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« Reply #162 on: January 16, 2012, 03:56:41 PM » |
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In the grocery store Saturday, I remember these three songs: "After the Love Has Gone" by Earth, Wind and Fire, "I'm Like a Bird" by Nelly Furtado, and "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac.
I'm guessing the mix isn't like what's on radio.
Sounds like FM-1....Heard "Time Passages" by Al Stewart the other day...great to hear again!! That one plays on my favorite station now, which is not AC. I have heard only that the store gets its music from Muzak, but at one time it was a custom program, not FM-1. That may have changed. Last Saturday I heard "Everybody Plays the Fool" (not sure which version, but I don't think it was The Main Ingredient, which my station played a few minutes ago) followed immediately by "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne. Later I heard "You Make Lovin' Fun" by Fleetwood Mac. There were four or five other songs, two of which I heard lyrics from, but then I forgot them. Most of them seemed newer. I immediately miss inclusion of all the titles you mention, in my own airlplay list and want them in there, NOW! Even though they are all orthagonal to my normal tastes. Hmmm, what IS orthag-onal? Orthagonal is that which permits a useful alternative perspective from a different perspective, angle, etc . |
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« Reply #163 on: January 17, 2012, 08:50:59 PM » |
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Last Saturday I heard "Everybody Plays the Fool" (not sure which version, but I don't think it was The Main Ingredient, which my station played a few minutes ago) followed immediately by "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne. Later I heard "You Make Lovin' Fun" by Fleetwood Mac. There were four or five other songs, two of which I heard lyrics from, but then I forgot them. Most of them seemed newer.
Aaron Neville had a nice remake of "Fool" in the early 90's...definitely sounds like FM-1 |
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« Reply #164 on: January 18, 2012, 11:58:49 PM » |
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The trouble with this logic is that it's nearly impossible to guess the format name just based on a few songs like these. Almost all the songs you guys mentioned in the last few posts get wide play on several of Muzak's formats (and DMX's, and MC's, and Truesonic's, and.......) Point is, they're not limited to *just* being used exclusively on Foreground Music One. In fact, the store playing any of these songs at any given time may not even be *on* Muzak to begin with. So.....aren't you glad Muzak came up with a playlist engine so you can see just what's playing on the Foreground 1 satellite feed at any given time?~ http://12.19.54.83/wpn/030.html(All the others are on http://12.19.54.83/index.html [uses Javascript.] You shoppers with the network-enabled PDAs and cell f0n3z will love this. ;o) @oldies76-- I seem to notice almost the opposite of what you observe on Foreground 1. They're actually adding more currents and keeping the level of oldies more or less the same. Better than having it become stale. (Yet they still seem to be beating Bic Runga's "Sway" cut to death!) |
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« Reply #165 on: January 23, 2012, 02:58:32 PM » |
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Here's what I heard last weekend. Four of the songs I didn't know so I didn't list them. Three of those seemed more contemporary than the others and one had a folk style that wasn't the usual AC. "Somebody's Baby" by Jackson Browne "Solid", but not the Ashford and Simspon version "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils "He's So Shy" by the Pointer Sisters And, while I was checking out, it was bad enough hearing the song but the girl bagging the groceries just had to sing along with "Soak Up the Sun" by Sheryl Crow.  |
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« Reply #166 on: January 30, 2012, 01:30:27 PM » |
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In my grocery store on Saturday:
"You Belong to Me' by Carly Simon, immediately followed by "I Don't Want to Wait" by Sarah McLachlan. I used to think that song would work on a station that was truly "Lite" but there are parts of it that really sound weird.
There was one song which I seem to recall was about breaking up and had "so" in what seemed to be the title, though "so" seemed unnecessary. I'll report back if I hear it again.
Another newer song (or at least not really old) had the lyrics "A little bit of this, a little bit of that".
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« Reply #167 on: January 30, 2012, 01:34:56 PM » |
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"a little bit of this" would be Michelle Branch's hit with Carlos Santana "Game of Love"
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« Reply #168 on: January 31, 2012, 02:02:43 PM » |
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.....Another song "The 'M'" seem to have beaten to death on FM1.........
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« Reply #169 on: February 03, 2012, 11:47:41 AM » |
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"You Belong to Me' by Carly Simon, immediately followed by "I Don't Want to Wait" by Sarah McLachlan. "I Don't Want to Wait" is by Paula Cole. |
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