You Are the Music Program Director (Just For Fun Question)

[Scandal 2000]

I want you to put some thought into this question. I think we can all agree the state of classic rock radio is pathetic these days. I am so sick of the ever shrinking playlist and repetition of the same tired songs. Let's pretend there is a classic rock/hard rock radio station not owned by one of the corporations like Clear Channel, so you have much more freedom in terms of a playlist. Pretend you are the program director and are assigned to design a two hour playlist for classic rock radio. The songs must be from the classic rock or classic hard rock genre (preferably a bit of a mix)

 

Here are the rules:

1) You cannot repeat the same artist twice.

2) You will program two hours of music with each hour containing ten-twelve songs.

3) Your playlist must be somewhat realistic. In other words, don't program something like Death Angel who never had any chance of airplay.

4) The songs must be radio appropriate. In other words, if they contain a lot of profanity, etc don't list them because we are talking about "corporate" radio.

5) Mix your playlist up.

 

I will post mine later.

[RJhog (Admin)]

Okay, my radio station is WCRB, and our audience enjoys classic rock with a bit of current rock thrown in, classics and/or deep tracks.  Each hour has a 3 song special theme that starts at the "(Rock) Bottom" of each hour (which is represented by tracks 7-9, each track being in bold and italics.  Here's my first hour, with the "(Rock) Bottom" theme being acoustic tracks:

 

1. Rock Bottom - Kiss

2. Magic Touch - Aerosmith

3. The Real Me - The Who

4. Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd

5. All I Ever Wanted - Shinedown

6. The Mirror And The Ripper - Volbeat

7. Prayer For The Little Man - Blackberry Smoke

8. Old Man - Neil Young

9. Time For Me To Fly - REO Speedwagon

10. Die Hard The Hunter - Def Leppard

11. Land Of Confusion - Genesis

12. We Rock - Dio

[RJhog (Admin)]

Hour 1 was oriented more towards classic rock, with a smidgen of current rock.  The 2nd hour will be the opposite.  The "(Rock) Bottom" theme for hour 2 is "current supergroups".

 

1. Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters

2. Chilled - Armored Saint

3. Standing On The Edge - Cheap Trick

4. Blind Man - Black Stone Cherry

5. So Lonely - The Police

6. Paradise - Tesla

7. Avenida Revolution - Chickenfoot

8. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I - Them Crooked Vultures

9. One Last Soul - Black Country Communion

10. Shockwave - Black Tide

11. Tired Of You - Buckcherry

12. N.I.B. - Black Sabbath

[Scott]

You rebel!  Is this our first underground show?  You mixed some nice bands so you have my interest!

[Scandal 2000]

I love hour two, I would definitely listen to that station. I don't get that fired up about a lot of the newer rock bands but I really like Black Stone Cherry.

[Niels (Mod)]

I was thinking about putting "Standing on the edge" on my list as well, but chosed another one of my favorite CT-songs.

[RJhog (Admin)]

They are both great choices

[Jon]

Again, 2 for me. And you know why?

[Scott]

The Real Me is a great choice!  There's a couple tracks Ive never heard or only heard once on this site.  I did really like that Blackberry Smoke track, but I would listen to this!

[Gordon Williams]

I think we're all great DJ's!! We just need someone to hire us and pay us big bucks!! And as Jon would say..."sigh"....

[RJhog (Admin)]

Well, if you're a fan of Countr/Rock music (I'm thinking Georgia Satellites maybe), then you'll enjoy the whole Blackberry Smoke album when I post it in AOTW (very soon).  I know it needs to go in my "heavy rotation" list.

[Jon]

So...who is gonna build this station and post every song listed here?

[Scott]

Interesting...  That task seems a bit volumous.