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[Jean Lansford]

> >>>> I used to request "The Red and The Black".  After a few
> >>>> calls the DJ told me that they were not going to play it
> >>>> because "it was not a radio song".  I asked him what the
> >>>> hell that meant, but he couldn't give me a good answer.
> >>>
> >>> It likely was supposed to mean something like "nobody
> >>> cares about that song except BOC fans"... :-o
> >
> > Which also means, "we only take requests of songs that
> > have been played regularly on the radio in the past,
> > because our listeners would never want to listen to
> > something 'original'".
>
>I would have assumed it meant: "That's not our approved list
>of what we're supposed to play."  I have always assumed --
>probably naively and idealistically -- that DJs are often
>pretty cool music fans and accordingly frustrated with the
>lameness of the format programming that they get stiffed with
>(but that having a job toeing the line as a corporate stooge
>DJ beats being a penniless deadbeat booted off the station
>for playing anything unauthorized).

It could also mean that they're one of the increasing number
of stations that don't have a CD player in the booth. I keep
hearing stories of musicians who show up to radio interviews
with their latest CD only to learn that the DJ has no way of
playing a cut from it.

Rock-n-roll is dead.

Album rock, anyway.