Music Aug 11, 2014 at 11:17 am

I Hate When Radio Plays An ENTIRE Song!!

Mike Nipper
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1
Gross.
Kathy Fennessy on August 11, 2014 at 11:29 AM Report this
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What's the point? DJs can just do what they do in Baltimore: play a song and spend most of the time talking over it and doing shoutouts.
MRM on August 11, 2014 at 11:30 AM Report this
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Hasn't this always happened?

Cutting out a verse from an album cut for pop radio formats?

Supreme Ruler Of The Universe on August 11, 2014 at 11:43 AM Report this
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Dance hits - especially contemporary dance hits - are so thin on material, why does it matter if the tracks are cut to even 60 seconds. Hit the hook and move on.
NotSean on August 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM Report this
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They used to do something like this on the top forty shows. Very irritating.

The iPod has thankfully liberated me from radio. It is nearly impossible for me to get bored with the zillion songs I have available.
fletc3her on August 11, 2014 at 11:51 AM Report this
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They'll be able to put more motherfucking advertising in... I'm sure that had nothing to do with it though.
Urgutha Forka on August 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM Report this
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@3 yeah, but theyre are proper radio edits, done by the labels/producer/artist. This looks like its a blanket format for every song.

Weren't those Stars on 45 albums like this? It's been a while since I've seen one, but I think So45 just recorded the hooks of pop hits across the two sides of an LP.
nipper on August 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM Stranger Staff
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So, the old K-TEL Records model of chopping down songs to crowd more into a given time-span has finally hit terrestrial radio. Not really surprised, except that it took someone this long to figure out how to do it.

Also makes me wonder about potential copyright violations, since I presume they would need permission from the artists or their record companies to make alterations to their songs.
COMTE on August 11, 2014 at 12:06 PM Report this
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LOL Adult Alternative
Dougsf on August 11, 2014 at 12:07 PM Report this
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I must be getting old... What is "party butt"?
schmacky on August 11, 2014 at 12:43 PM Report this
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This is just another reason I listen to Pandora.
Add in the fact that I get to listen to Japanese Rock on demand...
Hanoumatoi on August 11, 2014 at 12:44 PM Report this
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All the more reason to support your public radio stations folks! KNHC, KEXP and KING don't pull this shit!
Solk512 on August 11, 2014 at 1:00 PM Report this
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@7 I forgot about Stars On. I have the whole damned LP somewhere. You're right - all hook medley - 99% pure.

It very-well might kill a man that was not already acclimated to such high-proof pop.
NotSean on August 11, 2014 at 1:19 PM Report this
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Will the DJ break in every 2 minutes to remind you about the VIP room?
Sir Vic on August 11, 2014 at 1:20 PM Report this
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@10 "Party Butt," as I know it (Urban Dictionary says different), is when some one at a show or party cuts a fart anonymously in the crowd.
nipper on August 11, 2014 at 2:08 PM Stranger Staff
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I dnt hv mch t sy bt ths phnmnn xcpt ts bt tm. Dmn pp sngs r t lng.
Fnarf on August 11, 2014 at 2:09 PM Report this
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@7, @13 -- you're forgetting the addition of the booming disco drum track to tie all the snippets together.

The great Orange Juice did a hilarious takeoff on Stars on 45 using their own greatest hits, calling it "Blokes on 45":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkdFEf6l…
Fnarf on August 11, 2014 at 2:13 PM Report this
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Oh man, HitClips are back you guys!
Raya Leary on August 11, 2014 at 2:30 PM Report this
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I hope KUOW management doesn't hear about this. In their drive for ever shorter fragments of news, they'll soon start airing interviews with just the questions. Or the answers. Because " our listener data..".

Because "...our customers..." never results in a good product. It just results in customers who aren't quite as pissed with you because you're meeting their low expectations.
moretent on August 11, 2014 at 4:39 PM Report this
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FUCK EVERYTHING UP THE ASS WITHOUT LUBE.
These guys are bad and wrong.
venomlash on August 11, 2014 at 7:55 PM Report this
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It's a terrible idea, but who even listens to the radio any more? Aside from KEXP, of course.
very bad homo on August 11, 2014 at 8:47 PM Report this
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...now that i think about it ' godspeed, you black emperor ! ' might could use a little editing...
reverend dr dj riz on August 12, 2014 at 7:02 AM Report this
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So inevitably they're just going to pare music until it is -- bingo! -- 30-seconds long. Commercials. Katy Perry's new album "Skippy Doves and Suave Red Roses" will contain 84 30-second songs about the entire Unilever product line.
tomorrowsman on August 12, 2014 at 10:18 AM Report this

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