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11-05-09 Top 20

Posted at 5:33 PM on November 5, 2009 by Mark Wheat (5 Comments)
Filed under: The Chart Show

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Mark,

I am not sure if i had anything to do with this but when you first started playing Edward Sharpe's song "40 daydream" i looked up the band on Rhapsody and started listening to their new album. I fell in love with the track "home" and from that point on i would call everyday and request "home" but was told repeatedly you didnt have it. So i started emailing and calling even more and eventually you played it. Well since then it has become the most favorite song in the last month!! i am so very happy. I would like to say i played a small part but really it is the song!!!

Sincerely,

Jason

Posted by Jason Henderson | November 5, 2009 10:08 PM

I wish you'd let us write in what songs we want to hear. I don't want to hear most of this stuff. My favorite bands right now are WHY?, Washed Out, Bibio, Kurt Vile, the Antlers, Ween, Themselves and Real Estate. I don't see any of those bands in the songs you guys have selected. You know who else only allows their listeners to vote for music that the station selects? KDWB.

Please, let your audience speak for themselves. Chances are, a lot of the picks would be the same, but really, there has to be more control given to the listener. I hate how I feel like I'm listening to some Clear Channel charts show when I hear this program.

Posted by Jonathan | November 7, 2009 6:50 PM

Thx for above comment about voting. We decided to have a "pull-down" ballot each week to help listeners choose. We can't list EVERY song recorded in the past year by every band, including those we aren't currently playing - the ballot would be thousands of songs long and unweildy! We include in the pull-down menu most of the 100+ songs we are playing in current rotation. But we also have a spot for WRITE-INS, and we read those results each week! So while a single write in for Kurt Vile won't make the Top 20, it will get our attention that some listeners are hoping we will start playing it. Hope that makes sense. Now go wash out your mouth for saying we are anything like Clear Channel! Pshaw!

Jim McGuinn - Program Director

Posted by jim mcguinn | November 10, 2009 11:31 AM

Wow. I listened to this week's top 20 last night and it confirmed something I wish weas not true about The Current - wimpy white boy art school 'rock' with no attitude, little feeling, and cleverness substituting for edge rules the day. But, looking at the voting results, that's apparently what your listeners want.

Yours,

Chris

Posted by Chris | November 13, 2009 2:19 PM

At the risk of piling on, here goes. I've been meaning to get this off my chest since your revelation of the first TOP-20. Really? Bad idea!

All four comments preceding this illustrate the point. Sure, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros perform a catchy tune with some lovely sentiments. Great! Don't play it to death.

The fact that you have a 100 tune rotation is scary and leads directly to that Clear Channel feeling. Your esteemed listener, Jonathan, isn't alone in holding this sentiment. Pshaw! to you, too.

Now with the TOP-20, the annoying, cloying, and downright over-exposed talents are featured front and center, relentlessly. Horchata? Girl, it just isn't gonna work out? Please! Dispense with the treacly cheap sentiment. Hold the stadium acts to a minimum. Once a day play is too much for many of these tunes.

Let (some of) the on-air staff program their shows without forcing the hot rotation on us. By all means take requests. But audience vote? Sorry, that's a prescription for mediocrity. Don't go there!

The Current does many things right. Keep it up! The TOP-20, let it go.

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