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Post by The Ocean on Apr 22, 2021 14:24:59 GMT
Thread on the other board made me think, what BOC songs that aren't Reaper, Burnin, or Godzilla have you heard on the radio.
For me:
Black Blade
Joan Crawford
Astronomy
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Post by luxexterior on Apr 22, 2021 17:04:58 GMT
Black Blade
Goin' Through the Motions
Mirrors
ETI
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Post by edog40 on Apr 22, 2021 17:42:53 GMT
Transmaniacon MC
I Love the Night
Veterans
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Post by eastmark on Apr 22, 2021 23:52:11 GMT
BCN in Boston played Deadline multiple times back in the day.
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Post by agent on Apr 22, 2021 23:56:02 GMT
WPHD in Buffalo played Cities On Flame very early in the game. They'd played some great music.
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Post by Buck on Apr 23, 2021 0:33:23 GMT
I was in SEA-TAC airport some years ago, around the time we started playing at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, and heard “I Love The Night” in a Muzak version. I was flabbergasted and flattered. Later I’d read somewhere about a Muzak music contractor who was allowed some elective selections among the required list of songs, and had made ILTN because he liked the tune. I’ve heard it once since, and I forget where, ‘cause I knew what it was when it came on.
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Post by marty on Apr 23, 2021 2:22:15 GMT
The first BÖC I ever heard, period, was on the radio...our local private University’s radio station used Trans MC as its promo background music. I also heard the first couple albums on Beaker Street, KAAY-AM out of Little Rock.
My neighborhood bar had Tattoo Vampire and Vengeance the Pact on the juke box.
Heard The Marshall Plan on radio when CE first came out.
Local stations played See You In Black, when it first came out
I’ve heard I Love The Night at the local Kroger.
And SiriusXM plays many BÖC songs. Ann Wilson played ILTN during her hour, last year. I’ve heard Black Blade, In Thee, The Vigil, too many to list.
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Post by luxexterior on Apr 23, 2021 8:56:40 GMT
Slightly off topic but I once got into conversation before a gig with a guy who put together music for department stores & alike for Christmas etc. When he did the Christmas mix of festive favourites for a famous store he always put DFTR in the middle of it. The first time he did it he expected complaints but didn't get any so carried on every year after!  |
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Post by The Ocean on Apr 23, 2021 13:41:00 GMT
Slightly off topic but I once got into conversation before a gig with a guy who put together music for department stores & alike for Christmas etc. When he did the Christmas mix of festive favourites for a famous store he always put DFTR in the middle of it. The first time he did it he expected complaints but didn't get any so carried on every year after! Back in my school days when you made mix tapes for people to show them you liked them (lol) I would always put In Thee and/or I Love the Night on there. Thankfully I found a wife who already loved BOC when I met her lol. But she only knew what she heard on the radio. She loved it, but it was all she knew. We used to drive a lot before we bought a house and moved in together, so I played her each album from start to finish. She was shocked by how diverse the music was. That's why I kind of dislike terrestrial classic rock radio. There are hundreds of classic rock bands with discographies that, even limited to the era, contain multitudes of songs that are never played. Instead it's the same 8 hour loop for years. I realize people like familiarity but it's also why I didn't even start listening to anything but classical music on my own until I was a teenager. The diversity of music from bands like BOC and Fleetwood Mac within their own catalogue,let alone the different kinds and styles of bands in general, felt like a revalation the first time I dug deeper. I hated Steely Dan until the first time I heard something OTHER than Rikki Dont Lose That Number on the station my dad always listened to lol. |
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Post by Buck on Apr 23, 2021 15:45:41 GMT
Slightly off topic but I once got into conversation before a gig with a guy who put together music for department stores & alike for Christmas etc. When he did the Christmas mix of festive favourites for a famous store he always put DFTR in the middle of it. The first time he did it he expected complaints but didn't get any so carried on every year after! Back in my school days when you made mix tapes for people to show them you liked them (lol) I would always put In Thee and/or I Love the Night on there. Thankfully I found a wife who already loved BOC when I met her lol. But she only knew what she heard on the radio. She loved it, but it was all she knew. We used to drive a lot before we bought a house and moved in together, so I played her each album from start to finish. She was shocked by how diverse the music was. That's why I kind of dislike terrestrial classic rock radio. There are hundreds of classic rock bands with discographies that, even limited to the era, contain multitudes of songs that are never played. Instead it's the same 8 hour loop for years. I realize people like familiarity but it's also why I didn't even start listening to anything but classical music on my own until I was a teenager. The diversity of music from bands like BOC and Fleetwood Mac within their own catalogue,let alone the different kinds and styles of bands in general, felt like a revalation the first time I dug deeper. I hated Steely Dan until the first time I heard something OTHER than Rikki Dont Lose That Number on the station my dad always listened to lol. Good point about Steely Dan. If you only listened to what was a hit on the radio, you'd miss the meat of the Dan completely. There are bands that the radio hits are their best stuff, on the other hand. |
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Post by marty on Apr 23, 2021 16:21:11 GMT
One thing that all of my favorite artists have in common - great songs that weren’t radio hits...Outlaws, Al Stewart, TTWS, Doobie Brothers, Hollies, etc.
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Post by mary on Apr 23, 2021 17:10:21 GMT
One thing that all of my favorite artists have in common - great songs that weren’t radio hits...Outlaws, Al Stewart, TTWS, Doobie Brothers, Hollies, etc. I've always liked Al Stewart's "Terminal Eyes". I've got it on my playlist! |
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Post by marty on Apr 23, 2021 17:44:29 GMT
One thing that all of my favorite artists have in common - great songs that weren’t radio hits...Outlaws, Al Stewart, TTWS, Doobie Brothers, Hollies, etc. I've always liked Al Stewart's "Terminal Eyes". I love Road To Moscow, Valentina Way, Running Man, If It Doesn’t Come Naturally, Leave It, many more |
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Post by beanguy on Apr 23, 2021 19:31:43 GMT
Shooting Shark, Cities on Flame(eons ago, late night NYC radio that reached the 'burbs), nothing else
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Post by duckbarman on Apr 23, 2021 20:35:45 GMT
Back in the days BEFORE there was a "Big 3", you usually got to hear BOC in two ways:
(a) you wrote into a radio station and requested a track - yes, wrote - you had to write out your request on paper, then put it into an envelope and stick a stamp on it and drop it in a post box - I know, weird, right...? - the first time I heard BOC on the radio was actually from my own request, on BBC radio 1 - circa late 1974, when they played Telepaths - everyone in my school heard it with my name mentioned, and I got some good-natured stick over it because, back then, most people listened to the same things and that's how you learned what was what... if you liked rock music, you listened to BBC Radio 1 on a Saturday afternoon...
(b) BOC had a new album about to come out, so selected tracks were played to promote it... eg. the first tracks I heard off OYFOOYK were broadcast on AFN, the American Forces Network in Europe... it was only available on shortwave, so the reception wasn't great, but if your main area of interest was American rock bands - and mine was - it was a great way to hear stuff you wouldn't normally get to hear... that's how I came to hear Buck's Boogie and Diz-busters off OYF well before I was able to buy the import version of the LP... it's easy to forget, but back then if you didn't live in the US, you had to wait for the import versions of records to become available - and that often seemed to take a while - and the actual UK releases took even longer... yep, in the '70s, sometimes, the analogue world sucked big time... :-(
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