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Originally Posted by VAXman
I know and I have no problem with having a theme request day. The object and focus of theme day was about being creative with the hope of stimulating some varied requests (and thought) instead of some vapid "songs with prepositions, verbs, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, alliteration, onomatopoeia, expletives, etc." in the title track. I've had enough of that with some of the shows.
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You don't really need a mandated theme to have varied requests. You don't even need to have a theme - a suggestion is helpful, maybe.
Give the Aural Moon listeners some credit - left to their own devices, things work out pretty good.
As for the "vapid" comment, sometimes I'll have a show like that but I tend to shy away from them. the artists played drive the theme, not the other way around. A set theme (as you yourself have stated and I agree) is limiting. Again, the music selection is first then the theme, for me.
I'm not going to speak for other shows that employ "themes".