Great Band, same dang song.

[unter1337]

I've looked at the "do NOT play" thread (though I haven't read it fully), and I saw some good discussion happening. That's one of the things I most appreciate about the AM staff and listeners. People are able to have substantive discussions.

I've been listening here at AM for a few months now and can say that I'm quite happy with it. The shout box is always lively, the music is great and the stream-threads do as well as can be expected. It's gotten to the point that I listen on my 128k stream about 8+ hours a day now (barring weekends).

This being said, I'd like to ask everyone something. Does anyone else think that some songs get overplayed? Since I listen as much as I do, I've found that there are a number of songs that get pretty worn out. Some of them get played at least five times a week (from 8am - 6pm weekdays); some get played more than once a day.

The thing that gets to me is that these songs are from truly great bands. Tangent is a great example of this. Tangent is awesome. I love their music. But, Jumpin Jeebus on a Pogo-stick, I'm tired of hearing "In Darkest Dreams" every day. That's pretty much the only track from Tangent I ever hear on AM, except for the occasional random pick. I would say that the Tangent fans out there that constantly request "In Darkest Dreams" are doing Tangent and AM listeners a great disservice. When you request "In..." the random selector can't pick anything else from them. So, "In..." is all anyone will ever hear from them on AM. Aren't there some other tracks from them that you could play?

Of course, I'm not saying that some kind of fascist policy or otherwise should be instituted. I'm just asking people to police themselves and think about what their doing before they request the same-old-same-old. AM listeners want to be challenged, to expand their horizons. Not hear the same 15 songs every day. We could just turn on the ClearChannel corporate feeding troughs for that. ;-)

Anyway, hope I didn't offend and that all this makes sense...