this crap happens on radio too, which is a reason I can't listen to it anymore... the same tired songs because they "test" better, so they take no risks.
With that, there is one local "oldies" (well, it actually goes up to the mid-1980's and back to the late 50's) station in Louisville called WAKY which was an old Louisville station in the day, then went under, but went back into commission about a year ago, and unlike most oldies stations, this one is done with love for the fans, not just the person who might hear a familiar Beach Boys song and listen to the duration of that three minutes. It's the only radio station I can stomach listening to when driving or whatever because it plays nothing but songs that the original WAKY played from 1959-1986 (the years it was active) and instead of just playing the same songs, it digs deeper into an artists back catalog than the typical oldies stations in the area do. For example, I heard "Add Some Music To Your Day" by the Beach Boys on there a few weeks ago, a song that is considered one of their gems, but didn't chart high and you'd never hear it on the other oldies station in town. Same with a lot of the other legendary artists, and not just that, the station plays little known songs/artists that were hits at the time but forgotten now, such as "You Don't Want Me Anymore" by Steel Breeze, which was a top 20 hit in 1982 but pretty forgotten today, and it's the only station I've ever heard Ringo Starr on. The station is run by the people for the fans, instead of trying to win a few peak hour listeners by playing an overplayed Supremes song that you heard two days ago on there. I wish more radio stations would take that mentality up.
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