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Funny, I was thinking of making a post about 70s and 80s music, too. We had an old ipod hooked up to the radio in our car, but after it stopped working, we've been listening to FM radio. I've never really listened to radio much since moving to Chicago 20 years ago, so I don't know the stations that well -- I just found some that seemed like they would be up my alley.
What struck me is that there's at least five or so "classic rock" stations, playing music from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. But none of them delve into the 60s. Like it's some weird border. I hear Bob Seger all the time, but never the Beatles.
The other thing I've noticed is that I'll hear the same song repeated often, in waves. I heard "Edge of Seventeen" twice on the same day. I heard "Glory Days" three days in a row. My guess is that radio stations are purchasing the rights to a song for a short period of time, and play the heck out of it while they have it. What's also weird about it is that the trend seems to go across stations. I don't usually pay attention to which station I'm listening to, but it seems like it's not just one station playing the heck out of a song, it's all of them. For example, when I heard Edge of Seventeen twice, it was playing on two different stations at the exact same time.
I dunno. I know everyone has their own tastes, radio formats are what they are, and that people here will give their opinion that they think the Beatles are overrated, it's just cray to me that I've heard Edge of Seventeen dozens of times, but hardly any Beatles songs ever.
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