LAV Comes Up Short

[NeumannU87]

I rarely listen to LAV anymore, but happened upon it twice today. Both times I heard edited versions of TWO classic tunes: Money from Pink Floyd and Pink Houses from John Mellencamp. Call me crazy but a Classic Rock station should NEVER play edited versions.

[MegaHertz]

I rarely listen to LAV anymore, but happened upon it twice today. Both times I heard edited versions of TWO classic tunes: Money from Pink Floyd and Pink Houses from John Mellencamp. Call me crazy but a Classic Rock station should NEVER play edited versions.

Sorry, man. I had to edit quite a few classics back in 2011 for another classic rock station. I don't remember the exact reason why, but songs like Jet Airliner, Mama Kin and the aforementioned Money had to be cleaned up.

[teetoppz28]

I rarely listen to LAV anymore, but happened upon it twice today. Both times I heard edited versions of TWO classic tunes: Money from Pink Floyd and Pink Houses from John Mellencamp. Call me crazy but a Classic Rock station should NEVER play edited versions.

Sorry, man. I had to edit quite a few classics back in 2011 for another classic rock station. I don't remember the exact reason why, but songs like Jet Airliner, Mama Kin and the aforementioned Money had to be cleaned up.

One of my biggest musical pet peeves is when stations shorten Slash's guitar solo on Sweet Child O' Mine... It sets off my OCD when they jump edit the first part of the solo out

[48125er]

I rarely listen to LAV anymore, but happened upon it twice today. Both times I heard edited versions of TWO classic tunes: Money from Pink Floyd and Pink Houses from John Mellencamp. Call me crazy but a Classic Rock station should NEVER play edited versions.

Sorry, man. I had to edit quite a few classics back in 2011 for another classic rock station. I don't remember the exact reason why, but songs like Jet Airliner, Mama Kin and the aforementioned Money had to be cleaned up.

One of my biggest musical pet peeves is when stations shorten Slash's guitar solo on Sweet Child O' Mine... It sets off my OCD when they jump edit the first part of the solo out

That and the epic ending to November rain.

[teetoppz28]

I rarely listen to LAV anymore, but happened upon it twice today. Both times I heard edited versions of TWO classic tunes: Money from Pink Floyd and Pink Houses from John Mellencamp. Call me crazy but a Classic Rock station should NEVER play edited versions.

Sorry, man. I had to edit quite a few classics back in 2011 for another classic rock station. I don't remember the exact reason why, but songs like Jet Airliner, Mama Kin and the aforementioned Money had to be cleaned up.

One of my biggest musical pet peeves is when stations shorten Slash's guitar solo on Sweet Child O' Mine... It sets off my OCD when they jump edit the first part of the solo out

That and the epic ending to November rain.

110%

[MWmetalhead]

WLAV thinks "Wheel in the Sky" by Journey deserves daily spins. I cringe whenever I hear that song.

Detroit's WCSX doesn't even sound as crusty as WLAV these days.

That said, WLAV's male demo ratings likely remain strong. Tough to argue with success. The flip of WFGR to Sports, the ensuing listener confusion, and the fact 100.5's Classic Hits format skews AC are all factors that should help WLAV.

[originalzzmfmjock]

Wheel in the Sky by Journey was a "stiff". Nobody in Grand Rapids played the song when it was out in 1978. The station that plays almost all the short versions in 101.3. If they bill themselves as a "classic hits" station, they should be playing the long versions not the made for AM radio top 40 short versions. Especially in Grand Rapids where all the action in the 70's was on FM. GRD/ZZM/LAV-FM all played the album versions of the hits, not the Top 40 versions.

[MegaHertz]

I thought classic rock was the AOR "album version" format, whereas classic hits was the top 40/single version format?

[GrahamWellington]

WLAV thinks "Wheel in the Sky" by Journey deserves daily spins. I cringe whenever I hear that song.

Detroit's WCSX doesn't even sound as crusty as WLAV these days.

That said, WLAV's male demo ratings likely remain strong. Tough to argue with success. The flip of WFGR to Sports, the ensuing listener confusion, and the fact 100.5's Classic Hits format skews AC are all factors that should help WLAV.

The last couple hours on WLAV:

Live Pink Floyd - Mother
18:55 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
18:51 The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
18:45 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
18:33 Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
18:27 Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
18:23 AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me
18:17 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
18:07 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
18:02 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
17:59 Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
17:55 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
17:51 Journey - Any Way You Want It
17:39 Rush - Tom Sawyer
17:35 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
17:26 Foghat - Slow Ride
17:22 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly
17:11 Pat Benatar - We Belong
17:06 Styx - Come Sail Away
17:00 Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
16:56 Foreigner - Double Vision
16:51 Van Halen - I'll Wait
16:48 Nazareth - Love Hurts

A bunch of overplay, literal shit. This is the same exact playlist they had 30 years ago. Thanks to AI, the average age of these songs all together is 46 years old.

[teetoppz28]

WLAV thinks "Wheel in the Sky" by Journey deserves daily spins. I cringe whenever I hear that song.

Detroit's WCSX doesn't even sound as crusty as WLAV these days.

That said, WLAV's male demo ratings likely remain strong. Tough to argue with success. The flip of WFGR to Sports, the ensuing listener confusion, and the fact 100.5's Classic Hits format skews AC are all factors that should help WLAV.

The last couple hours on WLAV:

Live Pink Floyd - Mother
18:55 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
18:51 The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
18:45 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
18:33 Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
18:27 Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
18:23 AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me
18:17 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
18:07 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
18:02 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
17:59 Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
17:55 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
17:51 Journey - Any Way You Want It
17:39 Rush - Tom Sawyer
17:35 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
17:26 Foghat - Slow Ride
17:22 Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly
17:11 Pat Benatar - We Belong
17:06 Styx - Come Sail Away
17:00 Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
16:56 Foreigner - Double Vision
16:51 Van Halen - I'll Wait
16:48 Nazareth - Love Hurts

A bunch of overplay, literal shit. This is the same exact playlist they had 30 years ago. Thanks to AI, the average age of these songs all together is 46 years old.

Who is listening to this playlist other than those who are vying for their stepdaughter’s attention??

[MWmetalhead]

Come Sail Away is a top 5 all-time most disliked classic rock song for me.

LAV loves that Foghat song.

That log is by no means terrible, it just includes a lot of grampa music.

LAV was at its best in the early 2000s. They weren't afraid to play recent songs from artists such as Kenny Wayne Shepard and Jonny Lang.

[GrahamWellington]

Dirty Laundry is definitely top 5 shittiest classic rock song for me. But really, this whole list is pretty revolting.

Lots of Grandpa rock for sure. As I've said before though, Oldies stations were blown up 25 years ago because the music attracted too old of a demographic that supposedly couldn't be sold. The songs in question were primarily at that point 1964-1969 (32-37 years old at that point). So why is WLAV still rocking a median age of songs pushing 50 years old? Is there really a H*** demographic of people under 60 years old clamoring for the same Styx, Kansas, and Yes garbage they have heard their entire lives?

[MegaHertz]

That list is so boring I take it when the Xanax won't put me to sleep.

Foreigner. Lol. Fucking Foreigner.

[originalzzmfmjock]

Hey Honeyman, if you are lurking on this thread. WLAV-FM is still playing some of the same songs they were playing when we were working together at WLAV-AM in 1979. : )

[Honeyman]

Hey Honeyman, if you are lurking on this thread. WLAV-FM is still playing some of the same songs they were playing when we were working together at WLAV-AM in 1979. : )

LOL.....

And if John Shepard were still alive, it would be from the same physical album.