Mainstream Music!
April 30, 2008
I participated in a focus group tonight for a local radio station and based on the song selection, I’m 100% sure it’s our classic rock station. The songs ranged from 80s hair metal to 60s protest songs, with singer/songwriters from the 70s, Southern Rock and New Wave all thrown in for good measure. I’ve done this type of focus group before but not for this particular station. Having been a young child in the late 70s and being a mid 80s teen, many of these songs brought back a lot of memories about good friends and good times. I found myself giving the highest ratings to songs from The Eagles, U2, The Rolling Stones, Jackson Browne, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, David Bowie, Queen, Tom Petty, and Heart for starters. Most of the songs fell somewhere in the middle of my ratings, which meant that I didn’t overly like or dislike them. For some reason I found myself tired of hearing songs from Elton John, Eric Clapton, and The Beatles. I’m not sure why. There was a total of 900 songs and we listened to “the most representative” 8 second sections of each. I’m not sure if it was the most effective way to gauge users musical tastes and preferences, but hey, I still got paid for the time! 
Here’s a muxtape I’ve put together which represents some of the songs that were sampled. And like Steely Dan asks, are you reelin’ in the years? 
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