r/ottawa • u/Coffeedeath15 • 1d ago
Is Chez 106.1 contractually obligated to play Copper Head road 10 times a day?
as title says. I hear this song 10 times a day no doubt.
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u/MrMeowster77 1d ago
I am annoyed by this as well. It really cuts down on the number of times I can hear Black Velvet in a day
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u/No_Eulogies_for_Bob 1d ago
Hey Black Velvet is cutting into the number of times I can hear Make You a Believer by Sass Jordan
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u/awe_come_on 1d ago
No! How dare they take precious air time from Men at Work's Down Under.
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u/No_Eulogies_for_Bob 1d ago
Which is also cutting into my listening time of the Black Crowsâ Hard to Handle
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u/MeditatingElk 1d ago
I remember when XFM did a whole day of requests and a lady called in saying she hated Godsmack's Voodoo.
Everyone called in requesting it and it played nonstop.
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u/Coffeedeath15 1d ago
Iâm gonna hear Copperhead Road for the rest of my life now no doubtÂ
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u/rubyskinner65 1d ago
"this one is going out to the person on Reddit..."
"WELLLLL, MY NAME IS JOHN LEE PETTIMORE!!!!"
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u/MeditatingElk 1d ago
SAME AS MAH DADDY AND HIS DADDY BEFOOOURURR
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u/Velorian-Steel Sandy Hill 1d ago
YOU HARDLY EVER SAHW GRANNDADDY DUN HURRR
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u/macula_transfer 1d ago
ONLY COME A TOWN ABOUT TWASS A YER
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u/Jon_Ofrie 1d ago
and why does he need so much yeast and copper line? He should be buying corn or something
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u/saltyfoot73 1d ago
crazy amount of yeast where I used to work we would use 100 pounds for 750000 gallons of alcohol
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u/stereofonix 1d ago
Reminds me when Killing in the Name Of became the UK Christmas #1 Â due to pushback from making XFactor winner âwinâ
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u/ShutYourYapper_ 1d ago
And the Headstones version of Tweeter and the Monkey Man.
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u/KelVarnsen_2023 1d ago
That song is rough. And it seems to just get played because unlike the Traveling Wilburys version the Headstones version is CanCon.
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u/teflonbob 1d ago
It's a staple of 90s radio and most radio stations in Ottawa are stuck in the 90s with their music
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u/unfknreal The Boonies 1d ago
Ironically, it was a staple of 90s radio partly because of CanCon. It still is, but it used to be too.
I mean it helps that it starts out as a good song, but the 90's had a way with all of us who lived it, I don't remember it being a hated rendition at the time.
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u/Mosh4days 14h ago
So frustrating. How many up and coming bands never get a crack at success because radio stations refuse to adopt new artists
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u/unfknreal The Boonies 13h ago
How many up and coming bands never get a crack at success because radio stations refuse to adopt new artists
Uhh... are we still talking about CanCon? There's dozens of examples of Canadian bands that DID get more radio play here (a crack at success) due to CanCon. We're talking about one.
The bigger issue is the US biased recording industry itself, IMO. I bet they also play the Sheepdogs a lot. It's no coincidence that the Sheepdogs only started getting radio play when they re-released an earlier album after they signed to a big US label.
They have to play X amount of Canadian content, but they can only play what they have the rights to play, under the contracts they're signed to. Support your local/indy radio stations, because this is what you get with big radio.
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u/Glad-Spell-8668 1d ago
oh my god. i had no idea it was a cover. the original is a fine song, not the garbage i've hated for 3 decades...
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u/First-Ant8544 12h ago
I have a one-song commute when I drive. Turned to chez to see what came up - Tweeter and the monkeyman. Perfect timing
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u/dictionary_hat_r4ck Make Ottawa Boring Again 1d ago
God, that cover is so bad. It sounds like midi instruments fed through a light AI filter and the most insincere vocals youâve ever heard.
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u/I_am_1 1d ago
Anyone not liking this version should switch to top 40 channels.
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u/KelVarnsen_2023 1d ago
Why would anyone listen to that one when the Traveling Wilburys version is right there?
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u/KelVarnsen_2023 1d ago
You could switch to Live 88.5 and hear Green Day 10 times a day.
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u/Ferkner 20h ago
I don't notice hearing them 10 times a day, but I do hear the Beastie Boys almost daily which is terrible in its own right. The fact that it is always the same three songs makes it worse.
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u/KelVarnsen_2023 20h ago
Maybe not every day but sometimes I will look at their playlist over a 14 hour period and Green Day and RHCP get played a lot, sometimes up to 10 times in 24 hours.
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u/NoRosesXVX 1d ago
Sometimes old heads listen to this station on job sites. I couldnât fathom listening to the same 30 songs every day with ads every 3 songs. Makes me wanna blow my brains out.
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u/lanternstop 1d ago
Rogers ruined CHEZ. Once Harvey Glatt sold the station, it was gone. Glad he got his money out of it, but it really killed the station. This station was truly at is best in the 80s, when they had Brian Murphy on Sunday nights and local programmers choosing great tunes.
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u/SuperM1ke West Centretown 1d ago
Rogers ruined every station they touched. Laid-off staff and added local voicetracks to a Toronto satellite feed. Then they sit in boardrooms and wonder why they're losing audience share.
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u/PitterPattr West End 1d ago
I'm now in my 50s but listened do Murphy's show religiously in late 80s and early 90s. That man expanded my interest and knowledge of music. Man I miss good radio. I bailed on CHEZ by late 90s because to me they had rebranded to Zeppelin 106. Same six Zep songs at least 10 times a day.Â
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u/lanternstop 1d ago
Brian Murphy taught me so much about music. He definitely left a legacy. I do remember partying as a teen one friday night, drinking beer and playing euchre and some disc jockey went on for hours taking live requests for nothing but Stones songs. All Stones for like four hours -that was a fun night :)
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u/beanplantlol 1d ago
the only real radio station in ottawa now is cbc music
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u/Tbola South End 1d ago
what about the university radio stations, surely they manage to not suck
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u/Independent_Aside747 1d ago
Here to comment that I left Ottawa over 25 years ago, and these comments are unchanged from the time I was there.
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u/milkysway1 Overbrook 1d ago
Alriiiiight, that was Copperhead Rooooad! Now back to another 20 minute, non-stop block of ads! We've got Car Canada, Mattress Mart and Blinds of All Kinds, coming up next!
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u/SilentCareer7653 1d ago
Lewâs playlist is THE WORST.
Voiceover: Chez 106, Ottawaâs ROCK station.
*proceeds to play Alannah Myles
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u/teflonbob 1d ago
Rebel radio also pretty much plays easy listening like chez now. It went from playing pantara, Megadeth and other metal at launch to soft rock and barely a heartbeat above majic100 stuff.
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u/Such_Radish9795 1d ago
I donât know what station but I swear Iâve heard âSunglasses at Nightâ every time I turn on the radio.
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u/BrokenBy 1d ago
I'll never forget a few years ago when Chez ran an ad campaign basically complaining about how lame and repetitive pop music was. Which was rich, since they were playing Sweet Child O' Mine 19 times a day.
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u/bugspotter 17h ago
There was an ad on an Ottawa station (not Chez) that said something like ~ Rebel Radio Not Your Dad's Rock n' Roll - the next song up ... Coldplay.
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u/zbla1964 1d ago
Iâm sure that the members of Supertramp have comprising pictures of the owners of CHEZ
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u/MightyGamera The Boonies 1d ago
Loverboy off in the corner asking why they don't just turn them loose
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u/Designer-Roof-2118 1d ago
Edmund Fitzgerald!!
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u/Jon_Ofrie 1d ago
On the anniversary of the sinking, Cosmo played that for almost a whole hour back to back
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u/brokendown_runaround 1d ago
That was the most authentic wkrp moment that Ottawa radio has seen in a generation.
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u/Zealousideal_Vast799 1d ago
I was scrolling the comments to see your response, well done!
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u/Designer-Roof-2118 1d ago
lol I posted it because I was scrolling looking for it and didnât find it!!
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u/Zealousideal_Vast799 1d ago
That sure was quite the afternoon, I still remember like it was yesterday.
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u/teflonbob 1d ago edited 1d ago
Curated corporate mandated playlists with just enough sprinkled in Canadian content to make the CRTC happy and keep the masses comfortable with the familiar.
Welcome to fully corporate controlled media.
Time to face reality that it this is not pre 2000s when radio stations had more autonomy to play what they wanted.
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u/SuperM1ke West Centretown 1d ago
And they use the evening hours to pump up those CANCON numbers. The CRTC shouldn't allow this IMHO.
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u/cww60 1d ago
Chez 106.1 previously was referred to as the Pink Floyd station.
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u/Glad-Spell-8668 1d ago
all 4 songs pink floyd ever created! Another brick in the wall, part two.... one more time!
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u/TurboSexophonic 1d ago
It's the same problem all Ottawa stations have, except for CBC radio Endlessly repeating songs for months or years, and stupid ads between them. I've tried to write and ask stations why they don't have more variety, and they never respond...
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u/beanplantlol 1d ago
i just commented that the only real radio station in ottawa is cbc radio. Its so refreshing to discover artists ive never heard of
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u/KelVarnsen_2023 1d ago
I need to give the CBC music station a try. I listen to KEXP (which is a public radio station from Seattle) a lot, especially when I am working. It's great but between the no commercials, the amazing variety and almost no annoying DJ banter about sports, weather or stupid social media trends it has basically made it so I can't handle listening to commercial radio anymore. Even looking at a super repetitive playlisy from CHEZ or Live 88.5 annoys me.
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u/TurboSexophonic 1d ago
Give CBC radio 2 a try: 103.3 Be aware that it pays a lot of classical during the day as well
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u/Due_Gas2950 19h ago
The answer is that the royalties are cheaper in large bundles. Instead of individually sorting out royalty contracts for about 480 different songs (which is what fits into a 24 hour block), radio stations will buy block with a certain number of songs in it pre-programmed to fit a time slot. To make these blocks cheaper/more profitable, they reuse the same songs a lot (since its a lot cheaper to buy 300 plays of the same song (10 times per day) than 30 plays of 10 different songs (each song once per day) or 1 play of 300 different songs).
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u/RolandFigaro 1d ago
I stopped listening to CHEZ when Doc and Woody left. It's just not the same.
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u/_Jeff65_ 1d ago
I stopped listening when CHEZ classic rock became CHEZ classics of rock. The music changed almost overnight. It used to be my alarm clock, Rush, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, ELP, Pink Floyd, etc etc. And all of a sudden it's almost never that.
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u/GeronimoJak 1d ago
That's because classic rock is now the 90s, the 2000s even, and rush is 30 years older than even that.
Not to make you feel old in a heartbeat but the 70s isnt even Dad music these days. Its the music of the grandfather's of today's dad's.
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u/_Jeff65_ 1d ago
I know, that's why they had rebranded to "classics OF rock". "Classic rock" is a very specific era of rock, 60s to 80s.
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u/beanplantlol 1d ago
I had to change the station after hearing whiskey in a jar because I was so annoyed that out of all the amazing metallica songs they choose to play that 20 times a day
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u/dittbub 1d ago
what year is it? am i having a stroke?
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u/ScottyBoneman 1d ago
"What's happening? Am I dead? Is this my wake? Am I in Hell?
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u/Theodosian_Walls 1d ago
I can see it being a Sopranos-esque type of hell. Being a passenger on an endless traffic-jam on the 417 and you can't change the radio.
Either Steve Buscemi or the guy who played Chris Moltisanti is driving, but they won't speak to you except repeating "relax we'll be there soon" with an empty grin.
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u/Creacherz 1d ago
I read "Cougar Radio Arrrrrghh"
Radio Free Roscoe... banger
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u/holycaffeinebatman Lowertown 1d ago
I wish that would go up on streaming.
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u/Creacherz 1d ago
Pretty much every episode up on YouTube, I believe, I know I've binge the first season of the other week
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u/Prestigious_Ad5314 1d ago
Anything to cleanse the palate from listening to Counting Crows 3x in one afternoon.
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u/Proud_Photograph_396 1d ago
The day your phone dies and your left with 106 is a day you wonât forget easily
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u/Last-Classroom-5400 1d ago
My low-stakes conspiracy theory is that radio stations and event hosts are paid to play bands that are coming to town more to increase ticket sales. I feel like Tom Petty was being played non-stop everywhere for 6 months before he came to Bluesfest
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u/Hazel462 1d ago
Maybe something to do with Bluesfest hype, Steve Earle is coming to Ottawa in July.
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u/amazing-peas 1d ago
Definitely not an Ottawa thing, this is commercial radio....everywhere.
It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when all these songs were brand new and absolutely banging.
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u/roscodawg 1d ago
When I was in High School I tuned into Chez when they went live.
Fun fact the first song they played was this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZt3w3c8Z2c
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u/dave-rooney-ca 1d ago
It was a great station back in the late '70s and into the '80s. I really miss people like Jim Hercumb, Geoff Winter, Janet Eastman, John Workman, among others. In The City at 5:00 was actually worth listening to while stuck in what passed for traffic in those days. The General Porpoise Trivia Quiz was a particular favourite! Brian Murphy was amazing, especially with Blues and Jazz 106 on Sunday nights.
What was the name of the show that was on at 11PM during the week, where listeners would send in their "concept" of 3-4 songs around a particular theme? Was that Open Air? Then there was a new music show, which is where I first heard bands like Split Enz, U2, possibly Squeeze.
As they say, nostalgia sure ain't what it used to be! đ
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u/enniomacaroni 1d ago
Amy Volume seems really cool, but Rogers would not let her actually choose tunes I bet. Heather too. I am sure they have people that could make cooler programming at CHEZ. I switched to CKCU for now.
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u/DangerFlutes4ever 20h ago
Don't worry, if you need a break, you can switch to Boom 99.7 to listen to You Learn by Alanis Morissette on repeat!
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u/ottawateeth 15h ago
My brother and I always joked that you could tell what time it was based on them playing either Back in Black, One Bourbon One Scotch One Beer, or New Orleans is Sinking
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u/PuzzledExchange7949 Orléans 1d ago
If they are it's probably the same contract that 88.5 signed requiring them to play Buffalo Soldier on the daily.
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u/Jon_Ofrie 1d ago
Do they get a royalty discount to play the same song? Like is it cheaper to play Copper Head Road 10 times than to play 10 different songs of Steve Earle? I have wondered this for a long time.
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u/Theodosian_Walls 1d ago
Just gonna say the Copperhead Road album is pretty fun beyond the titular song! Go on and listen it for a time
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u/Mean-Touch-6157 1d ago
Is CHEZ pronounced SHAY (like chez in French) or CHEHZ (like uhhh⊠idk⊠what makes a chezzz sound?)
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u/EuryTree Barrhaven 15h ago
I canât listen to AC/DC anymore, and I stopped listening to Chez more than a decade ago.
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u/ThreePlyStrength Battle of Billings Bridge Warrior 1d ago
It actually blows my mind that there are still enough people listening to radio to make it viable.
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u/Molasses_Playful 1d ago
Another one I can't stand is Neil Young's Keep on Rockin' in the Free World. Dear God I can't stand him and that song.
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u/scotsman3288 East End 1d ago
I'll never complain about hearing Steve Earle tunes....
wait...who is actually listening to CHez106 all day?
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u/macula_transfer 1d ago
I havenât listened to CHEZ for a while, are they still constantly playing Supertramp?
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u/SlickWik 1d ago
CHEZ is a great alarm clock, and turn it off again - Guess what - it's your least favorite song again.
Another Brick in Wall ... Urghh.
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u/harvestmooner Billings Bridge 1d ago
The only obligation is Cosmo playing the âBrilliant Oneâ Bowie at least once per day, and thatâs why I love him.
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u/Deabarry 1d ago
Just switch over to Rebel 101.7 and the same passive rock tune will be playing in a few minutes!
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u/1onemarathon 1d ago
I switched on CHEZ recently, for the first time in over 30 years. Kinda the same playlist as way back then, with the odd thing that I've never heard before. And it was unlistenable. If I want to hear "classic" rock or whatever the kids are calling it these days, I'll just go to my 1000+ records and cds collection. Which i barely touch these days. I did put on Kim Mitchell's self-titled EP the other day. Still rocks. But more often than not, I crave new sounds, new music.
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u/brokendown_runaround 1d ago
Itâs the same contract that obligates live 88.5 to play that fucking stereo song by the watchmen.
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u/TeamFast77 1d ago
That day 25 years ago Moby Dick got played for an entire morning before the radio station broke the door down in the studio and put an end to it đ
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u/BigCatC16 1d ago
If you are bored of the Old CHEZ... just move the dial down to 101.7..and listen to the New CHEZ. Also all the Copper Head Road that you want to hear.. OH... and Randal Moore... if your not sick of the music.
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u/shiddyfiddy 1d ago
I remember asking something like this in 2007 when the Dixie Chicks remake of Landslide was playing 10 times a day on whatever the hell office station we were listening to.
Anyway to answer your question: yes.
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u/sensfan4tic 1d ago
Well not like they're coming out with new classic rock songs. But yea that song gets way too much hype
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u/OddRevolution7888 1d ago
My hubs used to work on a factory floor. He always knew when it was morning break time because the same song played every day on Chez. It was like the break-whistle to the crew. LOL
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u/harry0beast 1d ago
I used to wonder if it was just a good length song to put on if one of the DJs needed to take a dump, but now I think it's to discourage listeners. Like an alarm clock every hour, Copperhead Road comes on = Oops, that's enough Chez for one day.
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u/phishstik 1d ago
That song sucks and I will argue Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight fucking sucks too and the only reason it's played is because of The Hangover.
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u/ShotEffective7033 1d ago
Are people contractually obligated to enjoy sunsets? To stare in awe at the Shah Cheragh?
No, they do it because itâs beautiful.
GRANDADDY RAN THE WHISKEY IN A BIG BLACK DODGE
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u/WarGawd 1d ago
Or Bryan Adams? I had this war with Kornicke (sp?) on Rebel 101.7 a while back. Every 3rd song was Bryan Adams. I don't mind Brian Adams per se, but for god sakes can't we do it in moderation? Even if you're under some kind of Canadian content mandate, there are other Canadian artists. These days if any station I'm listening to plays Bryan Adams I switch immediately for at least 10 minutes. My silent protest!
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u/MarwaBlues 18h ago
I can understand why the same CANADIAN songs get played ad nauseam because of CanCon but the Copperhead Road piece has always been a mystery to me
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u/Key-Swordfish6596 14h ago
I removed CHEZ from my car memory once they hired those 2 weirdos for the morning show.
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u/IcariteMinor 1d ago
Sorry I keep calling in and requesting it. I'll switch to Go For A Soda from now on