"Radio Artists"

[RayPeterson]

OK, this is a thread about what I'd call radio artists. They are artists which you can frequently hear on the radio, yet many people don't even know them.

It's the typical "Yes I know that song but I didn't know who sings it" thing.

So who do you think belongs to these artists/bands which are well known by often being played on the radio and still somehow being unknown to the major public?

I'll start with Paul Carrack. He was once a singer in the "Mike and the Mechanics" band and afterwards had some great solo hits as well. Since I don't feel that Mike & The Mechanics get the credit they deserve, I'll list them up here as well.

 

[Rays_Yard]

Sorry RayP, I don't listen to the radio any more. But, Mike (from mike and the mechanics) is Mike Rutherfor from Genesis.

 

[RayPeterson]

You don't listen to the radio anymore? Who listens to their radio? (lamp swinging).

But seriously, fed up with today's music or why?

 

[Rays_Yard]

I'm sick of all the commercials on the radio and they play the same stuff over and over. I just get board with it.

 

[Knapp_Sack]

Personally, I've also just gotten tired of the same songs day after day. Not that it's anything against those songs - I spent countless hours in the past listening to the radio. I reached a point where if the DJ said that a particular artist would be coming on soon, I was very rarely surprised with a song that came on.

The magic of the radio to me was always hearing that new song that I couldn't get enough of. Adding to the experience was the fact that I couldn't just go online and download/listen to it at will, so I pretty much had to just wait for it to come on the radio. (That's not to say that I didn't record hours of radio songs on cassette tapes )

 

[Art_Weingartner]

Its a joke to us here that our local radio station only has one double CD and plays it constantly. Even after not listening to it for about ten years, I heard it on somewhere and dang if they weren't playing the songs they used to a decade before.

 

[RayPeterson]

Hm, alright, maybe we got a little more diversity on our channels here. I've got a channel which plays everything from the 50's to the 90's and that's alright with me. Commercials are only sent 5 minutes per hour which is also alright.

Yeah, I also remember the days when you couldn't go online just to find your song. Whenever I listened to the radio I had my audio cassette in it, ready to push the record button as soon as one of my favorite songs came. They became my "Summer Vacation" cassettes, I took them with me wherever I went during my summer vacations and listened to them all summer long. I don't have a horse in the basement, but in the cellar there are still my summer vacation cassettes from `93, `94, `95 and `96.