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Question: Why not Radio? :: Total Votes:8
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this is my first poll so I dont know how it works. 1  [12.50%]
here are your choices: If not, Why? 2  [25.00%]
If yes, Why? 5  [62.50%]
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Posted: Dec. 27 2004, 16:40
Should the full version of TBs be brodcasted on American Radio?

If not, Why?
If yes, Why?

I just want to get other peoples opinion.

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Posted: Dec. 28 2004, 19:39
No, because its length is not what they call radio-friendly :) and IMHO you can't edit a piece from it and make it work. Even the usual 4'15'' Single Edit of the main theme doesn't work at all, according to me. However, there are plenty of shorter pieces by Mike (both sung and instrumental) that could work wonderfully on radio.

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004, 08:47
Quote (Ugo @ Dec. 28 2004, 19:39)
Even the usual 4'15'' Single Edit of the main theme doesn't work at all

It worked well enough to get Mike his only actual "hit" on US radio in 1974. It got heavy airplay, too. This was in an era when instrumentals could do well. "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams was another such hit. However, instrumentals rarely (never?) chart anymore, and the oldies stations that mine the early 1970s period seem to have forgotten the instrumentals such as "Tubular Bells" entirely.

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004, 11:07
Quote (hiawatha @ Dec. 29 2004, 14:47)
However, instrumentals rarely (never?) chart anymore

Well, I wouldn't exactly define Moby's hits as "songs". :)

Anyway, even if I'm not American and thus I have no idea about how those things work in America :), I think that radio stations, even themed ones, only play what audiences really want to hear. If they don't play instrumentals, it's maybe because they're no longer fashionable (I don't know whether or not I'm using the right term, here) among general audiences, so they're considered too old to get airplay even by 'oldies' stations. Moby charts and gets airplay because he does dance music. :)

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