I do prefer this version 
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Easy to say when there actually IS something new to try like there is in metro markets, when the radio choices in regions are either repetivive 80s or repetitive RnB (or ABC stations nobody listens to), and folks at work roll the eyes back when I explain Iâm playing radio from Croatia as an alternate to the same spotify playlists other workers have (some of which are the same songs heard on the radio in any case)
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When I was at voluntary work, the Nova 937 played that song, âBad Romanceâ from Lady Gaga. That song has had so many overplays on the radio since 2009.
And when I was at the Periodontist, the 94.5 FM played that Thrift Shop from Macklemore which has been flogged for so many years now.
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Itâs funny though isnât it? How you remember where you were when certain songs were big. Thatâs the beauty of CHR high rotation radio. Itâs âin the momentâ. It may be âfloggingâ, but that doesnât last long until the next batch of songs come along that are also flogged. Thatâs how memories are formed.
Contrast that to the late 80s through to the mid 90s when Australia didnât have any CHR stations and the most that you would ever hear new music was maybe once a day. New music wasnât flogged, it was shunned.
I feel sorry for teenagers during this period as their memories of radio would have been dominated by Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles and the Doobie Brothers. Thatâs why shows like Video Hits are remembered more fondly by people of that vintage.
Iâm lucky that when I was 14, radio stations still flogged songs. Back in the 80s on CHR stations like 3ZM if a song was big they would play it hourly.
In fact if a song was really huge 2XS would play it back to back with a little â2XS in-in-in-instant replayâ sting. The same song repeated straight after itself!
Iâm gonna pop some tags
My initial reaction to that song was ambivalent. But the more I heard it the more I enjoyed it. With high rotates I was able to say:
This is F*****g awesome.
The greatest strength of CHR is high rotation (âfloggingâ to use your term) and I hope the new 2Day absolutely thrash the hell out of new tracks.
Because thatâs the beauty of radio.
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And then those tracks are forgotten for 30 years until yours truly posts them as an âobscureâ great song in the relevant thread
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Hahaha. Thatâs funny. A 99 yo Radiohead posting âGet out my head - Shane Coddâ.
Lol.
No way.
In 30 years youâll still be posting your favorite:
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Lol! I doubt Iâll make it 99, i might have another 25, maybe 30 years left in me, just either side of 80.
Even then, in the early 2050s when Iâm in my high powered wheelchair, Iâll still be posting a few 80s songs, plus adding in a bit of Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Lizzo too. And I wonât even have to type it, Android 47 or ioS 48 will know it 
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I didnât like this song either,because 97.3 used to flog it to death about 10-15 years ago.Its her worst song
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I heard on the Perth 96FM and they played Adeleâs Rolling in the Deep. Even when I drove the previous BMW car (back 2013-21) they played this song on 200 times. This song has been flogged to death when I listen in the car.
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I have no choice but to call Mr. Powerzone out for this clanger:
Nickelback- Photograph
Whatâs worse is that it was the lead song. If youâre going to play turds like this, at least hide them at the end of the hour 
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I canât understand why Nickelback and their music isnât as universally liked as (say) Coldplay or U2.
Iâve never had anything against their music, they do have plenty of other timeless classics such as âHow You Remind Meâ and âSomedayâ to name a few.
One of the songs from Nickelback Iâd definitely name on this thread as Triple M Metros and Regionals have flogged this song to death for the past two decades even though i donât get the hate with the band either.
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Yes and we never found out âWhat was on Joeyâs headđ
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I wish 4BH would stop flogging these:
Tom Cochrane ,âLife is a Highwayâ
Matchbox 20, â3AMâ
if theyâre going to play 90s hits find something better than these turdsđ
Next theyâll be playing Alanis Morrisette
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Thereâs a whole story as to why Nickelback went from being another run of the mill post-grunge rock band to the band everyone hated on, I think it was a comedy sketch or something that kicked it all off, and the early days of the internet just ran with it.
Either way, this poster didnât mind some of their stuff back in his early teenage years. âSomedayâ was a favourite, âHow You Remind Meâ still sounds alright, and âNever Againâ had some lyrical depth such a band wasnât renowned for. I probably even still have a copy of Silver Side Up buried somewhere on CD. Agreed the stuff like âFigured You Outâ and âPhotographâ was a band going off the rails, but for that era of music they did have some alright stuff.
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Yes, I have âSilver Side Upâ too, and âToo Badâ is my favourite track of theirs, and Chad Kroeger did a couple of good collabs with Santana (âWby Donât You & Iâ and âInto The Nightâ) but agree most of their other songs are pretty forgettable.
He also had a collaboration with Josey Scott titled âHeroâ for the Spider-Man movie in 2002 as well.
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One of those bands that just got worse as time went on. There are a few bands from the 00s like that, Blink 182 and Good Charlotte come to mind. I agree the early stuff from âSilver Side Upâ was OK but Photograph is just terrible, definite station changer for me. As it was Powerzone I knew things would get better (and they duly did).
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Couldnât agree more there - and was a station changer the moment it was released. Itâs not like itâs just a song thatâs aged badly, itâs just and always was a terrible song.
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Another band that pretty much got worse as Time went on would be Limp Bizkit as I mentioned on this thread earlier. Like Nickelback, They were extremely hated by the mainstream rock and metal scene in the late nineties and early 2000s due to Fred Durstâs attitude and being responsible for causing the riots at Woodstock 1999, not to mention being insanely popular with frat boys and during the height of the Nu Metal boom period of the aforementioned time alongside fellow Nu Metal band KoRn, although after their mainstream relevance was killed off after the infamous fourth album âResults May Varyâ in 2003, Limp Bizkit has had a resurgence in popularity this decade following their performance at Lollapalooza 2021 in Chicago and the Woodstock 1999 documentary âTrainwreckâ on Netflix released in 2022.
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