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And that was the *sensational* sound of Hall and Oates with 'Kiss On My List'...
Posted by Patrick Crowther on 21 February 2010 - 9:34am.
Radio records. They're great, aren't they? Those tunes sound impossibly fine when played over the airwaves by a man with a bad moustache and shocking pullover. I've long puzzled over what makes some songs fly out of the speakers in this way, so I thought I'd get ask the Massive: what makes a great radio record and what are your favourites?
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A brace of 70's classics...
I think it's probably something to do with being able to fill the fidelity lost when music is played over FM, but would need a pointy-headed scientist type to confirm...
Great examples...
Don't Stop Me Now is one of my favourites. I can still remember the experience of hearing it on the radio as opposed to just playing it at home.
Almost any Motown
track made between 1964 and '69 say.
Exhibit A: The Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself".
I love a good radio song
ELO, ABBA, Bruce doing Born To Run, Trevor Horn's early 80s stuff (a lot of the early 80s sounds like good radio music to me as it goes...)
Sometimes it's an era that produced a lot of singles that makes good radio music, but not always. American AOR sounds superb on a radio.
Horn
Video Killed The Radio Star was mixed & compressed specifically to cut through on the radio. Arguably the first shot fired in the loudness war.
I don't why but
as soon as I read "the sensational sound of" the intro to this followed without even thinking. Some sub conscious skulduggery going there I think, I'm sure I can actually hear DLT or Simon Bates actually saying it.
I have not idea why
This is one of my favourite records of all time. I don't even own it, but just love to hear it if and when it comes up. Definitely qualifies as a radio record.