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KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns

Posted:
Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:03 am
by Agamis
For anyone interested in seeing the KROQ end of the year countdown lists for each year from 1980 through 1990, here is the URL:
http://earlhoward.com/kroq.htm

Posted:
Wed Sep 24, 2003 6:45 am
by Frau_Blucher
Dude!!! That is great. Thanks!

Posted:
Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:56 pm
by SwampThing
I put the KROQ lists in Microsoft Excel. I scrubbed the data. It can be filtered, sorted and searched. If anyone wants a copy I'd be happy to send it via email.
patrickm@speakeasy.org

Posted:
Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:25 am
by Jimbo
LOL! I did the same thing!!!
Sure, I would love to see it!
jfader@sbcglobalDOTnet
replace DOT with .
That keeps the spam robots away.
"I now inform you that you are too far from reality"

Posted:
Sat Sep 27, 2003 11:34 am
by Jimbo
BTW, that KROQ top 106.7 list does have some minor errors in it.
"I now inform you that you are too far from reality"

Posted:
Sat Sep 27, 2003 2:59 pm
by SwampThing
Jimbo,
I sent it twice (first one was a mistake).

Posted:
Sat Sep 27, 2003 6:48 pm
by Jimbo
I got it SwampThing, thanks!
I did mine differently and separated out the years in different worksheets.
Do you want to take a look at mine?
"I now inform you that you are too far from reality"

Posted:
Sun Sep 28, 2003 12:23 am
by Frau_Blucher
Did anybody else get the impression that the countdown lists seem quite different from their actual playlists? At least from my recollection, there were a lot more nifty new wave obscurities and less mainstream stuff being played as a percentage of airtim

Posted:
Sun Sep 28, 2003 1:25 am
by Frayo
Very cool stuff
2 thumbs up
--this message comes from the psychopath with DX-7 wallpaper (computer)...
--I dont know what color my walls are in my room--its covered with posters..covered in its entirity with video game promos, 80s band promos,

Posted:
Sun Sep 28, 2003 3:41 am
by Jimbo
[quote]
Very cool stuff
2 thumbs up
--this message comes from the psychopath with DX-7 wallpaper (computer)...
--I dont know what color my walls are in my room--its covered with posters..covered in its entirity with video game promos, 80s ban

Posted:
Sun Sep 28, 2003 7:43 am
by SwampThing
Jimbo, I started out with a sheet for each year and then consolidated it on one sheet so I could filter it across they years. Thanks for the offer though.

Posted:
Tue Dec 02, 2003 12:59 pm
by iposse
Hi everyone,
I've consolidated a bunch of year-end countdown lists for alternative radio stations. You can see them all at:
http://www.geocities.com/irvineposse/
(Update 3-28, after I noticed this topic was brought back to the first page of this b

Posted:
Tue Dec 02, 2003 11:56 pm
by Frau_Blucher
How awesome is that! But you didn't score each song, average weight, then rank order list them? LOL <grin>
And Irvine Posse...is this my old Irvine CA stomping ground? Go Anteaters!

Posted:
Wed Dec 03, 2003 10:49 am
by iposse
Yep, it's Irvine, CA.
I'm pretty sure if I mean-weight-rank-ordered all the songs by how well they did across the nation, they would still be in the same positions. The tastes of corporate radio are the same pretty much wherever you go...

Posted:
Sat Mar 27, 2004 5:22 pm
by danm
Argh! I have downloaded or ripped all but 30 of Earl Howard's list ... and then iposse posts all thos other lists! Now (thanks to a slight case of OCD) I have to go after those too!