Are radio stations playing more GH tracks

**BigSnatch** · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 1569

I heard Ruby a couple months ago on the radio, I thought that was a bit strage.
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**schism** · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 753 Location: Pacific Ocean

This depends on the wide variety of disc jokeys out there, and since Guitar Hero has come to so many households, it wouldn't surprise me if they did play more music from it.

**Light** · Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 142 Location: Las Vegas, NV

I've noticed this to a certain degree on my local radio stations. Though by far the strangest thing for me is how many GH songs they play on the intercom or whatever at the Grocery Store where I work at. The other day they started playing Cult of Personality while I was at work and I couldn't help but start air fretting the song.
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**bjwdestroyer** · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:58 am Post subject:

One time I was in the car, listening to the radio, and none other than Crazy on You came on. I then changed the station, and lo and fucking behold, o0o0o0o0h Barracuda. I change the station again, and it's JESSICA.

I AM NOT LYING.

It stopped there though (this was all on XM stations).

**stumper93** · Joined: 19 May 2007 Posts: 1458 Location: Iowa

I heard Train Kept A-Rollin the other day, , been hearing a lot of Jessica, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, in fact just today I heard Possum Kingdom
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**Geeoff** · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 1368

Okay...Winnipeg's #1 rock station just played Through the Fire and Flames. The announcer was totally making fun of it, saying they were only playing it because 12 fans of Guitar Hero kept requesting it and said Dragonforce were a new version of Stryper.

http://power97.com/station/playlist.aspx

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**Strykerx** · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3110 Location: Pants

Jessica and Can't You Hear me Knockin' have been played as background on the weather channel multiple times.

Personally, after GH2 came out, I heard War Pigs a lot for some reason or another.
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**BulletRideJ** · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 334 Location: Markham, Ontario

I was watching Much Loud last night and 3's and 7's and Monsters both played within 10 minutes of each other. Coincidence, or conspiracy? You decide.
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**jesse0986** · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:27 am Post subject:

If there is an increase I think it's barely noticeable. The songs just happen to catch your ear on the radio after you've played them a hundred times in the game.

You people can't honestly tell me that Free Bird / Sharp Dressed Man / Radar Love / etc. haven't been played likely hundreds of times on your radio before they came out in the GH games, can you?
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**Kuzmits** · Joined: 27 Mar 2007 Posts: 13

I've definitely noticed GH/RB songs being played on radio far more than before, and I'm positive it's not just me noticing them more.

If a song is in GH, it is automatically going to gain popularity, that's common sense. Radio stations just want to capitalize on that.

**Anaesthesia** · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Greater Canadia

OK. Check this out. It could be a few things.

1. The GH series and Rock Band are full of what you could call classic staples. I heard songs like La Grange, WTTJ. Smoke on the Water, Tom Sawyer and suchlike 100 times a day on the radio before I played GH, and I still do. And, yeah, the classic rock station here seems to like Heart a lot, but again, always has. (I almost punched myself in the face when I saw Barracuda AND Crazy on You were in GH)

2. Yes, you may notice it a lot now, but that's just because before you played you didn't identify any songs as "being in Guitar Hero."

3. If you're a longtime player, remember there are five games now. Counting the career setlist songs as ones you're likely to hear on the radio, that's still 190 songs. Chances are you will hear ten or more of them daily on generic classic rock radio.

4. The planets have aligned in a disagreeable fashion and reality is trying to piss you off. This happened to a friend of mine once, when he complained he hadn't heard any songs other than "Heartbreaker" in more than a day...he'd walk past someone's car and hear it on the radio, turn on the TV and they were doing some thing about Zeppelin, and all sorts of progressively-less-believable-if-I-hadn't-been-there-for-most-of-it things. This may have happened to you as well.

If you've read the thread about the guy breaking his wrist, yes, this is also the guy who cut off his own cast. He also told me he's seen a UFO once. Maybe the aliens were trying to get him to listen to more Zeppelin?
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**Nuke39** · Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 929

It's kind of noticeable for me. I listen to two rock stations, 99.3 and 98.5, and they usually have a knack for playing Guitar Hero/Rock Band songs in succession. It varies at times during the day, but who knows. In one sitting though with about...100 minutes of driving I heard about 7 songs from the games. For example, during a song six pack, I heard Cult of Personality, Don't Fear The Reaper, and Epic in a row. (The 4th song was an older Green Day song, but I had reached my house anyway) There's got to be a correlation. Or another time, I heard One leading to Foreplay/Long Time. Two songs over 7 minutes.

I do believe there are some songs that are generally played alot, the most common for me being: Sharp Dressed Man, No One Like You, La Grange, The Pretender, Welcome to the Jungle.

I believe this trend is coming from GH3 and RB due to their overwhelming success. But I think it's the right move since it does make people listen and they are good songs for the record. It's kind of nice though, because everytime I drive, I'll hear a song that makes me go, "Hey, that song is on _____" and I smile.

But here's probably the weirdest/freakiest moment with this topic. On New Years' Day, they released the singles for Rock Band. And I watch Sully's vid on youtube. Then when I go out to drive to get lunch, I hear one of the announced songs from the pack. (Limelight by Rush) And I haven't heard it again sense, so there are some people getting the message.

**duck** · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject:

EVERY TIME im at work we listen to the radio and EVER TIME my friends tell me to shut up because im always saying "ZOMG THIS SONG IS IN GUITAR HERO!"

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