You are Out of Order

[95-7 Ben FM]

Does anyone listen to Out of Order with Jed the Fish?

I've been listening to it more and more recently. Is it designed for alternative, rock, or active-rock stations?

How do they get their chart? By airplay data from their affiliates?

Jed rocks! He is better than Ryan Seacrest on AT40, but hey maybe Ryan can take over him too, since he's already replaced Rick Dees and Casey Kasem (lol).

[insect2]

benq104957 said:

How do they get their chart? By airplay data from their affiliates?

I remember crash46 once saying (I think) it's an amalgamation of the Radio and Records chart and the KROQ playlist.

I think this show sucks. If you're gonna play the chart, play it in order. Otherwise, it defeats the purpose of the show. If you play the chart out of order, then it's not a chart show, it's regular rotation. I also don't think Jed the Fish is much of a host either. I remember hearing "Hard To Explain" on this show and he was like, singing along or something like that. I thought that was incredibly annoying. Also, it's no secret that he's biased against some artists, and probably arbitrarily excludes songs he doesn't like. It's a shame this show has to represent the alternative format.

I once suggested that there should be an Alternative American Top 40 based on the top 40 songs of the R&R alternative chart. I don't remember everything I said then, but one reason I gave was that there are several songs that I don't hear until well into their chart run (if at all) and a show like that would certainly be beneficial. It's too bad there doesn't seem to be anything like that in the works; it would probably be really awesome if it's done correctly.

[reception]

97.5 KPOI dropped the show recently.

[crash46]

insect2 said:

I remember crash46 once saying (I think) it's an amalgamation of the Radio and Records chart and the KROQ playlist.

Yeah, that sounds like me.

I usually don't wake up early enough on saturday mornings anymore to catch the countdown, I don't mind the show. It's cool, especially because of the interviews with the artist, which I never get to see anywhere else. And, despite having two alternatives in the area that I regularly tune by, a lot of times they both somehow never catch onto songs that are in the top 20. Sometimes OOO will play songs--new, recurrent, and gold--that I never get to hear elsewhere (ie. Liam Lynch made the top 20!).

So I have nothing against the show's existance. I also wish there was some sort of top 40 countdown for alternative, but I'm not sure what kind of demand there'd be for that.

[tobedawg]

I used to listen to this show every weekend back in the mid-90's... But quit listening during the nu-metal heyday of the early 2000's..

I liked hearing the fresh new song with "Jed's Catch of the Day" and hearing his "TimeWarp" going back to the 80's/early 90's.. The artist interviews were great and the unconventional style were very suited for the Alternative format at that time..

Quirky, dorky, annoying to some... That seems to be the essence of Alternative radio.. Bands like Weezer or the above mentioned Liam Lynch song that people either passionately love or passionately hate.. That seems to be what alternative radio lacks these days, PASSION..

[Keith3000]

I used to love this show...the concept of doing the countdown in a screwed up order was great. I mean why not...an alternative chart show for alternative music. It always ended with the #1 song anyway so it was all good I guess...I agree, the interviews were great and I always looked forward to hearing the "catch of the day" for new stuff, the "timewarp" for classic songs, and the "foreign exchange" for international rock tracks.

At first I wasn't really into charts, so I didn't really care about the positions, but then I got confused. I didn't know about R&R in the mid and late '90s, so I thought the chart used for the show was the Billboard Modern Rock chart...many postions differed though. It didn't match the R&R Alternative chart either with songs like Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" and Blink-182's "The Rock Show" reaching #1. Considering that the show's a Westwood One production, I would have thought they'd use an official chart source.

My station dropped the show about a year back, but I occasionally listen to it online.

[Slinky]

I like the concept behind "Out of Order". It fits the Alternative format much better than a straight top 40 countdown would. There's little demand for a "real" countdown at Alternative, a Rick Dees or Ryan Seacrest type show would not fit the format at all.

There was a show called the "New Rock Countdown" a while back, maybe 1996ish. It had a shortwave affiliate, I don't know if it had any FM's on board.