So how come you never hear that Mr. Roboto song anymore?

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Since this board has been taken over by classic rock chatter (Police, Zeplin, Pumkins), I thought I'd throw this query out there...
 
 You still hear Renegade and Blue Collar Man on the radio sometimes. How come you never hear Mr. Roboto? That was a hoooooge hit back in the day.

[distance]

i heard it two days ago.
 
 i find it hilarious, though, that classic rock stations while playing bands that have numerous albums covering multiple decades, still manage to have as small of a song selection that they play as the pop stations.
 
 we also have a station down here that still plays metallica almost hourly (we have timed it before at work).

[K8teebug]

There was this awesome classic rock station in Atlanta that used to play everything, not just the same 4 or 5 songs by each artist.
 
 I too, think that is strange and crappy.

[6949]

I'm waiting for Zeno to do a remix.
  <img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070912/capt.dad82a9163e145c99c40f945cb7a2be9.robot_boy_txtg104.jpg" alt=" - " />

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Since this board has been taken over by classic rock chatter (Police, Zeplin, Pumkins), I thought I'd throw this query out there...
 
 You still hear Renegade and Blue Collar Man on the radio sometimes. How come you never hear Mr. Roboto? That was a hoooooge hit back in the day.

how often do you listen to the radio that you would know they never play it?
 
  i would think "come Sail away" would be their biggest song. it was my fave!

[K8teebug]

I love that song.  I also love the Freaks and Geeks episode that features that song at the end.  It's so gloriously cheesy.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
   How come you never hear Mr. Roboto? That was a hoooooge hit back in the day.

Because you're not my neighbor.  I play that song all the time.  I play a lot of Styx, actually.  That's right, I said it.

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by K8teebug:
  I love that song.  I also love the Freaks and Geeks episode that features that song at the end.  It's so gloriously cheesy.

That was one of the most brilliant uses of a song I've ever seen. Setting, tone, timing, comic potential, pitch perfect.

[BookerT]

"come sail away" in "freaks and geeks" > "come sail away" in "south park" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "come sail away" in "virgin suicides"

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

More than you think. I spend 30 mins a day in 1995 Saturn which only has AM/FM radio and a cassette player.
 
 
 

Originally posted by le sonick:
   

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  Since this board has been taken over by classic rock chatter (Police, Zeplin, Pumkins), I thought I'd throw this query out there...
 
 You still hear Renegade and Blue Collar Man on the radio sometimes. How come you never hear Mr. Roboto? That was a hoooooge hit back in the day.

how often do you listen to the radio that you would know they never play it?
 
  i would think "come Sail away" would be their biggest song. it was my fave! [/b]

[Reod Dai]

Because Styx caught a bad rap because most critics are cynical assholes?

[Guiny]

Originally posted by le sonick:
  i would think "come Sail away" would be their biggest song. it was my fave! [/QB]

Eric Cartman would agree with you.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

umm the robot dogs can now let them selves out

 

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
   How come you never hear Mr. Roboto? That was a hoooooge hit back in the day.

Because you're not my neighbor.  I play that song all the time.  I play a lot of Styx, actually.  That's right, I said it.

also...is the new wife letting you play styx all the time...if so, I might need to interveen

[Space Freely]

Wow, thanks for bringing this thread up.

It reminds me of when a robot costumed Danny King acted out the song Mr. Roboto in the talent show when he was in fifth grade. I remember him throwing and smashing things at the end of the song, and the crowd going wild. It was perhaps Danny's finest moment in his entire life.

For those unfamiliar with Danny King, he was the type of gawky, greasy haired fellow who got bullied A LOT back in the days when bullying wasn't at all discouraged in schools.

I later ran into Danny sometime when we were both in our 20's. I had moved away but was home visiting my parents. Or something like that. He said he was opening an ice cream shop. It later hit me that he has the perfect name for an ice cream shop owner...he could have called it "King Cone."

But instead, he called it "Dan's Ice Cream." No idea what happened to him after that.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
   How come you never hear Mr. Roboto? That was a hoooooge hit back in the day.

Because you're not my neighbor.  I play that song all the time.  I play a lot of Styx, actually.  That's right, I said it.

This is still true.

Also, that robot opened that door in February of 2018.  Where you been Sidehatch?