
Adult album alternative
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Oct 30, 2026
The best of rcl-02-06-2015,
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34:05DarnellPANELIST
And we tried it.
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34:05DarnellPANELIST
We tried AAA here.
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34:06DarnellPANELIST
It didn't work.
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34:09DarnellPANELIST
It didn't work here.
Album Review Crew Episode 82 "Vitalogy"
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55:29Mike HsuGUEST
So I was working at what could have been called an early alternative station.
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55:33Mike HsuGUEST
It was AAA.
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55:35Mike HsuGUEST
So it was a little more mellow, but we were more experimental.
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55:38Mike HsuGUEST
And I was bringing in the stuff that was coming out of Seattle and some of the alternative stuff.
Episode 597 - Bruce Cockburn
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45:50Bruce CockburnGUEST
I think part of it, I mean, if I had a rocket launcher, I wonder where the lines are.
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45:56Bruce CockburnGUEST
And to some extent, Last Night in the World got a fair amount of radio play in the U.S. on what the AAA format was sort of a thing.
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46:07Bruce CockburnGUEST
And it hasn't been now for quite a while, so my stuff doesn't show up very much, except on TV stations very occasionally.
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46:15Bruce CockburnGUEST
But...
Rock’s Biggest Meltdowns Countdown: Ozzy Osbourne, Samantha Fox, Keith Moon, and More
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18:18speaker_1ADVERTISER
three times platinum here in the U.S.
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18:20Adam ReaderHOST
The album's 1997 hit Criminal reached number 21 on the Hot 100 and also number two on the Adult Alternative chart.
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18:26Adam ReaderHOST
The song explores themes of guilt, sexual empowerment, and manipulation as Fiona confesses to taking advantage of a lover's devotion.
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18:33speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Just don't know where I can begin
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18:55Adam ReaderHOST
Any Fiona fans out there, let me know in the comments.
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18:57Adam ReaderHOST
I definitely was.
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18:58Adam ReaderHOST
Both of these songs did well on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart, and it wasn't long before people began comparing Fiona to Alanis Morissette.
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19:06Adam ReaderHOST
Everything was pointing towards superstar status, but the 19-year-old Fiona wanted nothing to do with that.
The Soul Express
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28:28Jeff BennettHOST
KXL-FM with a News Talk format as well.
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28:30Jeff BennettHOST
KINK-FM with an Adult Album Alternative format.
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28:33Jeff BennettHOST
And finally, KKCW-FM with an Adult Contemporary format.
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28:37Jeff BennettHOST
In San Antonio, Texas, the number one ranked radio station is KONO-FM with a classicist format, followed by KTKX-FM with a classic rock format, KCYY-FM with a country format, KSMG-FM with a hot adult contemporary format, and finally KHA-FM with a country format.
Wednesday Driftglassing: No Kings, Evil Landlords, Damn Hackers!
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52:21DriftglassGUEST
I got to
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52:22Nicole SandlerHOST
go... to Boulder, Colorado, every summer for a few years when I was doing music radio, we would have like, it was like summer camp, the AAA Summit, it was called.
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52:34Nicole SandlerHOST
And the format that I worked in AAA stood for Adult Album Alternative.
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52:40Nicole SandlerHOST
And it was a very eclectic format.
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52:43Nicole SandlerHOST
And we would have our summer convention in Boulder, Colorado, where amazing bands would play at the Fox Theater.
#0438 - There Is A Five-Day Fart Retreat And Jade Has Already Been Spiritually Selected - 10/19/2026
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37:06Viktor WiltHOST
So pathetic.
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37:07Viktor WiltHOST
And that article I was talking about from earlier was about how the AAA stations have this cool factor and the alternative stations can't figure out why they can't get the cool factor going on.
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37:21Viktor WiltHOST
And I think it's just because they're lost as a format.
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37:24Viktor WiltHOST
And so he's like, yeah, we're playing all these.
PEL Presents NEM#262: Bruce Cockburn Expands Political/Spiritual Folk
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3:52Bruce CockburnGUEST
But in terms of radio and that kind of attention, it kind of peaked in the late 80s, I would, and then into the 90s.
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4:00Bruce CockburnGUEST
As long as there was a with the AAA format on radio was very good to me in the US.
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4:06Bruce CockburnGUEST
Canadian radio was always kind of in the picture to some extent with the kind of departure from the scene of the AAA format.
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4:15Bruce CockburnGUEST
My records don't see the light of day on radio much these days, but I mean, they do on the CBC in Canada, but otherwise quite a bit more limited than it used to be.
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4:26Bruce CockburnGUEST
But, you know, I'm still doing a lot of shows and I'm, people are coming out to them so that side of things continues in a very healthy way
NEM#262: Bruce Cockburn Expands Political/Spiritual Folk
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3:52Bruce CockburnGUEST
But in terms of radio and that kind of attention, it kind of peaked in the late 80s, I would, and then into the 90s.
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4:00Bruce CockburnGUEST
As long as there was a with the AAA format on radio was very good to me in the US.
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4:06Bruce CockburnGUEST
Canadian radio was always kind of in the picture to some extent with the kind of departure from the scene of the AAA format.
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4:15Bruce CockburnGUEST
My records don't see the light of day on radio much these days, but I mean, they do on the CBC in Canada, but otherwise quite a bit more limited than it used to be.
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4:26Bruce CockburnGUEST
But, you know, I'm still doing a lot of shows and I'm, people are coming out to them so that side of things continues in a very healthy way
Dave and Molly Oct 15 Hot Topics
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10:10Ken HopkinsPANELIST
Why?
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10:10Molly AllenHOST
It's, I think sometimes you get this like, "Nope, you're Americana, you go on the AAA stations."
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10:14Ken HopkinsPANELIST
Why?
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10:14Molly AllenHOST
"You're never gonna be Top 40-
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