KFOG playlist August 26, 2019

Back in 2016, I began posting KFOG's playlists at the time because the station was heavily promoting an "evolution" after letting go most of its air staff, signaling what seemed like the end of KFOG as listeners knew it. All they ended up doing was dropping most of the '70s and '80s hits from their playlist and adopting a "Music Matters" slogan.

The real "evolution" didn't come until last year when the station dropped its Triple A format in favor of an "alternative" format. Gone were Tom Petty and Ed Sheeran, in were The Offspring and Linkin Park (Hearing bands like these on KFOG always felt so weird.) It was now a full-fledged clone of Live 105 Alt 105.3, complete with several Live 105 alumni serving as DJs, including The Woody Show in the morning.

And now, it was announced that Cumulus would be dropping KFOG for good to simulcast KNBR on its frequency. It's been a long time coming, but KFOG will leave the airwaves on Sept. 6. Until then, I'm going to again try and capture the station in its final weeks.

1. Bastille- Pompeii

2. Bush- Glycerine

3. Matt Maeson- Cringe

4. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Under the Bridge

5. Billie Eilish- Bad Guy

6. Nine Inch Nails- Closer

7. Mumford and Sons- Little Lion Man

8. Sublime- Wrong Way

9. Cake- Never There

10. Imagine Dragons- Radioactive

BONUS: Live 105 playlist April 27, 2017

1. Modest Mouse- Float On

2. Rag 'n' Bone Man- Human

3. Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet with Butterfly Wings

4. Coldplay- Adventure of a Lifetime

5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps

6. Imagine Dragons- Believer

7. Green Day- Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)

8. Arctic Monkeys- Do I Wanna Know?

9. Oasis- Wonderwall

10. Twenty One Pilots- Heathens

BONUS: Live 105 playlist April 2, 2017

1. Portugal. The Man- Feel it Still

2. Rancid- Time Bomb

3. Third Eye Blind- Semi Charmed Life

4. Twenty One Pilots- Heathens

5. Black Keys- Tighten Up

6. Cold War Kids- Love is Mystical

7. Skip Marley- Lions

8. Sublime- What I Got

9. Imagine Dragons- Believer

10. Death Cab for Cutie- Soul Meets Body

BONUS: Live 105 playlist March 9, 2017

1. Pearl Jam- Jeremy

2. Imagine Dragons- Believer

3. Green Day- American Idiot

4. AWOLNATION- Sail

5. No Doubt- Spiderwebs

6. Twenty One Pilots- Heavydirtysoul

7. Sublime- Doin' Time

8. Lumineers- Cleopatra

9. Big Data- Dangerous

10. Smashing Pumpkins- 1979

BONUS: Live 105 playlist February 15, 2017

1. Twenty One Pilots- Heathens

2. Imagine Dragons- Radioactive

3. X Ambassadors- Renegades

4. Nirvana- All Apologies

5. Lumineers- Cleopatra

6. Nine Inch Nails- Closer

7. The 1975- Somebody Else

8. Kings of Leon- Sex on Fire

9. Kaleo- Way Down We Go

10. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Give it Away

BONUS: Live 105 playlist August 30, 2016

1. Weezer- Undone (The Sweater Song)

2. Dirty Heads- That's All I Need

3. Imagine Dragons- It's Time

4. Cage the Elephant- Trouble

5. Beastie Boys- Intergalactic

6. Kaleo- Way Down We Go

7. Muse- Starlight

8. Panic! at the Disco- Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time

9. Bastille- Pompeii

10. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication

BONUS: Live 105 playlist, August 7, 2016

1. Strumbellas- Spirits

2. Green Day- Basket Case

3. Lumineers- Ophelia

4. Cage the Elephant- Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

5. Imagine Dragons- Demons

6. Weezer- Beverly Hills

7. Foo Fighters- Monkey Wrench

8. Coldplay- A Sky Full of Stars

9. Twenty One Pilots- Heathens

10. Radiohead- Creep

KFOG playlist April 15, 2016

1. Imagine Dragons- Demons

2. Depeche Mode- Personal Jesus

3. Adele- When We Were Young

4. Jason Mraz- I'm Yours

5. The Killers- Somebody Told Me

6. Leon Bridges- Smooth Sailin'

7. The Cure- Pictures of You

8. Coldplay- Clocks

9. U2- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

10. Cage the Elephant- Mess Around

BONUS: Live 105's Labor Day 2K Weekend, Day 3

SONGS PLAYED IN THE 7 A.M. HOUR:

The Killers- Shadowplay

Muse- Dead Inside

Imagine Dragons- It's Time

Daft Punk f/ Pharrell Williams- Get Lucky

Cake- Short Skirt/Long Jacket

Twenty One Pilots- Tear in My Heart

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps

Beck- Dreams

Atlas Genius- Trojans

Modest Mouse- Ocean Breathes Salty

OTHER ASSORTED SONGS PLAYED THROUGHOUT THE DAY:

All American Rejects- Gives You Hell

The Killers- All These Things That I've Done

Linkin Park- New Divide

Green Day- 21 Guns

Matisyahu- King Without a Crown (Live)

Bloc Party- Banquet

Panic! at the Disco- I Write Sins, Not Tragedies

Coldplay- Speed of Sound

Peter Bjorn and John- Young Folks

Gnarls Barkley- Crazy

Modest Mouse- Dashboard

Short Detour: Live 105 playlist June 23, 2015

So while you're looking at what the station was like in early 2006, why don't you take a look at the last 10 songs they played (as of this writing) today. Anything different about their playlists then and now?

1. Linkin Park- What I've Done

2. Imagine Dragons- Demons

3. Sublime- What I Got

4. Death Cab for Cutie- Black Sun

5. Coldplay- Viva La Vida

6. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness- Cecilia and the Satellite

7. Green Day- Brain Stew/Jaded

8. The Neighbourhood- Sweater Weather

9. Phoenix- Lisztomania

10. Muse- Dead Inside

Me personally? I feel like the element of surprise is gone, as all of these are songs you could hear on any of the remaining alternative stations across the country. It's hard for the station to sound less mainstream these days when the sound they were pushing nearly a decade ago has become the dominant form of alternative and has even broken through to the top 40 in several instances.

On the other hand, they are still playing Death Cab for Cutie and Green Day a lot, so nothing's changed there.