Don't know if this is your experience or not, but having done a bunch of radio mix projects, myself, I've discovered that the material that sounds best to my ears when I hear it played back on the radio is music that I've mixed "bland" to my tastes. Other music that I hear on that same station (including mixes that I did for my own listening tastes) tends to sound over processed in any number of ways... over compressed, too much highs, or lows, etc.
If I were re-mixing one of those projects for CD release, I'd end up putting all the flavor back in that I thought was missing from the radio version. Maybe the way I put this makes it sound completely "wrong".... Maybe you can relate to what I mean. Anyway, hope it's helpful.
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