It's not the heat...
It's the humidity.
I used to be in the same radio hell that Mr. Goddard was in. I found myself wandering the dial, looking for something to hold my interest. I started out listening to NPR (WBUR) in the mornings and evenings. However, I stopped listening during one of their fund drives and changed over to listening to 96.9 FM TALK (not because of the fratty frequency) for some of their shows. However, they extended Jay Severin and removed the two Boston Herald gossip columnists -- I don't like listening to Jay and REALLY don't like listening to 5 hours of Jay, so I turned the radio off and started listening to my iPod.
My iPod. I have so much random music on the thing it's CRAZY. Off the top of my head:
The Clash
Apotheosis
Iron Maiden
Moby
Beethoven
Public Enemy
The Ramones
Sergio Mendes
...and the list goes on. Completely random crap that NEVER GETS PLAYED ON THE RADIO. Radio is either talk (left or right, no center) or and endless loop of the same crap over and over and over again.
However, there's a new game in town. 93.7 Mike-FM or something like that. They play music and only music. No DJs, just music and the occasional commercial. Good music, different music, bad music.
The last 5 songs played can be found here
As of this posting the last 5 were:
The Rolling Stones "Start Me Up"
Peter Gabriel "Shock The Monkey"
Donnie Iris "Ah! Leah!"
Toni Basil "Mickey"
Melissa Etheridge "Come to my Window"
Ok, probably not a list that's going to sell a lot of you. But you can't form an opinion with such a small sampling! (Goddard?)
Keep an eye on it, you won't be sorry.
l8r
I used to be in the same radio hell that Mr. Goddard was in. I found myself wandering the dial, looking for something to hold my interest. I started out listening to NPR (WBUR) in the mornings and evenings. However, I stopped listening during one of their fund drives and changed over to listening to 96.9 FM TALK (not because of the fratty frequency) for some of their shows. However, they extended Jay Severin and removed the two Boston Herald gossip columnists -- I don't like listening to Jay and REALLY don't like listening to 5 hours of Jay, so I turned the radio off and started listening to my iPod.
My iPod. I have so much random music on the thing it's CRAZY. Off the top of my head:
The Clash
Apotheosis
Iron Maiden
Moby
Beethoven
Public Enemy
The Ramones
Sergio Mendes
...and the list goes on. Completely random crap that NEVER GETS PLAYED ON THE RADIO. Radio is either talk (left or right, no center) or and endless loop of the same crap over and over and over again.
However, there's a new game in town. 93.7 Mike-FM or something like that. They play music and only music. No DJs, just music and the occasional commercial. Good music, different music, bad music.
The last 5 songs played can be found here
As of this posting the last 5 were:
The Rolling Stones "Start Me Up"
Peter Gabriel "Shock The Monkey"
Donnie Iris "Ah! Leah!"
Toni Basil "Mickey"
Melissa Etheridge "Come to my Window"
Ok, probably not a list that's going to sell a lot of you. But you can't form an opinion with such a small sampling! (Goddard?)
Keep an eye on it, you won't be sorry.
l8r
posted by Mike at 7/27/2005 08:09:00 AM
3 Comments:
Evan Lloyd always loved "Ah! Leah!" by Donnie Iris, especially the lyric: "You're lookin' better than a body has a right to..."
And did you know that Toni Basil appears (naked) in Easy Rider?
Mike-FM is a good place to get a broad spectrum of good songs, and it's sort of all over the map, but in the last half-hour I heard:
Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
INXS "Need You Tonight"
The Clash "Rock the Casbah"
and lots of other most-popular songs by certain artists. On Whitney-FM, we would have played:
Nirvana "Verse Chorus Verse"
INXS "Don't Change"
The Clash "48 Hours"
for those looking to dig a little deeper.
The iPod is the single greatest invention of the last decade. Rob FM (which is mostly a knockoff of Whitney FM) just spun:
The Replacements, "Dose of Thunder"
Bruce, "Ramrod"
B-52s, "Love Shack"
Georgia Satellites, "Battleship Chains"
Chilis, "Suck My Kiss"
Dig on that.
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