Tuesday
24Nov2009
Radio Today
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 10:28PM I was listening to my favorite classic rock radio station today and discovered something that made me want to give up on radio for the final time. Of course I love the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana but do they belong on a classic rock radio station?
Today, I was blessed with "Californication" and "All Apologies" on the classic rock station. I was deeply disappointed in hearing them after listening to Jimi Hendrix. Granted these songs are awesome and will continue to grow in awesomeness as time goes on but at this point I would not call them classics. In another 10 years? Yes.
On the radio there is only one other option for coolness:
I support a little under powered radio station here near my house. It's a great little station with some great classic rock, even featuring some songs that I've never heard before within the classic rock format. A shock, right?
The station sounds like I'm listening to AM even though it's FM. It sounds like I hooked up an old transistor radio from the 50's in my car. But the music they play is mostly things that I have never heard of which, for a classic rock type station, is epic.
They even play live stuff, yes, win!
I hate mainstream radio and whenever possible I will try to pop a CD in or use my iPod. However, when I grow tired of those or when I forget to charge the iPod (yes, geeks forget trivial things) my little under powered, crappy sounding local radio station is king.
When it comes to radio I don't think it can get anymore geeky than listening to a local radio station that nobody knows about. Geekdom is great!
Pay no attention to this little string of characters - WXX5WSSX3FQ6 - it's a geek thing. #technoraticrap
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