100 Moments in Radio #24
There are three things I'm thinking about today.
One, this summer's music has sucked. I've been listening to local radio more since I moved back home, and there's only a handful of songs I could embed in this post as my Summer 2013 Jam. Last summer, I had alternative playlists and guilty pleasure pop playlists and recently discovered oldies playlists. Now, I have a couple adult alternative songs, songs by two breakout bands of summer 2012, that Daft Punk song that's still not quite as catchy as That Other Song, and an awesome song that's so overplayed it's starting to annoy the shit out of me.
Two, I began this 100 Things in May 2012, and it was meant to be a retrospective of my radio-driven adolescence up through the shutdown of WFNX, which was happening at the time. If the current crop is anything to go by, I won't be missing much by sticking with a 2012 cutoff.
But (three) three of my favorite early '00s garage bands just released new albums. Good new albums. It was indescribably strange to spot the new Franz Ferdinand CD with the New Releases, having not heard the singles on WFNX months ago and not even knowing they were still together. It was a weird nostalgia jar, but one that needs years of context to explain. So I'm picking this up again, because it's a story that I need to tell before this way of life dies out completely.
Somewhere right now, there's a thirteen-year-old girl who gets good grades and finishes a book every two weeks. Her parents don't worry about her and her friends don't smoke or drink or hook up. She doesn't remember 9/11 and she's never lived in a world without The White Stripes. This girl has a Barnes and Noble gift card burning a hole in her pocket, and instead of picking up the next two books in that series she likes, she could pick out Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions by Franz Ferdinand, ...Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age, and AM by Arctic Monkeys. And these albums could change her life, they could make her throw out her Taylor Swift posters and fantasize about hot drummers and set foot in the dirty, sketchy used music store in her town. You have absolutely no idea how happy that makes me.
2013's Summer Jam, the tragically overplayed "Royals" by Lorde
We're up all night to get nasty. Keep fighting the good fight, my pretties.
One, this summer's music has sucked. I've been listening to local radio more since I moved back home, and there's only a handful of songs I could embed in this post as my Summer 2013 Jam. Last summer, I had alternative playlists and guilty pleasure pop playlists and recently discovered oldies playlists. Now, I have a couple adult alternative songs, songs by two breakout bands of summer 2012, that Daft Punk song that's still not quite as catchy as That Other Song, and an awesome song that's so overplayed it's starting to annoy the shit out of me.
Two, I began this 100 Things in May 2012, and it was meant to be a retrospective of my radio-driven adolescence up through the shutdown of WFNX, which was happening at the time. If the current crop is anything to go by, I won't be missing much by sticking with a 2012 cutoff.
But (three) three of my favorite early '00s garage bands just released new albums. Good new albums. It was indescribably strange to spot the new Franz Ferdinand CD with the New Releases, having not heard the singles on WFNX months ago and not even knowing they were still together. It was a weird nostalgia jar, but one that needs years of context to explain. So I'm picking this up again, because it's a story that I need to tell before this way of life dies out completely.
Somewhere right now, there's a thirteen-year-old girl who gets good grades and finishes a book every two weeks. Her parents don't worry about her and her friends don't smoke or drink or hook up. She doesn't remember 9/11 and she's never lived in a world without The White Stripes. This girl has a Barnes and Noble gift card burning a hole in her pocket, and instead of picking up the next two books in that series she likes, she could pick out Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Actions by Franz Ferdinand, ...Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age, and AM by Arctic Monkeys. And these albums could change her life, they could make her throw out her Taylor Swift posters and fantasize about hot drummers and set foot in the dirty, sketchy used music store in her town. You have absolutely no idea how happy that makes me.
2013's Summer Jam, the tragically overplayed "Royals" by Lorde
Click to viewWe're up all night to get nasty. Keep fighting the good fight, my pretties.