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Adventures in Top 40 Radio: Part 2

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1 year ago
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Picking up from where we last left off, the commercial break winds down and I begin the bottom-half of my horrible, horrible experiment.

Perfect – P!nk

  • Speaking of staying power…I remember when Pink debuted (without the “!”) as an R&B singer with “attitude.” Then she turned into a pop-rock singer…with “attitude.” Now she alternates between dance music and straight pop ballads like this one…with “attitude.”
  • What’s with all the self-esteem building songs lately? Oh, right.
  • Well, this song is bland and generic. I was hoping this experiment would produce a lot more anger and rage, because More >
It kind of pisses me off that these guys have millions of dollars.

Adventures in Top 40 Radio

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1 year ago
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I basically hate most music. That’s not to say that I hate music; I don’t. I have music I really enjoy, but my tastes are very narrow and specific, and the general majority of music that’s out there today stimulates an ancient, dark part of my brain that knows only chaos and violence. And the absolute worst kind of music for stimulating that part of my brain is the crap they put on Top 40 radio these days.

So as a mildly masochistic experiment, I thought I’d force myself to listen to an hour of Top 40 radio, specifically KHKS 106.1 Kiss FM, one of the Dallas area’s consistently More >

Random Playlist: I know why the Caged Elephant sings

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2 years ago
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The first time I heard Cage the Elephant on the radio, it was like a breath of fresh air.  The song, “Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked“, with its dusty guitar riffs and rap-singing, was a throwback to the 90′s, when 311 and Beck ruled the airwaves.  It’s especially reminiscent of Sublime, and as you can see in the video below, the lead singer channels the insanity of the brain-damaged lead singer of The Vines.  Speaking of which, does anyone remember when The Vines were the ‘next Nirvana?’  Yeah, they weren’t.

Unfortunately, it turns out, the first time I heard the song on the radio in my native More >

RandomPlaylist: The woman in question trades refuge for money

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3 years ago
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RandomPlaylist is a showcase for music I’ve just discovered, obscure songs you might not have heard before, or just good songs that I think everyone should listen to.

“When I was born, the world was a far simpler place.  It was all just…cops and robbers.”

Suddenly, there’s a loud bang.  A heist.  The narration continues:

“But it wasn’t for me.”

Then the 60′s, and the history of the drug movement.   Then he steps into the frame, our Narrator.  Daniel Craig, well before he was James Bond, but looking every bit as cool.  He breaks his business down for us — he’s not a gangster, mind you, he’s a More >

RandomPlaylist: Crying clowns are no fun

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3 years ago
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RandomPlaylist is a showcase for music I’ve just discovered, obscure songs you might not have heard before, or just good songs that I think everyone should listen to.

Seeing as how I’m a child of the 80′s, and I didn’t even really start paying attention to music until I was in my teens in the 90′s, I think it’s completely excusable that I’m only just now beginning to discover how great music from the 60′s is. So, to kick-off the RandomPlaylist feature, I’m starting with my most recent discovery: a song I swear I had never heard before happening across an oldies station in a strange, More >

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