Tonight on the way home from Atlanta, my iPhone battery died, leaving me without my 16GB of awesome music. Tired from a long night of video editing and a long day of travel and seminar-ing (plus a good dinner with an old friend), I needed something to listen to. The radio was my only hope.
Here are a few mental notes from my hour without iPhone:
- First impression: FM radio is a wasteland. Seriously.
- Apart from Billy Joel’s annoying vocals, “Uptown Girl” is a rather catchy tune.
- I have a serious case of musical nostalgia for late 90s “modern rock.”
- How had I never noticed the totally 80s guitar solo to “Shine” by Collective Soul?
- Singing “Paradise City” at the top of your lungs is actually sort of fun.
- The Darkness would have ruled the world if they’d released “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” fifteen or so years earlier.
- Nickelback. I don’t even know where to start.
- The definition of “classic rock” may be getting broader–not to mention suckier–with every year that passes.
- Wow. U2’s “Magnificent” really moves. Maybe that should have been the first single.
- WUTC has a “DJ for an Hour” program? Where do I sign up?
