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?
5 comments ↓
I can speak to a few of these.
Singing just about anything from Appetite for Destruction at the top of one’s lungs is gratifying.
Nickelback. Don’t even start.
The definition of “classic rock” was lost on me a long time ago.
Perhaps it was a wise move not to blow it all on the hottest single, and let “Magnificent” give an album some legs
The “DJ for an Hour” program is part of the semi-annual fund drive. I think they’ve figured up what an hour of programming costs, and if you donate that much, you get to be the DJ.
Hmmmm…
So I found your blog here because of the Chattarati article you wrote that mentioned my blog yesterday.
From the looks of things here, we share the exact same musical tastes.
The only difference is that I could go ahead and start on Nickleback. It begins with every profanity I know how to utter and goes down hill from there…
Rob
@Joe: You’re probably right on the choice of single. I suppose GOYB was chosen to elicit a “what?!?” reaction to some extent. Much like “Discotheque” back in its day. I’ll have to find out how much of a sponsorship is required to do the DJ for an Hour thing. It would fulfill one of those secret dreams of mine.
@Rob: I’m enjoying The Insurrectionist and your own blog quite a bit. Thanks for stopping by!
anything is better than listening to talk radio =)
for the car:
http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-PowerJolt-Redesign-Charger-iPhone/dp/B000Y3YUOA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1237213509&sr=1-4
for the train/days on the go:
http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Battery-Extender-Charger-iPhone/dp/B0018DKODQ/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1237213569&sr=1-2
don’t leave home without it.
(re)Listening to Shine right now.
I think the DJ for an hour program requires a substantial donation, or maybe they pick randomly. I don’t really remember. I try to tune out the fund raising drives.
FM radio would be awesome if the FCC would be ruled unconstitutional tomorrow. Radio use to be a free form medium until the FCC split up the spectrum so that NBC and CBS controlled most of prime time programming.
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