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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Cobain + 10 |
| Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:59:31 -0400 |
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At 12:33 PM 4/6/2004 -0400, Josh Chasin wrote:
>Why do so many of you listen to the radio? How often are you trapped in
>places that lack CD players or mp3 players? Honestly; I'm legitimately
>curious. Surely you folks must be the kind of music junkies I am; I've
>always got a stack of CDs to listen to, either retail or bootleg, and I
>never catch up. I can't imagine a situation where I'd want to hear music
>and think "radio." Car included. Maybe not everyone has the luxury of a CD
>player in the car?
Or maybe -- and I realize that this is a stretch -- we just happen to LIKE
LISTENING TO THE RADIO.
I don't actually know where you live, Josh, but there are still cities out
there that have good-to-great radio stations. Boston is one of them, and
not even solely due to college stations like WMBR (where, incidentally, my
wife and I are going to be guest-hosting an hour of Breakfast of Champions
this Friday between 8:30 and 9:30 a.m.) and WERS. WFNX has within the last
year reinvented itself as a proper "alternative" radio station, dumping the
Limp Creed of Mudd in favor of a playlist that's about half college radio
oldies and half current stuff ranging from the Polyphonic Spree to the D4
to the Shins to several of the Saddle Creek bands. The River is that
rarity, a AAA station that's not just All Sheryl Crow All The Time.
There's even a half-decent oldies station, and best of all, WGBH plays jazz
-- by which I mean proper jazz, not Kenny G and Wynton Marsalis -- every
night from 7 p.m. until Morning Edition starts at 5 a.m.
So yeah. I've always got a stack of CDs to get through, both for work and
for pleasure. There's about half a dozen CD players in the house and car,
and I'm rarely without my iPod. And I still listen to the radio at least
six or seven hours a week, even more if you count NPR.
Now why is that so weird?
S
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