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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Radio (was: Re: Cobain + 10) |
| Date | Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:26:36 -0400 |
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Didn't say it was weird Stewart. I said I was trying to understand the
phenomenon. Which you've helped. I used to like the radio too.
I live in NYC. If there is a radio station here I should be listening to,
I'd love to know it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Mason" <flamingo@theworld.com>
> 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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