Stuff I shout at my radio while driving
Sep. 10th, 2007 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
slipjig3Dear Listeners of Alternative Radio WEQX's All-Request Retro Lunch:
Okay, lemme explain this to you: The Retro Lunch is a 30-minute all-request, all-80's-and-90's-alternative program. The folks at WEQX have a ginormous library of music that fits this category, and believe it or not, you can request any of it. You can ask for obscure Prefab Sprout and Echo and the Bunnymen cuts. You can make them go trolling for Waterboys B-sides. You can request Tanita Tikaram, or the Creatures, or even frickin' Bourgeois Tagg, fer crissakes. And they can, and will, play it.
So why, in the name of all that is good and holy, are you calling up and wasting those precious 30 minutes on "Love Shack," "In Your Eyes" and "Walking on Sunshine"? Jeezum crow, is that the absolute best you can come up with? Do you really and truly hate me that much? I mean, they're not bad songs—truth is, they're all quite good, all told—but have you noticed how, two decades later, they're still overplayed?
Look, from now on, if you're dying to hear something that gets played twice daily on the adult contemporary station three notches over, do not pick up the telephone between noon and noon-thirty, mmmkay? I would rather not get all stabby like this again. Thank you.
Drop dead Cordially,
Adam
Okay, lemme explain this to you: The Retro Lunch is a 30-minute all-request, all-80's-and-90's-alternative program. The folks at WEQX have a ginormous library of music that fits this category, and believe it or not, you can request any of it. You can ask for obscure Prefab Sprout and Echo and the Bunnymen cuts. You can make them go trolling for Waterboys B-sides. You can request Tanita Tikaram, or the Creatures, or even frickin' Bourgeois Tagg, fer crissakes. And they can, and will, play it.
So why, in the name of all that is good and holy, are you calling up and wasting those precious 30 minutes on "Love Shack," "In Your Eyes" and "Walking on Sunshine"? Jeezum crow, is that the absolute best you can come up with? Do you really and truly hate me that much? I mean, they're not bad songs—truth is, they're all quite good, all told—but have you noticed how, two decades later, they're still overplayed?
Look, from now on, if you're dying to hear something that gets played twice daily on the adult contemporary station three notches over, do not pick up the telephone between noon and noon-thirty, mmmkay? I would rather not get all stabby like this again. Thank you.
Adam
