The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

Radio, Play My Favorite Song

Radio, radio...

So, for today's exciting Driving In Cars story, they're ripping up Highway 99 through Monroe, and due to the ludicrousness of their flagger placement and the incomprehensible signals I was being flashed, I almost got run over by a semi. That was fun. I have since resolved that Kyle and Alpine Roads will be my friends. Screw you, ODOT. We don't need your stinking traffic light anyway.

Anyway. So I was musing about the current state of radio today, and I came up with a few things radio stations ought to pay some attention to. They won't, but they can't say I didn't warn them.

1) I don't care what your morning or afternoon or whatever show is, it's not funny. It sucks. We tune into your station to hear you play music. Not to listen to a couple of juvinile dumbasses make fools of themselves.

2) If you've been playing the song for 3 months, you no longer get to say "And now, new music by...!" It's stupid.

3) This goes double for that Mudvane song or whoever they are. Not that it ever started cool, but it's really annoying now. I honestly do not feel the need to hear it every thirty minutes on three different stations, sometimes at the same time, any more.

4) And while I, like many others, do in fact like Metallica and Nirvana, I A), like to hear other bands, too, and B) like to hear different songs than, you know, All Apologies and Fade To Black. Also, I like other Rage songs besides Bulls on Parade.

5) While I admire the dedication it takes to have every station in the state schedule their commercial breaks at exactly the same time in an attempt to draw me into a credit-fueled buying spree, you should be aware that, not only do I have a CD changer for these times, you need way better commercials.

6) I'm not sure what went wrong in the last five years, but somewhere between 2000 and now, every playlist on every oldies station everywhere started playing random crap and sucking. Fix that.

7) Let me reiterate point 1 again. Your show...sucks. Your DJ...isn't funny. Shut the hell up and play something. We're all happier that way.

Just saying.

Posted by Dwip at April 26, 2005 5:02 PM