a. 93.3, congratulations on being the only radio station worth listening to. with both "momentary lapse of reason" by pink floyd and "peaceful easy feeling" by the eagles, i thoroughly enjoyed the two songs i heard while listening to your radio station for 30 minutes. one song + ten minutes of commercials + another song + another ten minutes of commercials = not a great programming choice.
b. paula cole, circa 1997 - i have never hated a song more than "i don't wanna wait," a.k.a the dawson's creek theme song. i very distinctly remember being with my mom in the car at approximately age 12 (must have been at least 12, she was letting me sit in the front seat), and telling her that i HATED that freaking paula cole song that played on the radio every 30 seconds. also, that was right around when mtv was super-cool and still played music videos, and the music video was all about a woman who was immortal but all of her husbands died. that is to say, it sucked. (the only other music video i remember so much detail about is something by sugar ray because i had a super-huge crush on mark mcgrath and watched it 600 times around age 13.) the point of all this is to tell you, how much i hate that song, and also how many times i heard it in the greater columbus area: 3. on 3 different radio stations. congratulation, columbus, you are about a decade behind the b-lo, which is at least a decade behind the rest of the world.
c. as much as i love snow patrol, the complete overplaying of "chasing cars" last summer made me want to walk into the kiss 98.5 studio and punch donny walker right in the face. the only good thing about that song was in kristen's momentum dance, when she jumped off some girl's back and "burst into life," which i thought was hilarious. i obviously heard it twice, on what amounted to be the Columbus “indie” radio stations that played nothing but whiny emo music that everyone in civilization was tired of a year ago,
d. you can usually count on southern ohio for some good 'ole country music, but there was literally none to be had today. normally i'm a big fan of hank williams, jr., but the song, "i'm for love" was just not doing it for me. google the lyrics, please see how ridiculous it is. and that is the best song that i heard while flipping between their 16 country music stations.
e. religious radio in multiple forms: besides the crazy preachers and random choirs, religious rock is not only strangely popular, but also the weirdest shit ever. It's like a bad creed rip-off (creed being a bad rip-off of smashing pumpkins and nirvana) with some more metal thrown in for good measure, and to top it all off - lyrics like "i just wanna praise you." i can't be the only one that finds that scary.
needless to say, i can't waaaiiittt to be able to hear 107.5 thaaa rivahhh. just a few more hours of tedious driving and bad music.
ps. speaking of radio stations, the lack of creativity with naming your segments drives me crazy. everyone calls rush hour "the drive at five," like, duh, my 10 year old cousin could have come up with that. star 102.5 used to call it "the 5 o'clock traffic jam," they would play a bunch of songs without commercials, and i thought that was great. i don't know if they call it that anymore because i don't listen to that station for the following reason: star 102.5 plays all christmas music during the month of december, which is the most annoying thing EVER, and i am boycotting them until they stop doing that.
pps. spotted: sign on the highway right before attica state prison (one of the few "supermax" prisons in the us where people like mark david chapman and the son of sam reside), which states "correctional facility area - do not pick up hitchhikers." like, thanks so much, new york state, i was thinking that murderers made great traveling companions, but now that i've seen your tiny little yellow sign, all that has changed. two thumbs way uppp.
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