Musical Mondays

I hate the radio. Usually whilst autoing around town I prefer to be master of my own musical world. I can’t accept for a minute that some loud talking radio DJ, with some silly moniker has got a better grasp of play selection than I. For the most part, I know s/he’s a tool that plays the Clear Channel hits and misses. I’ll admit, sometimes I tune into the radio just to reinforce how much better my musical selections are than what the current dullards are listening to. I pat myself on the back with an elitist hand and try to contain my smirk of sonic snobbery.

So I was more than a bit put off when my De La Soul Stakes is High cassette tape (which has been in the player for a solid two weeks without a challenger on the horizon), came to the end of side one and while the car stereo figured out the mechanics of flipping to side two switched me back over to FM radio and more precisely to our new ‘alternative’ radio station here in town called The Current (89.3). Weezer’s “My Name is Jonas” was just starting up and I was feeling it big time. So much so that when the tape finally managed side two and switched back from FM to tape, I had to stab wildly at the dash to get my damn Weezer song back.

Surprisingly, a string of good tunes followed Weezer and it wasn’t until about five songs in that the station farted a bad note and I was forced back to my De La tape. A five song run is like a worlds record for me and radio. My guess is that this bodes well for me returning to serendipity sessions with The Current. But If I actually like what they’re playing that probably means they’ll be off the air by the time my De La tape reaches the end of side two.

Here are some albums that have been rocking afrojet radio:

Pete Rock The Surviving Elements – From Soul Survivor II Sessions

Amon Tobin – Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 (Soundtrack from the Video Game)

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Shake the Sheets

Decibully – Sing Out America (Pre-release, thanks Brian)

Funkadelic – Standing On The Verge of Getting It On (Featuring the amazing tune: Jimmy’s Got a Little Bit of Bitch In Him)

De La Soul – The Grind Date

Fennesz – Venice

The Ruts – Something I Said (The Best of The Ruts)

Cedric Im Brooks – The Light of Saba

Wagon Christ – Sorry I Make You Lush

Also, The Postal Service video from the guy who directed Napoleon Dynamite.