Old School Radio
September 4, 2009
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I’ve had a chance to do something weird the past few days. Something old fashioned, like churning butter or pulling taffy.
I’ve been listening to…
The Radio.
That’s right, you heard me, the Radio.
Not XM, not Sirius, not my Ipod, not my CDs.
But a device that broadcasts songs, and then people catch them at random moments according to what frequency they’ve tuned into. How very archaic, you say!
I know, right?
I’ve been driving my Hub’s blue car, which has a problem with the radio- it shorts out, and you have to hit the underside of the dashboard on the left side for it to work. I think of it kind of like Fonzie and the jukebox. “Ayyyyyyyyyy!” and then the music blares forth.
But I noticed something weird, listening to the radio. So many of the songs I gravitate towards are the first ones I heard, as a child. How about you guys? What can you never pass up when you hear it on the radio?
“Hungry Heart” is one of the first songs I knew al the words to as a young whippersnapper, and I can still remember belting it out in my Mom’s Chevy Impala wagon. My kids will remember Clutch, Paul Simon, and Sara Bareilles, amomg many, many others.
Here’s a sampling of what’s come on the past few days that I love:
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September 5th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I always remember Warren Zevon, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Eagles, Joan Jett, Rush, Kiss, Blondie, Pat Benatar, Jackson Browne, and John Lennon due to parental influence.
No telling what my kids will remember, but I will have to ask them. Just to see if it’s what *I* think it is.
September 5th, 2009 at 1:54 am
The music I listened to growing up isn’t what I usually listen to now. I loved bands that no longer exist and that were a flash in the pan like Neve & Splender. In fact, I didn’t like the rest of the bands in their little pop alternative rock sub-genre but I loved those guys. Now I listen to classic rock but It was before my time.
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September 5th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
You are sooooo right. One of my very earliest musical memories is listening to 3 Dog Night’s “Joy to the World” from the backseat of my mom’s car. I also remember the summer we drove from PA to the Outer Banks in NC for family vacation, a 2-day journey puncutated by stops at Howard Johnson’s in several states, and going nuts every time Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” came on the radio. (as you might have guessed, I’m a child of the 70s). As for my son? Who knows what he’ll remember, since he’s fed a schizophrenic smorgasboard in my car ranging from Goldfrapp to Tom Petty to Squeeze to Zero 7 to WIlco…with the obligatory Lady GaGa and Flo Rider thrown in for good measure. This is all thanks to my iPod and satellite and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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September 5th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
I used to drive around in the back seat of my uncle’s car. He and his girlfriend (who is now my aunt) loved rockin’ out to Pink Floyd. My mom was a Paul McCartney fan, so Wings and Beatles were always on. Later, as I spent more and more time at friends’ houses, I got to hear “new” old music that their parents listened to. Patsy Cline was always on at my friend Lisa’s house. And then much later, when I worked at Bennigan’s in OC, the kitchen staff would always play Eagles. I always liked them as a kid in the seventies, but in my early twenties, I learned to LOVE them!
It’s funny how when we get older, we learn to appreciate the awesome music that was always playing in the background of our childhoods.
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September 13th, 2009 at 9:58 am
My parents listened to Andy Williams et al…so we won’t even go there. But, my sisters and brother were ten, eight and six years older than I, so I got my early radio education from them.
Sister #1: Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Elton John (ala Madman Across the Water days). Sister #2: James Taylor, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, 3 Dog Night. Brother: Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Little River Band.
I still think of EACH of them when artists they loved come on, and have quite a bit of what hubs calls “Fossil Rock” in my library. I love how music makes heart connections.
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September 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I love listening to the radio, that’s how I find new music. I especially like it in the car, because it’s SO random, you never know what’s going to come on mext!
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September 14th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I too have been listening to the radio more. I think it may have something to do with the fact that there is nothing on TV but reruns, so I am not always trying to catch up on my DVR’d shows. That and the fact that I get more done with music on!! TV usually sucks me into some sort of hypnotic state where an hour will go by and I’ll realize I haven’t moved.
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October 4th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
This post made me laugh. I just moved to the ‘burbs and began driving again (after almost 20 years). Seems like regular radio hasn’t really progressed in those years. I’m shocked at how much airplay Billy Joel still gets.
I have a friend who says our favorite music is whatever we were listening to at the time we first started masturbating. I think he may be right.
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