Here in KC we just got a new radio station, 105.1 FM. Their tagline is, “from Retro to right now.”
That’s a crock… all they play is Hits From the 80’s, and IT ROCKS!
In the last 3 days, I have heard:
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[li]The Safety Dance[/li][li]Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?[/li][li]The “Hey Hey Hey” song from The Breakfast Club[/li][li]Don’t You Forget About Me[/li]
as well as other hits by
[li]The Thompson Twins[/li][li]The Eurythmics[/li][li]Van Halen (pre-Hagar)[/li][li]Poison (Poison!)[/li][li]Run DMC[/li][li]Aerosmith[/li]
and others - too many to mention.
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If anyone is so jealous that they want to move to KC, let me know… I can talk to a realtor for you.
I am jealous. Horribly so but since I will be moving to the KC area this fall, I feel better. Contact that realtor, MamaHen is on the way and the radio will be set on 105.1 now!
Pop pop pop musik
Pop pop pop musik
We’ve got Lite FM, whose tag line used to be “music from the '60s '70s and '80s.” now is --well, I don’t know what it is, but they play Billy Joel and Rod Stewart and The GoGos.
We’ve also got Hot 105. They play Bootsy and Viki Sue Robinson and Regina Bell.
Plus we got CBS. They’ll play any pop tune so long as it peaked on the charts at least 15 years ago.
I can hear Tainted Love and Love Rollercoaster and Why Do Fools Fall In Love all in one day.
We have 104.1 The Mall in St Louis. When they first started it was great! (I heard Icicle Works, The Cure, TMBG, and Violent Femmes one day at work.I thought it was the greatest radio station since my high school days.) Now they seem to play the same 5 songs at least 40 times a day, with a few other songs mixed in. Trouble is, the songs they play are the ones I really dislike, like “Tom’s Diner” or “Hippy Chick”. Back to making my own cassttes to play in the car. <sigh>
Here in Denver, we have 96.5, which has Nina Blackwood as the afternoon DJ. She’s not nearly as fun as I thought she’d be. The music is fun, but like most other radio stations, they play the same songs over and over and over…
If you’re into this kind of stuff, there is an 80s band (The Rusty Griswolds) doing a free park concert this weekend. This is in Cincinnati, which is it’s own punishment. I was planning to go to find out just what kind of 80s music they play.
