SOUNDTRACK: Philadelphia Radio Stations (circa 1990 and 2010)
There’s a Dead Milkmen song called “The Big Sleazy” in which the chorus is
“I hate MMR I hate YSP/You know that classic rock/Does not interest me.”
I’ve always been amused by the song, especially when I travel to Philly and hear these stations. That song is from 1990, so 20 years later I’m not sure what the band would think of their new playlists.
But one thing I never really noticed before is the middle verse which is about one of my favorite Philly stations WXPN. The verse is:
I hate what they’ve done to XPN
Those folk Nazis ruined my favorite station
I hate what they’ve done to XPN
If you hear it now it’s just a pale imitation.
Now, I have no idea what XPN was like before, but, yea, I can see that he folk Nazis are in charge. Of course, I rather like that. However, XPN also plays a bunch of artists who are broader than the folk label, so I wonder if they have changed even more since 1990.
History is fascinating, innit?
[READ: April 3, 2010] Trinity
Collins Gibson is a patron at our library. He has been working on this book for a few years now. The first time I looked at a bit of it, it was a novel. I hadn’t seen him for a while and now he has brought the book back as a screenplay.
I didn’t read enough of the original novel to know whether this works better as a novel or a screenplay, but given the very visual nature of the story, it seems like screenplay fits the story better. And so, since Collins is a good guy, I’m going to do my part to get the word out about the story. (more…)
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