One more post then I'm finally caught up. Yesterday I had my last 9-noon show. Starting next week I'll be on every Monday from 2-4 pm. I'm really looking forward to the change. The three-hour shows were starting to feel like a drag, and I was also finding it awkward when urgent client emails came in first thing in the morning but I couldn't begin to deal with them until after 12:30. Plus it will be nice to be on every week.
I got two requests yesterday. Alas, one was for the Rolling Stones. I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but I can't stand the Rolling Stones. I hate them with the fire of a thousand suns. But the guy was really nice, and I try to fulfill requests if I possibly can. After all, it means that someone was listening and enjoying enough to call and make a request ... which was completely inappropriate for my show. But let's not dwell on that part.
I gave him my usual "I don't know if we have that, do you have an alternate request" speil, and he gave me something else -- Acoustic Syndicate -- which I couldn't find anywhere. So I felt obligated to play the Stones. He even requested a specific album (Exile on Main Street) so I couldn't look for something obscure and old and un-Stonesy.
So I played "Happy," and followed it up with "Can't Be Funky" by the Bush Tetras. Hearing them sing "You can't be funky if you haven't got a soul" made me feel a whole lot better about having just subjected myself to the Stones.
Looking forward to Monday afternoons! The best part is, the person on before me (Sarah R.) is really nice. And her musical taste and mine don't intersect at all, so she'll never play the stuff I like from the playlist.
Now I'm settled in with a mug of cocoa and Buffy on TV. Time for a nap, or least for some quality vegging out.
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can you pinpoint what it is about the stones that you hate? image? music? lips? i'm curious...
i have a favorite un-stonesey stones song which (if you don't already know it, which you very well may) is probably worth considering if you a) ever want to try to like them or b) need to fulfill a stones request again (you can always say we don't have xxx album so you are playing something from another stones record). it's actually kind of sweet and innocent.
anyway, that song is "she's a rainbow".
Christa: That's a hard question to answer, because the only answer I have is "everything." To me, they just completely suck. The unrelentingly awful music, the blatant mysogyny, the decades spent as withered, grotesque parodies of themselves .. do I need to go on? :)
Lisa: I don't know that song. What album is it on, do you know?
i'm not sure which album-- it's pretty early, and we do have it at the station. it's in the same vein as "ruby tuesday".
i once compiled a stones mix for my little brother; i was surprised to find that if you really go into their back catalog, especially the early stuff, there's a lot of accessible pop music in there. the mysogyny is still there, but there's some good songwriting otherwise.