Let’s talk tunes

So let’s go back to 2008.  Ruthie, Kalli, and I head off to the west coast.  Our first stop is Seattle to stay with my old college roomie.  While there, we’re treated to what he considers basic radio – but it blows out radio programming out of the water.  I was so blind to how terrible central east coast radio is until I travelled.  Oh the horrors. 

Fast forward a bit and I’ve discovered WTMD, which is good in that it provides some good indie / non-top-40 material.  But it still felt like it was lacking something and so I still hold Seattle’s radio up on a pedestal compared to WTMD. 

Now catch up to today.  We’ve found the local “independent” radio station, Triple J.  [I say put independent in quotes because I really have no idea how radio is operated in this country, but it would be considered an indie station back home.]  It has always had a good mix of brand new / non-top-40 / old school / alternative tracks to top artists every time we’ve listened to it.  More and more lately I’ve been spending time in the lab, which means I’ve been able to listen to the radio more and more [sans car in my day-to-day, I have no other exposure to a radio].   The radio stays tuned to Triple J, and I’ve always been happy with what I hear. 

Apparently I’m not their target audience.  A coworker [who is 27] was lamenting that she’s out of the target age bracket of 18-24.  So apparently I’m and old head listening to current stuff – which brought up a separate conversation with Ruthie about how long will I attempt to keep up with current-ish music instead of falling into the pattern of older generations and staying tuned to only one era.  Anyways, tangent.

The radio station, just like any other, has their tendency to play a couple tracks more than others, and for that I wasn’t going to fault them, but I wasn’t going to let them steal the spotlight from Seattle.

Even when they played the theme song from Veronica Mars on the radio on two separate occasions, I wasn’t ready to be excited about how awesome the radio music was. 

Until last Friday.  It is time.  They played Pharcyde’s “Runnin’”.  It is a totally random song that I picked up somewhere along the way and have always loved it.  Apparently it was kind of a hit in 1995, but I have never heard it on the radio.  Ever.  Until last Friday. 

Boom. 

Triple J is full of win.

-EP