radio.garden, I've sung its praises since finding it in 2018 or so
a boatload of independent radio stations around the world. From the snow-covered ports of SW Alaska, to Africa, to the tucked away mountain stations in Bergen Norway - music of all types, all the time.
Some, of course, are regular FM stations. right now I am listening to Froggy 96, Farmington (because I'm a jerk! (jk, I just haven't started exploring yet)).
Megarock Radio in Fenton, MO., my hometown, is very nice. I also need to revisit SUIE college station (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville). It's offline right now, but...
this feels like a loaded and aimless blog entry, but, that happens when I have nice music in my ears :)
Randomly slammed it on Rockaway Radio in Ohio and it's Pearl Jam. ...ok. I never delved into their music in the 90s, because, idk why
Coffee is nice. ~bartender, another? Let me get some of these songs on the Midnight jukebox.
Better, a mini playlist right now.
When me and my buddy B would listen to KSHE 95 in the early 90s, usually after SNL, they would play rock songs usually played only at night, including:
Dio - Rainbow in the Dark
Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark
(and one that just happened to pop on the station I am listening to...)
AC/DC - Who Made Who
Black Sabbath - Bark at the Moon
(and we would always call in and request)
Def Leppard - Me and My Wine
Motley Crue - Live Wire
Judas Preist - Painkiller
Iron Maiden - Wasted Years
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Guns n' Roses - November Rain
(oh my fucking god, 18 and Life just came on this station! Fate?)
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
so many incredible songs still spinning on STL radio in 1990/91. Nirvana and Soul Asylum and the like still had themselves to prove (and they did).
fresh air and cigarette smoke rekindles that "vibe" of sneaking Marlboros overlooking the pond (former lagoon) near his house. The air is fresh here in Farmington, like it was once there. Over development wrecked the air quality in Fenton. Now, Olde Town Fenton, as the Gravois Bluffs got built up so aggregiously (sp?) around it, that Fenton wanted to differentiate between the Fenton Township and the commercialized Bluffs area surrounding.
I receive another coffee, light another smoke, cause as Rosdale says in my headphones right now "Everything Zen"
There was a time music was the background-occasionally-becoming-foreground to everything else I did.
These days, having that kind of background seems annoying, as though detracting from foreground attend-ables.
It doesn't help that basically zero of new offerings seem much more than trite recombinations of slightly related past patterns, as though the music industry got to a sort of AI before everyone else.
huh, sounds pretty great
I grew up pnw, so nirvana,
pearl jam and
soundgarden
still are played in copious amounts
on the anniversary
of Kurt's death they go crazy
and spin nirvana until
there's a damn mosquito
in your damn libido
in seattle there's a great station
kexp, been listening for years
i hardly listen to radio anymore
however
i found a station out of b.c.
that plays french music
(no, I have no clue what they're saying)
and have fallen in love
there's crazy good
french music coming
out of Canada
funnily enough, my fav french band
is actually from France (found on a youtube mix)
check out la femme and their
first album 'psycho tropical berlin'
it's like this crazy blend of psychedelic post-punk surf music
and it is BRILLIANT
new fav band by far
i'll check out radio.garden soon
thanks for the head's up
you'll love r.g
it reminded me that I need to buy a "legit" radio soon, and headphones a step above the CCrane earbuds I have now. I will likely get a CCrane radio w/ HAM 2-band *listening* capabilities, though for October it will likely be the CB radio I have been chompin at the bit for. It, too, has AM/FM capabilities, but obviously it's the CB part I am most interested in. I am right off Highway 67 in Farmington, the main stretch going down SE Missouri, and many miles of woods N/S of here, so Farmington is a "stop-and-pee-and-fuel-or-hold-it" town, making for some fairly frequent chatter on CB at any given time, I would imagine.