- The rotation on Sacramento's top twenty station starts over after about an hour and a half. Which, if you think about it, makes sense--that's about how long it takes to play twenty songs. Maybe a little longer with commercials.
- Every third song on that station has Kanye West either rapping or singing on it. Now, Kanye West has made some music I enjoy (but of course I liked him before he was cool, because I'm way too cool to like things average people like), but he hasn't made much that I like in a couple albums. I'm especially not a fan of his singing--much as I give him props for experimenting with different musical styles. But still, he just can't sing. The autotune or whatever he uses to warp his voice doesn't make it any better (or maybe it does, but in that case his natural voice must be pretty horrible).
- I was able to get Sacramento stations almost all the way to Reno. This surprised me, as I'd imagined I wouldn't get anything in the mountains.
- After Reno, the selection slowly dies down. I listened to NPR for a while and wondered why I don't more often. When NPR went to a jazz show, which was nice sounding but not loud enough to keep me awake while driving, the best thing was a seventies rock station, which wasn't all that bad.
- By the time I got to Winnemucca, the only available station was country. I considered just turning the radio off, but decided to bear with it. Country is actually kind of entertaining, in small doses. I particularly enjoyed a song about a widow who was accused by the Hartford Junior High School PTA of being a bad mother because she wears short skirts and drinks too much. She then tells the PTA off by pointing out that they're all hipocrites, and then the shocking twist at the end (spoiler warning) is that the woman is... the singer's mother. Shocking!
*DISCLAIMER: I probably won't make observations about the second half of my trip, unless I hear something really incredible on the radio. I'm stretching the limits of reader generosity to expect you all to read just this one post.
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Although I'm not that keen on that song, its being played suggests a country station that's not stuck on What's Happening Now, which is what I like in a country station.
You're in for a brutal day...last time I made that drive, from Winnemucca to SLC there is nothing in the way of radio stations or rest stops.
I heard Kanye perform live on tv a while back and it was terrible - maybe that's a result of his not being able to sing outside of the manipulated sound of a recording studio.
Listening to anything other than NPR on the radio makes me think of the Morris Center. Gives me the urge to mop something.
uh... It's "Harper Valley Junior High" and "Harper Valley P.T.A." Not to be nitpicky or anything. I love that song. You were probably listening to a good country station if it was playing something like that.
Th.: I'm glad to know it was a good country station.
Jonathan: Yeah, Kanye has a lot of talents, but singing isn't one of them.
Melyngoch: I have that exact same reaction.
SkyeJ: Hm. Must have been a different song. Cause there's no way I misremembered.
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