The Laughing Wolf

A Quick Musical Rant

No, not on having gotten infected with the Llama song meme again (I just use ELO's I Can't Get It Out Of My Head as the cure). Nor was it finding myself headed away from where I needed to go upon leaving the area of Wolf Park and going instead towards Lafayette Brewing (Habit is now ingrained that when leaving the area after dark it means going there). No, the rant has to do with radio.

The area where I now live is just far enough away that I get no music from any large cities such as Indy or Chicago. There is no real alternative music here, esp. rock. I am sorry, but the soulful allure of rap continues to elude me. Tonal, pitch, and other variations on the repetition of "Shake it Baby Shake It" don't wash as music any more than "Baby Baby Baby" endlessly repeated was music in the late 60s. That is what passes for alternative cutting edge music here. There are a couple of good oldies stations, but I want to hear what's coming, not what has been most of the time. The local classical station (yes, there is one) is, alas, affiliated with transNationalistic People's Radio, which means that when the music stops my finger is usually hitting the buttons pretty quick. Sigh. Hope I have just missed real cutting edge, but right now I really miss 99x, DaveFM, and the good Campus station in Atlanta.

LW