Chicago MMXIII: Walk Don't Run

I dunno, XRT definitely has its flaws. I agree that it often defaults to the bland and rootsy, and I don't give a shit about the BoDeans, either. But I don't know any other commercial radio station with such a wide-ranging playlist (you could conceivably hear the Kinks into New Order into Spoon into Prince*), along with some decent featured programming (I'm always happy to catch Saturday Morning Flashback), and DJs that aren't annoying.

*I know that's not THAT wide-ranging in the grand scheme of things, but for a commercial station, it is.

I always have to smile when I happen to tune in to WHPK randomly and hear some excruciating noise track or whatever.

The only college station I can get 'round here is the Columbia College station.

But you cam get 'Round Here on XRT!

Typo due to enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, I'm excited about my new work computer! Big upgrade from XP to Windows 7. I can search within my Outlook! I don't have to ask people to resend their .docx files as .doc! (I had Word/Excel '97.) I can finally use Spotify and, once again, YouTube! Web pages (hopefully) won't take forever to load!

^^^this was me about 4-5 months ago, we had kept fuckin XP around due to some stupid database no-one had updated to work w/ win7. Back to being only one OS iteration behind the curve!

i like 92.3 (rap) through their reception is oddly shitty. i need to find out what the other rap stations are.

xrt really likes the alabama shakes, who i don't get, they're like a boring version of the gossip

I listen to a lot of KISS more than B96, but 80% of the time WXRT is sure to give you something good.

First two records are really good, when they were legit Austin weird.

Wasn't this when Poi Dog was Hawaii weird, or was that after? I know a lot of people who love this band. I'm not sure I've heard a note. Certainly I hear the BoDeans on XRT more than Poi Dog, afaict. XRT is the only place I come across Dave Matthews, but they also love the Talking Heads, New Order, Bowie, Richard Thompson, Beatles et al., as well as new stuff like Arcade Fire, Spoon, even LCD Soundsystem, etc. Not really sure I've heard much Prince there.

Used to be an oldies station, but I think it's currently less old. 94 something? and 104 something is all over the place, too.

I briefly had "Hold On" on my 2012 playlist before realizing I didn't really like it that much.

Not really sure I've heard much Prince there.

Yeah, not much, but not out of the question -- IIRC, I heard "Raspberry Beret" on there a couple of weeks ago.

For a station that definitely does love rootsy folksy stuff, they're not *entirely* opposed to electronic sounds. I've heard some new-wave synth-pop (New Order but also Yaz) as well as recent indie w/electronic flourishes (Phoenix, M83). They also currently have Alex Clare's "Too Close" in rotation, which is probably the only song in the last year that I've heard on both XRT and B96. (Well, and "Somebody That I Used to Know," but the two stations play different mixes of it.)

i used to write reviews for a bad music website and the proprietor sent me a bodeans album on vinyl as an xmas present. i never listened to it (don't think i had a record player at the time).

I think you wrote for that site at the same time that Ben T@usig did.

no, that site is good, i'm talking about a shittier site that i wrote for before that

i should have stuck with writing for dusted, probably

I briefly had "Hold On" on my 2012 playlist before realizing I didn't really like it that much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbXvaE39wM

i used to write reviews for a bad music website and the proprietor sent me a bodeans album on vinyl as an xmas present. i never listened to it (don't think i had a record player at the time).

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loooooooool
one time i got a buffalo tom cd from an insurance guy i used to make cold calls for

I heard Wilson Phillips's "Hold On" on i101 on Saturday!

Once I won an (the?) Alannah Myles cassette in a call-in contest from a local radio station. My mom had to drive me 30 miles to the station to pick the thing up, too.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh wilson philips ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh GET OUT OF MY MIND

i've won a bunch of shitty stuff off the radio but that was the only time an employer gave me music as a gift
it's weird to me that i still remember his name and his wife's name.

http://chicagoist.com/2013/01/06/wrigleyville_police_commander_wants.php

Wrigleyville Police Commander Wants "Zero Tolerance" Policy To "Contain The Idiots"

I just like the headline honestly

wrigleyville_police_commander_wants_donuts_now.php

Haha. They didn't include the quote in the story, but that's still funny.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/01/08/kenneth_conley_prison_escape_breaking_down_one_of_the_greatest_prison_breaks.html

Interesting. Wikipedia says there was one other escape from the MCC using bedsheets. Also, Christopher Nolan's brother was planning on such an escape from it, but the plan was foiled.

Billy Nolan

I can't hear you. Speak up!

I guess I'm just more mature now. Now that I'm a parent.
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BILLY NOLAN

I hate this clip so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sn-KO3xfXE

that reminds me: I heard "My Name Is" by Eminem this morning while trying out some new radio stations

what?
who?

slikka slikka
jim brady

I'm guessing you heard it on that new(ish) 101.1 station that is like all 90s all the time? I caught Alanis, "Breakfast at Tiffany's", and Notorious B.I.G. on there the other day during a quick drive in my wife's car.

yeah they play the same 300 90s songs ALL THE TIME

...but one of those songs is Pony and I have also enjoyed Dre Day. Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of the most dire songs I have ever heard, along with that "who's got the hooch" song, which they also play.

Now I really wish "Pony" had been one of the ones I caught. <3 that song so much

don't worry, if you listen to it for 15 more min you're sure to hear it or the feel it feel it good vibrations of marky mark and the funky bunch

i've heard "too close" and "shoop" a lot

Breakfast at B.I.G.'s

I didn't check to see what station it was, but right after it they played that terrible Lit song and I started pressing "Scan" again.

"that terrible Lit song" ---> realize this isn't really specific, it was "My Own Worst Enemy"

AND I'M SLEEPING WITH MY CLOTHES ON

ugh, i lived next door to a girl who played this thing incessantly for about two weeks straight when it first came out, forever burned into my mind, along with the other Lit song that went something like "you make me come/you make me complete/you make me completely miserable"

I love that Lit song there I said it. And I don't hate Breakfast at Tiffany's, either.

Jenny declared that Lit song Our Song (hers and mine).

If there isn't a heavy metal band called Avulsion, there should be.

The one song that I've heard a few too many times on i101 is "Stay" by Lisa Loeb.

That said, I love that the station basically plays any top 40 hit from the '90s, from Brian McKnight to Aqua to Stone Temple Pilots.

that reminds me -- i've heard that third eye blind song where the guy belts I WILL UNDERSTAAAAAA-EEEE-AAAAA-AAAAAAND like a zillion times more on that station than i ever heard it when it came out