Okay, so I commute to work for about an hour in the morning, and again in the afternoon to get home. That's 2 hours of radio time to fill each day. In general I am a music fan, and appreciate songs/pieces from many different genres, spanning many different eras. I've even taken the time to program the car stereo in order to maximize my options - I have 7 music stations preset on the radio - one classic rock, one rock (which is more classic than anything new), one new music (tends to be hip-hop/club dance), one current pop, one current rock/pop, one 60s/70s/80s pop, and even one country station just to round out the mix. So, with all that programmed into the stereo, you'd think that my daily commutes would be filled with enjoyable tunes to make the drive fun, that in fact I'd be overwhelmed with good music to choose from, wouldn't you?

Well you'd be wrong.

One hour and 10 minutes of driving this morning, and I listened to approximately 5 minutes of decent music - the last minute of Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes, the last minute and a half of My Best Friend's Girl by The Cars, 30 seconds of Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, and 2 minutes of a Rush song that I can't remember the name of (Rush, now that's another post waiting to happen!). The rest of the drive was me trying to avoid 15 repetitions of the same news items, 45 weather updates, 672 traffic updates, 9000 commercials, a whole army full of DJs talking loud and saying nothing, plus an infinity of bad music or overly-played songs that noone on Earth other than radio-computers can take anymore!

Now, I'll be the first one to admit that I love 80s music, but even I find it hard to believe that the best music on 7 stations over the course of an entire hour was comprised of the the tail-end bits from two different 80s tunes. Add to that the fact that Informer by Snow keeps getting played on my afternoon drive home along with who-knows how many awful Nickelback songs (well its probably just the one song seeing as how I can't tell any of that bands crap songs apart from one another) and let's just say I'm a little bit frustrated and disgusted with the state of music radio these days.

*Sigh*. Can I make that into frustgusted, and at least salvage some enjoyment of my day by creating a new (albeit never to be used by anyone) word out of the whole situation?

Tags: music, radio
Current Location: in the car
Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: not much worth listening to