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Radio, Play My Favorite Song (Repeatedly)
The guy who sits behind me at work listens to the radio without headphones. This might annoy some people, but personally I like a little background noise while I code, and I'm often too lazy to bring my own music. It's also turned down so much that I'm the only one who can hear it besides him.
I'm not sure which particular station he listens to, but it goes above and beyond the usual Top 40 pattern of playing the same new songs over and over again until you want to shoot yourself if you hear it one more time. Oh it does this also -- I often hope that I'll hear Jet's Cold Hard Bitch early in the day, because I know that means I won't have to hear that abomination again for at least 24 hours -- but it does the same thing with *old songs*.
Apparently the station has a very limited catalog of early 90's alternative songs such as Creep by Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam's Jeremy, and Them Bones by Alice in Chains. The catalog is so limited that they also play these songs every single day, making sure that I not only suffer through the Limp Bizkit song with the Speak and Spell in it, but that I also get tired of songs that went out of regular rotation more than 10 years ago. I'm all for bringing back the "classics", but these bands had other hit songs too. Don't ruin my childhood memories dammit!
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I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
Posted by: ben at June 27, 2004 7:45 PM
Insert 17 other Milton lines here.
BTW: It would be nice if radio stations would branch out a little bit. It's not as if punk rock stations have nothing to play except for Blink182 and the White Stripes. There are, at last count, about 30 other bands on the top 40.
Posted by: Brian at June 29, 2004 9:12 AM
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