Sirius/XM has been adding “Deep Cuts” version of their channels, a great idea, variety being the spice of life an all. But I have to wonder who is picking these “Deep Cuts”, is My Name is Mud really a Primus ‘Deep Cut’, likewise The Confessor for Joe Walsh. Maybe I was spoiled growing up near some of the best radio stations ever. I remember hearing The Sensational Alex Harvey Band and Tom Waits on late weekend nights as I delivered pizzas for the Monaghan brothers. Perhaps it’s regional, I have noticed when travelling to distant parts of the country the local stations play a slightly different set of ‘standard’ songs than I am used to here in Ohio. Enjoy this quick and easy puzzle and discuss your local radio stations and their content in the comments…or not.
Go ahead and throw a “c” in clue M
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CHOM-FM (pop/rock radio out of Montreal), used to have the “Album Hour” where they played an entire album. I got to hear alllllll the deep cuts in the mid-80s.
SiriusXM’s The Loft channel (“eclectic adult album alternative music”) has had a show called “In Spite of All the Danger,” (can’t tell whether it’s still on their schedule) the title of which I seem to recall was some reference to an FCC rule against playing too many songs in a row off the same album or some such nonsense. Whatever the rule was, they were supposedly “living dangerously” by flouting it.
The latest release of Queen’s Greatest Hits omits fat bottomed girls.
I guess it’s offensive to someone or other?
Tres?
Only if offensive is synonymous with persistent erection.
The real test would be to see if it’s been removed from currently-available versions of the album it was on originally.
But they make the rockin’ world go round.
Hope the same never happens to Big Bottom.
I’m “meh” on this one…
QUEEN’s Classic Song ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’ Dropped From New Version Of ‘Greatest Hits’ Collection
Another one bites the dust.
** golf clap **
How young are we talking? Adolescents, or drag queen story hour aged?
Whilst no swear words are used parental discretion is advised when playing this content to or around younger children
When I was a yute my dad would play Zappa’s Apostrophe and Over-nite Sensation in his tricked out custom van when he took me, my sister, and our friends to the ski resort* and us kids had no idea what most of those songs were about but we sang along and laughed at the ones we got – ‘Don’t you eat that yellow snow’ etc.
*Okay it was a glorified hill but we learned to ski on it and if you can ski on Ohio snow/ice/slush you can ski anywhere.
Let me guess – Valley Hi, now known as Mad River Mountain?
Nope the now defunct Clear Fork Ski lodge, we also have Snow Trails but that was for the Izod and OP wearing kids who’s parents had a membership at the country club.
And now we have Kidz Bop singing modified versions of wholly inappropriate songs.
Speaking of The Loft, when the long-paused stream of my beloved Sunday morning “early music” show (I took a break for a late brunch) wrapped up, I decided to switch over there from the classical music channel, and they were playing this wonderfulness. 🥰🎶
I have a feed bag from former Tour Dee France team Liquid Gas. It’s pronounced “leaky gas”.
Anyway, that’s on-topic vis a vis the Acrostic
Does it have Peter Sagan’s crumbs?
I wish…I got it years before he was in the TdF
Got to the bottom of last fall’s book pile, time to order some more today. I’m like a junkie, shaking, in withdrawal. WHERE”S MY DAMNED BOOK!
LOL
Was at my dad’s house the other day and he was getting frustrated because his new Thomas Sowell book wasn’t downloading onto his Kindle. It was like watching a junkie needing a fix!
Have your Dad give a review on T.S.’s book when he finishes.
I know the symptoms your Dad is experiencing.
HAHAHA!
I got pissed and downloaded to my computer and uploaded to the kindle the other night. Hey, when you’re jonesin’ you do whatever it takes!
My unread book pile keeps growing faster than I can read.
I would blame myself, but I don’t give a shit.
I like listening to “real” radio from time to time, as I hear, like you said, different stuff. That said, Oregon radio sucks. A canned mix of “white mans overbite” music, ie classic rock. Even what are supposedly alt rock stations in Portland, home of the weird as they keep telling me, are boring, playing a mix of last years music and last decades music. And I know that Alt isn’t dead, as I listen too a bunch of newer stuff: Warpaint, Savages, Kurt Vile, and so on.
Then again, I grew up with one of the classic college radio stations from the ’80s KCPR, so nothing is going to be as good as that. But, come on, at least try!
I loathe “real radio”.
It’s gone way downhill. Even the classic rock stations have declined. I remember going over to KBVR because the DJ was offering up someone’s tape and ended up getting an armful of random promos across multiple genres, including one by some British band named Blur that I’d never heard of.
“Congress” doesn’t work for “I”. 😒
It doesn’t work for me neither.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oShTJ90fC34
Before I got it… I was wondering along those lines. 😉
The only local (terrestrial) radio I listen to is the news/talk station, mainly for the sake of the traffic reports as I’m commuting. Recently they bumped Hannity’s 5 p.m. hour to two hours later for the sake of this local guy, who’s refreshingly non-political and fun. His most notable ongoing topic is reporting on – and taking “wagers” on the eventual annual total – of cars running into buildings anywhere in the station’s (un-Internet-assisted) listening area. (At last report, I’m pretty sure it was over 100 so far.)
I miss non-political talk radio, I used to be able to get a Cincy station at work (700 I think) and the 8am to noon guy did a good job of keeping it interesting without delving into politics every day. I’ll occasionally tune in to Smerconish’s show on Sirius/XM, he’s on the politics station but he’ll talk about other topics or have people on who wrote a book he found interesting. Politics 24/7 is so very tiresome.
Non-political talk radio is called “podcasts”
I thought of that after I posted, I guess I’m not podcast savvy, seems like work, downloading apps and shows and what not, I just want to turn on the radio and listen.
Same reason I still haven’t “cut the cord”.
So’s political talk radio, honestly. At least if it is any good since most people aren’t driving long enough to get whole shows.
I stopped listening to radio probably around 2002 or so once I figured out how to pipe in a MP3 player at first… my phone later.
I’m less than 2 years behind on my favorite political podcast now, too! Woot! 😉 I’ll catch up eventually.
The fun thing is.. they just got through the Afghanistan withdrawal, are hitting the “Ivermectin is horse paste, dumb MAGA supporters, duh!” and are starting to get some of the data on “dying with COVID”. Given they jumped on the vax quickly and were calling folks who didn’t want to take it stupid, buying the whole “99+% effective!” at first… I have hopes they’ll see the light as the data comes in and I’ll get to observe it happening at 2x speed.
And Hype… not everyone I disagree with… I just tend to disagree with all of them on most things. There are certainly morons I disagree with outside of that category.
Wait… that means I just self identified as one of “you idiots”. Yay me, I suppose….
WLW! “Fifty-thousand watt clear channel Midwest driver!” My oldest sister listened a lot back in the day when she was a huge Big Red Machine fan. I miss their guy Gary Burbank’s BBQ joint in the northern Cincy ‘burbs. We used to meet friends there at least once a year to celebrate several early-in-the-year birthdays, and we made a point of going when local blues dude Sonny Moorman was there. We once shamed Sonny into playing “Mustang Sally” by writing the request in huge letters on the roll of paper towel “napkins” common to BBQ joints – one letter per towel – and unfurling it across our tables right at his eye level.
The local college radio stations are great. In the summer months they allow the computer to play randomly from their archives. It make for a great mix.
The Twin Cities had some decent radio over the years, but my favorite was a three year experiment in the mid 90s called REV 105 “Revolution Radio”
Alternative, indy and lots of local stuff – it was fantastic. The DJs came mostly from the scene and were excellent. I remember calling in a request for GBV during my birthday party and the DJ played what he asked and made sure to wish me a happy birthday.
Naturally, it wasn’t a commercial success. I really miss good radio with local, knowledgeable DJs. I’m a Spotify guy now – mostly my own DJ – but it’s not the same.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Hyp! I even got a T-shirt out of the deal!
Ugh. My brother called in the request.
I tipe gud
Your area fix for college radio randomness…
https://1190.radio/
REV 105 was the shit. I listened religiously while also schlepping pies for Tom Monaghan like The Hyp. I really missed when they pulled the plug on them. Also, Z-Rock was a thing around that time, but were nationally syndicated and was only available in the Twin Cities on AM radio, but if you drove a Chrysler product from that era, they had AM stereo and Z Rock was broadcast in stereo. Univesity of MN’s KOUM (you’ve got koum in your ear) wasn’t all bad.
When and where did you live in the Cities, doc?
We’ve had this convo a while back. I lived by the DQ on Southview in South St. Paul, but was on 5th ave.
Born and raised, left in ’95.
Ah yes, now I remember.
SSP was amazing back the.
I enjoy Emerson’s station
https://wers.org/
https://wers.org/listen/recently-played/ is eclectic, to say the least.
That is a lot of randomness.
I like it. Some old track I had half forgotten about, then some new band I don’t know but apparently like.
I had the good fortune to go to college just outside Boston in the mid 80S. There were a number of flavors of rock stations. My favorite was WBCN. There motto was 360 degrees of rock n roll. For years it was true. There was a mix of some newer songs the DJs had to play combined with them choosing what they wanted to play. As a result, every shift was different. There days when I heard Aerosmith followed by Bob Marley followed by Iron Maiden followed by Thompson Twins followed by J. Geils Band. It was great and exposed me to a bunch of music I otherwise never would have heard.
The station was a big supporter of local bands. In addition to the Sunday night show that featured local acts, some of the better bands got airplay during the week. It was heaven while it lasted.
A friend was raving about the WBCN doc recently:
https://theamericanrevolution.fm/
On my list…
Very cool. I had no idea that was made. Thanks for letting me know.
Radio? I really haven’t listened to it in years. As long as I remember radio stations in this neck of the woods have always been owned by some corporate megalith with the same playlists as the other corporate megaliths. The one exception being the college/NPR stations. They got weird. Fucking commies played stuff like this. instead of stuff like this, which every other stupid station was playing.
I haven’t listened to a radio station for the music since college… so, early 90s. I have no idea what is available in NYC.
We had a couple good college stations in Buffalo plus access to CFNY (“The spirit of radio”) out of Toronto. Cut my “alternative” musical teeth on a local high school station that was better than most commercial offerings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifljYPFW-E&ab_channel=ElvisCostelloVEVO
Twice in one weekend. It’s been a very topical song.
One bitch I’ve had about SiriusXM is that they’ll only play a few different songs from bands. Even those bands with double-digit numbers of radio songs. Recently it’s like they heard the listeners complaints, and their apparent fix is to play more live songs…of those same few songs from each artist. I don’t get it.
What channels are you listening to? Outlaw Country and LSUG seem to do a good job covering artist’s catalog. Also (although it goes against my DJ’s talking to much rule) if you listen to shows where the host is a musician ala Joe Bonamassa on Bluesville or Tom Morello on lithium, they usually throw the playlist out the door and mix it up quite a bit (although if TM never plays that shitty song his kid does with that little internet famous drummer girl again it will be to soon).
Yeah, I should have added “on the rock channels I listen to”. Hair Nation, Classic Rewind, Classic Vinyl, Rock Bar. They are all pretty bad about picking a few choice hits. Yeah, Outlaw Country is much better. Bluesville plays a lot of BB, but most other artists it’s the same stuff over and over. I suppose because they are playing new stuff and so play a lot of current “hot” songs. Yes, all the hosted shows I’ve heard play a good range of stuff.
Morello took his “show on the road” and has been tweaking it for different channels. He did a hair metal version for Hair Nation, but I missed it and keep forgetting to find it on the app.
Turbo and Ozzy’s Boneyard seem to maybe mix it up a bit more, but I haven’t listened to either for days on end to say for sure.
Ozzy’s Boneyard is good about mixing it up. I especially enjoy Jim Norton’s show Metal Midgits. He’ll play stuff I’ve never heard (Bruce Dickenson solo material on his last show) or haven’t heard for a long time.
Little Steven’s Garage plays a great deal of variety.
https://www.siriusxm.com/channels/little-stevens-coolest-songs-in-the-world
Thanks! Sounds cool. I will check it out.
The rarely if ever play the same songs let alone within the same day.
I’ve noticed First Wave has been playing what seems like a wider variety as of late.
Hype went way easy on us this week… didn’t even have to cheat and look anything up on the interwebs.
Thanks, you surly puzzle designer.
The local classic rock station had a show where they played long and non-radio friendly songs for 2 or more hours. They intended it to be for “heads” late night to chill out to. The called “For Head Phones Only”
Perhaps it’s regional, I have noticed when travelling to distant parts of the country the local stations play a slightly different set of ‘standard’ songs than I am used to here in Ohio.
I liked Aerosmith until I moved to New England.
Then I heard them damn near constantly on New England radio stations.
I pretty quickly soured on them.
Here in Dallas they played almost every Toadies song on the first album. I had no idea they were a one-hit wonder everywhere else until I met my wife.
It’s nasty hot (conditions ripe for swamp ass). We’re on the “run your AC between 4p and 8p and see us gouge you” plan, so the AC use is spare. Watching Mary Poppins Returns. It’s unsettling when you love the original so much.
Just realized Mary Poppins is a Gaslighter Extraordinaire.
Some examples? My memory is foggy.
MP: *Does magical thing.*
Children: She did *magical thing*!
MP: “I did no such thing.”
Maybe the children are tripping on mushrooms.
Is she trying to make the children think they’re going crazy? 🤨
The same magic that brings Hobbes to life.
Speaking of Mary Poppins, in case you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend Saving Mr. Banks.
It was 93 degrees with a dew point above 80 today. I was playing golf with my father. Even using a cart, it was more than I could handle. Aging sucks.
Blech.
Dew point is rising through the 60s here – I shouldn’t complain but OMG the last two or three days were so beautiful.
The deck crew started last week. There will be three straight days at 100+ degrees Tuesday through Thursday.
I hope they don’t kill themselves out there.
There is a development going in across the street. It’s been fucking scorching here. The Mexican builders sing along to their music, drink soda all day and wrap it up with Modelo.
Let’s all suck it up.
My deck crew is Iowa white boys (with ink everywhere of course).
And with high humidity? Nope nope nope nope.
I can’t handle that. It’s bad enough in NYC.
Weather underground says dew points in the mid to upper 70s with 100 degree temps. Killer.
115 in Phoenix was paradise by comparison. Just sit in the shade and drink.
Oooo we just sunk to 59. 😀
Yeah, whoever it was that pointed out to me that dew point is the key figure to look at, I’ve become a believer. It’s way more important than the temperature.
That was me.
👍
Sending another disciple into the world. 😉
Back at 61 🙄
Lawn and landscape maintenance guy here. I always pay more attention to dew points than temperature also.
I’m just a little NE of you in La Crosse, so same weather. I drank about 35 pounds of fluid the last two days working. It really sucks when your underwear is soaking wet from sweat. Looks like that’ll be the case all week. Really looking forward to fall. August really starts to grind me down as I get older.
I just bought a stack of frozen dinners because no way I’m running an oven or a burner this coming week
Just going to unwrap, peel the cover and lick them?
#Salisbarysteaksickle!
Coming from someone who loves salisbury steak … 🤮
KROQ in the 80s and 90s
I have no idea if they suck now.
Rodney on the Roq.
Rodney Bingenhiemer? He has a show on LSUG, weird voice for a DJ but he plays some good, eclectic stuff.
Not part of my childhood, but the doc on him is supposed to be good
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230512/
Thats the one. He is legendary for breaking much of the’70s and 80s punk and new wave in LA.
I grew up on Colgate University’s station, which was a beacon in radio-free upstate NY of the 80s.
https://wrcufm.org/
I like Beach Fossils. (listed there)
I just remembered spinning records with my then BF for about two weeks. The station was only available in nearby dorms. Holy crap we were terrible.
I wish I still had the tapes because there was some epic hilarity with me scratching records and shit. But the collection available to us was epic and we could play anything we wanted as long as we squeezed in the station promo at regular intervals.
Sounds like my college radio station. I had a blues show Friday evenings for a couple years. Mostly my own records. Good times.
North of OKC on road trips there used to be a station called “The Spy” that I always used to seek out on road trips. I think they were out of Stillwater, OK if memory serves me right.
Simultaneous earthquakes and hurricanes in California.
Light the “It’s Happening” light.
*looks at watch* Time to loot?
In SF and LA it’s always a good time.
Can’t shoot in Chicago ’til 9 PM and holster up by 9 AM
Maybe the rain will wash some LA sins away and the sinners too
I expect to hear stories of the homeless who were warned to evacuate the LA River before the rains but didn’t.
The earthquake (5 ish) that hit DC several years ago was problematic because buildings weren’t built to withstand earthquakes. The Washington Monument cracked, and the hurricane on the heels of the quake flooded the monument pretty badly.
Sometimes the 1-2 punch is a bit much!!
I’m sure it has been linked #drugsassblahblah but I found it a good listen.
The Jacket talks to Taibbi.
What bugs me about this is not the interview, but how late to the game they are and how they still ignore everything Taibbi told them.
The jacket also interviewed Doug Stanhope 2 weeks ago. I’m only 20min in.
Before I listen, does The Jacket let him speak or does he keep talking over him?
Taibbi talks alot.
Thanks. Gillespie has had some interesting guests but he drives me crazy talking over people. He isn’t as interesting as he thinks he is.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1693433138880680333
Little girls be dangerous.
That’s great.
LOL
Staged for the views.
Fight me.
I’m the father of three daughters.
Never, ever, underestimate little girls.
Insty’s headline made me laugh:
THE LINE BETWEEN ENGLISH RESERVE AND AUTISM CAN BE A BLURRY ONE: Shocking Findings: Number of Autistic People in England May Be Twice As High as Previously Thought.
Not sure about the other SoCal glibs but this “storm” has been pretty lowkey compared to anything on the east coast.
That said, work schedule is sliding right – though I’m still flying home on Fri.
Sitting in base hotel room and working though a crowler if Coronado brewing Orange Wit. (Working on my FITREP too…).
Current reading – don’t recall if I updated last month is mostly e-books on my kindle – self published stuff like the Mammon series by Rob “BasedCon” Kroese, the Fae War by Lucas Marcum and others. Still working through hard copies of Monster Hunter (and just picked up hard copy of Rubicon by Tom Holland). Also on kindle – mostly for flights – Horus Heresy book 1 and pending “Infinite and Divine” as I’m getting into 40k.
When I get back to a routine in-office sched the next few weeks I’ll probably start Atlas Shrugs pretty soon.
*Shrugged
I grew up in NY so I get what you are saying. . In my area, this is a good rain but not more than that.
I only read Kindle anymore.
Can’t take a kindle (or phone) into my office. That said….I will always prefer hard copy to digital. Although to be fair, I could probably stand to purge a few titles I’m not so fond of and less likely to reread.
I’ve mentioned them a bunch here, but for the last 17 years or so, ever since Kiwi workmate in Amsterdam turned me onto it, I’ve been digging SomaFM. Secret Agent Radio, Groove Salad, 7 inch Soul, and Left Coast 70’s are all my jam. They have turned me onto a ton of great music I didn’t know. Totally free and commercial free internet radio stations that get by on donations, I slip them 50 bucks every now and then cause they are awesome.
https://somafm.com/listen/
Soma is fantastic.
I may be due to send them some more money…
*fist bump for fellow Soma fan*
I also dig how they haven’t really changed their interface the whole time, it’s simple and it works. Importantly it keeps playing when you are doing other things as I often stream it during jobs on pro a Bluetooth speaker.
Like the bougie, soft-handed geek I am, I’ve got it going on the Sonos throughout the whole condo when I work.
(Are 5 Sonos speakers in a 1-bedroom excessive? Asking for a friend. )
I want to know what a Sonos is because it sounds like it solves a longstanding problem I’ve had….
But… I’m moving to a place that was built in the current century and where I don’t need a separate sound system in the kitchen anymore.
I’ve been running a speaker with an old iPod plugged into it for my kitchen music for a couple decades.
Somewhat spendy wireless speaker system
https://www.sonos.com/en-us/home
They sound great and work together flawlessly.
I’ve got 3 of the small ones (bedroom, kitchen, bathroom), a sound bar for the TV and a portable Move in my office area.
Jeez, the hipster diverse dude in the pic says it all.
Heheh, at home I’m rocking a hi-fi with a decent Onkyo receiver, these great bookshelf speakers that I love and a solid sub. CD player and turntable to round it out.
https://www.wharfedaleusa.com/products/denton-80th-anniversary-bookshelf-speakers-pair#
It’s 12:30 on a Sunday night. The party is just getting started. I said…THE PARTY IS JUST GETTING STARTED YOU CUNTS.
It’s only 10, you need sleep,
12:30 on a Sunday night
Technically that would be Monday morning.
QFT
So much for Hilary, it was like an afternoon in Michigan,
Warm and humid, although we put up a barrier where the bay meets the road, it gets deep there, cars be like yikes!
But it got some clicks!
Panic sells, and panic mongers pay no price for being wrong.
It fit right into their fear mongering narrative and people still eat it up. Henderson and Las Vegas are…sandbagging….I’ve seen worse monsoons. People have fully bought into fear.
They thought it would live up to its name.
Good night all. Hope you’re having as good a time as I am!
Good morning, people!
Back to work today for me. 😒
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-HZd4Lb2Q
🎶🎶
Hey, Sean! I actually liked that! There may be hope for me yet! 😃
Too much idolitry is bad for the soul. Or was that idleness?
Idle hands are the devil’s…workshop? playground? reception area?
I can never remember that one.
Back to work today for me.
#metoo 😡
Suh fam’
what’s goody
Hey from seat 27C of a 717- here I come, Atlanta!
Safe travels, homey!
737 comin’ outta the sky?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXLqECpHW2o
Morning all!
Today we have some Animal Logic.
Because Sometimes It Feels So Good.
Make it a great day; if you don’t, who will?
Good morning, Shirley, homey, Sean, and Roat!
Hoping for a quiet day at work today. May depend on whether my boss finds out whether our switch of payroll/HR services vendors has to happen PDQ or can move at a more…measured pace. 😐
Morning, GT.
Good morning, U! Tolerable day ahead, I hope?
I donno.
My calendar is empty, but I have to do post-upgrade documentation tasks from friday’s work. I hate it, but it has to be done. If only so I know what I did the next time around.
Thanks for the tunes! A couple of good ones there – at first listen, I prefer the first, but the second had a nice bouncy beat.
And I love the album cover! 😄
Mornin ‘, reprobates!
Back to the rat race today. Vacations are too short, retirement is looking better every day. GT, I hope you get a reasonable time frame for implementation.
Good morning, ‘patzie, and thanks! Whatever happens, my boss has assured me that my almost-two-week vacation next month is ON and not negotiable. 😅
I just have to get through this week and through to the end of thursday next week. Then I will be on my all too brief vacation.
What may arguably be the original “meme,” from back when such things could be found only on posters, greeting cards, t-shirts or mugs: Hang in there, Baby!
I wish I could do a bent arm hang for an appreciable amount of time.
Good morning all,
What is this ‘vacation’ so many speak of? I haven’t had a vacation in 30 years, problem with retirement, no days off.
You gotta take it up with your boss.
Good morning, 4(20)!
I’ve heard retirement described as waking up with nothing to do and going to bed with only half of it done. Come to think of it, maybe YOU said that.
Mornin’. Who needs a day off when you’re doing what you love?
We clearly need a study to find out. Write us up a grant for a few million and we can determine what quotient of vacation is required in such a circumstance.