Since I got my driver’s license, I’ve driven whenever I can. I’m a lot like that 16 year old kid that you see with a Honda Civic and a huge exhaust, trying to learn how to A) signal before turning and B) put it in reverse and not drive, when you want to go back wards.
I’m also reasonably new to the current state of radio in Chicago. And boy is it a bunch of crap. Like a new born baby, innocent with hope, I try the radio each day and sometimes every ten minutes, hoping that this time it won’t be rubbish. How many times can a radio station play Kanye West’s “Gold digger”?
“Now, for the commercial free hour! Here’s Sean Paul’s new hit!” Please. Firstly, Sean Paul can bite a fat one, and secondly the whole show is paid for by Clear Channel’s advertisers, so it’s a total sham. Endure a ‘commercial free hour’ if you can and the play list is just endless “hit” after “hit”. “Imagination Free Hour” is more like it.
The only stations that I know that save entire experience is WLUW on 88.7 from Loyola University and WNUR on 89.3 from North Western. NPR is of course always handy, but it’s not exactly Billboard 100.
Here’s a selection from today’s jamz. How do some of these songs even get airplay?
Laffy Taffy by D4L:
I’m lookin fa Mrs. Bubble Gum
I’m Mr. Chik-O-Stick
I wanna (dun dun dunt) (oh)
Cuz you so thick
Gurlz call me Jolly Rancher (Oh)
Cuz I stay so hard
We Be Burnin’ by Sean Paul:
So when you see the S.P. floatin don’t provoke him
Cause the girls we be poking have to smoking.
One Wish by Ray J:
If I had one wish, we would be best friends
Love would never end, it would just begin
If I had one wish, you would be my boo
Promise to love you, trust me I’ll trust you
