Past Blast

This might mean something to a few readers of this blog... many others will be left in a fog of confusion. If you didn't understand this post, you won't understand this one today, either.

Kat's big surprise Christmas gift for me this year was a Sirius satellite radio system. I'm a music junkie, and always have been, and in the past few years I've developed an affinity for talk radio as well. The Sirius system, for about thirteen bucks a month, gives me over a hundred radio stations, crystal clear, commercial-free. However, I have a feeling I'll be keeping my receiver on one particular station most of the time.

Sirius has a sub-category of rock called "First Wave," and it's all early- to mid-eighties new wave/alternative music. "Cool," I thought, when I read the synopsis of the bands they play - sounds like a playlist that would've been on a mix tape in my '86 Hyundai - The Cure, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, U2 - good stuff. However, I dug a bit deeper on the Sirius website and discovered something rather interesting, at least for a transplanted SoCal boy who grew up with his radio dialed permanently to 106.7.

The DJ's on this station read like a roll-call of many of the best DJ's from the heyday of "The ROQ of the 80's" - Freddy Snakeskin, Swedish Egil, Dusty Street, Richard Blade, and B-52's frontman, Fred Schneider. Gonna be spending a lot of time with the headphones on for the next few months...