Where Oh Where Did 92.3 Go?

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that good music has completely disappeared? Maybe it's been kidnapped and will be returned to us in 18 years like Jaycee Dugard. Maybe it died and went unnoticed like Farrah Fawcett after the death of the King of Pop. Or maybe there are just no radio stations left that play good music because advertisers obviously wouldn't know a good tune if it bit them in the ass.
Either way, good music where the fuck are you hiding?

Let me start by saying this. Like most other human beings, I love music. In fact, I live for music. Music pretty much defines my life, and as of late, my life’s soundtrack has been pretty shitty.

My favorite thing about music is the art of creating the mixed tape/CD. As I’ve mentioned before I’m completely technologically retarded and while I have finally upgraded to an iPod, I’ve found that playlists just don’t do for me what a mixed CD does. I love the way you can pop in a mixed CD you haven’t heard in years and it will bring you back to that exact time and place when you made the CD. All the same feelings you had then come back and for those 15 songs, you start to think about the same people who you were thinking about then. This is the reason why my CD Walkman and I are still BFF’s.

When I was younger, I knew all the best bands and all the best songs before anyone else had even heard of them. My friends all came to me, “DJ No Clue,” to make them good CD’s. Whenever I met someone for the first time, I’d make sure that we exchanged mixed CD’s because the only way you can really get to know someone is by their taste in music, or so I thought back then. However, as I’ve gotten older I find that I don’t have the time to scour the Internet in search of great, up-and-coming artists to (illegally) download as many of their songs as I possibly can without getting arrested.

Before the end of the Howard Stern era, I could actually say that I listened to the radio proudly. While 92.3 K-Rock was not breaking new artists left and right, they could be relied on to always play a good mix of music. They played some Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, but then they’d play a little Brand New, Taking Back Sunday and Fall Out Boy (before anyone knew "Dance, Dance") They mixed in a little Slip Knot and Deftones after they played RadioHead and Metallica. They weren’t playing completely unknown bands, (as that’s reserved for the good college stations in your reception area,) but the music was good and I didn’t have to listen to "Oops! I Did It Again" 57 times in the 3 hours I was listening to the radio.

But then Howard Stern got fired for the umpteenth time and went to satellite radio, and that was pretty much the day the music died. Don McLean definitely said it best. Maybe he was the Nostradamus of music, who knows. Anyway, now I turn on K-Rock and it makes me wanna vom when I hear Lil' Wayne wanting to lick my wrapper.

Don’t get me wrong, I like hip-hop. I love all good music. I don’t hate. Jay-Z is probably my idol, and definitely the greatest, most intelligent person in the music biz right now. But, let’s face it- a very large majority of the music that’s on the radio right now is CRAP.

I’m no music critic but seriously the dude from Degrassi is a rapper and his song is on Hot 97.1 every 5 minutes. That’s like Zack Morris heading up a punk band in the 80’s, it’s just wrong. Meanwhile, Lady Gaga is bleeding from her eyes while she pokes my face. I just don’t get it.
But, “I Gotta Feeling” that music is gonna be gone for a long, long time. Music hurry home. And, if anyone has my music hiding in their basement, I’m willing to pay a very large reward to bring music back.