KEVN FM July 2020 - Waiting for things again

Notes on Music I’m listening to.

Turned the sound off the typewriter so I can listen. (I’m using Tom Hanks’ typewriter app to write this up on my iPad Pro)  I am waiting at the car dealer while they give the Highlander a once over.  Got it in February and it has less than 2000 miles on it.  Where was I?  Oh, yeah.  The music I’m listening to.  

I make these playlists I call KEVN FM because they contain music I would probably program if I owned my own radio station.  The call signs would very probably be KEVN.  Because it would be my radio station.  Duh.  

This one is called “KEVN FM July 2020” and it’s on Spotify. So far it’s full of old sounding newer stuff like The Black Keys, Drive-By Truckers, and Secret Machines.  But it has some classics on it too like... OK, no classics yet, but they are coming.  

The Walkmen have a couple of songs that I’m loving.  I put “The Rat” on here because it’s been stuck in my head a bunch recently.  There is a brand new Jayhawks album with a song called “Homecoming” that is quickly becoming a new fav.  I guess the most “classic” song I have on there right now is “A Girl Like You” by the Smithereens.  And I preceded it with “A Girl Like You” by Edwin Colins, which is another newer classic.  Might be time to throw a few real classics on here to before some marketing guy decides to put a name on my station like “Edge” or “End” or something juvenile like that.  I always thought the Edwin Colins song sounded like Iggy Pop took voice lessons.  So maybe I’ll add some Stooges or Iggy’s best solo stuff.  Songs that should be played on Classic Rock stations but isn’t.  I have a whole other rant on the Classic Rock format and how it’s killing Rock and Roll radio.  My classic rock station would play the Ramones too, come to think of it.

When I was a kid we didn’t have classic rock.  Because of that we could discover new stuff in the Rock and Roll genre.  For example, I heard Ratt on the rock station that also played Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top and Boston.  But these days you have to wait for a new song to get close to 20 years old before they will program it on a Classic Rock station.  This is stupid and not good for rock and roll.  OK.  I added Candy by Iggy and switched the order of the two Girl’s Like You.  Oh... forgot how much I like the Smithereens.  

I have my mask on while I sit here in the car dealer’s waiting room.  I have my AirPods in and every time I turn my head the mask moves them a little.  Maybe in these days of COVID mask with built in headphones could be a thing.