Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Dear 89.3 the current

(Why not? Maybe it'll hasten the end of the bad morning show era by a day or two.)


dear the current,

The morning show is bad. As far as I'm concerned the station isn't even on until nine in the morning. Then this morning after nine it sounded like the deejay (Thorn) must have broken up with his girlfriend. It wouldn't have been so bad if the morning show wasn't already the quotidian unlistenable lesbocoustic weep-carnival. When I listen to it I get the urge to make tea-tree oil candles and watch fried green tomatoes.

Please fix it, the current.

Nobody likes when people lose their jobs, so I'm not suggesting you get rid of Dale Connelly and Jim Ed Poole, but could you give them a good talking to? Their taste in music might hit the target demographic of xanax bar popping, mu-mu wearing co-opers in Linden Hills, but the rest of us have shit to do and don't want to fall asleep at the wheel. I appreciate that you want to be the alternative to the barf festival available at every other morning drive time show, but please, at least mention that there was a complaint about the tranquilizer music they play.

Maybe deejaying isn't for them. Have they considered how much money there is to be made treating insomnia?

Thanks.

Sunday, November 27, 2005

dear Jazz Police

Were you not aware when you created your website that it would share a name with the indisputable heavyweight champion worst song of all time, Jazz police by Leonard Cohen? This oversight on your part is made all the more shameful by the fact that you are a music website! Please right this heinous wrong before another person is accidentally reminded of the horror of mankind's darkest stain on the universe. Just redirect people or something.

Thanks,
Dale Shipley

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Dale, I'm sure that there are indeed worse songs.

I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting. I am aware of the Cohen
number, although the phrase "Jazz Police" is in common use in jazz
circles and predates Cohen's use by several decades.

Cheers,

Don

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Fair enough. Thanks. Out of curiosity, what do you consider a few of the worst songs?

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MacArthur Park so very, very bad.