I Forgot All About The Cure
WXRT is having a Cure marathon this morning.
Man, I forgot all about The Cure.
WXRT is worth loading up Internet Explorer for. Man I missed this station.
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It looks like they're playing a whole live show at the moment. Holy crap this is worth subjecting my computer to IE for. First the NASA link and now this; I'm never going to get any sleep at this rate, you know.
As long as I wasn't getting any sleep, doing a retune drive in the maintenance window, I listened to WSM via genuine AM radio until the Nashville Cowboy Church came on at oh five hunnert.
Johnny Cash, not just Boy Named Sue but an early teen-market love ballad.
Hank Williams, not just Randall, but Harlan.
Not just Rockytop, but Wolverton Mountain.
And Phantom Freakin' 309, which I haven't heard on the radio in over a decade.
The Cure were probably the single most important band of my high school depressed years. Unrequited love goes much better with The Cure than with Pink Floyd.
I got XM Radio with my new Honda a few months back. It's great - dozens of channels, of which 5 or so are full of stuff I love. One is all live shows, mostly from the BBC archive. There's one for "Classic Alternative" (ie, The Cure, Siouxsie, The Nails) and another for "Punk" (which can be anything from Blink 182 to Big Black to DOA to Husker Du). I haven't checked out the XM country stations yet - if there's a country station that has the good old stuff, from back before Country became the Official Radio Format for Fleshy Spinster Secretaries, that would rule.
I'm glad to see that there is a punk band named DOA. When the Nevada State Trooper asked Emrack about the DEA patch on his jacket, his answer was that it was a punk band from Chicago.