Public Radio, the conscious switch.

Growing up on the island had some downfalls, this was largely due to our small population, the stupid boat you had to use to get off it, the fact that most fashion trends were 3 years behind everyone else, and the like.  One of the major draw backs was the severe lack of any good radio.  Essentially a kid had one three choices, 720CHTN which was oldies, 630CFCN the quintessential country station good ol’ Magic 93.1 which played adult contemporary and some pop.  There was public radio then, but I was completely oblivious to its existence and didn’t fit my musical tastes as a child.

I hated most of these stations and ended up graviting to the oldies due to it being the lesser of all the evils.  This ended up shaping my musical tastes to this day.  Recently, I’ve tried to make a conscious effort to expand my musical tastes.  Since moving back to PEI, they have added two new stations which have taken up most of the listenership of the island.  That is KROCk 105.5 and Ocean 100, but broadcast of my place of work.  For the last year I’ve been listening almost exclusively to KROCK 105.5 and it hasn’t been too bad, but I’ve really grown tired of it.  If I hear one more retarded segway into a Wendy’s Commercial I’ll gag.  “Oh hey Colin what are you doing?”, “Oh I’m stacking chairs, do you know what else you can stack” “No Colin tell me”, “well you can get a wendys stacker today, its a great lunch item”.  Shoot me now.

So this week I switched my dial over to 104.7 which is CBC radio 2, and they happen to be putting together an “Obama’s Playlist” which is featuring the best music of Canada for Obama on innaguaration day.  There have been a lot of great music played, and most of it I’ve liked and has introduced me to some genres I don’t normally listen too.  Thank you CBC for breaking up my morning ride into something a little more then lame fart jokes, terrible Wendys segways and cliched Nickleback songs.