Alas, poor Radio... I knew him well, Horatio.

Back in the 80s, there was this format they used to call AOR - Album Oriented Rock - where they played almost everything BUT the official "singles." There was a rock station in Nashville that would play entire albums on the overnight shift. Loved it when I was a teenager. Those type stations are very few and far between now.

One of the reasons radio is so pitiful, is that so much of the "popular" music is so pitiful. Now, I don't think it's all bad, but the problem is that the good artists get all covered up by the crap. So if you want to hear a good song on the radio, you have to listen to at least 10 crappy ones.

Most of the time I listen to talk radio, or CDs, in the car. Here at work I listen to Internet radio - usually German news radio, because I'm learning German and I want to listen to people talk. (no I can't understand it that well yet - I can pick up bits and pieces of this and that)

I would get satellite radio if I could afford another monthly expense.