Mourning the Payphone

So I went to add the Warren Zevon CD “Sentimental Hygiene” to the stream and I could not find it in my collection. It was there once upon a time. Then I went to buy some of the tunes from Itunes and/or Amazon and discovered none of the tunes were available. Then I went to buy it and discovered I would have to wait for weeks. Something about the CD does not want to be streamed.

Anyway, I added (in no particular order):

• Disorder in the House
• I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
• Poor Poor Pitiful Me
• Excitable Boy
• Things to Do In Denver When Your Dead
• Mr. Bad Example
• Boom Boom Mancini (live)
• Gorilla You’re A Desperado

to the stream.

I meant to get ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’ but forgot. I did not mean to get ‘Lawyers, Guns, and Money’ or “Werewolves of London’. If you want to hear those turn on your local classic rock station and listen for ten minutes.

When I get the CD I will add to the stream. Maybe.

Live365 has a genre called classic alternative – a name I find a bit comical. Can the alternative really become classic? If it it, is it truly alternative? And I am not really sure what kind of music fits under the category? WBRU, the local alternative radio station in Rhode Island, has a retro lunch, but it seems to largely consist of what the programmers wish they had played back in the eighties, rather than what they did. Certainly anything with an edge is missing – The Replacements, Warren Zevon’s Sentimental Hygiene, Jesus And Mary Chain, Husker Du, Archers of Loaf. You sure can hear a lot of the Cure and the Smiths though. Anyway, the point being is classic alternative the alternative music that still gets airplay? Or is it just 80’s and 90’s alternative?

And the ironic thing is …. I list my station under classic alternative. And am adding Elvis Costello’s Live at El Mocambo, Archers of Loaf Icky Mettle, and Buffalo Tom’s Sleepy Eyed to the stream because I can’t seem to find them on the radio any more ….

Peace …