radio

[redbird]

If I say I listen mostly to non-commercial radio, an NPR station, that sounds vaguely elitist.

It's not, in this case. Nostalgic, possibly. I'm listening to WFUV-FM (Fordham University, 90.7 FM out of the Bronx) for what I used to get on WNEW: a good mix of music, including things I know and like and things I've never heard before. They even gave a home to a lot of the DJs who made WNEW "where rock lives" when I was growing up: Dennis Elsas, Pete Fornatale, and the inimitable Vin Scelsa and "Idiot's Delight."

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[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

wow, cool. I remember WNEW 20-25 years ago, when "classic rock" was known as "album oriented rock", and before AOR stations played the same two hundred or so tracks over and over again. I think it was WNEW where I first heard Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, and a whole lot of other early, pre-MTV New Wave.

*sigh*