Curiously Accustomed to Shit: the Lite FM Update

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When I moved a few months ago, I figured I'd set my alarm to the local lite FM station, under the theory that it would make me jump up quicker from bed (to turn the damn thing off). But over the past months, gaining increasing daily familiarity with the music, I feel it is an interesting slice of American culture nonetheless (I find myself wondering, as I get woken each day, who would actually *get into* this stuff?) that I wish to share. Howz THIS for a playlist (routinely circulated)? I hope I can remember some more of these chestnuts for later discussion...

"?" The song begins "I can't stand to fly...". Sounds like Christopher Cross after 10 years of solitary confinment. I hate this fucking song; I think NBC played it on a show like "Third Watch" (cue: poignant musical interlude) last year.

"Just the Two of Us" - Grover Washington

"Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" and/or "That Don't Impress Me Much" Shania Twain

"Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" - So, is this NSync or the Backstreet Boys? They never say, and I'm in suspense!!

"Hero" - I think it's Enrique Iglesias? Ricky Martin? One of those bastards, anyway. A very funny song.

"The Way You Love Me" - Faith Hill (country crossover with vocoder?!? Now THAT freaks me out. Apparently, it's about a woman wishing that the man she's in love with could experience his own kisses...yeesh!)

"Unchained Melody" - The Righteous Brothers

"You'll Be in My Heart" (is that the title?) - Phil Collins

"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (sometimes alternating with "Crocodile Rock")- Elton John

"?" I'm assuming the name of the song is "Complicated", by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. Chorus: "I wanna hold you close, I wanna push you away, I wanna make you go, [breathier, lower tone] I wanna make you stay..."

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I set my radio alarm to the campus station here, being that they usually play bizarre middle eastern stuff in the morning which is guaranteed to startle the shit out of me at high volumes.

― gazuga (gazuga), Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

the first song you mention is by five for fighting. wretched, wretched, wretched...

― mike (ro)bott, Saturday, 28 September 2002 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

the Five For Fighting song (which is possibly the worst thing ever) didn't go Top 40 in the UK but went Top 10 in Ireland = everything Ronan has said about the shite taste of his compatriots true, obv

― robin carmody (robin carmody), Saturday, 28 September 2002 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i like "just the two of us"!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 September 2002 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

naturally i like the will smith version more, but still!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 28 September 2002 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Those Shania Twain songs are fantastic.

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:07 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't listen to radio. i will myself into getting up!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 28 September 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I would say though I don't like the Shania songs, I could at least see their appeal (the sassy delivery, etc.). Could never get into "Just the Two of Us" (Austin Powers 2 didn't help), but I can recognize it as a sensual, soul ballad classic a la "Let's Get It On".

However, I simply cannot see how one could listen to the "I Can Be Your Hero Baby" song and not burst out laughing.

Big one I forgot: "I love it when we're groovin' together" by Gwenyth and Huey (from Duets). They play that one like every other day!
I think they also played one by a band called "Savage Garden"?

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 28 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i like "just the two of us"!!

Me too. And Grover Washington, Jr. is from Philadelphia.

being that they usually play bizarre middle eastern stuff in the morning

I wish a radio station around here would have a show like that, though preferably in the evening.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 28 September 2002 12:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh jesus the first song is fucking horrible, the guy sounds like he's got a fucking nosebleed while he's singing, the sad part is if I actually went out to a "club" with my class, they'd play that song and everyone would be swaying and fucking pissed sort of singing along. You know that feeling where you look around at the collective reactions of everyone in a room and it's like getting hit in the face and you think I have absolutely nothing in common with anyone here, and yet I am desperately embarassed for every one of them. And you get your coat and go home, THANK GOD I DISCOVERED DANCE MUSIC, seriously.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 28 September 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Is that new Five For Fighting song even worse, or has my memory softened about how bad the song about superman was? Fucking maudlin horseshit, who actually buys those records?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i really want to like those shania singles more but i find them too...strident.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 23 July 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

have you seen the videos? shes a hot mama.

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 23 July 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

she is, but her videos (in that era anyway) were too hypersaturated (i mean like as in color saturation) for my tastes, so i never could watch them too long.

anyway, i like her ballads better. "still the one" is great, and so is that calypso-flavored one from her last record, whose name i forget.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 23 July 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I like nearly every single of hers I've heard, though the "Man, I feel Like a Woman" one can be grating.

My problem is I like nearly everything. My tastes knows know discrimination!

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 23 July 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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