Good radio
I was driving out of work Friday night after a long day at work, and 94.7 surprised me. Windows were down on a nice night, and I'd been hating the station all week. With Big 100 jumping onto their classic rock turf this spring, I'd been feeling that this week had been a bit of reaction for 94.7. Every time I'd listened, it felt either too pop — moving them closer to Big — or too Spinal Tap. All the people who could play on a present-past rock station like XRT, the Springsteens and U2s of the world, were in short supply. And my car CD player was broken. It died slowly during the past year or so and finally has left me in D.C. radio custody.
But Friday night I was block out of work when I flipped to 94.7, and they were playing some scratchy live version of Elvis Costello singing Alison … that segued into the other Elvis' Suspicious Minds. I didn't see it coming, and the "caught in a trap" just bubbled up from a few familar words to recognition to a force at the end. Made my drive.
Turned out it was from Costello's 2003 Live in Memphis DVD, ripped for radio I guess, but freely viewable too on AOL Music. Apparently he also paired the song with Tracks of My Tears in recent years, and that Google find made me want to hear that one too at some point. Same slow rocking motions in both songs and same party sadness.
And then apparently for a while there was a medley of all three songs….
