Long drives make for radio time

Long drives = music

Lots of music. Every kind of music. The other day, I spent approximately 6 hours in the car listening to satellite radio featuring over - yes count it – 100 channels of every type of music you can possibly imagine, of course commercial free the entire time. Makes sense that the Sirius XM (NASDAQ: SIRI) stock is currently trading for just over a dollar, the same price as experimental high-risk pharmaceutical companies in China; not the price that should be seen by a monopolized radio provider with over 16 million subscribers.They seem to take a hit for that lack of revenue source that drives almost every private radio broadcaster... which also directly makes for great radio listening for the rest of us. Thanks SIRI! But more importantly the drive brought a few things to my eyes:

1) Ludacris is partly gentlemen. Listen to the track with Chris Brown "what girl's like" here. Maybe he's just trying to balance the track since he's with THE women beater himself CBRIZZLE, but he does mention a few words that actually somehow seem genuine coming from the 33 year old Atlanta native who has seen his fair share of ups and downs (and women I’m sure) through his career. Maybe it’s the fact that Luda has a knack of sticking around the scene through it all, but he can still spit a little game.

EDIT: I revise my statement. Luda is not a gentleman, he just knows what girls want. At least that’s what he claims.

2) Backstreet Boys have made some of the worst music of the past twenty years. See any song they have made, ever.

3) The Black Keys are now a popular mainstream band. WOW. I mean they do have that song (Your Touch) in that beer commercial but who even knows it’s them? With the release of their new album entitled Brothers, they have been able to continue their unique alt-blues collaborating style into something that appeals to the masses. This song "Tighten Up" came on THREE times within a drive and it has stuck in my brain like gum on a sidewalk, also this dinosaur is PREEEDDDY SWEEEEET, check out his dance moves in the chorus.

4) Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s “Home” is one of the

best summer road trip songs of your life. Click the pic to hear it live at the KRCW morning show. I want to be in a band with 10+ members. How much fun does this look like? Who is joining me? Also check out that whistling/trumpet

player dude’s hair at the 0:28 mark.

5) The Strokes never get old. These NYC

boys will forever have a place in my heart. Click on their picture to see Last Nite and be brought back to a time almost ten years ago when the "rock-revival" push was in full swing.

also, SHOUT OUT t

o my baby girl J. Suths for being a champ and putting up with my complaining all

day about unimportant topics and everything I could think of..

“As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide"

– Abraham Lincoln

More to come…

peaaaaCEEEEEEEEeee