Surreal Radio

I’ve done a LOT of searching up and down the radio dial over the last several days.  Rock, Top 40, alternative, country, I’ve listened to it quite a variety in music.  Okay, maybe not country, but anyway…

Saturday afternoon somewhere in the vicinity of Montgomery, Alabama I hear Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung.  Remember them?  Kind of a catchy song, so due to a lack of options, I leave the song on.  The song ends and what do I hear?

Casey Kasem.

Casey Kasem, the host of American Top 40?  I had no idea that the show was still on the air or that he was still hosting it.  But Wang Chung? That was 1984 or something like that, what’s going on here?

Then he introduces the next song on the countdown- “and here she is with her latest hit, it’s Madonna and “Borderline”"

Now this is just weird.  The next song?  “Infatuation” by Rod Stewart.  Mind you, there has been NOTHING from the host station yet, I have no idea what I’m listening to, it’s like I’m in some time warp and I’m a pimply-faced socially awkward 8th grader all over again *shudder*.  Anyway, it’s strange enough that I pull over at a rest area and send out a few tweets.  The responses to my tweets were pretty amusing:

13Messages- I love that year in pop music. My formative years!

brlatethanneve- that’s horrifying!

queenofpink- I’d be in heaven.  There is no music like it.  Instantly transports you back to where you were.

VeronicaASM- that is so awesome.

Now I’m getting curious and really want to know when this list is from, until finally I hear a mention of July 7th, 1984.  I was right about that year!  This list goes on, Deniece Williams, ZZ Top, Huey Lewis and the News, Cyndi Lauper, Billy Idol…

And then I lose the signal for the station!  Dammit, now I care, I want to know what the top 5 songs were for this week in 1984!

oh well, back to surfing the dial for a station I like.  But it was fun while it lasted!

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