Monday, December 1, 2014

The Rhythm of Corpus Christi is Gonna Get You

I drove to the coast over Thanksgiving because I am unable to celebrate a holiday unless I am near a large body of water. A heavily polluted one like the Hudson or the Charles. Love that dirty water, etc. So I'm driving down to Port Aransas, TX with Dr. Leonard Rubinstein and predictably scream-singing "Blank Space" every 15-20 minutes as it plays on the local pop, easy listening and dance stations respectively when suddenly I mash the scan button again and this song comes on:

What a fun and unexpected throw-back! Too obscure to be in any Clear Channel owned station rotation. I'm intrigued. Maybe 40 minutes of pure uncut New Jack Swing later without commercials and I realize the Z100 (and I guess Hot 97 at this point) of yesteryear lives on as 92.7 KBAY (Website last updated 20 years ago) and it's broadcast out of South Texas. You guys, I heard Nu Flavor. As I type this All Saints "Never Ever" is playing. Basically I found a portal to all of the delicious late 80s/90s B sides of our youth this Thanksgiving.

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