Driving home after picking Little Man up from school, I tuned into my favorite local radio station - Die Neue 107.7. It's a rock/pop mix and pretty decent, although its music programming sometimes leaves you scratching your head. While they play new music, they also play some oldies...but in no particular order. The three song set I heard today was a perfect example of that.
First - Bye Bye Miss American Pie, Don McLean
Second - Anything for Love, Meatloaf
Third - St. Elmo's Fire, John Parr
H.E. and I have had discussions about this. Coming from the US and the UK, where music programming is pretty predictable, German programming is both strange and entertaining...
...especially for Little Man who had the honor of hearing his mom belt out lyrics to all three songs at the top of her lungs.
Long live German oddities.
21 November 2008
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Oh yeah. The station we listen to up here - FFN *always* plays those three, along with a lot of Madonna and Robbie Williams songs. Really, really scary.
While driving through Germany on our way to Prague this past summer I noticed that too.
We did get to listen to the radio station from the US base in Germany which was kinda strange but nice since it was in English.
I love St Elmo's Fire!
Those are all really great songs! :)
Hey CC - got something for you over at my place. XX
How funny! Never mind the fact that all three of these songs are perfect songs to get stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
Those songs would get me singing, too.
I was never so lucky. Ten years ago, it was all techno beat, unless I was tuned to AFN.
Ha ha Love it.
The radio stations format is pretty unusual, isn't it. It makes me wonder if they have program directors or if the announcers just play what they want.
I know I'm old because every radio station I listen to has oldies or classic somehwere in the tag line. But I love that my kids think I'm so cool because I know all the words to every song. I bask in that glow because I know it won't last long before they figure me out.
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