u/brinehart-cincy

Hey Jocks, present and former,
When was the last time, if ever, you got to pick your own music? And how much leeway did you get? Did you plan everything?

Of course, there was college radio, where we'd make up the playlist as we went along, grabbing whatever we were in the mood for, sometimes picking a song on an LP we'd never heard before.

In the early 90s, I was working 7-midnight at a CHR on the lighter side, and we had a "new music hour" where the MD gave me stack of CD singles and told me to go wild. I think that's where I first heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit."

How 'bout you?

Find a song from your youth, (if you grew up in the late 60s or 70s), turn down the bass, and turn up the treble. Close your eyes and you will be transported back to the family car/living room/vacation where you heard that song all the time.

You're welcome.

Every now and then, I get possessed with a need to see images from my youth; the stores, the cars, the neighborhoods. I's go down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, wasting time, looking for a feeling I know I'll never quite capture. But it doesn't stop me from wasting all that time and energy.

My old hometown's newspaper had a 2-part feature a couple of years ago with lots of photos from the 70s. It was a gold mine. It was clickbait. And they put it behind the firewall, or else I'd still be looking through it right now.

Anyone else do this? Or should I see a shrink?