Sure, it's quirky, but I like it.
Not from the day, because I was never much of a KROQ fan.
Could be because we used to blast it on endless loop from a few base stations when we may have accidentally sort of jammed the local FRS/GMRS freqs every time we heard cartel coyotes coordinating their smuggling runs and checking in with lookouts on the border, and we could hear them all p.o.'ed afterwards. And then we may have played it again as their groups were rounded up by Border Patrol, after we rolled in on them. Almost like they were afraid whenever they heard it. I suppose if you can't blast Wagner's Ride Of The Valkyries from an inbound Huey gunship, it's the next best thing. Still makes me laugh.
When I was at Purdue in the 1960's, one of the local TV stations ran a series of Mexican TV shows on vampires and another on a couple of women wrestlers who were sorta like Bat Man dispensing justice. This was all done with subtitles. Now those shows were weird.
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Love that song. Listening to KROQ in the 90s means I missed a decade of 'pop' music. Their playlist was unique. So was 91X. "Reggae, reggae makossa..."
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ReplyDeleteCertain units of the USAF used to amuse themselves during wargames by jamming the Comms of NG/Reserve units from the North East with hard corps old school C&W, and Texas units with punk rock.
I like this song was well. Why? No comprende it's a riddle.
Great song. Something different about it. I loved it way back when
ReplyDeleteLike you, KROQ was never my favorite. I preferred KMET (the mighty met!) and KLOS. Mexican radio was one of my favs, used to blast it in the ambulance while going code through south central and east LA.
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ReplyDeleteI love this song with all of my heart. I only heard it late one night on the radio. Where I went to school was so far from a radio station that we only got them late at night. Cable? My friends with satellite got that expensive MTV. Not on our cable.
I still remember going to school the next day and attempting (poorly) to explain what a great song that it was. I then went years without hearing it again.
Life comes full circle:
I was listening to music one day when The Boy was in high school. "Hey, come here, listen to this song . . . "
"Oh, yeah, Dad, I LOVE that song. I listen to it all the time."
I was rather surprised, and pleased, to recently hear this tune on a store's PA. It was rather later at night, when it seems the more atypical stuff might appear. It was also a bit odd to hear Peter Schilling. Then, this place did once really surprise me with Louis Prima's Jump Jive An' Wail.
ReplyDeleteI own a 1980 Mercedes SD 300 equipped with a Becker radio, made in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteI always thought that these were the Mexican radios being referred to...
This fine example of German engineering has an inline 5 cylinder diesel engine and no cupholders, they don't make them like they used to...
Lately certain songs have gotten tagged with certain SPECIFIC memories... from now on, whenever i hear this song, i'm going to imagine Border Patrol teams swooping in on coyote's/etc... great stuff!
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