. . . sometimes I lose a little faith. KEXP is pretty much the best music-oriented radio station that I know of.  They have pretty well-rounded  programming that caters to most musical tastes, if only for 3 hours at a time. The djs are very knowledgable and experienced (and the ones I’ve met are nice people, too). I give them some of my time and [probably too much of] my money. But every once in a while, the station has a way of making me say, “Huh?”

For example, you can say all the nice things you want about the station, but if you have anything negative to say, you best keep it to yourself (or in your blog). I agree that some people get a little crazy sometimes and take out their anger on the dj. But I know of at least one dj who will get seriously offended even if you just state simply, “I don’t like that song.” I would think that would be good information to have if one’s job boils down to being an entertainer. If you do something that nobody likes, would you really want to keep doing it?

And then there’s this sort of elitism I feel sometimes with regard to the station. A kind of “we say what’s cool and what’s not” kind of vibe. Only sometimes. Which makes the fact that they are now playing Flight of the Conchords’ “Business Time” a wee bit ironic or something. I first heard this song several years when a friend of mine forwarded a .wav file of it to me. At the time, it was apparently a big hit on the Mountain. (The Mountain is a very cracker-type radio station in Seattle. They play Dave Matthews, ’nuff said.) I don’t know exactly how long ago that was, but I could swear I still lived in West Seattle, which would put it at more than four years. And at least two years ago, the kiwis were performing it on Conan O’Brien. So why is it now cool enough to be played regularly on KEXP? Because now the Flight of the Conchords are cool enough to have their own HBO series.

Or at least that’s how I see it.