10/24/05 - Monday! The not too distant past...1991!!!
Crowded House - It's Only Natural
Marc Cohn - 29 Ways
U2 - One
The KLF - 3 a.m. Eternal
Rembrandts - Just the Way it is Baby
Chris Whitley - Big Sky Country
Color Me Badd - All 4 Love
INXS - Shining Star
Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues (B-O-S!!)
REM - Losing My Religion
MOVIE: Barton Fink
BONUS TRACK: Talking Heads - Sax and Violins
So, I was driving out to an early lunch when Annalisa rattled off her 4 choices for the bonus track, which were "Sax & Violins" (at which point I was going 'Oh Yeah!' in the car), "Three Strange Days" by School of Fish (another big 'Yay!'), something by Buddy Guy & Crash Test Dummies' "Superman's Song" (both of which got a 'Hmmm, can't go too far wrong there' response from me). Fortunately for me the Foghead guy picked Talking Heads, so I was totally cruising down 101 jamming to my favorite TH song.
Once it finished I called up Annalisa to tell her how much I enjoyed hearing that. We chatted for about 6 minutes & it was very revealing. First thing I asked her was what is it like when she comes in at the end of Dave's set, has she been listening to the whole thing or does she need to check so she doesn't offer up a dupe bonus track. Answer: they usually rehash the set real quickly, which I infer to mean that she misses some of it on her way into the station. Second thing I asked was doe she ever give Dave any feedback & if so does he listen? She said 1)"sometimes" and 2) "hard to tell". She seemed especially in a chatty mood & asked me what I had in mind (or words to that effect anyway), such as was I talking about Colour Me Badd. I repeated Mike's line about "All 4 Love" being a cute song & all, but why not play "I Wanna Sex You Up" sometime instead of playing the former in half of all '91 sets. I also mentioned the frequency of such things as FYC & Crowded House (kicking myself now for failing to mention Robbie Nevil). I told her that often her selection of potential bonus tracks is much more diverse than Dave's set list in the late 80's early 90's & asked her if she brings a lot of that stuff from home.
Here's where it gets really interesting. Annalisa said, Yes, she brings a lot of that from home & then proceeded to give me a fairly lengthy explanation of how she only came aboard in 95-96, and when she goes through the KFOG library for stuff from the preceeding several years there's a lot of stuff [emphasis hers] that she simply can't find. This has led her to the conclusion that during those years KFOG was much more of a 'classic rock' station than it is today. She said she's much more of an 80's person herself (& y'all know what I said to that), and also confirmed the obvious, that Dave is not so much of that era. She added that if there were anything, such as the School of Fish song (which we had chatted about at the beginning of my call) that I wanted to hear, I should do an e-quest, which she might play at any point in her shift.
