2 weeks in a row updating every 2 weeks

Hey, I did make every two weeks a thing. I’ll get back to every week just in time for the Mayans to be right.

Wait, what?

previously on KKCK:

Jennifer Lopez “Papi”
After a few comeback hits with the help of Pitbull and Lil’ Wayne, J-Lo opts for to stand on her own on this track. Based on that, I thought it wasn’t going to make the chart, but I like to be surprised.

Breathe Carolina “Blackout”
This electro-pop-rock phenomenon (Ready Set, Hot Chelle Rae, Cobra Starship?) is something I can live with. I can’t wait for new bands to do it ironically or as an homage in about 15 to 20 years (like what happened to New Wave). This song is another fine example of the music and the usual message, of perhaps a good time (or in this case, too much of one).

Beyonce “Countdown”
Here’s an artist who had a great blueprint to continued success, and yet she keeps pushing herself and her music into new territories and experiments that don’t always work ["Girls (Run the World)" was a chart disaster]. God bless her. 

The Fray “Heartbeat”
After a brief vacation, the Fray are back and they sound more like themselves. It’s hard to explain, but sometimes a band or singer comes back with a new album that just sounds like their old stuff but bigger. This one qualifies as a great example.

Avril Lavigne “Wish You Were Here”
Goodbye Lullaby was supposed to be a more mature album, but if you judged by the first two singles you wouldn’t have guessed that. The maturity is evident on this new ballad, which is a bit more representative of the album. Also, I know I’m way to old and way too male to be as into Avril as I am. I may seek help soon.

Pick to click: The Fray

last week…on KKCK:

Colbie Caillat “Brighter Than the Sun”
Miss Caillat tries to warm our hearts, as our everything else is tensed up with winter lurking around the corner.

Taio Cruz w/Flo Rida “Hangover”
So we have back to back weeks with songs about the dangers of partying a bit too hard? We must be the party station.

Foo Fighters “These Days”
I remember buying Wasting Light and thinking there weren’t many songs that would cross over to KKCK. Here’s the third one, so either I bought the wrong album or my feel for what rock works on pop radio is off. Well, it might be that everybody seems to love Dave Grohl too.

Girl in a Coma “Smart”
I’m pretty sure this is the first act from Blackheart Records we’ve played since Joan Jett. They rock a bit more like Sick of Sarah than Miss Jett though. Plus, they meet that bar of “song I could hear KKCK playing in the 90s”. Hey, the 90s seem to be coming back with a vengeance.

James Rocco “And the Night Stood Still”
This guy is new, but somehow he got his hands on a song by Diane Warren. That’s good enough for a trial run.

Pick to click: Taio Cruz w/Flo Rida

I really don’t want it to be November.

Don’t get me wrong, September wasn’t a great month, and October had more misses than hits. November is feeling more and more like a long, slow, slog to the one year anniversary of my mom’s death. I couldn’t shake that thought for about a half hour on Friday, and it was all I could do to keep myself from breaking down into a raging sadness/anger monster (which would have been bad since I was at work). My wife has had the “anger” stage of grief about her passing, but I never really did. I think I’m doing the stages of grief out-of-order.

Today was Braeden’s first experience with Teen Titans. We watched three episodes, and he was running around yelling “TEEN TITANS” the rest of the night. He also wanted to be called “Robin” at bedtime. I was a bit worried it was a bit old for him (it’s rated Y7) but he handles the Toy Story movies well, and those have some really dark parts if you think about it. He did start asking where Batman was, so I might have to figure which Batman: TAS episode is best suited for him. I’m also getting excited because we had a Candyland breakthrough. He was moving his own token on the path most of the time, so it won’t be long and we can start getting more into board games. I’m still a ways off from sitting down with the wife and kids and having a four person game of Catan or Risk 2210, but we’ll get there eventually.

I’m almost done with my Bruce Springsteen discography project. After that, I’ll be listening to all the Anthrax albums from the Belladonna era (and maybe the Bush era as well). The next big decision after that is between the discography of Alice Cooper and the Beatles. I’ve been a fan of Alice Cooper since the late 80s, but I have not heard a full album that was released before Constrictor. Everything I’ve heard before that was on compilations or box sets. This includes Welcome to my Nightmare, which I’ve never heard all the way through. On the other hand, the Beatles are a much bigger name, and a much more glaring omission. I’ve heard plenty of Beatles music, but never in an album context. We had the remasters digitally delivered to the station when they came out (legit BTW) and I’ve been sitting on them for a while. As a fan of popular music, this is an omission that I need to address at some point. Eventually I’ll get both listened to, but I’m not sure which to go with after Anthrax. Yes, Anthrax gets priority. That isn’t negotiable.

National Novel Writing Month is almost here. I hope that’s still a thing when my kids are older.

When next we meet, we meet in November.

 

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