Can We Get Some Silverchair in the House?

Yesterday while mired in several hours of document review at work, I turned my aural attentions to KTCU, Fort Worth's college radio station (now available streaming). While I truly respect those college stations that really push musical boundaries, some of these stations are so committed to the avant garde as to render them unlistenable. No one, however, would accuse KTCU of being oppressively edgy.

Adam and I used to listen to KTCU pretty regularly in the 1997-1999 era, when I would drive him around town in the beloved metallic green Ford Taurus. Yesterday I was pleased to find that the station's line-up has changed minimally in the past decade. First up, Brick, whose lyrics I just learned are not "she's a-breakin' up drowning slowly." I then prepared for some Raconteurs or Feist or whatever, but hearing the unmistakeable saxophone intro of Ants Marching, I quickly realized that the mid-90s hits were going to keep on coming.

The next three hours of KTCU programming basically showcased the soundtrack of my high school experience. The Verve Pipe (the slower, acoustic version of "The Freshmen," a nod to the college radio format), Counting Crows, Better Than Ezra. Has anyone thought about Better Than Ezra in the past ten years? Also, the freaking Wallflowers! Too amazing.

Jakob Dylan has explained that the song "One Headlight" is about "the death of ideas." To me, it has much more literal connotations. I remember driving in the Taurus one afternoon in high school, hearing "One Headlight" for the two hundredth time on the radio, and thinking that the song was still great, but it was just a little too accurate to be listening to it on the same day that I had backed into a random post at a gas station and would have to explain to my parents why one tail light of my car was busted.