Best song of the day: Camera Obscura, “French Navy”

I'm mostly just shocked that the first time I heard this song was over the piped-in sound system in the suburban mall where I work now. Technically it's not the radio, but who cares, because do you think the radio would ever play this song?

Last year I worked in a drug store and the chain had its own piped in "radio" playlist. It had many advantages to radio, but just as many disadvantages: Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga and Feist were in their rotation, but so was Colbie Caillat. Also, more songs and more diversity means less certainty that you'll hear what you want, but then again it also means you don't have to hear "Don't Trust Me" 4 times in a 7-hour period.

Best song of the day: Gob, “I Hear You Calling”

You know those songs that you get into when you first start listening to the alternative radio station, because they're short and addictive like pop songs but edgy enough to accommodate your burgeoning teen angst, but then you get older and start liking music that's increasingly inaccessible and less melodic and you become convinced that all of those songs you liked when you were younger are embarrassing, poorly made, indulgent crap, and then when you get older and get over yourself and start listening to the radio again the song comes on the radio, years after you forgot it ever existed, and you realize that it's actually a really good, perfectly constructed song?

Yeah. This is one of those.

Best song of the day: Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 (“Raindrop”)

I don’t know enough about classical music for this to become I Hate Classical Radio, and it wouldn’t be funny enough anyway (“Seriously, who likes Liszt more than Beethoven? YOUR GRANDMA, MAYBE”). But I heard this on the radio today and it blew me away. The next time you tell someone music used to be so much better than it is nowadays, you should be talking about this.

Best song of the day: Blue Rodeo, “Try”

This is one of those songs where when you hear it, you have to stop whatever you're doing and just listen.

Then they played “Lazy Lovers” and ruined the mood.