Tell Me Y?

Have you ever had a moment like this:

You are driving in the car, listening to some good music on the radio. The station you are enjoying goes to commercials, so you scan through all of your other preset stations, looking for something good. You arrive at one of your "staple" stations, expecting a certain kind of music. But...

BAM

They've changed the station on you.

No warning. But a station that once played alternative rock is now spouting synthesizer Gospel. WHAT??

This happened to me the other day, and I'll be honest: It creeps me out.

For those who are from the Philly area, I was listening to 107.5. It wasn't the best station, and it wasn't in my top line of presets. It also came in fuzzy at times, which is another reason I didn't listen to it that often. But, sometimes it would have some solid Classic Rock or Alternative that I could enjoy.

I went to it the other day, and they were playing some poorly synthesizer Gospel music. I was not ready for this. There is nothing wrong with this. I believe everyone should have a radio station, and those people out there who enjoy synthesized Gospel music have added a new preset to their car radio. That's great.

I just wanted a little warning, that's all.

I wasn't as attached to this station, but it flooded me back with memories of several Philly stations in the past decade that went off the air, only to be replaced by a station with a completely different (read: bad) genre of music.

I'm obviously still grieving.

I've recently been missing one radio station in particular: Y100.

I grew up on this radio station. 100.3 FM. Well, until I was in elementary school, it was called "Kiss 100," or something weird like that. It's promo "grab your attention" jingle on television commercials involved the song, "Somewhere (A Place For Us)," by Barbra Streisand. It was previously the kind of station, pre-Delilah, that would have have been DJ'd by Delilah from 8pm-3am.

Then, one glorious day, it was taken over to be Y100. A place for US. A place for ME. Alternative Rock at it's finest. It came at a time where grunge was the look, Greenday was offending our parents, and many of us were mourning the death of Kurt Cobain. I appreciated that, as time passed, the station grew with the current music trends. It also entertained us with Barsky in the morning, Preston and Steve with Caseyboy, Matt Cord and Bret Hamilton.

The one day (with minimal warning) it became a different station.

Playing something like rap or R & B.

*Sigh*

I've really wanted some Greenday, Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots to listen to recently. I've found that 104.5 has a decent selection. I also learned that XPN (88.5) has YROCK on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. You can also listen to the online at yrockonxpn.com.

This gives me hope.

But I still miss you, Y100.

So, Radio World, please don't take away any of my other stations. Let me have my rock.

Thanks,

Steph