Pump up the volume?

The USA

The land of opportunity.

Home of the Statue of Liberty and the Philly Cheesesteak

A fist full of sweet sweet Olympic gold.

And the worst radio in the civilized world.

When I were a lad, I used to listen to the radio at home. Every night I would lay about in my room and listen to BBC Radio One for hours, the Evening Session would start around 7 or 8, playing a big selection of new music, from mostly established artists, but never the likes of the horrible pop that lived on the top 40. At 10pm, Mark Radcliffe came on the air, playing much the same thing, but with a lot more talk and the occasional radio comedy show. At the stroke of midnight, the action switched to John Peel, playing new bands, unsigned artists (he had a standing deal that if you sent him something in the mail and he liked it, he would play it on his show) He played everything from punk to hip-hop, metal to aboriginal drum music. He was the best.

Cut to 10 years later - America

I only ever listen to the radio in the car, and only when my wifes parents are with us, as they cant hear anything with "cusswords" in it or they will turn into pumpkins at midnight or some shit.

We have 2 stations they listen to. The Duck, an oldies station that plays a few classics and a lot of crap that should have died with the 50's 60's and 70's. If I hear one more song about teens getting killed on the road at night I will loose my mind. Even if Eddie Vedder is singing.

The other station is Joe FM. Random music in random order with nothing from the last 10 years.

I don't think even a young Christian Slater can save the radio here now.

I have to get ready for work now, which means 15 minutes of audio rape from 30 years ago are about to charge relentlessly down my poor earholes.