Ryan's Waste of Precious Webspace

Rock 105.3 greatly impressed me today. In the five (separate) instances I drove, I heard four Tool songs. When you don't have a CD player in your car, stuff like this can make your day.

What doesn't make my day is that up until about 10 in the morning, Rock 105.3 is all talk (and mindless talk at that).

And on down my presets:

• FM 94.9 - Why so much Alice In Chains lately? I'd expect that from 105.3 - I thought the idea was to play a variety of (good) music. Other than that and their DJs being too full of trivial information, I'm glad to have a station that keeps its focus on playing music.
• 91X (91.1) - Much improvement since escaping from Clear Channel. A little too much morning talking, but solid music choices.
• KROQ (106.7) - Plays more System of a Down than 105.3, but I can only get reception about 50% of the time.
• 103.7 - 50% talking; 49% commercials; 1% music. When they do play music, it's all right, but the rest is pure garbage. What happened?
• KPRI (102.1) - Occasionally, I'll hear a fun, popular song from high school or a quality song, but it's always music, which is always preferrable to an ad.

Also, it's good to know that any time I drive for a period of longer than 20 minutes, I can almost guarantee I'll hear System of a Down ("Hypnotize" usually, which although it's far from their best song, it's still better than 95% of the rest of the radio's music.) on at least one of my presets.