I know that music is good for me, helping me both energize and blow off “The Blues”. The hard part is finding music that I can listen to for more than an hour.
No one musician/group can keep me going up for any length of time and listening to AM radio is out of the question for me. The closest station only plays country music, a genre I’m not fond of. FM radio isn’t much better. They play some of the songs that I want to hear, but they stop to have so many commercials that it’s usually easier just to turn it off.
Then I discovered Internet Radio.
Some people might call what I listen to “elevator music”, but it’s more 70s and 80s pop tunes, with some rock, some folk and a bit of everything. Basically, it’s the stuff that we listened to when we had real DJs and not automated music, back when you could call up any time, day or night, and someone would answer the phone and play the song you requested. Those where the days when transistors were a new thing and boom boxes hadn’t been heard of. Even CDs and DVDs were only things that you saw on a science-fiction series.
I did find an Internet station that plays not only my favourites, but songs that I’ve never heard before – remakes or the original versions of the songs that I grew up with. Their library consists of music from 40 years of rock and roll, so a repeat isn’t likely to happen in a hurry. Much as I may want it to, some times. This is music that I can sing along to, music whose lyrics are louder than the bassline, real music.
There’s only one drawback to listening to this station. The songs play without interruption, so I find myself working for hours on end without realizing the passage of time.
