A few musical notes...

I must be extremely out of touch with music these days. They've been doing a retrospective on the best music of the year on Slate.com -- and I don't listen to of any of the stuff they're talking about. I've only heard of some of the people they're mentioning, the rest is a complete void for me. The hip-hop stuff I've only heard because I get people asking for them as ringtones (which means I get to hear them in 40 second bursts), and none of it's appealing to me. I'm thinking "thank God for satellite radios and CD changers", because that's about all I listen to anymore. I've got Sirius Radio's Classic Rewind running during work, while I listen to Laugh Break or Blue Collar Comedy while in the car. In the truck, I'll sometimes listen to Mr. Buechner's Dream or the latest disk from my friend Jim (a.k.a. J Gemini), but for anything out now... Let's face it, MTV is watched less in my house than ESPN is, and the only time I stay on VH1 is to watch My Fair Brady, or a little bit of Breaking Bonaduce (or maybe Fat Club).

Here's something I didn't know -- while I was typing this, the music that plays before the Rush Limbaugh show started up. That would be fine if I was listening to the local talk radio station instead of the music channel. Turns out it's a real song by the Pretenders called My City Was Gone.

That's something worth listening to...