?>{"id":981,"date":"2013-02-20T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T19:53:24","slug":"hot-106-9-la-grange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Hot 106 #9: La Grange"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Hot 106<\/a>\u00a0is a list of 106 \u201cclassic rock\u201d songs that should be banned from radio airplay forever. In an effort to be fair, and to flaunt their musical quasi-snobbishness,\u00a0Kent<\/a>\u00a0and Jen have tasked themselves with finding replacements for the overplayed tunes.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kent: “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My writings about music are, by design, long formed and hyperbolic. I try to incorporate my unique relation to all the music I write about, too. That being said, writing about the Hot 106 is an exercise in pithiness, so you’re just gonna have to trust me when I say that I could write 10,000 words about why I picked “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” over “Blue Jean Blues<\/a>” or “Just Got Paid<\/a>” to replace “La Grange”.<\/p>\n

The main consideration? The rewarded feeling I feel every time I listen to “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide” and, after the slow boogie has had its turn for three-and-a-quarter minutes, the super rocking tag hits in, like if The Beatles had recorded “The End” red-eyed from homegrown and South Texas grit.<\/p>\n

This is the same feeling you get after listening all the way through The Roots’ “You Got Me<\/a>“: even when you know it’s coming you’re so glad it came. That’s a winner.<\/p>\n