WLUP nostalgia: It's hard to miss what's no longer there
Mar 7, 2018 19:51:25 GMT -5
Post by boscy on Mar 7, 2018 19:51:25 GMT -5
WLUP nostalgia: It's hard to miss what's no longer there
But WLUP-FM, let’s face it, hasn’t really been “The Loop” of lore for a couple of decades. The people mourning its impending disappearance are mourning the memory of something past. ...
Don’t get me wrong. Each one of those is a great song and a classic for a reason. I give the Loop’s principal (and still kicking!) competitor in the classic rock space, WDRV-FM 97.1, a button on my car radio because sometimes nothing sounds better than the cowbell and then those first fat chords of “Honky Tonk Woman.” (And because I need to make sure, as a responsible parent, that my kids know the Stones from Led Zep and that Pink Floyd was a band, not a guy.)
But when an enterprise exists entirely to serve the nostalgic impulse, it becomes the cultural equivalent of a tar pit. And that’s a huge contrast to the real Loop, the adventuresome Loop, the one that we should have been missing and mourning not only this week but for years now.
Don’t get me wrong. Each one of those is a great song and a classic for a reason. I give the Loop’s principal (and still kicking!) competitor in the classic rock space, WDRV-FM 97.1, a button on my car radio because sometimes nothing sounds better than the cowbell and then those first fat chords of “Honky Tonk Woman.” (And because I need to make sure, as a responsible parent, that my kids know the Stones from Led Zep and that Pink Floyd was a band, not a guy.)
But when an enterprise exists entirely to serve the nostalgic impulse, it becomes the cultural equivalent of a tar pit. And that’s a huge contrast to the real Loop, the adventuresome Loop, the one that we should have been missing and mourning not only this week but for years now.