More Fm 98 9

I have a good friend of mine who is Puerto Rican. He grew up in NY and has only lived here a couple of years. I’ve visited NY with him many times and have hung around his friend many a drunken early morning. At some point in the night, all of them kinda’ start talking about things that I just don’t get and could never get because I am a) Not Puerto Rican and b) Not from NY. 98% of the time, I am right there with these guys but it’s that 2% that makes me — me and not them. We are still friends but it’s just that way.
About 6 years ago, someone pulled the plug on my favorite station in the world, MORE FM 98.9 and replaced it with «BLAZIN’ 98.9″, another hip hop station to compete with Jammin’ Z90 and Channel 933. I was crushed because MORE FM was one of my last few ties to Mexico since they played a very specific genre of music. Best way to describe it is Coldplay meets Santana. It’s Alternative but not 100% for instance; Radiohead doesn’t have a horn section. It’s generically called „Rock en Espanol“ but I even feel that label doesn’t always fit and degrades it a bit. We’ll say the music is as diverse and rich as anything in English but fits in that 2% that Spanish speakers might „get“
Last week someone told me that they had resurrected the station, seemingly out of the ashes of the old station somewhere in Tijuana and apparently have been playing old tapes and have no DJs. They’ve been back on the air for maybe a month or so but to listen to it, it’s as if they have been frozen in time like Walt Disney’s decapitated head. This is both good and bad. Music needs innovation, change and improvisation. Do not get me wrong, I love the walk down nostalgia lane but I’d also like to hear new and exciting things coming from strange and exotic lands like Paraguay or Andean Chile.
I for one couldn’t be happier for this station coming back. I just feel bad for the guy with the shaved head in the baggy jeans when he woke up a month ago and heard Fabulosos Cadillacs’ „Matador“ and wondered…“what the F!!!»