You don't know Jack?

We just stumbled upon a cool new radio station here in town. It's actually an old station that just switched formats - and not to Espanol! Hooray! (not that there's anything wrong with Espanol, okay?)... it's 100.5 - JACK FM! Their motto is "We play what we want."

When Patti first told me about it, I was skeptical. We were driving and switched to it immediately, and they were playing some silly 80's new wave song. I wrote it off for the moment, but driving today I gave it another chance. "Two Princes" by Spin Doctors was playing, and I listened, because, yeah, it was definitely overplayed in its day, but it's a good song that takes me back to the early 90's. Next up was Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." Nice! What station's going to play those two songs back-to-back? Jack!

Then things took a turn for the worse... "Tell Me Lies," by Fleetwood Mac. I would've dug just about any other Fleetwood Mac song (except maybe "Tusk"), but I just had to switch over to 107.5 (commercials), and then 94.1 ("Lump" by Presidents of the USA - again, NICE!).

Take a look at those three songs, though, and tell me that's not variety. Sure, the occasional suck will come on, but what station doesn't occasionally suck? So, while you're out and about, take the CD out or turn off your iPod and say hello to "Jack"!