Sandi Thom "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker"

Some people do Spring cleaning.  But we're more likely to do our Spring cleaning, in the Fall.

In these parts, in a Summer tourist town, from May to August, most of your energy is expended as you just try to keep up with the day to day of it all.  There is no time for maintenance.

I did not mow my lawn for the entire month of August.  Much to the chagrin of my neighbors.

Similarly, there isn't much time to file or pile or sort or cull through the mounting detritus on the desks and shelves and offices of mvyradio.

But then one day in early September, as you are racing through your daily routine and you finish, you look up . . . and there is still time left on the clock.  You've cut your commercials and answered your voicemails and filled out your reports.  And you rejoice, as you realize that the season's rush has abated, and you can start putting your life back in order.

So that's what I've been working on this week.  An hour of my day, each day, has been devoted to clearing out the CD shelves in the studio.

Real estate is hard to come by in our little building.  And if you've ever been here, you know that the walls in nearly every room burst with CDs.

But because Real estate is scarce, only a limited number of CDs can be in the main studio with the DJs.  So we try to limit those shelves to the ones that we play in regular rotation.

Of course, what stays in regular rotation, what is essential, does change from year to year.

So that was my task, to pull out the CDs that maybe, at one time were important to us, but are now so rarely (if ever) played, that they can go on a shelf elsewhere in the building.

This includes some artists who just aren't in rotation anymore.  Sorry Pink Floyd!

And it also includes young artists we took a chance on, but who's songs didn't break through or make enough of an impact to have lasting power.

I was certain that this Sandi Thom song would rise above novelty status and break out.  But it never really caught on with listeners.

So it goes to a shelf in the basement.

But check it out, if you've never heard it.  It's fun!


Hear the song on Youtube.