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Edge 102 ~ CFNY

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1991 Weekend

CFNY Edge 102 is having a 1991 weekend, playing the best tracks from that year.  As fully disclosed in my first blog entry, I'm partial to the years 1991-1994, the days between the release of Nirvana's Nevermind and the moment a self-inflicted gunshot pierced Kurt Cobain's brain.  Of course, it
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An Oxymoron

All week long CFNY Edge 102 has been airing "The Best Of The Dean Blundell Show" in the mornings. That's a serious oxymoron.  I tune in for the tunes, but when that trio starts yakking I'm out of there.  I've read articles that suggest they're quite popular in their target
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Edgefest Lineup

In the city's worst kept secret, CFNY Edge 102 unveiled the lineup for this year's Edgefest at the Molson Amphitheater on July 1st.  Billy Talent will headline, Alexisonfire will go second last and a few other bands will be there but I'm fairly unfamiliar with all of them.  Let me
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Edgefest Headliners

CFNY Edge 102's website tells you they're revealing their Edgefest 2005 lineup on Monday morning.  This article, however, lets the cat out of the bag as to who will be headlining.  Your Edgefest 2005 headliners will be Billy Talent. Last year, I really let CFNY Edge 102 have it when
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Shower Genius

I'm a shower genius.  During my morning shower, I tune in CFNY Edge 102 on my shower radio and brain storm.  The great ideas come fast and furiously in a creative explosion. I don't mean to toot my own horn here, but If I could live in the shower I'd
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Jump Around

Periodically CFNY Edge 102 will start to play a tune that they completely ignored when first released.  This happened recently when they began playing Eminem's "My Name Is" in the fall.  When this happens it's usually a song that would have been regarded as off-genre at the time of release,
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Thursday 30 Mistakes

I closely monitor the rise and fall of songs on CFNY Edge 102's Thursday 30.  About a month or so ago, they began putting a little Canadian flag next to the Canadian artists on their chart.  I liked this little feature because it lets me know right away whether a
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Lady

This note ain't for you, it's for the Gap.  A month ago, our televisions were inundated with Gap commercials featuring Sarah Jessica Parker bopping to Lenny Kravitz' "Lady".  "Lady" is a new tune of his from his new album "Baptism".  This advertisement was the first time we all heard this
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An Awful, Awful Song

CFNY Edge 102 has been playing "Me Against The World" from Simple Plan on fairly heavy rotation.  This tune has even been on their Thursday 30 chart for the past couple of weeks. It's horrible.  It's the whiney, poppy, pathetic sound I can't stand.  Sure, they're from Montreal and they
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Caught!

Remember back in March when CFNY Edge 102 announced the lineup for Edgefest 2004?  I wrote this entry lambasting them for selling Good Charlotte as the headliner, especially considering the fact they won't even play Good Charlotte on their station. It was all so hypocritical, I wrote CFNY Edge 102
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The Mike Hunt

The mediocre CFNY Edge 102 morning show is holding another annoying contest this week they call The Hunt for Mikes.  The objective is to come to their store front studio with more Mikes than anyone else.  As I see it, it's a lame, one-note joke that's already boring me to
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Epidemic

I don't mean to beat this horse to death, but on my drive home this afternoon I heard Eminem's "My Name Is" on CFNY Edge 102.  That's twice in a span of three days and I haven't had much time for radio listening.  This is officially an epidemic. "My Name
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Alan Cross Sez

Just yesterday I wrote a blog entry hearing Eminem's "My Name Is" on CFNY Edge 102.  It seemed strange to me that this particular Eminem song was played and I wrote Edge 102's program director Alan Cross about it.  Alan and I have exchanged emails in the past, you may
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My Name Is

This morning I heard Eminem's "My Name Is" on CFNY Edge 102.  When "My Name Is" was introducing the world to a white rapper from Detroit by hitting the top of every top 40 chart on the continent, Edge 102 wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.  You can
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Air Play

Two of my favourite songs this past spring were Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" and Modest Mouse's "Float On". In fact, I liked them so much they not only made SLS11 back in June but they're first and second respectively on the playlist.  They open the lastest edition of SLS
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