DAVE IN THE CAVE’S FAVE FIVE SONGS!

"I dunno. That one, by that guy, always wore a shirt?" The number one question I get, besides "why are you still on the air?" has always been "what is your favorite song?" Ya see, I never, ever have an answer at the ready, because my taste is so scattered, all over everywhere, across every type of music. Seriously THIS:

-is what I have to think through to get the right answer to you. So, in the spirit of all my other Fave Fives, here in no particular order, is a look at five songs that I find really super swell. Today it's, wait for it, Number Five.

First up, what my lovely wife calls "Loser Rock." It's Rush, and "The Spirit Of Radio." It's everything I feel about the medium in which I toil, summed up in one of the most concise lyrics in Rush's career. One day, the women in my life will understand. Right now, they just think daddy's a bald hobo manchild with boring musical taste.

These lyrics, they get me, man:

"Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free"

I mean, yeah, that's how I feel everyday, when I stand behind that K1017 Console; it's like I'm piloting a ship, cutting through those invisible airwaves, sailing through through people's lives, brightening THEIR mornings.

Try telling that to my daughter.

"All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted it's really just
A question of your honesty, yeah, your honesty."

So, here you go, the first of Dave's Five Fave Songs!

P.S: Find a list of the Top Ten NERDIEST Rush songs HERE!