I think it’s because it was one of my first ventures into my own music it wasn’t just my parents’ music that I liked, or pop music for kids, or just Top 40 stuff that everyone listened to. by Panic At The Disco when I was probably 13. The first album I remember buying myself was Pretty. What was the first album you bought with your own money?Ī. “Grass Stain” by Waxahatchee killed me recently. Oops! I Did It Again was probably the first album that was mine instead of my parents’. What was the first song you ever loved?Ī. Some of the artists here are ones that I first heard on WTJU and WXTJ, like Vaadat Charigim, Dark Dark Dark, and Beat Happening.Ĭo-host, Judith and Sam Awesome Show, Great Job! Booking That’s where I first heard Miriam Makeba and Blaze Foley. I’ve been listening to mixtapes from the music blog Aquarium Drunkard, which is a great place to find forgotten music from the 60s or 70s – a lot of which is not on Spotify or practically anywhere else on the internet. This is what I’ve been listening to lately. A lot of WTJU veterans have an encyclopedic knowledge of music, while I have yet to reach that level.Ģ.) For two hours every week I have to drop everything I’m doing and just sit and listen to music with my co-hosts, which makes for some great times.ģ.) People are easily impressed when I tell them I’m on college radio (but then get disappointed when I tell them we’re not on FM …at least not yet!) 1.) Being pushed to discover new, interesting music to play every week.
What is the best part of being on the radio?Ī. A compilation of Charles Aznavour’s greatest hits (I’m studying abroad in France right now). Q. What is your most recent album purchase?Ī.
I was in middle school and I bought it from Best Buy.What was the first album you bought with your own money? Q.What was the first album you bought with your own money?Ī. My co-host, Rebecca, just sent me a song called “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole” by Martha Wainwright, because it’s “right up my alley.” It is actually pretty good. Bongo Bong, Manu Chao, My parents owned a copy of Putumayo’s World Playground compilation for kids which my sister and I have probably replayed a bajillion times. Sara Ho (third from left) is one of three hosts of WXTJ’s “Two and a Half Asians”Ĭo-coordinating Director and co-host, Two and a Half AsiansĪ.