Listen while you work
 

I started listening to Radio Free Colorado last week.
Now it's on all day long while I work.

They play great classic songs, but more often than not they play alternative studio versions or live versions. It's good stuff.

http://www.radiofreecolorado.net/
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Chris, thanks for posting that. I've got it on now. :)

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Me too ... anybody else got one?

This is not net-exclusive, but KDHX is a community radio station where everybody but the station manager is a volunteer. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more eclectic mix of music ...

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The DJ is doing a monologue on "The Forgotten War" and the wall for Veteren's Day...a day when I usually think of my father.

Thanks, Chris. I needed to feel what this man is saying and hope that other people do, too.

My father also had skin cancer from Agent Orange. His stories of watching the Agent Orange in action were horrifying. The DJ is echoing his words.

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I have my own custom station on Yahoo's Launchcast that is very well trained (I have over 5000 ratings). The playlist ranges from Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennet to SLAYER and Napalm Death with about everything in between (except rap, hiphop, etc.) and of course a heavy dose of bluegrass...

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I might check it out just for that
my father-in-law's whole body (insides and out) are rotting away from the effects of Agent Orange...

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He's now playing the songs they listened to back then.

Few things made my father get "that" facial expression like the one he had when he talked about "they had this stuff they dropped on the jungle...that stripped every tree, everything green..." (When he was walking across the living room and his arm just split open and started to bleed and I freaked, he merely looked down, shrugged and said "jungle rot. That happens." The man wasn't given to astounded facial expressions.)

I will always believe that Vietnam killed my father. It just waited to do it. He died of multiple cancers, internally and externally. He was a classic delayed stress syndrome. Fifteen years after he came back the second time, he finally told me a story that had something exploding. (Of course, it was his unit blowing up their own equipment so the enemy couldn't use it, one of his friends cutting the primer cord too short and learning to fly. Hard landing, though.) He began to degrade phsychologically. My mother used to wait until he was out of the house to show off his medals. He couldn't stand to look at them.

One of my most treasured, irreplaceable posessions is a small, black and white photograph of a "half-track" that my father stenciled my name on.

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My father-in-law got the skip the jungle rot, but his insides are basically melting...he often talks of "I was killed in Vietnam, my body just isn't quite aware of it yet". My father was "lucky" in that he managed to avoid being in the affcted areas, but his tradeoff was the Tet Offensive....

My father-in-law is going through the mental degradation stages as well. It's getting harder and harder to be out in pubhlis with him and little things set him off and not in that stereotypical Crazy Vietnam Vet way either...it's getting tougher and tougher to deal with as the years go by. Even with my divorce nearly final, my inlaws are great people who will always have my respect, especially my mother-in-law who's endured dealing with this for so many years.

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If you want to know what America really thinks of its Veterans, check out the history of the VA in dealing with Agent Orange.

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Once when my husband and I went to visit my parents while they were stationed in Maryland, my mother took me aside and said "please don't let him take you to the museum. He always offers guests, but then he just stands in front of the Vietnam display in silence...then wakes up screaming in the middle of the night for a long time." Naturally, we didn't go. When my mother died, my father took a swan dive off the ledge of sanity.

PD...I know what America truly thinks of its vets...and how they dealt with Agent Orange. :(

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ok has anyone else noticed they play the same playlists over and over?

and still they take donations... :(

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Every station has a playlist. This one is at least different, and much better, than the VH1Classics I had been listening to. And the donation thing only happens once a day. Other than that, it's all music.

They play "Sleep Walk" :okthumb:

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I don't mind the daily fund raising announcement. It's only about 20 minutes long.

But they could make some more playlists. Maybe I'm just listening too often.

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That might be it. I flip back and forth between Radio Free Colorado, putting in a movie for background noise, and the occasional comfortable silence. That might be why I'm not aware of a "playlist" yet. I'm still going "oh, COOL!! I haven't heard this song in years!"

And...they play "Sleep Walk"! (Yes, I'm obsessing. That's just one of those songs that gets to me.) :)