<p>Cultural boost for the Rice campus, my a**! There are a few good programs, i.e., blues and hi fi, reggae, indie…but they are few and far between. Mostly you hear DJs stumble over themselves and use filler words like “uh, er, well” and can we talk about the genre called “genetic memory?!” One such ditty was 5 minutes of what sounded like a vaccuum cleaner or like the radio went off the air for 5 minutes. I believe the name of the “song” was “noise,” and that is all it was. If you want to introduce me to something, fine; but don’t leave on that vacuum crackling for that length of time! And who truly believes that “Speeding Motorcycle” rises to the level of music? Really? Please. And you let it drone on for 5 minutes. I wish I would have counted the number of times that is said “Speeding motorcycle.” I think it was 60 words of the total 70 words repeated over and over ad nauseum. KTRU didn’t increase its listenership because it is TOO random. Here was one hour: head banger, heavy metal, genetic memory, ballad, girl howling like a cat in heat, Irish jig, acid-tripping instrumental, old 45 record playing country song with extremely poor singer. Then the next hour of soul was great.</p>