Hotel tunes

Here at the Hotel Atlantis you don't even need to bring your ipod. They pipe music right into the room for you. It's like permanently being on an elevator, except you have the option of turning the music off, thankfully. This music is some of the most random music I've heard collected on one station. And it is a real radio station. One that checked out of reality in the mid-1980s. Ordinarily a good 80s station can be fun, appreciated even, but this is something altogether different. I turned it on the other day when I arrived because it's rare to see a radio console built into the headboard of your bed these days, at least in my experience, let alone one that works. I turned it on, static, then out came Purple Rain. Not objectionable, I must say. I am a fan of the Purple One. However, Purple Rain isn't really a radio song. It's something like 8 minutes long, much of that a long guitar solo. Anyway, this morning I thought I would give it another try since I'm used to listening to the radio in the morning and streaming NPR doesn't work well for several reasons. I find the station and it's none other than the theme song from the Never Ending Story. On the radio. Remember that movie? The big flying dog? I remember really loving that movie when I was a kid. Oh, so the Never Ending Story theme was followed by Whitney Houston, pre-Bobby Brown, singing Don't You Wanna Dance. I am now completely intrigued by my 70s style room radio. I think it will be my new morning companion.