stand in the mourning shroud
When I was a kid in the mid nineties most of my music listening happened through the Sony Cassette Walkman my Grandma gave me for my birthday. I don’t remember being enthralled with my parents cassette collection; Rod Stewart, Fine Young Cannibals, Simply Red and other detritus of late-eighties Adult Contemporary radio, but it also had an AM/FM radio and I used to power through AA batteries staying up too late listening to Toronto stations.
On Saturday nights 104.5 CHUM-FM would broadcast their weekly chart show where Roger Ashby would count down the top 30 singles in the station’s format and I’m pretty sure that’s when I first heard The Tragically Hip’s “Ahead by a Century”.
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