OUR VIEW: The day the music died

It almost seems like a running trend of high-profile music acts visiting Utah State’s campus this fall, starting with Quietdrive and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus during the first week of classes, and later this fall We The Kings will be visiting to perform for The Howl.

    On Monday, a different kind of high-profile act from the music industry made its way to Logan in the form of the X96 Radio From Hell morning show.

    For any person who spent their high school years in the Salt Lake City, Ogden or Provo area, Radio From Hell was the morning show that everybody listened to. Not only that, but X96 is, and has been, the go-to radio station for rock and roll music in the Salt Lake area for as long as any college-aged student can remember.

    So, for Radio From Hell to make its way to Utah State for a day is definitely a welcome guest appearance to have. There’s just one glaring problem with X96 coming to Logan … You can’t get X96 on an FM radio in Cache Valley.

    It serves as a tease to anyone who has lived within range of X96’s signals that the best reception anyone can get of the station in Logan is a static mess that will have you switching back to your iPod in no time.

    Whether it be the Radio From Hell show or the rest of X96’s radio programming, the little station from Salt Lake City is often regarded as one of the best in the country, and that little station chose Utah State as a destination to bring its popular morning show on the road for a day.

    It’s definitely an honor to have had them, but we think that it would be much nicer if everyone could still listen to Radio From Hell on a regular basis, rather than just bask in the nostalgia of what used to be for the single day that X96 paid us a visit. We can only hope that it won’t be much longer before the powers that be come through with the delivery of a strong enough signal for Salt Lake radio programming to reach Utah State students, to go along with the occasional visit from Radio From Hell.