One of my favorite movies of all time is High Fidelity. I am a huge John Cusack fan and I love the whole concept of the flick. I even read the book the movie was based on. One of my favorite elements of the movie was the concept of the top five.

I have a hard time limiting myself to only five of anything, but I did the hard work of paring down my list of great break up songs. Here are some of my faves (I cheated and made it a top 10):

Crystal’s Top 10 Break-up Songs of All Time
“Bed of Lies” by Matchbox 20
“I Will Survive” by Donna Summer
“Ruins” by Melissa Etheridge
“Believe” by Cher
“Leave” by Matchbox 20
“Piece of My Heart” by Janis Joplin
“Cryin’” by Roy Orbison
“Here I Go Again” by Whitesnake
“Stay” by Lisa Loeb
“Through With You” by Maroon Five

I could probably get the list up to 20 if I thought about it hard enough, but I don’t know if I could ever get down to just five.

How about you? If you were going to put together a CD of songs for yourself or a friend after a break up, what five songs would you have to include?

The top five, break-up songs of all time are…

By Ryan Woodard

Anyone going to any big concerts or festivals this summer? I will be attending the Foo Fighters at Red Rocks in June, which I must admit I am pretty excited about. I’ve never been to the venue before, but I’ve heard good things. And the Foos are one of my favs.

By Crystal Hohenthaner
Rapid City Journal staff

Earlier this month the station was playing Christmas tunes, but this weekend it was playing a lot of the pop hits that I like to hear. The owner of the station talked to the Journal’s own Dan Daly when it was belting out Christmas tunes around the first of the month. At the time the station had no format, no projected launch date and no employees.

There were rumors that the station might be named “the Planet” but so far it looks like they have no name and still have no employees. But I guess they’ve launched, and they have at least purchased segments from a voice-over man at this point. Althought I haven’t heard a DJ yet “Mr. Voice-Over” says something the the effect of, “all the hits without the rap,” between the songs.

On Friday I saw a billboard that simply said “102.7 fm.” So I changed my radio station — just to check it out — and I ended up listening to the station almost all weekend. So far there are no commercials on the station — which is probably why I have been listening to so much. I have a bad habit of changing the station every time there’s a commercial.

But, honestly, I like the format for the most part. I quit listening to 93.1 back in the day because of all the hip-hop. (I just can’t handle the genre, it’s way to repetitive and angry for me.) So, this morning I commited 102.7 to one of the pre-sest buttons on my car stereo.

With all the uncertainty of the owner earlier this month I wonder if the the station will be around for very long. I also wonder if it will stick to it’s guns and keep the rap out of it. I guess we will all see how this unfolds.

Have any of you spent some time listening to the station? I’d love to read your reactions. Is this format just what Rapid City needs? Or is it a lame version of our top-fourty station?

To read Dan Daly’s story about the station from earlier this month, click here.

The Blue Man Group came to Rapid for the first time last night, and gave the Civic Center Arena crowd a wild little show.

It wasn’t a sellout (tickets were pretty spendy), but the floor and the lower bowl were nearly sold out (love saying lower bowl, makes it sound like a big-city arena, doesn’t it?)

Didn’t like the little KOTA video commercial we had to endure before the headliners took the stage (not a good fit), but once they got on stage … all was forgiven. They had a cool little contest where people in the arena could text to win a backstage pass after the show, and plenty of takers from the looks of it (that’s one way of collecting phone numbers, eh?). They may be blue, but they ain’t stupid.

Best song of the night. Baba O’Reilly by The Who:

And their best sketch comedy, may have been their most famous. The TV heads:

Rapid was ripped up by Relm Thursday night.

Mike Relm opened for The Blue Man Group Thursday at the Civic Center, introducing Rapid to what may have been their first look at world-class video and audio scratching. He not only worked the turntables like a master, but simultaneously scratched the videos on the three huge screens in time with the music.

Most everyone in the audience didn’t realize he was actually manipulating the video until he stopped a wrestling clip dead … and then moved it back and forth as a secondary camera caught his fingers tapping his video deck.

Mike’s worked some pretty big joints. Below is his RC rip of Bjork when he did it at Coachella 07. He’s jacking up the video, at the same time dropping some Run DMC backbeat behind her.

His dizzying scratch of the O-face on “Office Space”

And then my favorite part of the show … anyone who can bridge Peanuts, Pee Wee Herman, and Zepplin is a god.