30 Day Song Challenge - Day 18: A Song You Wish You Heard On The Radio

The year is 1993 and I am faithfully listening, as I did most Saturday mornings, to Rock Over London on Live 105 when I first heard this amazing blast of a song. Having listened to the show for some years at this point I knew that it often took awhile for the songs featured on the show to make it to the station's playlist. I waited patiently to hear The Auteurs "Lenny Valentino" on the radio again but that time never came.  Was this due to the increasingly US-centric content of the Modern Rock station as grunge took over?  I don't know, but I do know that I am still wishing this song received more than one spin on air nearly 20 years later. Listen and then tell me that I'm wrong.

30 Day Song Challenge - Day 17: A Song That You Hear Often On The Radio

Is there any other song so popular across the radio dial in 2011 than Adele's "Rolling In The Deep"?  You can hear it playing on one station flip the dial and finish the song on another frequency. I can't knock the song's success even though it's not my cup of tea if only because some of my favorite bloggers proclaimed the genius of the song a year ago.  Sometimes the public does get it right.