Post by psychedcrow on Apr 15, 2024 19:01:41 GMT
When I was a small child, a local radio station would play a parody of REM's It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) every Friday morning called End of the Week As We Know It. For years this was all I could remember, and all I could find was a post on a (now defunct) forum that also mentioned it playing in the same area. Now if you try to look up anything about it all you find is me looking for it with massive gaps in trying with little actual effort being made to find it.
I'm from Marquette, Michigan originally, so I found the Marquette subreddit to see if by chance anyone there had any idea what I was talking about. Lucky me, someone remembered the exact station it played on. 97.1 WGLQ in Escanaba, TJ and the Wake-Up Crew. I actually managed to get in touch with TJ Ryan who confirmed it was his show that used to play it every Friday morning, but he no longer had access to it. Or rather, it was on a machine that he didn't even know if he could even get working with the current studio. He said he'd try to get it and send me a copy, but nothing ever came of it.
He did tell me that it was from a comedy service that the station was subscribed to, which gives me some hope that it's still out there somewhere. I'm honestly quite happy having confirmation that it does exist after all this time, but if there's a chance it can be found it would be amazing just to hear this dumb weekend based parody that will almost certainly be underwhelming if I do find it.
I wish I could give actual details about the song other than it's an REM parody. I think part of a lyrics was "It always starts on Friday", but it's been over 20 years since I last heard it and that partial lyric has proven useless in my search thus far.
