The best new radio station isn't one that's actually known for playing new music. Sure, occasionally a three-minute eternity such as Lifehouse's "Hanging by a Moment" and Train's "Drops of Jupiter" bleeds over from the other stations on which it's already overplayed, but e105.1 FM compensates for such lapses, following the modern-rock sap with a Duran Duran gem from back in the day. All day, the station digs deeper into its stacks than other stations do during their '80s-themed lunch breaks, which recycle the biggies over and over again. By contrast, e105.1 looks past "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"-sized hits to find forgotten favorites such as Cyndi Lauper's "All Through the Night." It's a classic-rock radio station for listeners who were born in the '70s and came of age in the '80s, the age-group that craves Human League and Al B. Sure! instead of Foghat and Blue Oyster Cult.
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