I find it amusing that under no circumstances whatsoever will WXRT ever play anything by Rush. Who can deny that Permanent Waves was among the better albums of 1980? I mean, sure, they're a Classic Rock Dinosaur who are already the province of the Loop and the Drive, but the Stones aren't? I want to know what's up with this.

It's probably the most visible campaign of a larger protest against progressive rock, which I 110% agree with.

Yeah but they play a ton of Genesis.

There has always been an invisible fence around XRT's playlist that kept out Loop/MET black concert t-shirt bands from the 70's and '80's, Zeppelin being the most notable exception to the rule. It wasn't until Jane's Addiction, the Pumpkins, and the Grunge bands that these lines began to blur in earnest. I remember reading an early interview with Chris Cornell wherein he said that Soundgarden was as influenced by Sonic Youth as they were by Black Sabbath and thinking that that would have ramifications on how these stations would qualify these bands as legit to their listeners.

Filter's Nice Shot

wasn't that song about budd dwyer? he was some politician or something who famously shot himself in the head during a presser and there's gifs of it all over the internet.