Brevity by Dan Thompson for February 20, 2012
February 19, 2012
February 21, 2012
Transcript:
Annie: The sun'll come out... tomorrow. Man: That'll never get old.
Annie: The sun'll come out... tomorrow. Man: That'll never get old.
I’m sorry…It’s just that I….. Whew……
Anyway, yeah….. there are bad songs, that you won’t remember anyway, like the tuneless compositions your tone deaf 17 year old neighbor practices all day Saturday..
And then there are really bad, evil songs that are well written enough to become nasty earworms.
Everybody has different taste… Stairway to Heaven certainly…..
But “The Night the Loghts Went Out in Georgia” is just one example of relentlessly brain-damaging maudlin pathos,like “Ruby, Don’t Take your Love to Town”…..and my personal bugaboo, “Seasons in the Sun..”
I blame “Teen Angel” for starting the genre, but there may be older examples.