The Wee Democracy

bad music

remember when i was on hold with msn for like two hours, trying to undo the shit that was perpetrated on me by some bastard hacker's virus? well, i said that the music that was played while i was on hold was most assuredly the anthem of hell, and was probably played as a detterent to actual customer service.

well, i must say that i perhaps spoke a little too quickly -- jumped the gun a tad -- about the possible soundtrack for hell itself. surely, if there is a hell, and there is music played through some perverse seraphim of a loudspeaker, then its not what i hear on hold with microsoft. it IS what i hear day in a day out at work...the same shitty easy listening crap that drives me utterly fucking insane.

i don't like REM to begin with and having to listen to 'shiny happy people' and 'what's the frequency, kenneth' is just about all i can take, and i can't even take it that well.

then there's 10,000 maniacs singing these are the days, which i heard just about enough of from every single freakin' video yearbook leah brought home.

now don't get me wrong -- they can't play ALL bad songs. there's some sarah mclachlan in there, and some norah jones, some stealer's wheel.

but then there's UB40, a group i've been clamoring for the heads of for some time now, what with their crimes against taste and decency. i mean, red red wine is a piece of shit, bob marley knock off. can't help falling in love? yeah, that was cool when i was in the sixth grade. baby, i love your way? shitty song to begin with, so why the hell would you cover it? and just how did you make it even shittier?

and speaking of other bad covers, there's some girl who covers "every little thing she does is magic" except changes it from 'she' to 'he', and another, even more audacious girl who sings "let's stay together". never! never! cover al green. ever.

then there's motown. don't get me wrong, i like motown, and i've been known to get my groove on to some songs they might play during the day. but they play way too much of it, and they play some really REALLY awful choices. do it right, or don't do it at all.

the worst part about all of this is, i hear the same songs every day, mingled in there with that "always something there to excite me" jingle. shitty source, shitty ad. simple as that.

hell is going to suck.



feeling: scared - there was a bad storm tonight, which i'm pretty sure i single handedly cause by shooting off my big mouth about how there's never going to be a tornado in dallas.
thinking of: what to buy vince for the wedding
song of the day: teenage wasteland - the who
don't cry, don't raise your eye, it's only teenage wasteland