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Touchdown! Greaser!
“…It used to be so nice, It used to be so good…”
So there I was at FL310 at the front end of a 10+ hour flight back to the US this morning…. I turned on the in-seat entertainment system and started browsing the collection of CDs. I nearly had to stop & scour my bag for a battery for the MP3 player.
There it was. The FIRST CD in the list: “ABBA – The Definitive Collection”… all the songs you wish you’d never heard and hoped you’d forget. Songs like “SOS”, “Dancing Queen”, “Mamma Mia” (‘Here I go again’). (“Only 19.99 plus 7.35 for shipping and handling, CALL NOW, 1-800-badsong. The first 100 callers to 1-800-badsong to order ABBA – The Definitive Collection will get a free Swedish meatball recipe…. That’s 1-800-badsong for ABBA…”)
Sigh.
Then I continued to scroll down the list. It didn’t exactly get better:
Madonna – “Immaculate Collection”
Wham! – “Make it Big”
Belinda Carlisle – “Best of, Vol. 1” (There’s a Vol. 2? WHAM! SOS!)
Traveling Wilburys – “Collection”
Alanis Morissete – “Jagged Little Pill”
James Taylor – “One Man Band”
All that was missing was Looking Glass....
My faith (and brain) was restored as I continued…
AC/DC – “Back in Black”
New Order – “Substance”
Metallica
Depeche Mode – “Music for the Masses”
Temptations – “Temptations Live” (I’m a sucker for 60’s Motown – this is GREAT)
Nirvana – “Unplugged”
David Bowie – “Let’s Dance”
Robert Palmer – “Best of”
Van Morrison – “Astral Weeks”
Jefferson Airplane – “Surrealistic Pillow”
Prince – “Purple Rain”
Cheap Trick – “Authorized Greatest”
Howlin’ Wolf – “Definitive Collection”
The Smithereens – “Meet the Smithereens”
Sting & the Police – “Best of” (Aahhh…..great music… someone selected SOS tune…)
The Clash – “London Calling”
Something to offend just about everybody. And a few things worth listening to. I was worried I’d have to listen to 10 hours of ABBA (whom I call the palindrones), undoubtedly getting one of their bad songs stuck in my head (“darling can you hear me SOS”)…. (don’t go there, Scott… TralalaTralalaTralala I can’t HEAR you)
So there I was at FL310 at the front end of a 10+ hour flight back to the US this morning…. I turned on the in-seat entertainment system and started browsing the collection of CDs. I nearly had to stop & scour my bag for a battery for the MP3 player.
There it was. The FIRST CD in the list: “ABBA – The Definitive Collection”… all the songs you wish you’d never heard and hoped you’d forget. Songs like “SOS”, “Dancing Queen”, “Mamma Mia” (‘Here I go again’). (“Only 19.99 plus 7.35 for shipping and handling, CALL NOW, 1-800-badsong. The first 100 callers to 1-800-badsong to order ABBA – The Definitive Collection will get a free Swedish meatball recipe…. That’s 1-800-badsong for ABBA…”)
Sigh.
Then I continued to scroll down the list. It didn’t exactly get better:
Madonna – “Immaculate Collection”
Wham! – “Make it Big”
Belinda Carlisle – “Best of, Vol. 1” (There’s a Vol. 2? WHAM! SOS!)
Traveling Wilburys – “Collection”
Alanis Morissete – “Jagged Little Pill”
James Taylor – “One Man Band”
All that was missing was Looking Glass....
My faith (and brain) was restored as I continued…
AC/DC – “Back in Black”
New Order – “Substance”
Metallica
Depeche Mode – “Music for the Masses”
Temptations – “Temptations Live” (I’m a sucker for 60’s Motown – this is GREAT)
Nirvana – “Unplugged”
David Bowie – “Let’s Dance”
Robert Palmer – “Best of”
Van Morrison – “Astral Weeks”
Jefferson Airplane – “Surrealistic Pillow”
Prince – “Purple Rain”
Cheap Trick – “Authorized Greatest”
Howlin’ Wolf – “Definitive Collection”
The Smithereens – “Meet the Smithereens”
Sting & the Police – “Best of” (Aahhh…..great music… someone selected SOS tune…)
The Clash – “London Calling”
Something to offend just about everybody. And a few things worth listening to. I was worried I’d have to listen to 10 hours of ABBA (whom I call the palindrones), undoubtedly getting one of their bad songs stuck in my head (“darling can you hear me SOS”)…. (don’t go there, Scott… TralalaTralalaTralala I can’t HEAR you)
