That game last night was fantastic.
One of the best games I've seen in the Playoffs so far. You gotta give credit to the Ducks because they looked done after that impressive - but flukey, come on, is it really "clutch" to score a goal like that and can we just like once use some critical thinking? I mean he's on the ice because he's one of the best players and he scored because occasionally he's going to and he added a second goal which was a complete fluke and I'm not saying he isn't "clutch" only that "clutch" is just confirmation bias + opportunity and that scientifically it is not a real thing - goal.
But you've seen the game or at least the highlights or you wouldn't be here. And since no one really wants to debate the existence of clutchness, you know what else is on my mind?
Do you really wanna know what enrages me?
Classic Rock Radio.
Now, I know it's 2015 and radio as a viable listening format is all but dead - no thanks to the Chorus Radio Network - but we've all been there: working at a job all day long and the supposedly inoffensive Classic Rock station pumping out the Jams and pushing you one step closer to the edge with every overplayed song you wish you could somehow prevent anyone - not just yourself - from ever hearing again.
Sure, Led Zeppeling has some good songs. Hell, Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti both stand up, but who in their right mind would intentionally play "Whole Lotta Love" or "Black Dog," except for a sadist?
What I don't get about Classic Rock Radio is that they play roughly four songs each from a list of acceptable artists and ignore the rest of their libraries. Who in their right mind - and a program director is not a person in their right mind, we know this - is sitting around at four in the afternoon saying to themselves "Man, I could really go for some Pink Floyd "Money" followed up by "Buffalo Soldier."
Literally no one. The only excuse you have for liking those songs is that you are either drunk, fifteen and thus not sick of them yet, or a very casual fan of music.
Otherwise, playing either of those two songs should constitute a crime against humanity.
"Brown Eyed Girl" "Sweet Home Alabama" "Hotel California" Anything by AC/DC?
I don't get it. I truly don't. You have to hate music to even want to hear those songs ever again.
Listening to a Classic Rock station makes me feel like the guy from Clockwork Orange when he's strapped into that chair with his eyes propped open.
Why can't you just play some different songs? You can still play the same nine bands + Bob Seger, but mix it up. Double your playlist. Your fans will eat it up.
Think about it - by insisting on playing the same 99 songs ad nauseam for twenty years, you have ignored so much good music that you can now start trumpeting deep-cuts as new songs. People will be shocked but they'll eat it up.
"What do you mean Van Morrison wasn't a one-hit wonder?"
Think of the possibilities.
That being said, who doesn't love some Heart?
Thanks for reading