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Paul Smeenus · 04-04-2013, 01:23 PM

So, where I work they play a top 40 radio station. Which I consider a bit of a misnomer as it seems to me that they play 6-8 songs all day (that's been true for years and years).

Two songs in particular seem to be played 50 times in an 8 hour workday. Now if you like these songs, that's fine, they're not my cup of tea but I only viscerally despise these two songs due to the brain-melting frequency that I'm stuck with hearing them. One is Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" and the other is Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble". Those two songs are played every 15-30 minutes or so, nearly always back to back in that order.

So, sometime around 7am (I had been cat sitting for my lady friend, I expected the cats to get me up around then so I filled their food dispenser thingie late last night and went home so I could sleep in) my brain decides it's going to play the Swift song in repeat mode for hours on end at full blast into my brain's ear. UGH. The only solution, after two hours of trying to ignore it and/or get by brain to shut down, was to either 1. drive my fist through my eye socket and physically rip out the part of my puny brain that was doing that (not out of the question except that I don't know what part of my brain does that) or to give up on sleeping in, put on some coffee and turn on my music (not a speck of Taylor Swift to be found there). For mere practicality's sake I decide on the latter.

The very first song my crazy iPod decides to play...

OK, sometimes, depending on my mood, this can be a skip-aheady song for me, the reason I have it is I love Neil Young and most of the Re-Act-Tor album, plus I'm really fond of *anything* that can be so dedicated and true to being THIS aggressively stupid.

But, this morning, my iPod knew, as it so frequently does, what my musical medicine needed to be. T-Bone was the perfect brain bleach for scrubbing Taylor Swift out of my morning. True, she'll be back in force tomorrow, but if I can't sleep in on my day off at least I can have a few hours peace.

Thanks Neil.

04-04-2013, 01:23 PM	#11607 (permalink)
Paul Smeenus David Hasselhoff Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Back in Portland, OR Posts: 3,681	So, where I work they play a top 40 radio station. Which I consider a bit of a misnomer as it seems to me that they play 6-8 songs all day (that's been true for years and years). Two songs in particular seem to be played 50 times in an 8 hour workday. Now if you like these songs, that's fine, they're not my cup of tea but I only viscerally despise these two songs due to the brain-melting frequency that I'm stuck with hearing them. One is Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" and the other is Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble". Those two songs are played every 15-30 minutes or so, nearly always back to back in that order. So, sometime around 7am (I had been cat sitting for my lady friend, I expected the cats to get me up around then so I filled their food dispenser thingie late last night and went home so I could sleep in) my brain decides it's going to play the Swift song in repeat mode for hours on end at full blast into my brain's ear. UGH. The only solution, after two hours of trying to ignore it and/or get by brain to shut down, was to either 1. drive my fist through my eye socket and physically rip out the part of my puny brain that was doing that (not out of the question except that I don't know what part of my brain does that) or to give up on sleeping in, put on some coffee and turn on my music (not a speck of Taylor Swift to be found there). For mere practicality's sake I decide on the latter. The very first song my crazy iPod decides to play... OK, sometimes, depending on my mood, this can be a skip-aheady song for me, the reason I have it is I love Neil Young and most of the Re-Act-Tor album, plus I'm really fond of anything that can be so dedicated and true to being THIS aggressively stupid. But, this morning, my iPod knew, as it so frequently does, what my musical medicine needed to be. T-Bone was the perfect brain bleach for scrubbing Taylor Swift out of my morning. True, she'll be back in force tomorrow, but if I can't sleep in on my day off at least I can have a few hours peace. Thanks Neil. Last edited by Paul Smeenus; 04-04-2013 at 05:14 PM.