re: #360 Slap

Actually, that song is a wingnut’s cry for help. McLean himself has said he wrote it as a response to the moral decay he saw in the Stones, Dylan and the advance of rock-n-roll.

I mean, how braindead does one have to be to believe that music after the death of one (admittedly brilliant) perfromer was worthless? That nothing that came after had value? I spit on that idea.

(Sorry for that rant — I have come to loathe that song and what it represents for a long time now, and it GRATES every time I hear it….grrrrr…..)

But….regarding the last couple of days of SCOTUS decisions:

HELL YEAH!!!!!

My reason for hating that song are a little more visceral - I burned out on it totally after about the 500th time I heard it on the radio.

When I hear ‘A long, long time ago…’ come out of the speakers, I cannot switch the station fast enough.