Will you Please Stop Playing that Song
Hey kids, Being that today is Halloween (okay I realize it’s not Halloween any longer, but it was when I started writing this so get over it) it is my duty to mention that I have never seen the movie “Hocus Pocus”. When it came out I said “that looks shitty” and I have high hopes that I will never see it. Okay, that news is out of the way. On with the main event. This past summer when we took a blissfully short road trip we tried using Spotify in the car. We each took turns choosing artists to listen to (I pretty much always picked The Beatles or Elvis Costello) and then trying not to complain about each other’s selections. On several occasions I mentioned that there were certain songs that I have heard enough and I never need to hear them again. Then I recently read an article in which someone on NPR had come up with the same idea that I did; that certain songs need to be retired. So I decided that I would make a list of the songs I never, ever ...