From: "Michael Olcsvary" <olcsvary@verizon.net>
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To: <tv@obbard.com>
Subject: RE: (TV) Is nothing sacred?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 23:20:33 -0800
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From: stephen wilson
C'mon, 'Roadrunner' - it's pop music, nothing 'sacred' about it! Turn off
your TV if it bugs you.
At first I thought of responding to this with something pithy and succinct,
on the order of "bite me." Instead, I'll just say that in '72, when I
first
heard this on WBCN (about the only place on earth you could hear it then)
it
was a revelation, a breath of fresh air, a call to arms -in other words, it
was IMPORTANT, goddamn it, a song that said you didn't need to play 20
minute guitar solos or sing about fairies and elves and the wee folk
(nothing against them - we may be related on my Irish side) to play some
rock and roll. So, to you it's just a pop song - to me it's a touchstone,
a
benchmark, and something that still makes me turn the car radio up when I
hear it - in the same way "Little Johnny Jewel" or "Final Solution" is. So
it bothers me when this wonderful song that's inspired a bunch of folks to
go out in their garages and makes some noise is now being used to shill for
motor oil (and yeah, it's a recreation, but at two chords and a Farfisa
it's
still "Roadrunner.") I guess I should find solace that it wasn't used to
sell laxitave.
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