I’m hooked on slowing down classics!

So I was listening to bob.fm’s top nine at nine this morning. They pick a year and play nine songs from it. Unlike most stations, though, they pick some very random songs. Songs that had are either serious guilty pleasures or so horrible they should have been lost to the ravages of time. Depending on your perspective.

Right before this John Aielli was playing one of those new folk covers. You know the one’s where some hipster takes a really rockin’ song and slows it down into a funeral dirge? To the point where you have to spend time figuring out what the heck the song even was originally? This morning it was The Who’s “Don’t Get Fooled Again”. Which I realized (thanks to said dirge), has some really cornball lyrics in the chorus. Rhyming play, yesterday, and pray? Wow. I actually like the Who ok. But I definitely think that a big part of what they do is the entire package. There are some great lines in that song, but the lyrics aren’t so powerful that they should be slowed down to the point where you can analyze every corny couplet.

So I was thinking about that when I flipped to bob. The year was 1980 and they played Genesis’ “Misunderstanding”. Which really has good lyrics. They tell a story. The rhymes are good. The music holds up pretty well.

Genesis always gets kind of relegated to the bin with Air Supply (which on another day I heard on bob, and it really is worse than you remember). Genesis is really good pop, and when you play it next to the other pop that was happening around that time, like say the Beegee’s it sounds fantastic. I need to go load up my ipod.