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I can't say I've ever heard any song that makes me wanna kill myself or anyone else (except in some cases, the person who wrote it), but on the subject of radio, some time last year this new radio station popped up in town called "Bob FM". Supposedly this really rich guy named "Bob" buys out stations and plays music from a very wide variety of eras but the thing is that it's all pop music, i.e. 60s=Beatles, the Turtles' "Happy Together" (you haven't heard that song till you've heard it "sung" by a bunch of drunk teenagers on the other side of the wall, but that's another story), occasionally the Rolling Stones; 70s=mainly disco and some stadium rock a la Foreigner and Boston, 80s=synthpop and AOR, Flock of Seagulls, Billy Joel, Hall and Oates; 90s=club techno and jangly guitar pop, Counting Crows, Hootie and the Blowfish, Ace of Base, and a whole lot of one-hit wonders like Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping" and EMF's "Unbelievable"; 00s=whatever's been popular recently, from Green Day to Switchfoot and whomever does that stupid "That's you and me/And all other people, and I don't why/I can't get you out of my mind" song...now, occasionally they/he'll dig up something good, like one time he played Depeche Mode's "Policy Of Truth" (when most radio stations say they'll play Depeche Mode next, it's gonna be "Personal Jesus", not that it's not a awesome song, it's just that DM have other songs too, ya know), or play something that was drilled into yr skull when it was new, but now that some time has passed you can't help but smile with nostalgia when you hear it ("Mr. Jones", anyone?), but for the most part it's like one of my friedns said-it's as if he raided the discount sections of every music store in America!
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