By gametime, I was freaking out a bit at my own shortsightedness.
Knowing that I'd be filling in for Barbara on The Lunch Hour on Monday, I wrote on the mvyradio Facebook page:
On Monday's Lunch Hour, we will feature songs about, and artists from, the winning #Superbowl team's home state. Suggestions for Colorado or Washington State artists and songs?
Seemed like a good idea at the time. Until I tried Googling "Artist from Colorado."
Uh, the list is pretty slim. Not a ton you can do, beyond John Denver.
Fortunately, that's not an issue, as Seattle ran away with the game and, finally, won their first Superbowl ever.
Loads to choose from, when it comes to Seattle, including Jimi Hendrix and Fleet Foxes and Brandi Carlile and The Head And The Heart. But I did Google "Songs About Seattle" anyway.
"Teardrop Windows" is a song I've heard hundreds of times, but never fully realized it was about Seattle. I mean, I guess I'd heard the reference to the Needle . . .
But on further research, it turns out the song is about The Smith Building, which was the tallest building on the West Coast, prior to the building of The Space Needle.
So while the Smith Building cries at being a forgotten Number 2, congratulations to Seattle for being a memorable Number 1.
(This video is funnier than most of the Superbowl commercials)
Hear the song on Youtube.
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Monday, February 3, 2014
Friday, January 21, 2011
Cake "Sick Of You"
Homer Simpson once called them the two greatest words in the English language:
De. Fault.
In spite of Homer's claim, it's got to be a little a dispiriting/depressing/embarrassing to win by default.
To be crowned Miss America, like Suzette Charles who won the honor after Vanessa Williams had to relinquish her crown.
To win a playoff slot, despite a losing record, like the 7-9-but-division-winning Seattle Seahawks did in the NFL this year.
To have the Number One record in the country, like Cake, who also have the honor of selling the least amount of records by any band to get to Number One.
It's not a knock on the band. Like most cases of winning by default, it's that the bar has been lowered.
Cake is actually pretty consistent at selling a certain amount of records. But across the board in the music industry, sales have plummeted so far in the last decade and a half, that selling enough records to be Number One in 2011 wouldn't have even gotten you in the Top 10, in 1995.
In keeping with most of this week's posts, which all seem to relate to stories in the news, here's a New York Times story about this post.
De. Fault.
In spite of Homer's claim, it's got to be a little a dispiriting/depressing/embarrassing to win by default.
To be crowned Miss America, like Suzette Charles who won the honor after Vanessa Williams had to relinquish her crown.
To win a playoff slot, despite a losing record, like the 7-9-but-division-winning Seattle Seahawks did in the NFL this year.
To have the Number One record in the country, like Cake, who also have the honor of selling the least amount of records by any band to get to Number One.
It's not a knock on the band. Like most cases of winning by default, it's that the bar has been lowered.
Cake is actually pretty consistent at selling a certain amount of records. But across the board in the music industry, sales have plummeted so far in the last decade and a half, that selling enough records to be Number One in 2011 wouldn't have even gotten you in the Top 10, in 1995.
In keeping with most of this week's posts, which all seem to relate to stories in the news, here's a New York Times story about this post.
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