I have heard of a grand total of zero songs on Billboard's current Hot 100

I bet in a lot of ways it's better than some of the shit-on-a-stick I listed from 1985, but it seems the 1985 charts were still being driven by grown-ups.

 

I only listen to pop music now because one of my friends is a program director for one of the radio station clusters in Wichita and I don't want to keep saying, "Who's that?" when I go see him and end up having to listen to one of his stations in the car.

 

Let's get something straight, Dick, Bush is straight-up good rock 'n' roll. At least 3 or 4 of his songs.

Whereas Weezer? LOL is about the best way to define Fucking Weezer. What the fuck is a Weezer?

 

Pop songs usually make it into our house via kids' movies. Neither Mrs. Whitman nor I listen to Top 40 radio, so they don't hear it anywhere. My kid knows who Justin Bieber is, abstractly, but I doubt he could name one of his songs.

 

Well, if you even look back at the charts from the 1960s, the alleged golden age of pop, a lot of the stuff they pumped out back then was shit, too.

We remember the great stuff, but there was a lot of dreck mixed in with it.

 

My brother knew all this shit for a while. I remember him name-checking "Tay Tay" in a text and I had to follow-up to find out he was referring to Taylor Swift. But then we saw the Stones together, he watched Sturgill on SNL and Prince and Chris Cornell died and he's been all guitars, all the time these days.

 

Agreed.

 

The marketing team who invented them in a laboratory appreciate the compliment.

 

I've got some lyrics for Weezer ...

She's got a Coca Cola smile and
I'm running mile after mile
in pursuit of her,
my Miss Personality,
she and me
full of glee

Gold, Jerry!

 

I've heard seven of them... but five of the seven are by Kendrick Lamar. (The other two: "Redbone" by Childish Gambino and "Human" by Rag and Bone Man, which are both pretty good. If you like Sly and the Family Stone and P-Funk, check out the latest Childish Gambino record -- there's a really heavy influence there.)

 

Those damn kids sometimes play that noise when they're in my yard!

 

I have absolutely nothing against any of these songs. They might all be note perfect.