The theme song for the last two years or so on morning news show Toku Dane ("[news] Exclusive") has been We Built This City. The three presenters stand in front of the desk with their hands clasped primly in front of them while the camera zooms in from above and around, 80s synthesizers whooshing as the music rises and then falls down to background level and plays through to the end as they begin the program - rather loudly for background music, too. Can you imagine starting your day with We Built This City on Rock and Roll every day? You don't build up a tolerance. It doesn't leave you. Marconi just plays the mamba, over and over.
But now, the show's got something mysterious. Something I just can't touch. And now it seems, it seems they've changed the song. Invisible Touch. I thought it was bad to have Grace Slick hassling you all day -- Don't you reMEMber? Blender didn't name it the worst song ever for nothing.
But Invisible Touch, it takes control and soon it tears you apart. It's true. Someone on Wikipedia calls it "a meditation on intangibility." I suspect that person was not forced to listen to it before work on a weekday. The other song, looking back, at least had sort of an aspirational, upbeat drive. There's just something whiny and forced about Invisible Touch, at least the fortieth time it repeats inside your brain.
I reached for the remote to turn the show on at eight this morning, and then thought better of it.
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I think Genisis and especially Phil Collins have to be the most annoying band of all time. Phil Collins threatened to leave the UK if the Tories lost the 1997 election. The rest is history. And he sent his demand for a divorce to wife no.2 via fax.
The crimes of the British colonial Empire are as nothing compared to the audio crimes of this band
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