Callie: . . . .

OK, I reeled one in, folks, what do I do with her?
So Callie, why don't you like it? (I will admit that
there are some renditions that are close to emetic)

What about Dylan's trash? Anyone care to nominate
any (or every) song of his in the last 20 years?

Some people just love Bob Franke's stuff (and count me
in there even if some of the lyrics are a bit stilted).
Anyone hate him?

I notice someone didn't like Stan Roger's "House of
Orange". Why? Did you like "Lockkeeper"?

What makes a "bad" song really bad? Are some songs
really intolarable at certain times, but just the cat's
meow at other times (come to think of it, the cat's
meow is intolerable at certain times, but just
the cat's meow at other times....)?

Is the fifth interminable minor key ballad in a row
intrinsically "bad"? The first?

* * * * *

Getting into the world of pop (elevator) schlock, I think
that my absolute top candidate for really wretched has to
be when I was riding in a shuttle bus, and the PA was
blaring inane music. Then on came Dave Brubeck's
classic "Take Four". . . .   "Take Four?", you say, "I've
never heard that one..."   Some dim bulb somewhere with
a MIDI sequencer and a drum machine and no instruction
manual seems to have fixed the song and put it into the
more pleasing 4/4 time. . . . <*bleeeeccchhhh*>

Cheers,

                        -- Arne