What are they teaching kids these days?
I don't know why I bother getting het up about "Top X Songs Of All Time" sillinesses, but, well, I do. This weekend, the local classic rock station is doing "top 1000 rock songs", and we're currently in the 50s.
Whereat it was revealed that "Smoke on the Water" clocked in at 58.
Excuse me? I beg your pardon? Pink tofu? The Riff That Conquered America, the single most recognizable riff in the history of rock, the riff that thousands of teenagers do their first air guitar to, and it's at 58?! Words fail to adequately express my disgust. (I was not overly comforted when Steve told me about a web discussion somewhere that had a bunch of young'uns trying to guess the different riffs Jack Black was teaching his students in School of Rock, and struck out consistently. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, we aren't talking obscure stuff like Rainbow or Metal Church, we are talking "Iron Man" and sundry AC/DC.) Our duty is clear: Steve and I must spawn in order to ensure that some portion of the next generation is properly educated.
Otherwise, it has been a quiet at-home weekend. Steve has been teaching Brian,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
naudia, and sweh to play Magic: the Crack Addiction. I built my very first blue permissions deck and I think I've got it working, and can proceed to annoy the world with it; Go Me.
Whereat it was revealed that "Smoke on the Water" clocked in at 58.
Excuse me? I beg your pardon? Pink tofu? The Riff That Conquered America, the single most recognizable riff in the history of rock, the riff that thousands of teenagers do their first air guitar to, and it's at 58?! Words fail to adequately express my disgust. (I was not overly comforted when Steve told me about a web discussion somewhere that had a bunch of young'uns trying to guess the different riffs Jack Black was teaching his students in School of Rock, and struck out consistently. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, we aren't talking obscure stuff like Rainbow or Metal Church, we are talking "Iron Man" and sundry AC/DC.) Our duty is clear: Steve and I must spawn in order to ensure that some portion of the next generation is properly educated.
Otherwise, it has been a quiet at-home weekend. Steve has been teaching Brian,
naudia, and sweh to play Magic: the Crack Addiction. I built my very first blue permissions deck and I think I've got it working, and can proceed to annoy the world with it; Go Me.