john@mddc.UUCP (John Pletikapich) (02/15/84)
Last night the Police played in concert in town, which meant that all the radio stations played Police tunes until they (and I!) were blue in the face. They had contests for free tickets so you could be annoyed when their songs weren't being played. Last night nearly every station (rock, pop, light-rock, and soul) was playing some sort of "concert echo". I was tempted to rip the car stereo out of my dashboard and let it fly out the window onto I-75, where hopefully some tractor-trailer would run over it and crush it into smithereens!!!!!!!!! I didn't though. Then I read in the paper that the "pop music critic" thinks the Police are the greatest thing since sliced bread. (This is the guy, who in his concert revues writes mostly about what the crowd was wearing and then finally sneaks in a sentence that could "maybe" considered musically critical: They were kinda loud and the bass wasn't really too neat. I'm sure you know the guy; he probably has a column in your local paper too.) So anyway, this critic is very impressed that the Police know about philosophies like Syncronicity and Ghost in the Machine mind-body duality. And they use words that you don't hear in every day conversation like "fruition"! Aren't these guys great! I don't think I could stand listening to two hours of their songs in concert without going nuts. Don't get me wrong I don't think the Police are bad - they're mediocre. And you know how the saying goes "Too much of a mediocre thing is pretty disgusting". Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.... john