So, I'm waiting in line at my local walgreens, picking up a prescription and what comes on the in-store music system?
"Blitzkreig fukkin' Bop"!?!?!

Little old ladies hardly notice; a couple of them actually start bopping their heads a little.

This is The Ramones, people.
Smack addicts hell bent on ressurecting Rock n Roll. (And one very conservative guitar player.)
And they're Muzak!

Apparently they succeeded.
Something makes me think that Joey and Dee Dee would approve.

I remember the first time I heard Nirvana Muzak... I think I was in an elevator at a department store.

Even Whitey needs to get paid.....

My dad had this comedy sketch idea about senile hippies in a futuristic nursing home singing "Purple Haze" and other Woodstock-era classic. I liked the concept never knew where to take it.

This is reality in about ten years though.

Maybe it was that Yo La Tengo cover?

or in about 40 years, when every woman living in a retirement community in Ft. Lauderdale has a lower back tattoo

I wish my gramma would knit me one of those...


Just because Ramones is playing at Walgreens, it doesn't mean it's Muzak. Unless you mean that Walgreen's was playing a Muzak version of Blitzkrieg Bop, which is something I just can't imagine ever happening.

"The KKK Took My Rascal Away" (or, if you prefer, "The AARP Took My Baby Away")
"Now I Wanna Sniff Some Ben Gay"
"Rock and Roll Rest Home"

All the classics...

Actually it was quite a few years ago but once I was in the Job Centre with the poor huddled masses of the economically oppressed when 'White Riot' by The Clash came on.

Sadly, it's strident tones failed to spark vicious rioting and any doubts about punk still being 'not dead' were dismissed by one and all as 'poppycock'.

You know this has been happening for many decades, not just with punk.

The Beatles "Revolution" wasn't supposed to sell sneakers.

"Strange Fruit" was never meant to be mood music.

Hell, you can go all the way back to William Blake's "Jerusalem" which was considered lyrically heretical when it first was writ.

Generation after generation, songs get coopted for nostalgia that were once potent vehicles for so much more than that.

the day...the music...died.

[insert overblown leftist hippie rant about the first time I saw the Rolling Stones tongue on a credit card]

They still make those? I'd love to get one.

No, I think he meant they were using a credit card to separate lines, and then licked the credit card clean.

They still do that? I'd love to get one.

My man Javier will call you in the next 12 hours.

Sweet, I lost Red number...

Have I mentioned I own too many tribute albums?

has anyone seen that video of old folk dancing to Sister Ray? It's somewhere on youtube. One of the most eery things i've ever seen.