Worst song of the day: Silk, “Freak Me”

I’m not actually sure why this song is so bad. The lyrics are cheesy, but not abnormally so; the slow grind of the music is trying, but not irritating; and it’s old (if 1992 is old now), so it’s harder to accuse it of unoriginality. But for some reason, all of this adds up to create the kind of hypnotically bad song that seems to go on for 10 years and makes you sit around for all 10 of them, saying “This is so bad” but unable to change the station.

Oh honey, no

102.1 the Edge DJ Josie Dye thinks this song "sounds exactly like The Strokes". It gave me the same "Oh honey, no" feeling I get when the Toronto Star publishes wide-eyed articles about Twitter - you mean well, but you've got it all wrong. I like Josie, so I'm going to pretend she actually said the White Stripes and I just heard it wrong. (Does it sound like The Strokes? Am I crazy?)

Best song of the day: Gob, “I Hear You Calling”

You know those songs that you get into when you first start listening to the alternative radio station, because they're short and addictive like pop songs but edgy enough to accommodate your burgeoning teen angst, but then you get older and start liking music that's increasingly inaccessible and less melodic and you become convinced that all of those songs you liked when you were younger are embarrassing, poorly made, indulgent crap, and then when you get older and get over yourself and start listening to the radio again the song comes on the radio, years after you forgot it ever existed, and you realize that it's actually a really good, perfectly constructed song?

Yeah. This is one of those.

Best song of the day: Chopin Prelude Op. 28 No. 15 (“Raindrop”)

I don’t know enough about classical music for this to become I Hate Classical Radio, and it wouldn’t be funny enough anyway (“Seriously, who likes Liszt more than Beethoven? YOUR GRANDMA, MAYBE”). But I heard this on the radio today and it blew me away. The next time you tell someone music used to be so much better than it is nowadays, you should be talking about this.

Worst song of the day: Green Day, “21 Guns”

This song actually isn’t so bad. Except that it sounds like Green Day trying to do “The Scientist”, which is just wrong. To top it all off, the radio played “Basket Case” right after it, which despite being 15 years older sounded much fresher. I guess it's good that Green Day is maturing, rather than desperately attempting to replicate their Dookie sound. But I don’t have to like it.

BONUS FACT: According to Wikipedia, “Basket Case” is a take on Pachebel’s “Canon in D”?! Damn