So in the course of my travels, I did my level best not to listen to any Clear Channel stations, but it's tough to know who is and who is not Clear Channel in any market...anyhow, I'm driving around one evening and on comes a song, "Sky Pilot" by Eric Burden and the Animals, not exactly a mainstream playlist song in today's FM environment. Song ends and the DJ comes on "sending that out to all our brave men and women in Iraq". What an idiot. Then comes a promo for Bob and Tom, who suck off the Clear Channel teat pretty exclusively, I think. I'm still in disbelief that the song got on a Clear Channel station, and even more that the idiot-on-the-air thought he was supporting the troops or whatever with the song. I guess it must have been the "smell of gun grease and the bayonets they shine" that fooled him.
In the stupid songs department, have you heard the latest from Lynard Skynard, "Red White and Blue"? It's like four minutes of jingoistic crap, that sounds like it was written by Lee Greenwood and sung by Bert, Ernie or Oscar the Grouch, take your pick. Skynard should have stayed in "retirement" or barring that, stuck with doing the stuff that everyone remembers.
