?>{"id":717,"date":"2012-08-20T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T15:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=717"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T20:05:20","slug":"hot-106-1-the-joker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.late2theparty.com\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Hot 106 #1: “The Joker”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some time ago, in an effort to (futilely) improve “classic rock radio” that ultimately amounted to a lot of primal-scream-type-therapy, I came up with a list of 106 song<\/a>s that should be banished to “classic rock hell” for all eternity.\u00a0Being the most excellent stewards of rock that we are, my friend Kent Caudle (of Pirate George Letters<\/a> fame) and I continue our efforts to replace said songs<\/a> with much better alternatives.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Taking it from the top, today’s entry is all about the first song on that list: “The Joker” by Steve Miller. Kent jumps in by asserting his right to eschew Steve Miller altogether. I weigh in more diplomatically on this one.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kent: Led Zeppelin – “Carouselambra”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When something is so lyrically inane that Mother Theresa and SCTV<\/a> can not keep it from being removed from the list, you know it’s got to be bad. “Squeeze my lemon\/’till the juice runs down my leg”? Scaldingly dirty. But “Really love your peaches\/want to shake your tree”? Just confusing. She has a “tree”? That you “shake”? Plus, even Gerard Manley Hopkins and Terry Jones’ Forth Yorkshireman would have kept the article in the line “Ooh wee baby\/I sure show you good time”. And I’m not even bringing up “pompetous”…<\/p>\n

Let us teach Steve Miller a lesson by replacing “The Joker” with Led Zeppelin’s “Carouselambra”. The lesson? Stick with the keyboard stuff, hippie.<\/p>\n