Next Door Neighbors by Pat Sandy for February 17, 2024

It is the same old thing: my parents couldn’t stand with both West Coast and Prog Rock. Not to mention Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

The problem with that is that our dumb songs were actually meant to be dumb, today they would be called “meming”. Today’s dumb songs aren’t supposed to be dumb songs, they just are. And yes, there still is good music today, but the dumb songs are the mayority (and yes, that was actually proven scientifically, today’s pop music is way simpler, with way less variation than 90s pop music was).

Rock & Roll, Jazz,…….YES YES YES!

Hard Rock, Rap,……. NO! NO! NO!

Norm is a serious expert when it comes to dumb songs. He’ll defend Yummy, Yummy, Yummy to the death.

Duly noted.

The flip side was “Chewy Chewy”It makes me sad that I know that.

I don’t blame Norm, have you heard that “Cake by the Ocean” song?

I just happened to be lucky enough that music reached its absolute peak at exactly the moment I became old enough to appreciate songs about love, broken hearts, etc.

Norm’s dumb stuff was better dumb stuff.

speaking of dumb music, sugar, sugar topped the billboard hot 100 chart for four weeks. i rest my case… ☺