When I was watching any football game but the Lions this weekend, I couldn’t help but notice announcer Bob Costas was beginning to look like a certain Jedi Knight.
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Throw a little Botox into Mark Hamill’s visage, and he could be playing the guy giving the play-by-plays (or at least his analysis thereof).
…Or maybe I was just drinking too much this weekend.
Batter up!
As the title of the post says, “Whatever happened to the good ol’ song fade out?” (I added the good ol’.) You know how it went in the good ol’ songs from the 80’s and 90’s… Instead of simply ending the tune like they do nowadays, they would repeat the chorus or hook as it descended into silence. It would typically last for the, um, last 30 seconds. Here are some examples:
Click here for Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl or here for Men at Work’s Land Down Under if you need more proof.
The only current song I can think of (and I’ve been thinking about this for awhile… when I remember to) is The Verve’s Bittersweet Symphony. Otherwise, most songs nowadays just end. Even if there’s a repetitive ending, there’s a sense of finality.
The theory on why this is: CD’s have changed the way we listen to music. When in the days of cassettes and LP’s, people were more inclined to let the music play. The fade out spaced out the songs, as opposed to having back-to-back ends-to-starts.
Is this is the trend, or am I just a complete idiot? (I’m leaning toward lazy, actually.) If you can think of any other recent examples of radio songs that fade out old school style, feel free to prove me wrong by commenting below.
Another weekend has come and gone. That means the Detroit Lions can add one more to the number on the right, notching them up to 0-11. The road ahead looks bleak, but if the New England ButtPats can go for 16 and 0, then so can we!
But I have a theory. It’s not full-proof, but neither is the theory of relativity… particularly when my Uncle Stan drinks full-proof whiskey on Thanksgiving. Seriously, is he even related to me?!
Anyhooperthedetroitpistonsmascot, when the Lions use the draft picks received from the Roy Williams trade to Dallas, and the inevitable *crosses finger* first round pick from the undefeated season, I say we use them on a cheerleader squad. At this point, I say we try anything.
First off, it will get the fans back in the seats so there are no more game day black-outs. (Us guys are stupid this way.) That way, it won’t matter if we win or lose. A simulation:
One friend to another – “Ahhh, not another interception!”
Friend in return – “Hey, check out that hot POA!”
Smiles on everyone’s face!
Second off, look what adding the Automotion to Detroit Pistons games did for them… six Conference Appearances, two Conference Titles, one Championship. Coincidence? (I pronounced it co-inside-ence? to be funny in my head. Try it.)
Third off (bra-level… yay!), every other team but two has cheerleaders! (I pronounced it teambuttwo… y’know, real fast in my head, so it sounded like Timbuktu. For no reason.)
It’s not that every team that has cheerleaders does well, or vice versa. (Cleveland had a good run in the late 80’s and the New York rammed the ButtPats in last years Super Bowl – and they don’t have cheerleaders. Is it because they’d be the Brown Girls or the Giant Girls? You be the judge.)
In closing, some suggestions for the Lions Cheerleaders name, besides simply that or the Lionesses:
I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita, and as I continue you know they're getting sweeter
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