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And tonight I watched, for some reason best known only to the gods, quite a lot of The Most Annoying Pop Songs Ever, or some such title. As usual with these listing programmes, there were some I liked, some I didn't like, some I didn't care about, and a whole lot of people pontificating to no effect whatsoever and showing themselves up as incapable of comprehending any song more complicated than 2 Unlimited's "No Limit" (of which I was interested to learn that Smash Hits magazine printed the entire lyrics, presumably having an inch or so to spare at the bottom of a page). Irony seems also to be something that managed to elude most of the (predominantly British) "experts" on display; several of them took REM's "Shiny Happy People" at face value and were irritated by the idea of someone singing about people being happy.

In summary, I myself would be very happy indeed if I thought that a programme of this sort in fifty years' time might include one of my songs. (Actually, I'd be happy if I thought any of my songs might still exist in fifty years' time.) Any nominations?

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Actually I'd rather hope that most of the published ones still exist in 50 years time in some filk hymnals and that someone will be singing them. Hmm, I haven't sung Song for Amanda for quite a time, I need to find someone to take the other half-verses (and sometime I'd like to know the backstory to it)...

Nominated for "most annoying" I'd probably agree with Sam's Song and Sir Jock from the over-exposure point of view (that I like both and am happy to play and/or sing either at the drop of (another) hat is beside the point, my threshold for "over-exposure" to music I like is very very high, I often have the same disc in my CD player for weeks or months).

If "most annoying" includes "likely to get stuck in my head and require a full exorcism to get it out" the Rumourmonger is on my list (again, I like it, it's just that with it on continuous play in my head it sits there using 100% CPU time and nothing else gets a chance).