I hate Piano Man, 102.9 WMGK
The song used to be a lot of fun, I’ll admit. But years of overplaying has soured me on it. So this week, they’re expanding our office and there’s a huge whole in the wall behind my desk covered with thin plastic which hides the construction and construction workers doing said construction. These construction workers apparently love the local classic rock station 102.9 WMGK and are not aware of the rather weak acoustic properties of a thin sheet of plastic.
As such, I have been forced to endure their radio every day. Usually I block it out with headphones (not-a-furry Tim has been kind enough to supply me with a great deal of thrash metal I haven’t heard before), but it seems I just so happen to get a headache and take off my headphones just in time for Piano Man. Every day. Every single god damn day.
Who the fuck needs to needs to hear Piano Man every single fucking day?! Seriously, how do the people who listen to this garbage all the time stand it? How are the DJs not playing Russian Roulette in the booth? I don’t even think Billy Joel likes the goddam song this much mcsweeney’s plagiarism mcsweeneys plagiarize plagiarized. I’ve quite honestly heard it every single day for two weeks (minus weekends and days off). I’ve had enough.
Fuck. Now it’s Creedance. Again.
I hate my life.
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Oh my god the construction workers are singing along with the Shopright “Can Can” commercial. You may be the salt of the earth, blue collar construction workers, but c’mon! I can’t forgive you for this.
By Creedance do you mean Creedence Clearwater Revival who sang such songs as Fortunate Son, Proud Mary, and Down on the Corner or do you mean Lynrd Skynrd who sang such songs as Sweet Home Alabama, Freebird, and Gimme Three Steps?
I still chuckle thinking about how we had an absurd John and Kevin style 30 minute drunken conversation once about why you thought Creedence Clearwater Revival sucked, only to find out at the end of the discussion that you were talking about Skynrd.
They’re both the same goddam band and I hate them both so much.
I don’t like Billy Joel at all really.
That song just reminds me of high school. For some strange reason the damn song was our graduation song for 4 years straight. I kept asking what a song about a drunken piano player at a bar has to do with graduating, but I never got an answer. Next thing you know the song is playing shortly after I threw my hat! Everyone is swaying, crying, hugging each other…I just didn’t get! Anyway, the only billy joel song I ever liked is “for the longest time.” And thats probably because it sounds nothing like a bill joel song.
John said:They’re both the same goddam band and I hate them both so much.
They sound absofuckinglutely nothing alike and have not one thing in common beyond maybe the fact that they are rock bands from the US who were active in the early 70’s. I don’t even particularly like either band but still. It’s like confusing Led Zeppelin and Jethro Tull.
NUH UH!
Could be worse.
To wit: Steely Dan
Steely Dan is amazing and you shut up.
Steely Dan is phenomenal.
I had to go put on Reelin’ In The Years and it’s everything I hoped it would be and more.