Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 1:03 PM by Gene

Hey PAPER OF RE-CORD PUBLIC EDI-TOR! Remember my suggestion about THE GLIBERAL? I make the same suggestion re JON "NON" PARELES: just run the same column over and over. Just as THE GLIBERAL reruns his prejudices, so "NON" PARELES reruns his pretensions, all rooted in the notion that today's POP music is superior to anything before it, and full of the name-dropping of a man busy covering up his tracks. GO FOR IT, EDI-TOR!

I got to this column in a link from THE CORNER, which also had this link:

Rebecca Bynum (wife of Hal ) offers the following depressing thought: "Here is a list of songs published in 1935: About a Quarter to Nine, Begin the Beguine, Bess, You Is My Woman Now, Broadway Rhythm, Cheek to Cheek, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, I Can't Get Started, I Got Plenty of Nuttin', I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I'm in the Mood for Love, If I Should Lose You, It Ain't Necessarily So, Isn't It a Lovely Day, It's Easy to Remember, Just One of Those Things, The Lady in Red, Lovely to Look At, Lullaby of Broadway, Lulu's Back in Town, Maybe, Moon over miami [typical NRO Corner SIC], My Man's Gone Now, My Romance, Paris in the Spring, The Piccolino, Red Sails in the Sunset, Stairway to eh [second typical NRO Corner SIC] Stars, Summertime, These Foolish Things, Top Hat,White [third typical NRO Corner SIC] Tie and Tails, When I Grow too [fourth typical NRO Corner SIC] Old to Dream, Why Shouldn't I, A Woman is a Sometime Thing, and You Are My Lucky Star. "

Now, this is a test, can you name any song of any significance (other than crass airplay) of the last fifteen years? One???"

There are two problems with this: first, this is John Derbyshire, ANDY S.'s favorite writer (anything he says can and will be used against him); and two, this IS a CONSERVATIVE Web site, so now NEWS HACKS can reduce dislike of modern pop to a matter of POLITICS.