LX.Avoid the Floyd. October 10, 2020
>driving Lyft
>listening to the radio
>one of those corporate hard rock stations
>days of five fingered motionless chemical shinedown or whatever
>it’s fine
>this is fine
>but then they start playing Pink Floyd
>a lot, a lot
>which is fine
>it’s totally fine
>but like every fourth song they play is “Wish You Were Here”
>no other songs
>there are no other Pink Floyd songs
>they play two songs Millennials liked in 2007
>one brand-new pile of pretentious angsty bullshit
>like four minutes of various dudes yelling at me to either buy a used car or visit their church
>then “Wish You Were Here”
>this
>this is not fine
>this makes me inordinately angry
>I switch to a classic rock station to avoid Pink Floyd
>somehow this works