Friday, August 8, 2008

Golf score rock!

So, yacht rock, right? That soft-rock such as Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Toto, et al; "Pina Coladas," etc. Parodied/pilloried in the online show of the same name, generally scoffed at as an example of cheesy production bloat and general late 70's-80s suckitude?

But what of other genres? Like "crying admin rock?" The sort of light rock that purls from the morning-show-all-day "lite" format stations, exemplified by Three Doors Down or whoever did that "Superman" song that was popular after 9/11, which plays at your office's secretary/admin's desk as she gets slightly weepy thinking about how it's not going to work out with "Kevin," or how her niece is in jail again, or a fight she had with her best friend after one too many pineappletinis the night before at L'Eighties Nite at the local C.J. McOU812's?

Or, more to the point, GOLF SCORE rock? That sorta-jaunty, mild tuneage, at the end of, say, Saturday's round at Pebble Peach, where the mellifluous tones of the commentator sit atop it as he is pointing out the highs and lows of the days rounds ("...a tough day for Cory Pavin, in at +4, Rocco Mediate had two eagles to blah blah...)...

Here is an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jw7u4f-Ujg

And, heh, another:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/7516394.stm

I hope to see the kids around my town switching to golf-score rock, as opposed to the proggy, first-beard rock (another genre entirely) I imagine they are making and that, indeed, I could hear if I didn't try to be in bed by nine every damn night.

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