{"id":784,"date":"2010-04-27T20:28:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2010-04-27T20:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:31:57","slug":"song-of-the-day-tunnel-of-love-by-dire-straits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Tunnel of Love” by Dire Straits"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I just read my new comic<\/a>… for the first time actually just reading it for fun, and not proofreading and looking for things to fix and things I need to change… and HOLY CRAP do I ever like it!\u00a0 Wow, it’s like someone drew exactly what I wanted to see!<\/p>\n

So goes the statement of the obvious.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to think of the song I heard on the bus coming home today… the one I thought would make a great Song of the Day.\u00a0 I can’t remember what fucking song that was.\u00a0 So let’s start up Rhythmbox and play random songs till I find one I want to talk about.<\/p>\n

A-ha!<\/p>\n

No, not A-ha.<\/p>\n

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\nHere’s a song I fucking LOVE<\/a>.\u00a0 I’ve never heard it and decided not to listen to it.\u00a0 It’s that good.\u00a0 I’d sing along if it didn’t hurt.\u00a0 Fucking flu.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the title of this blog post kind of gives the song title away, so I’ll delve right into talking about it.<\/p>\n

When I was a young lad, in my late teens, I would occasionally watch the old Television on the old Much Music channel and watch the old Music Videos to listen to the old Rock N’ Roll music.\u00a0 I don’t know if MuchMusic still plays Videos… I hear that MTV in the States doesn’t… whatever… but back then they’d play a 30-minute block of some artist’s videos (around 4:30 in the PM) and call it the “Spotlight”.<\/p>\n

One of these spotlights was on the old Dire Straits band.\u00a0 Of course, I’d heard Money for Nothing (which I ALWAYS skip because I’ve heard it too often) but I’d never heard anything else by this band.<\/p>\n

This was back in the days of the old VHS tapes, and I would tape the old Spotlight just in case I heard some good tunage that I wanted to listen to again.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Dire Straits didn’t appeal a whole lot to my adolescent mind, except for a few songs…. “Sultans of Swing” and this song…. “Tunnel of Love”.<\/p>\n

Now, I don’t know HOW the fuck “Tunnel of Love” kept my attention for EIGHT fucking minutes back then.\u00a0 The only answers I have are:<\/p>\n