This has probably been the song I've listened to the most over the past year.

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...of course, this wasn't my choice necessarily.

I visit thrift stores pretty much regularly, looking for the various crap I collect. And pretty much every single store plays Cities 97... or 102.9 Lite FM... or whatever. Really, if you go to any store that decides to pipe in easily digestible music, you're going to hear a lot of these stations. You can't avoid them, honestly.

Anyway, these two stations have a playlist that consists of about 12 songs. The above song is one of those featured. There was a point in which I was convinced that every single time I stepped into a store, I would hear this song. I'm not even completely dismissing the idea right now. But in any case, I hate the living s*** out of the song--not that it's the band's fault... but after about the 86th listen it didn't have any chance.

I just found out that the band that recorded this is Pearl Jam. Which is good, because I thought that the lead singer was doing a bad Eddie Vedder impression. Reminds me of the story about Charlie Chaplin getting 2nd place in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. At best, Eddie Vedder would get 4th in an Eddie Vedder-sound-alike contest for this song here.