No song will ever be better

At work yesterday I was answering guest emails. I get at least an hour every day where I reply to emails guests have sent. It's nice because it gets me off the phones where guests yell directly at me, and I can listen to music while I email. I used to listen to Pandora, but it got too repetitive for me. Then I went through a phase where I would find Pixies concerts on You Tube and listen to a whole concert. Now I always bring up The Current.

I love The Current. I was a sustaining member until I got satellite radio in my car and started paying for that, so I have contributed. I feel good about it. Yesterday I turned it on and Faith No More "Epic" was on. It reminded me of when the song first came out. When it was a new song, I thought it was such a cool song that there would never be another song that would be better than Epic.

I didn't know anything about Faith No More at the time. My friend Ryan and I became Faith No More enthusiasts, buying their first two albums from Musicland. We're the only two people I know who ever had those albums, but we knew (and still know) every word. They're good albums, despite having a different lead singer than Mike Patton on The Real Thing.

A lot of kids played Legos, or G.I Joe's, but I used to sit in front of my stereo and make believe I had my own radio show. It wasn't talk radio. I spun the hottest hits in Blaine. Classic rock and new music, like Epic. For some reason I associate listening to Epic on my dad's big-ass 70's pot-head headphones, and chewing spearamint Bubble Tape that I got at Shinders, the baseball card shop. I thought I was the coolest listening to my music.

There are only a handful of songs where I have thought "there will never be another song better than this one." They are:

Guns N Roses Patience

Faith No More Epic

White Stripes Seven Nation Army 

Yeah Yeah Yeah's Sacrilege 

The best part about music is that there will be songs better than these. I mean c'mon. GnR-Patience? My radio station was just getting started back then. It has developed into my favorite station for music. I like it a little better than The Current (even though I get most of my tunes from them these days).