Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Bicycle Bad Idea Factory/L*p*rs on 45

I biked to the DMV in Gladstone on a cold but otherwise perfect December day. Getting a RealID for the next time I get on a plane (which could be a decade or so, given my track record).

On the way home I got a super deep song by the R**nch* Y**ng L*p*rs (technically R*p*bl*c*n Y**ng L*v*t*s, the RYL right-wing Christian music parody side project) stuck in my head. It was a weird moment. I hadn't thought about that song in... decades? As I got closer to home, my mind decided that it would be a really good idea to make a Stars on 45-esque medley based on the work of that group(*), setting everything to a constant disco beat. Could be a good idea, right?

Once I got home and got off the bike, I realized, wait, this is in fact a terrible idea. I mentioned it to my wife and she concurred that this was just a death-defyingly bad idea. But for that brief shining moment on a brief shining December day on the Interstate 205 multi-use path, it was a spectacularly good bad idea.

Here's the 12-inch Stars on 45, itself just a terrible idea. Maybe it will give you a bad idea of your own?! Maybe you will actually go through with it?!

 (*) the L*p*rs, not the L*v*t*s, who only recorded four songs, not nearly enough for a L*v*t*s on 45 mega mix