Verbalism Personified

Back from the Grave

Just when you think that you've heard the last of Scorpions and their played-to-death single, Still Loving You, one pops up to grill your ears again.

Out at IMM with Otterman, we stopped by Daiso for two-dollar fish and butterfly nets. As he needed them for a crab expedition, these would come in handy.

No sooner had we stepped in, the guitar cords of that notororiously familiar song came chiming out of the in-store speakers. As I sighed to myself, Otterman seemed to perk up as memories of his childhood came flooding back.

"They're playing this in a department store?", I asked excruciatingly. "Can't they just put the radio on?" Whereby Otterman defended that they had performed with the Berlin Philharmonic. And that was an achievement in his books. Had Maestro Herbert von Karajan stopped rolling in his grave, I wondered?

It turned out to be a very bad Mat-Rocked cover that had returned from the grave to mangle the very operatic essence of the song. Maybe the store was trying to skim on the song royalties by playing fourth-rate covers. I don't know. But when Otterman painfully admitted that it was 'very bad', I knew there was hope for him yet.

Now whether Otterman made good use of those nets is another matter.

posted by Teutoburg @ 3:49 PM