Another Prick in the Wall

Turns out Roger Waters was on the marching hammers' side all along.

iHeartRadio (formerly Clear Channel, the most dangerous media company in America during the Bush II era until everyone just kind of forgot about it) has an app that’s kind of the poor man’s SiriusXM, and it’s…pretty good, actually? It includes access to dozens of radio stations across the US and Canada (most of which sound almost exactly the same, but also some useful stuff including Bloomberg and Fox Sports Radio), podcasts, and playlists for pretty much every musical genre short of the Motown (Mongolia Town) sound.

Still not the worst Motown song of all time.

But the algorithm needs a little work, and that’s putting it mildly.

I was listening to the country music channel last night, and it announced they were playing a “flashback” song you “might have listened to on your Walkman.” Something from the eighties or nineties? Nope: Taylor Swift’s “Love S…