Once upon a time, when I was a young ASchultz, I was apparently gifted. But I wasn't spoiled by that. For instance, I clearly wasn't mature enough to listen to Dr Demento. My sister, who was three years older, was. This situation did not change three years later, by which time I should probably have been playing classical music on my violin according to my parents. Somehow I still got pegged as someone who was dorky enough to listen to Dr Demento. I thought I got some of my own back when I bought a few huge compilation tapes in college.
But of course they did not cover everything. I remember snatches of songs and figuring they'd always be lost. Of course now there is YouTube for that sort of thing, but even then you can't see the lyrics quickly. Once you know the tune, a novelty song is pretty straightforward.
Enter these folks. I imagine they got some stick in high school, but I am glad they went over the top to preserve things, the sort of songs one person might really like or just want to hear again, that has to survive on its lyrics.
It's been there a while. You could argue I got there too late(3 years too late.) Maybe my sister doesn't care about Dr Demento any more, or she saw the website and got all she could out of it.
I have a lot of schlocky tunes to revisit. I often need constant distractions and high tech rarely does it for me--but something like random Dr Demento songs does. Some of them will contain ideas I thought of and never brought to the fore. Some of them may provoke new weird ideas. Some, I'll sleep on it and forget they did something for me.
This sort of thing had been around for a while, as I said, but I finally have the confidence to
1) believe something specialized like this IS there and should be, and
2) know it's worth my time even if only 1/10 of it is ultimately interesting, and
3) be very, very grateful the time wasters I've found recently are so much more fun than the old time wasters
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