Friday, March 7, 2025
Time: 11:30 AM
Song: Welcome to Paradise
Artist: Green Day
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Sirius Radio between Des Moines and Iowa City
on way home from SLSI conference.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5kr3j5Clb9rjEposoMyLVt?si=23cbc672ed4b4b9b
Building off Wednesday’s post, we were sitting at the conference
on Thursday, and they were playing music softly over the speakers in the
exhibit hall. On came Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets to Paradise.” We joked about
the trip the day before in the windy, snowy conditions. While Thursday was a
relatively nice day out in Ames, the forecast for Friday morning was more snow.
“Boy, all we need is to hear “Paradise City,” as we leave tomorrow.”
The conversation continued and we discussed that Paradise
might be a possible Playlist Pandemonium topic.
When we set off on Friday morning, snow was falling in heavy,
wet clumps. The ground temperature was warm enough though that most of it that
was falling on the pavement was melting. Green Day’s song Brain Stew was
playing.
“You know we didn’t mention ‘Welcome to Paradise,’ when we
were talking about paradise songs,” I said.
“Yeah, that’s more likely to play on the channels I listen
to than ‘Paradise City.’”
Well about two hours later, we had driven out of the snow,
and were nearing our lunch stop, when Green Day’s “Welcome to Paradise,” came
on the Sirius channel.
I guess we learned the lesson this week that paradise has to
be wherever you happen to be.
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