defend the indefensible: MUSKRAT LOVE

but let me tell you, after becoming an accomplished keyboardist and playing the song, i can tell you that it a very beautiful song. perhaps their arrangment and maybe the title contributed to why everyone thinks the song sucks, but the melody is in fact very beautiful. i promise if you heard me play the song, you would not only percieve it differently, you would like it too!

Is it the America version of this song that traditionally invokes so much ire? Because that is so mellow a jam it's near being a gentle soporific. I don't see how it could inspire so much hate.

Like remember the Dave Barry column about the worst songs ever, where it was just people saying stuff like "'I'm Too Sexy' makes me wish my ears turned into bags of frozen petite peas so I'd never have to hear it again"? They had a little gift book extended version of the column and the bitterest, angriest, all-capsiest rants were reserved for the chapter on "Muskrat Love." I read this book at age 11 and it actually made me truly afraid of hearing "Muskrat Love." One of those childhood fears, like my fear of Dick Van Dyke, that I totally forget about until come context causes them to surface. ANyway, America's "Muskrat Love": not worth being afraid for 15 years.