John Scalzi on the L.A. Times on "Don't Stop Believin'," which is one of our favorite Rock Band tracks now:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/06/29/somewhere-robert-christgaus-head-just-exploded/

For those disinclined to click through two links, here's the "whoa" paragraph from the L.A. Times story:

"Don't Stop Believin' " has become the top-selling digital download of a track not originally released in this century, selling 2,803,000 units since online single sales began to be tracked in 2003, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

[Malin] Those of you too young to have seen Return of the Jedi in theaters might not remember that CD players used to have a whole mess of "repeat" options that would allow you to repeat a certain song (in some cases, even just a section of a song) over and over and over and over and over again. I think this function was disabled when the neighbors of the guy who invented it broke his door down and forced him at gunpoint to remove it.

Anyway.

The first CD I can clearly recall (ab)using the "repeat" function with was "Boston." Specifically, Track #1. You all know what it is. It was the summer of, well, let's put it around twenty years ago, and I was living in a house in Philly with four other people who didn't want to go home from college, and I pretty much left that CD in the player for three months.

My "Boston" phases have waxed and waned over the years (I'm fairly sure that at some point I picked up "Don't Look Back" just for the title track, but it's not on my iPod now). And then we just bought That Song for Rock Band 2.

I'm sitting here at work, thinking about the next time we play it, and that weird bit in the chorus where Tom sings, "when I hear that old song" and then HE sings "they used to play" while the backup comes in with "more than a feeling"--which is what *I* always used to sing, which messed me up the first time we played it...and when to take a breath to get ready for that last "awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay"...

All I can say is, I'm glad RB2 is a communal game, and other people can stop me from just singing the same song over and over.

I'm unreasonably excited about being able to play and sing "Tangled Up In Blue" on Rock Band 2 now.