A Song I Heard On The Radio And Actually Liked

I was riding in a car a few days ago, and the radio was tuned to a modern rock station, a genre from which I usually don't expect too much these days, but a song came on and it sounded reasonably good. "Sounds like Arcade Fire, or The Killers," I thought, "but...it sounds too good." Then the vocalist began singing "To the center of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you..." and I realized "Oh! This is a Joy Division cover! That's why it sounds so good." Turns out The Killers covered "Shadowplay," one of my favorite Joy Division songs. Which is sort of like Scarlett Johansson doing an album of Tom Waits covers, but who cares, it was better than anything else I'd heard on modern rock radio in months. It also instantly became my favorite Killers song (which, granted, isn't saying much - I generally find their music overproduced and affected) because it actually had hooks and chord changes. I suppose it's kind of sad that the best modern rock has to offer in 2008 is an inferior cover of a track that's almost thirty years old, but let's just say that any song that comes on the radio these days and doesn't make me immediately want to change the station is a raging success.

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