There are two nearly identical radio stations in orange and LA counties, KROQ and a newer one (I think) whose call letters I forget. They are not only nearly identical to each other (today they were playing the same song at the same time—if that happened to me, I would certainly fall on my sword) but also remarkably self-similar from day to day and hour to hour; you're basically guaranteed to hear the same ten songs in any given two-hour period (and given the way these things work, you're not necessarily going to hear more than ten songs in that time, total, if you stay on one station).
Working for a station like that must be really mind-numbing.
This otherwise lamentable state of affairs has, however, given me this insight into the Red Hot Chili Peppers song "Under the Bridge", namely, that its intro is annoyingly played. Here is roughly one second from the intro, a little descending thing that pops up a lot (for more context, the first fourteen seconds). Very stiff! It sounds unattractive, as if it hasn't really been learned and is being fumbled through.
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