Soundtrack of Your Life: Sir Douglas and the Police

An occasional feature in which we mark the songs of our relative youth as played over public muzak systems:

Date: 19 November 2013, 6:50 p.m.
Place: Trader Joe's (Uptown)
Song: "She's About a Mover" (1965)
Artist: Sir Douglas Quintet
Irony Matrix: 4 out of 10
Comment: Sheer joy among the produce

Date: 17 November 2013, 5/15 p.m.
Place: Midtown Sports & Wellness
Song: "King of Pain" (1983)
Artist: The Police
Irony Matrix: 2 of 10
Comment: I was hit with a wave of anti-nostalgia and a keen insight: This is the poster child for overblown crap that heralded the excesses of the early MTV era and the eventual co-opting of "alternative" music.

In happier times ...