MUSIC THAT MATTERS – “Lyric of the Day”

(Music Cut #1)

February 21st, 1998.

This song was getting played so much…

the band actually took out an ad in Rolling Stone
apologizing for the airtime.

Fastball.

“The Way.”

(Music Cut #2)

The band was obviously worried about the one-hit-wonder curse.

If the single was so overplayed,
they thought people might get sick of them
before hearing the rest of the album.

(Music Cut #3)

By the way, the song’s intro sound of someone scanning radio stations?

That’s real.

They literally put a microphone in front of a radio
and twisted the dial.

You’ll hear a couple random commercials

But listen closely, and you can catch a split second of Jewel’s
“Foolish Games”

(Music Cut #4 – of the intro with the radio collage)

LYRIC OF THE DAY:
“When the car broke down, they started walking,
where were they going without ever knowing the way?” — Fastball

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