Hope did not float.... her quilted 9-layer bustle pulled her down

Popular songs memorializing profiteering disasters (such as the numerous 9-11 anthems) easily come across as just another example of contemporary opportunism.

But it seems that bad taste isn't just a new thing - there's a new boxed set on shelves demonstrating Grandma and Grandpa had to put up with the same sort of headlines-as-song BS.

People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
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The boxed set has 70 gruesome classics - get a load of these song titles:

Burning of the Cleveland School
The Crash of the Akron
Ohio Prison Fire
Wreck of Number 52
Fate of Chris Lively and Wife
The Fatal Wreck of the Bus
The Wreck of the Westbound Airliner
Wreck on the Mountain Road
Memphis Flu
The Unfortunate Brakeman
Explosion in the Fairmount Mine

I can't help but notice how many of these seem to be Ohio-related... Seems like my birth state was a dangerous place to be, back in the day.

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Sing the song sounds like she's singin

I'm 90% more likely to like a song if the singer is a woman. Why is this? Why do I want women singing to me?

Hmm. Clearly a power trip thing. Clearly. Sing to me, you sweet young thing.