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DAN004
Since: Aug, 2010

Somebody goes into a music shop, picks up a guitar, and plays the opening bars to "Smoke on the Water". The shop staff grimace in weary resigned pain. Threats to break fingers, or to forcibly insert the guitar where a skilled proctologist would be hard-put to remove it, may be made. I know there's "Can'tYouReadTheSign", but I'm thinking of wider instances where this song has become a tired musical cliché. And others like it, such as "Stairway to Heaven". Sot W is an example of a tired old tune that EVERYONE knows and groans at when they hear it, or it might be used in innapropriate places and times, or else might be the first thing that comes to mind when asked to name a song in a certain genre. But it isn't the only one. for instance the cliche of the bearded trendy young vicar who plays "Lord of the Dance" once too often on the guitar and provokes a groan from his congregation as they've heard it a hundred times before. A hospital radio station might dedicate "Smoke On The Water", with no apparent sign of irony, to a fireman injured in a hotel fire, for instance. Or "Crazy.." to a patient in the psychiatric ward. I'm wondering about the trope/tropes for these? Thanks!
Edited by AgProv