i was down at my favorite watering hole with a buddy of mine that was out on parole and we were flipping through the jukebox talking how we d been and how we are he d got a library card and he d pierced his tongue and a buddy in prison had turned him onto neil young and he thought that it d be best to play some for the entire bar now he didn t know but while he was in jail i d had my heart broken by a woman to wondrous to tell and we d fallen in love to half the songs that jukebox played so when he flattened his dollar on the side of the machine and i saw comes a time come on the karaoke screen i d realized there was a couple things i had forgot to say don t play neil young don t play van morrison just let some high school emo band start versing and chorusing because there s no way it will break my heart as far as i can see and that s why modern radio is a ok with me he said a pop song used to be a powerful thing you could turn on the a m and john lennon would sing or frank sinatra would be talking to all of the girls and you could think like a hawk or think like a dove or think of a winter afternoon when you fell in love and ten songs on a record sounded like a string of pearls now my buddy rattled on till an hour d gone by and i thought to spit a mouthful of beam in his eye maybe leave him for dead but a friend is a friend to stay so i listened to him talk about johnny and june and how i don t know where i stand is a true love tune i bought another round just in time to hear him say they don t play sam cooke they don t play merle watson they just trade some cadillac fleetwood brougham for a broke down datsun and there s no way it ll break my heart as far as i can see and that s why modern radio is a sack of monkeys to me he said it makes me so mad i want to get up and shout it and i smiled and said i hadn t thought that much about it we walked out the street and parted ways i might ve gone to a movie but my money was spent so i went on home and lord knows where he went but i wrote myself a letter to all modern dj s don t play bob dylan don t play loose ends don t play anybody that s ever read sir patrick spens because there s no way it ll break my heart as far as i can see and that s why modern radio is a ok with me