There’s a first mover advantage.

That’s right, let Spotify stream your music early and you get a check or stock or both. Wait until the downside of the curve and you get bupkes.

So let this be a lesson to all of you Luddites out there, the best way to leave money on the table is to refuse to play, to refuse to embrace the future, to insist on the past trumping the future, and I’ve never known that to happen.

The Beatles could have been leaders. But now it’s all about the cash, that’s what moves the Fab Four. And this time their reluctance to take action is to their financial detriment.

This is big news, but not for the reason you think it is. I mean sure, it’s a validation of streaming services, but you just had to use YouTube to know streaming was not only the future, but already here. But this is the first time it’s not about now, but tomorrow. Yesterday and Today? No, Tomorrow Never Knows. But what we do know is that the Beatles are going to get paid every time someone listens to their music in the future. RSO may have released the “Sgt. Pepper” soundtrack and sold tonnage (and gotten tonnage returned), but how often have the Beatles been paid when their old vinyl records were spun? Or those eighties CDs? Never.

But now they will.

It’s like getting a retirement account without opening one. And sure, the Beatles may be past Social Security age, but all the young acts who are often dumb will now be taken care of in their later years, not only by publishing rights, songs played on the radio, but by streams.

So the game is completely different.

I don’t expect the media to do hosannas for more than a week, if that. We’ll see the usual press releases about the number of tracks streamed, the percentage of the respective services’ volume that was the Beatles, what that might be worth, but then crickets.

You see, once again, the music business is the canary in the coal mine, far advanced beyond not only movies, but news. The film business is Balkanized, you can’t get everything in one place. Furthermore, try getting an accounting based on how many times people actually streamed your show on Netflix or Hulu. Hell, the deals themselves aren’t even structured that way. In the film business it’s all about now, in music it’s all about tomorrow.

And every day the newspapers and news sites have to reinvent the wheel. Who wants yesterday’s papers? Almost no one. Whereas if you write a classic tune, people want it forever.

Or do they?

We’ll find out how long the Beatles’ legacy lasts. Certainly longer than the rest of the classic rock titans. The twenty second century? The twenty third? It’s amazing how greatness is plowed under, Steve Jobs is already in the rearview mirror. But John Lennon and George Harrison have been dead for a while and their influence is still being felt. That’s the power of art. You may conceive it in an instant, execute it in an hour, but when done right, it lasts.

So where does this leave the rearguard?

We still don’t know how popular the Adele album is. We can crunch streaming numbers and see the impact of everybody else’s album, but… We might find out that “25” is not as popular as we think. It might hit streaming services and turn out to be a dud. We get real time statistics always, telling us what’s being listened to and not. Major Lazer & DJ Snake had the most played track in Spotify history with “Lean On,” but it’s got a fraction of the traction in mainstream media that “25” has. It could be bigger, or almost equal.

The data generation is all about truth, about facts. And in the arts, it’s hitting music first. Hype has already been decommissioned. That’s why acts like Beyonce and Eric Church and so many more are putting out their albums with no advance buildup. Because they know it’s irrelevant. The only thing that matters is if people listen.

It’s a long road, well, in honor of the Beatles, let’s call it a long WINDING road. It took fifteen years, but we’ve finally got solidification in the music sphere. Disruption is on hold. Piracy has been quelled. We’re all on the same page. And this is a good thing.

Are there battles yet to be fought?

Of course. Publishing on Pandora. Accounting transparency.

But progress is being made. Kobalt is leading the charge on transparency and when the boomers retire and their children take over light will reign, because the younger generation does not believe in duplicity, but honesty. Let the best man win.

And let the best streaming service win.

Which one will do.

And before long, they will all be at CD/FLAC/high quality. All those bozos bitching about sound will shut up. As for Neil Young…he didn’t get the memo, he who lives in the past is doomed to be a sideshow, if they get ink at all. Anybody want a Pono?

Haven’t heard much about that one recently.

But Spotify’s in the news.

And Rdio failed.

And Tidal will fail or be sold.

And Deezer’s IPO was canceled.

We’re on the verge of further consolidation.

But that’s got nothing to do with music, that’s all about business.

And Brian Epstein was one of the worst businessmen of all time. But he achieved the ultimate goal, he made the Beatles stars, the biggest of the modern era. To the point their moves still make headlines today, to the point that people still want to listen.

Will the world stream the catalog en masse tomorrow?

Not so much, no matter what anybody says.

But in the future, when you get a hankering for “A Hard Day’s Night” or “I Want To Hold Your Hand” or “Come Together” or…

It’ll be just a click away.

They call that the on demand economy.

That’s where we now live.

The Beatles know.

Do you?

People make up their own facts, and if you call them on it they just double down. We live in a disinformation economy. The more data there is, the less we can come to a consensus.

Media will follow an irrelevant story if it makes them rich. Donald Trump has absolutely no chance of becoming President, never mind the GOP nominee, but major publications and talking heads can’t stop talking about him because it brings in revenue.

One tragedy replaces another and everything runs together in a sea of iniquity.

Those up in arms the most are those least in danger.

Artists are two-faced. Taylor Swift can refuse to be on Spotify but is all over YouTube, what’s up with that? Have the courage of your convictions Tay Tay.

Spotify is the devil. That’s what the artists keep telling me.

Apple can screw up. The Watch is a joke and Apple Music is so bad it couldn’t even distribute Swift’s show properly, assuming you could find it to begin with. Steve Jobs was all about interface, making it simple, stupid. But it seems he came from a lost civilization that we may not revisit for millennia. Jobs was about eliminating options, now we’ve got so many choices, so much ability to customize, that not only do we not know how to use our devices/apps, we don’t want to.

People gravitate to one winner. Hear anybody championing their Samsung Galaxy recently? Everybody’s on an iPhone, with iMessage. And if you’re about to send me hate mail telling me I’m wrong, I hope you like your low income no friends lifestyle, because all the winners are on the Apple platform, and you keep saying you want to win…

There’s so much television to watch I view almost none of it. I stopped going to the movies long ago. And if you’re not overscheduled, if you’re not time-constrained, if you aren’t overwhelmed with choice and obligation, you’re dead.

They hate Obama because he’s black.

We don’t like outliers, those who raise their heads too high, we tear them down. Would Martin Shkreli have been arrested on securities fraud if he didn’t raise the price of that drug so outrageously? Probably, but not this soon. Everybody wants to be rich and famous, Shkreli just got caught. If you’ve got money and are flaunting it, showing off, you’re making a mistake. Hoard your winnings and hide. As for the Wu-Tang Clan selling its album to Shkreli..? That’s the entertainment business in a nutshell, we don’t care if you’re a criminal, if you’ve got the cash, we’re in business.

People are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore, but they’re clueless as to the underlying facts of their condition. They just know they’re unhappy and not doing as well as before.

College students think they’re entitled to be insult free, that life should be as smooth and uneventful as their boomer parents told them it should be, in the car, driving to Dairy Queen after they got their trophy for landing in last place in the soccer league.

America laments every military fatality, but it tunes in on Sunday to see oversized gladiators bludgeon themselves to death.

Money is our religion. We play the lottery, donate to God and emulate and criticize those further up the economic ladder who keep telling us they earned it and are entitled to it.

You can’t get a good ticket to a hot show at face value because the artists don’t want you to. Ignore the double-talk, the truth is tickets to star attractions are underpriced and as long as they continue to be the public will blame Ticketmaster, the government will investigate scalpers, brokers will employ bots and nothing will change. You don’t really want to know that a ticket to see Adele is worth a grand, do you?

Our mobile phones are our most valued possessions, they’re the one thing we can’t live without. It’s all about connection and communication, but you think it’s about money.

Style is bigger than music, everybody can be a star.

Abortion may be legal, but good luck trying to get one.

God will save us from global warming. Who cares if it’s real or a fraud, the rapture is coming, despite the number of religious believers declining.

He who yells loudest gets listened to, because those who could contradict him are afraid of raising their head and appearing to be a blowhard. For everyone building a shrine to themselves on social media, no one risks being an outcast in service of the truth. Today’s life is all about being a member of the club, the clique, where no contradiction is tolerated. America used to be the land of rugged individualists, today it’s overrun with groupthink. Polls trump right and everybody’s going where everybody else is. As for the punk outsiders complaining they’re not getting notice…true believers challenging the status quo never complain, they just go on their merry way, sowing their seeds, waiting for the world to catch up with them.

10 million people want Adele tickets and “Star Wars” grosses $238 million in a weekend. What does this tell us? PEOPLE WANT TO BELONG!

Welcome to the teens. The media doesn’t label them that, but they should start. It’s not the aughts, the era where the public gradually adopted broadband and pirated movies and music, rather the teens are about a plethora of information, a cornucopia of entertainment options at your fingertips, a tsunami of info so overpowering the only thing to do is to keep shooting pics for Instagram, to try and hold on to your identity.

But that paradigm doesn’t work. Social media is riddled with burning towers. Once people realize no one is really interested in their mundane lives, not even their shenanigans, they return to being observers, only they don’t know where to direct their eyeballs!

When media was scarce, when there were only a few options, when there were so few choices that those which were anointed were ridiculed by a small cadre of black-clad naysayers, you felt you were part of a cohesive society. Now no one knows what’s going on. Disinformation and falsehood rule the land. You can no longer feel the pulse, never mind be on it.

And then come the unicorns.

A tech unicorn is a nascent company worth a billion dollars.

An entertainment unicorn is an album/film/book that exceeds all previous sales/acceptance records, that towers so high we can barely see the top. We’re wowed by its stature and influence. And although these unicorns are good, that’s not the story, the story is their success.

No one’s talking about the music on “25.” And eventually there were positive reviews of “Star Wars,” but they were dwarfed by the hype, the lineups and the toys and the…

This is the future. The big will get bigger and everything else will be plowed under. This is what the public wants, something they can talk about, analyze, own and feel involved with. Turns out owning your own plot of land on the fringes is anathema to the human condition.

Of course we want to dig down deep into our personal interests. But don’t confuse that with what we desire to consume as a community. Only a few people want to be alone, the rest want to belong. And in an era of chaos and cacophony, that’s so hard to do.

Let’s say you’re a music fan. Where do you start? Of course there are aficionados, who know a lot, but they don’t know everything. The EDM fan knows nothing about country, or hip-hop or… Used to be an industry insider knew every record in release, now no one does, there are just too many. There are too many playlists, too much hype, no wonder we gravitate to that which is anointed. Adele is a star whose album got no negative reviews. Let’s start there.

Like with “Star Wars.” Every weekend more movies open than anyone can see. Sure, “Star Wars” is a classic saga, but the reason this one is so big is because it’s easier to point to one flick than to try to personally make sense of the chaos!

Kind of like the 400 odd TV shows. Do you think that will continue? No, we’ll see shrinkage, we’re at peak TV, and it won’t be long before a show is so successful it towers over everything else. Kind of like the Super Bowl, people aren’t interested in the game as much as the MANIA!

So don’t overanalyze the elements. To go deep into Adele and “Star Wars” is to miss the point. It’s not that either is so much better, so much more desirable, it’s just that they’re exponents of the modern era.

We will have more unicorns. This is what the baby boomers and gen-x’ers in control don’t understand. Google is a paragon. As is Amazon. No one can compete. The “New York Times” will own the news, it already does, it’s the only outlet with boots on the ground everywhere. If you double down and play the long game, YOU WIN!

This is what Spotify has done. All the criticism from the unwashed is it’s losing money. But the truth is it’s establishing a beachhead, which it turns out even Apple can’t overcome.

We don’t want choice. Talk to a salesman. Show the customer more than two items and he gets confused and walks out. But in the internet era, oftentimes only one choice is sufficient. You go where your friends are. Remember all those nitwits talking about the survival of BlackBerry? Turns out they didn’t ask the public. Everybody wants to go where everybody else does.

Like the Adele show. Or “Star Wars.”

Forget about scalping, that’s not the story. The story is demand outstrips supply. This ain’t the seventies, when “Star Wars” opened in limited release. “Star Wars” is EVERYWHERE, just like “25.”

And chances are, if you’re not everywhere, you’ve been marginalized, you don’t count.

That’s what they don’t want you to know, all the people selling false hope, that there are fewer winners than ever before. Someone will succeed, but you’d be better off playing the lottery. It’s like the country at large, with income inequality, statistics tell us there’s greater upward mobility in Europe, but the poor in America vote for lower taxes because they believe they’re going to get rich.

The “Long Tail” was a fraud. Millions of tracks on Spotify have never been played. There’s so much information that your missive is buried. Now, a song can truly be a hit but not become one. Because the gatekeepers, who were supposed to be eviscerated by the internet, decided against it. And the money men…without a push, you’re destined for the scrapheap.

Not that you can’t listen to Adele’s record and enjoy it. Not that you can’t go to “Star Wars” and emerge with a smile on your face. But know that this is your role, you’re a consumer, at the end of the food chain, all that hogwash about being a creator is just that. You can build it, but no one will come. And no one wants to live in a vacuum.

So welcome to the new world. Where big is bigger than ever before. And where you’ve got to be good to get a chance, but you don’t have to be the best of all time. You just have to get everybody on your team, from the investors to the marketers to the media. You’re not saving the music business, or the movie business, YOU’RE SAVING SOCIETY!

Come on, you’ve got an opinion on “Star Wars.” You want to see Adele so you don’t feel left out.

No one wants to feel left out.

R&RHOF Playlist – Spotify

YOUR SAVING GRACE
Steve Miller Band

From the fourth album, of the same title.

I didn’t buy it, although I did go to the Fillmore East to see the band headline. I got turned on to this track by XM, before the merger, on Deep Tracks. Funny how these gems are sitting there waiting for discovery. It’s the Steve Miller Band track that goes through my head most these days.

BRAVE NEW WORLD
Steve Miller Band

The opening cut on the third album, which is still my favorite, that inspired me to go see the band at the Fillmore.

We’re driving fast
From a dream of the past
To the brave new world

Aficionados were disappointed by the third LP, which featured a simple yellow gatefold cover and little information. Maybe they were mad at the departure of Boz Scaggs, but the album’s a gem that will reward upon listening. I discovered it in the basement of a fraternity house on the University of Chicago campus, wherein I made friends with Paul Volberding, ultimately a famous AIDS doctor in San Francisco, who spun it constantly.

KOW KOW CALQULATOR
Steve Miller Band

The best track on “Brave New World,” labeled just “Kow Kow” upon initial release, this is magical, illustrating the importance of arrangement and the attraction of Steve Miller’s voice. Hang in there until the end when it becomes much more intense. This is the essence of classic rock, when it was about testing limits more than having a hit, and there wasn’t one on “Brave New World,” not one that would play on AM radio.

SPACE COWBOY
Steve Miller Band

The most famous track on “Brave New World,” an instant classic you got upon the first listen, it was all over FM radio for years, is the younger generation even aware of it?

MY DARK HOUR
Steve Miller Band

The closing track on “Brave New World,” listen for Paul McCartney’s unmistakable backup vocal, never mind drums and bass.

SEASONS
Steve Miller Band

The cut that made me a satellite radio fan, I’d never heard it on the radio ever, when it came pouring out of the speakers on XM in January of 2004 I was transported back to that summer in Chicago. If you think you know Steve Miller, when you listen to this, you will find out you don’t. It sounds nothing like the radio hits from years later. This is dreamy and fantastic. If you listen to one cut on this playlist, let this be it.

BABY’S CALLIN’ ME HOME
Steve Miller Band

From the 1968 debut LP, “Children Of The Future,” this is arguably Boz Scaggs’s finest moment. Ethereal…from back when music set your mind free, adrift, so it could get into nooks and crannies and you could discover who you truly were, when being an individual was important.

QUICKSILVER GIRL
Steve Miller Band

From the second album, the second in 1968. You may not know this is Steve Miller, you may not have even heard it. But when you listen to it not only will you instantly get it, you’ll regret that you were not around to experience it and the lifestyle that inspired it, back in 1968, when you had to leave your house to communicate and we were not competing for likes on social media, when everything was truly about the momentary experience, and your friends.

LIVING IN THE U.S.A.
Steve Miller Band

Somebody give me a cheeseburger!

It’s about career-defining tracks more than hits. Cut one that’s indelible and eventually the audience will catch up with you.

Also from “Sailor,” the second album.

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
Steve Miller Band

Because it was such a surprise, emanating from the car speakers, Steve Miller was already in the rearview mirror and then he dropped this less than three minute magical moment and suddenly he was back.

FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
Steve Miller Band

Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future

Ain’t that the truth.

Once upon a time this was just an album track, part of Steve Miller’s oeuvre, now it’s a cultural institution. Sure it was a hit single, but no one ever thought it would be REMEMBERED!

ROCK’N ME
Steve Miller Band

Why they still come out to see Steve, why his audience always regenerates. It’s the power of rock and roll. We need a return to roots.

JET AIRLINER
Steve Miller Band

Written by Paul Pena, this is my favorite latter-day Steve Miller Band track, it’s the riff, the changes, the vocal…and the way that guitar stings.

Come on, this goes through your head every time you go to the airport, right? Or maybe you never fly.

I might get rich, you know I might get busted

Back from when life was a lark, when you weren’t buying insurance, from when you had no idea what an investment bank was, before tech, when everything good was going on in your head.

And now, here’s a special treat, the original Paul Pena recording of “Jet Airliner,” due to the magic of YouTube, it’s not on Spotify.

Paul Pena – Jet Airliner (The Original)

He’s dead now, but before he passed I saw him at the Wiltern, in the early part of this century, he demonstrated the Tuvan throat-singing he was famous for and sang this.

THE STAKE
Steve Miller Band

Who came up with the riff first, Joe Walsh or David Denny who wrote this? It may not matter, both tracks kill. And notice that Joe Walsh, who recorded “Rocky Mountain Way” first, did not sue. Oh, how times have changed.

MAELSTROM
Steve Miller Band

From 1986’s “Livin’ In The 20th Century,” you might have heard this instrumental leading up to the news, back when they used to do that.

It’s incredible.

I WANT YOU TO WANT ME
Cheap Trick

It’s all about the second album, “In Color,” word spread, it was the talk of Rhino Records, when that was still a shop on Westwood Boulevard. There was never a new Beatles, but Cheap Trick digested the essence and built upon it. Sure, the hit was ultimately the one on the “Budokan” album, but despite its energy, I still prefer the studio iteration.

OH CAROLINE
Cheap Trick

“I Want You To Want Me” is on the first side, but the second side is “In Color”‘s masterpiece. There’s a Beatlesque change in the middle of this, despite rocking harder than so much of the Beatles’ catalog.

CLOCK STRIKES TEN
Cheap Trick

This comes next. It’s a tear. With a rockin’ Robin Zander vocal akin to that of Paul McCartney’s when he’s doing his best Little Richard.

SOUTHERN GIRLS
Cheap Trick

Reminiscent of “California Girls,” but not. It’s got a great, hooky chorus that puts a smile on your face.

COME ON, COME ON
Cheap Trick

Zander is imploring you. And we were receptive, we went along.

SO GOOD TO SEE YOU
Cheap Trick

The second side closer, it’s my favorite cut on the LP, even though I’d never say it’s the best.

If the band had never done anything more, I’d have said they deserve to be in the R&RHOF. But they wandered and were never quite this consistently great again, even though people love “Dream Police,” but…if Rush is inside, Cheap Trick should be too!

MANDOCELLO
Cheap Trick

Jack Douglas did the first LP, and despite the band opening shows with “ELO Kiddies,” this is the best cut on the record. You may not know it, but you should.

TAKIN’ ME BACK
Cheap Trick

Tom Werman did “In Color” and he did “Heaven Tonight” too, although the latter rocked harder, and ultimately so did Werman, with Ted Nugent and Molly Hatchet and more. This second side opener is my favorite on “Heaven Tonight,” it’s the one I sing in my head, it’s made by Rick Nielsen’s thunderous riff.

SURRENDER
Cheap Trick

A classic, kinda like the “hits” of the Ramones, those in the know loved it but it didn’t penetrate the public consciousness upon release, that took decades. The best lines…

Then I woke up
Mom and dad are rollin’ on the couch
Rollin’ numbers, rock and rollin’
Got my KISS records out

Too many tracks live in their own rarefied air, but the KISS reference always cracked me up, Cheap Trick were definitely living in the mid-seventies.

This is Cheap Trick at its greatest, and when I think of all the wankers who never achieve this height these days I reconsider my earlier statement and must declare…CHEAP TRICK ABSOLUTELY BELONG IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!

CALIFORNIA MAN
Cheap Trick

Written by Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne’s long forgotten compatriot in the Move. Just think of an Englishman writing this…

GONNA RAISE HELL
Cheap Trick

What “Dream Police”‘s reputation is built upon. It’s nine minutes and twenty seconds long and entrances you, especially if you’ve got zits and have never been laid.

NEED YOUR LOVE
Cheap Trick

Almost as long, this closes side two of “Dream Police,” just like “Gonna Raise Hell” ended side two. This sounds as good to me as it did back then.

IF YOU WANT MY LOVE
Cheap Trick

And then the band went into the wilderness. Lost the plot. Stopped having hits. It’s almost as if “Budokan” sapped the band’s energy, stopped them in their tracks, delayed their career course, and they could never get back on track. One of their experiments, while at loose ends, was to work with Queen’s majordomo, Roy Thomas Baker, and this magical track appears on 1982’s “One On One.” It holds up extremely well.

TONIGHT IT’S YOU
Cheap Trick

And after working with Todd Rundgren, the band returned to its initial producer, Jack Douglas, and came up with this gem that got little traction but is as great as anything the band has ever done. It’s got all the elements, an enticing Robin Zander vocal and walls of Rick Nielsen’s guitars.

Not to mention the power and the changes, it channels all the teen angst in the world and its only equivalent is the Tubes’ “White Punks On Dope,” that’s the only track I know that also channels teen frustration and climbs to the mountaintop. Yes, listen to “Tonight It’s You,” it starts at sea level and goes all the way to the top of Mt. Everest. All the Active Rock posers should check this out and realize they’re not shooting high enough.

THE FLAME
Cheap Trick

I know, they didn’t write it, they hate it, but whomever is responsible for the underlying material, they positively made it their own. A gigantic hit, a return to form, this is everything Cheap Trick represents, emotion and feeling, changes and rock and roll religion, all encapsulated on wax. Can you ask for more?

I can’t.

SMOKE ON THE WATER
Deep Purple

I know, they had a hit back in ’68 with “Hush,” on Bill Cosby’s Tetragrammaton Records, their “In Rock” was a hard rock classic, but it was this, in its live iteration on the “Made In Japan” double live album that earned the band its place in rock history. Shame on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for not inducting Deep Purple before this.

I know, Michael Jackson is a cultural icon who’s sold 30 million records, but I’d argue more people have heard “Smoke On The Water,” it was certainly more influential. It cemented riff rock, it inspired legions of young men to pick up the guitar, turn it up and it eliminates all other thoughts and sounds in the universe. It got me through the summer of ’73, when I was doing a minimum wage job and wondering how I was gonna survive. Come on, with a Frank Zappa reference to boot!

The highway stars with multiple lead singers and players should crank the Marshalls to the point where the effete Manhattan industrialists who believe music is about the head and not the heart, the eyes and not the genitals, put their fingers in their ears and run streaming from the induction hall.

If you don’t think “Smoke On The Water” is the essence of rock and roll, pure bedrock, you’re sentenced to listening to Patti Page on endless repeat, you’re just damn LAZY, HA!

DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?
Chicago Transit Authority

I certainly do. It’s way past the time I was due for dinner, and I feel guilty, a friend I rarely see is leaving town tomorrow and I want to connect, so…

Let me just say it’s all about the first double LP. CTA built upon the horn section ethos pioneered by Electric Flag and Blood, Sweat & Tears and took it into the stratosphere!

A double album debut at a discount price, it’s one of the great musical experiences, from this to “Beginnings” to their cover of “I’m A Man” to “Questions 67 And 68” to “Listen” the debut is a forgotten masterpiece of musicality that is a calling card for a deserved induction.

Sure, they ultimately had hits, they got ballady and syrupy, but when Terry Kath was alive and in the band they rocked harder than so many wimps already in the Hall.

Why is it a crime to know how to play?

And while we’re at it, who’s going to bring horns back?

FUCK THA POLICE
N.W.A.

We didn’t know. They were right. They were speaking the truth of the street.

Hip-hop still rules, Dr. Dre is a legend who cannot get enough respect.

Furthermore, the message applies just as much today as it did back then.

Sure, we’ve got to be safe, but before that and first and foremost we need RESPECT!

About time these deserving, overlooked acts from the past were included in the canon installed in Cleveland.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

And now we can say the same thing about the committee.

And although I’m laughing, I’M HAPPY ABOUT IT!