Bad timing

"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing." --- George McGovern

There's never a "good" time for unmitigated violence like the horrible, coordinated series of bomb attacks that hit the London Underground this morning, but it's especially bad timing for musicians/doctors Adam Kay and Suman Biswas.

Yesterday, I stumbled on a blog complaining about the London Underground with the following link to Adam and Suman's song (warning - lots of dirty words!)...

London Underground

Yesterday, it was funny (in a Weird-Al-cursing-like-a-sailor kind of way) because it has lots of naughty words in it and it's provocative and it's wrong - and that's funny. Today, barbaric events have changed our world yet again and the song is even more provocative and more wrong - and "Where the f**ks my f**king train?" isn't funny anymore.

What was a silly parody is now a grim irony, all because of timing.

Other bad musical timing (Adam Mayle on www.blacktable.com):

"The tsunami, for lack of a better term, washed away momentum from the release of Ms. Hersch's new band -- a group called, with creepy prescience and astonishing accuracy, 50-Foot Wave."

"Explosions in the Sky released its album on September 10, 2001 and the next day, on September 11th, the skyline above Manhattan exploded in fire as Islamic terrorists crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center."