115. "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I liked this song when it first came out, but mostly forgot about it until I watched all 18 episodes of "Freaks and Geeks." (Nice show. THANKS!) Then, either because of the sheer repetition of the theme song or because Cardellini is my favorite pasta, I one-clicked purchased this song so I could put it on my iPod. A few years later, this song had me hitting the iPods replay button in the six months before I got fired at BYU-Idaho for NOT doing something I thought was wrong. During that time, I found it strangely comforting to run laps to this song.
Although I'm sure Ms. Jett probably didn't intend for this song to have a connection to anything "spiritual," because of the BYU-Idaho memories associated with this song, when I listen to it now, I connect it with a line from an oft-played hymn that I heard in church a lot while growing up--do what is right; let the consequence follow.
And that's why this song has a spot on my someday-I'll-exercise iPod playlist, as well as a page in my rock 'n' roll hymnbook.
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