? and the Mysterians sang of 96 tears, an oddly specific number that carries in its specificity that those tears were indeed real, tallied, felt, cried. The Pastels in 1984 raised the lachrymatorial ante: One million tears. Who’s to say that number is any less calculated than the Mysterians’? Is one million such an outrageous number? It is such a go-to hyperbolic number, but it is as likely to be a precise measurement as any. Time, significance, personal propensity for crying could all push the number of tears as high as a situation warrants.
So if Stephen says one million tears, one million tears it is. I believe it completely within the realm of a blubbering reality. The next time i cry i’ll be sure to keep count.
[...] of songs with a million versions. I posted the 12″ version before, so this time it will be the Kid Jensen session version from 1984. Unnecessary, but hey it exists [...]