I'm still recovering from the search for a Hub poet laureate. But that doesn't mean that I don't like a good rhyme like, say, "I saw you talkin' to Christopher Walken," from the song Hackensack by Fountains of Wayne. And there's the classic "God save the Queen, she ain't no human being"... "fascist regime"... etc. from Sid Vicious and company.

FoW scores again with New Routine, a song from their latest album. It's all rhymes and hooks. Here's how it starts...

Two men sit in the corner of a diner
Both of them look quite a bit like Carl Reiner

"China" comes later. They also mix "routine" with "Liechtenstein," "Mercedes" with "ladies" and "into" (or more accurately inta) with "La Quinta."

And that just scratches the surface. This song is chock-full of rhymes and it's over the top enough to work. Now if the band would only move to, and write about Boston, we'd have our official poets.