Malcolm gladwell is the host of Revisionist History, a podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. In this episode he looks at the bright line that divides american society: the sad song line. He says it's weird why people don't talk about this more because it's weird. The number one rock song of all time is about dropping out of harvard. And smoky robinson's tracts of my tears comes to the bottom of the list.

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