


Cops sent him on his way, and according to the notes left by the officer in the police log, “he whistled his way back home. While the whistler had moved on by the time police arrived, cops still located him and, according to Herb, he was still whistling “Closing Time.” Police officers spoke to the man who said he was upset that he had been told to shut up. three modern classics: Closing Time (written for his band Semisonic). The song is Closing Time by Minneapolis’ Semisonic. But one song, in particular, would go on to be a late night anthem for the ages. Whatever the reason (perhaps she just realized what the song was about?), the woman was definitely not a fan of the man’s whistling, and when she told the whistler to “shut up”, a verbal altercation broke out. Words & Music by Dan Wilson features an evening of songs and stories that pull. Everlast, Garbage, Cake, and New Radicals were all riding high, and your car stereo couldn’t get enough.

“It’s not clear if the caller would have been more or less upset if it was a different genre or whether it was just the talent lacking in the whistling,” Herb told TIME, with a chuckle. Semisonic’s Closing Time got a lot of radio play in the late nineties, and a lot drunk people spent a lot of stoned time discussing just what it might mean. Overall, it’s another one of those in between chord progressions that doesn’t sound entirely happy, doesn’t sound entirely sad. Police officers responded to reports of a “jack-ss guy” who wouldn’t stop whistling, according to Captain Mike Herb of the Forest Grove Police Department, who writes the department’s always entertaining weekly police log. This chord progression is also a lot like Semisonic’s Closing Time, an essential 90s barroom pop-rock singalong. When a man wouldn’t stop “obnoxiously” whistling Semisonic’s ’90s rock ballad, “Closing Time” near her house, an Oregon woman made the only logical move-she called the cops to report a crime.
