Song of the Day 8/24: Old 97s, “Turn Off the TV”

I consider this timely advice for Americans who prefer to avoid the Republican Trump National Convention and its most common side effect, an overproduction of bile.

This cut comes from the new album by Old 97s, one of the few surviving bands from the alt-country boom in the mid-’90s. The video features YouTube star Puddles Pity Party, a 6-foot-8 singer named Mike Geier, whose shtick is dressing as a white-faced mime and performing covers of popular hits in his booming baritone. He actually gets a line here at the end of the video, just after Rhett Miller is finished.