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Song of the Day 12/27: The Four Seasons, “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)”

By Alby December 27, 20241 Comment

I always found this song's opening line a bit strange. "Oh, what a night, late December, 1963." Considering that "late December" is already filled with several significant calendar items, like…

DL Open Thread: Friday, December 27, 2024

By El Somnambulo December 27, 20244 Comments

How Cops Routinely Mistreat Our Most Vulnerable: The Biden administration launched the probes in the wake of the national outcry over the police killings in 2020 of George Floyd in…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: #’s 40-31

By El Somnambulo December 27, 20242 Comments

For the sake of pseudo-transparency, I don't really agonize whether, say, Song #37 is 'better' than Song #36. I find ten songs that I think roughly belong where they are…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 26, 2024

By El Somnambulo December 26, 20245 Comments

Let's get this out of the way first: Wednesday NFL football is bad NFL football. At least Beyonce was there to save halftime. Israel: Fuck The Civilians. And you believed…

‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes Of 2024: #’s 50-41

By El Somnambulo December 26, 20243 Comments

OK, kids, here we go. Real happy with the songs I unearthed this year. I notice that the selection is perhaps a bit more roots-oriented than usual. Although it's technically…

Song of the Day 12/25: The Band, “Christmas Must Be Tonight”

By Alby December 25, 2024

H/t El Somnambulo, who suggested this for the Christmas playlist back in March. This Christmas song by Robbie Robertson went overlooked for years. Written and rejected for the Band's 1975's…

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 25, 2024

By El Somnambulo December 25, 20243 Comments

Been a tough month for those born on December 25. Rickey Henderson. Justin Trudeau. December boys got it bad: Hey, it's December 25. Howzabout a double shot?: This is what…

Song of the Day 12/24: McCoy Tyner, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”

By Alby December 24, 20241 Comment

If you like holiday music played by jazzmen, you've probably heard this on Columbia's 1981 Christmas sampler, "God Rest Ye Merry, Jazzmen," because there aren't all that many jazz Christmas…

DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 24, 2024

By El Somnambulo December 24, 20246 Comments

Just because we don't get nearly as many readers the next two days as normal, that's no excuse for me to just mail in the Open Thread. If you're gonna…

Song of the Day 12/23: The Carpenters, “Merry Christmas Darling”

By Alby December 23, 2024

As Nathan Arizona noted the other day, Karen Carpenter could make even a happy holiday song sound a little sad, so a song about missing her beau on Christmas Eve…

DL Open Thread: Monday, December 23, 2024

By El Somnambulo December 23, 20246 Comments

Biden Commutes Sentences Of Death Row Inmates: President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of nearly all prisoners on federal death row, sparing the lives of 37 men just a…

DL’s MVP’s (Most Valuable To The Progressive Cause) Of 2024

By El Somnambulo December 23, 202421 Comments

I must first explain the omission of both Sarah McBride and Kyle Evans Gay from this year's list. Yes, I'm thrilled that both have moved on to higher office. Yes,…

Song of the Day 12/22: Andy Williams, “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”

By Alby December 22, 2024

This song, which debuted in 1963, turns up among Billboard's top 10 holiday songs every year, and I'd argue it owes its popularity to a TV commercial that wasn't about…