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Song of the Day 2/13: Marillion, “Gazpacho”

By Alby February 13, 20221 Comment

I admit I never thought I'd actually find a song called "Gazpacho," but when Congressdope Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed her thoughts about the gazpacho police -- I understand they only…

Predicting the Super Bowl By the Mascot Matchup Method – 2022

By Alby February 13, 20226 Comments

It almost goes without saying that there is virtually no scenario in which a Bengal Tiger doesn't defeat a male sheep. But will they cover the points spread? My…

Song of the Day 2/12: Weezer, “Hash Pipe”

By Alby February 12, 20221 Comment

Very little American media output crosses the Atlantic, the obsessions of right-wing agit-prop shops like Fox even less than the rest. But enough spam email has slipped through for me…

Song of the Day 2/11: Hot Chocolate, “Brother Louie”

By Alby February 11, 20221 Comment

Hot Chocolate was a British soul band best known for their 1975 international hit "You Sexy Thing," a disco standard that reached No. 3 in the US. But it was…

Song of the Day 2/10: Todd Rundgren, “Dust in the Wind”

By Alby February 10, 2022

First off, no, this isn't the Kansas tune. It predates it by six years. Fifty years ago this month, then 23-year-old Todd Rundgren released what's widely regarded as his magnum…

Song of the Day 2/9: Fountains of Wayne, “Amity Gardens”

By Alby February 9, 2022

There are lots of songs about real places, but I don't know of any song that celebrates a real place more obscure than Amity Gardens, Pa. That's what you'd expect…

Song of the Day 2/8: Glen Campbell, “Just Another Piece of Paper”

By Alby February 8, 2022

The National Archives had to send -- who? A-men? -- to Mar a Lago to fetch Trump's love letters from Kim Jong-un which, as the linked story dryly notes, "did…

Song of the Day 2/7: The Beach Boys, “Sloop John B”

By Alby February 7, 20221 Comment

Seems like a good time for a vacation in the Bahamas, doesn't it? Drunken first mate, cook with the fits, even, in the original version, a captain with a greedy…

Song of the Day 2/6: Urge Overkill, “Positive Bleeding”

By Alby February 6, 2022

I keep rediscovering bands from the '90s, the last decade when there were so many you might miss a few. Until I heard this tune on a throwback radio show…

Song of the Day 2/5: Mason Williams, “Classical Gas”

By Alby February 5, 2022

Once upon a time it wasn't uncommon for instrumental tracks to become massive hits. One of the biggest came from one of the most unconventional people to ever create one.…

Song of the Day 2/4: Fela Kuti, “Why Black Men Dey Suffer”

By Alby February 4, 2022

Guest post by Nathan Arizona For the second year in a row, the most interesting Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee is probably the Nigerian Fela Kuti. And once…

Song of the Day 2/3: Aoife O’Donovan, “Passengers”

By Alby February 3, 20223 Comments

El Somnambulo did not include anything from Aoife O'Donovan's new album "Age of Apathy" in his January new music roundup, so I'll plug it here. O'Donovan gained attention as frontwoman…

Song of the Day 2/2: Joni Mitchell, “The Circle Game”

By Alby February 2, 20221 Comment

Neil Young's protest against Spotify has found sympathy among some of his old friends. Graham Nash and, more significantly, Joni Mitchell have also asked the streaming platform to remove their…