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Song of the Day 2/21: The Presidents of the United States of America, “Lump”

By Alby February 21, 20222 Comments

The second-biggest hit for the only band fit to play on Presidents Day, a No. 1 hit on the Modern Rock chart in 1995. They got the record's sound by…

Song of the Day 2/20: The Association, “Windy”

By Alby February 20, 2022

Here's a symptom of climate change you don't hear about much in the States: destructive hurricane-force winter winds of more than 120 mph. There's plenty of video to prove it.…

Song of the Day 2/18: Cat Stevens, “Wild World”

By Alby February 18, 20226 Comments

Cat Stevens' first Top 40 single as a performer wasn't his biggest hit -- it only reached No. 11, but it's his most-covered by a wide margin. So far the…

Song of the Day 2/16: C.W. McCall, “Convoy”

By Alby February 16, 20228 Comments

For conservatives, bad ideas never die, they just get recycled ad nauseam. So when a few dumbfuck truckers decide they've had enough of this mask-wearing, vaccine-taking reality, they retreat to…

Song of the Day 2/15: Randy Rainbow, “The Tango: Vaccine”

By Alby February 15, 2022

It had been nearly nine months since Randy Rainbow's last musical parody video before he dropped this one on the unsuspecting internet last week. I was concerned that, like earlier…

Song of the Day 2/14: Randy Newman, “Falling in Love”

By Alby February 14, 20221 Comment

If you wanted to commission a love song for a late-'80s rom-com, is Randy Newman the guy you'd turn to? As his girlfriend asks in the video, "What's the matter?…

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…