Song of the Day 3/8: Psychedelic Furs, “Pretty in Pink”
Hey, Millennials, wanna feel old? The classic John Hughes Brat Pack movie, "Pretty in Pink," was the No. 1 box office film 40 years ago last week. You're welcome. As…
Song of the Day 3/6: The Prisonaires, “Just Walkin’ in the Rain”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona In 1953 a young doo-wop group entered Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio in Memphis to make its first recording. They were hardly the only young…
Song of the Day 3/5: James and Bobby Purify, “I’m Your Puppet”
Among their many desperate justifications for starting a war on Iran, Trump and Marco Rubio have slipped in the one that's almost certainly true: Netanyahu made them do it. "We…
Song of the Day 3/4: Nazareth, “Shot Me Down”
The downing of three American combat jets in the early hours of the War on Iran were blamed on friendly fire from Kuwaiti air defenses. It now appears that it…
Song of the Day 3/3: Radiohead, “Let Down”
Lots of artists have protested the use of their music by the Trump regime, but the British band Radiohead put their objection more bluntly than most after "Let Down," a…
Song of the Day 3/2: Neil Sedaka, “Bad Blood”
Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who died last week at age 86, had two separate eras of chart-topping success in his nearly seven-decade career. Yet his name is probably unfamiliar to anyone…
Song of the Day 3/1: Canadian Resistance Army, “Not Your 51st State”
H/t Al Jackson, who sent me the link to the most recent AI creation of DesertFlyingFox, the creator behind the Greenland Defense Front video. This time around the anti-American forces…
Song of the Day 2/27: Johnny Nash, “I Can See Clearly Now”
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Dedicated to El Somnambulo, for reasons he'll understand. Johnny Nash started singing as a teenager in Houston and released his debut single in 1956. In the first 16 years of…
Song of the Day 2/26: Phil Collins, “I Don’t Care Anymore”
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released its list of nominees to the usual criticisms, mainly that half of the acts have little if any connection to the genre…
DL Open Thread Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026
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The Epstein Files are like radioactive material with a long half-life, still killing the careers of people like Larry Summers, the overrated economist, long after the pedophile at the center…
Song of the Day 2/25: Bettye LaVette, “Everything Is Broken”
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A true State of the Union address would have sounded a lot like this Bob Dylan number from "Oh Mercy," the 1989 LP that critics treated as a comeback album.…
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
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I don't watch State of the Union speeches because I avoid self-promotion no matter who the president happens to be, but apparently the Screeching Shitbag delivered the longest-ever such speech,…
Song of the Day 2/24: Dion, “Runaround Sue”
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He was just Dion, sans the Belmonts and without his surname DiMucci, in 1961 when he assembled an impromptu doo-wop chorus at a party and started ad-libbing lyrics about a…