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Song of the Day 11/8: The Four Seasons, “Walk Like a Man”
I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard the Trump campaign tried to get these guys to perform at that infamous Northeast Philly press conference. They didn’t show because they went to the Four Seasons hotel by mistake. Also, too, the song describes something else Trump can’t do. Like most of the group’s string […]
Song of the Day 11/7: Bob Camp (as Stinky Wizzleteats), “Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy”
If ecstatic Democrats are going to gather in crowds to cheer Joe Biden — amid a pandemic, please remember — I wish they would all sing and dance to appropriately gleeful but simpleminded music. This tune, for example. The song first appeared in the sixth episode of the first season of “Ren and Stimpy,” the […]
So Maybe Hillary Wasn’t the Problem
It is time to reassess the supposed unique weakness of Hillary Clinton as a candidate. She shouldn’t have been nominated, some contend, because she had been demonized by right-wing media for 30 years. She wasn’t “likable” enough. She turned off conservative women. She triggered people’s inherent misogyny. I’m sure there are other widely believed tropes […]
Song of the Day 11/6: Chumbawumba, “Drip, Drip, Drip”
Those mail-in ballots just keep trickling in. It must feel like water torture to Twitler. This song was on the same album that made Chumbawumba a one-hit wonder, “Tubthumping,” released in 1997. That eponymous single hit No. 6 in the Hot 100, a major feat by then for any rock track, and drove the LP’s […]
Song of the Day 11/5: Stephen Bishop, “On and On”
How long will the vote counting last? It just goes on and on… Try to relax with a little yacht rock. Back in 1976, when the mellow music of Southern California was known, oxymoronically, as soft rock, Stephen Bishop released his debut album, “Careless,” and what would remain his biggest hit. “On and On” climbed […]
Song of the Day 11/4: Alice Cooper, “Elected”
This one is for all the people who were elected yesterday, a list that does not yet include a president. Though the song appeared Alice Cooper’s 1973’s “Billion Dollar Babies” LP, it was released as a single the autumn before, in time for the 1972 presidential election. It didn’t make much of a dent in […]
Song of the Day 11/3: The Chambers Brothers, “Time Has Come Today”
How much more cowbell could a song have? None. None more cowbell. The Chambers Brothers were unlikely pioneers of what became known as psychedelic soul, first recording this trippy classic in 1966. Just a year earlier they had performed at the Newport Folk Festival, at the invitation of Pete Seeger himself — as a gospel […]
DL Open Thread 11/3/20, Election Day
The concept of “election day” might be on its way out. More than 97 million votes were cast before polls opened today, about 67% of the entire 2016 total. The fate of the nation will be decided by how many more votes are out there. Drive-thru votes in Houston are safe for now, as a […]
Song of the Day 11/2: Rare Earth, “Get Ready”
Rare Earth earned its footnote in rock history as Motown’s first successful white act, but naturally the band, founded in Detroit in 1961 as the Sunliners, scored its first and biggest hit with a song of impeccable soul pedigree. Written by Smokey Robinson, “Get Ready” was recorded by the Temptations in 1966, when it reached […]
Song of the Day 11/1: Lindsey Buckingham, “Countdown”
The first time he left Rock’s Longest Running Soap Opera, in 1987, it took Lindsey Buckingham five years to put together a solo album. “Out of the Cradle” was actually his third solo album, but he had still been in Fleetwood Mac when he did the first two, and what was supposed to be his […]
Song of the Day 10/31: Al Kooper and Stephen Stills, “Season of the Witch”
Donovan wrote and recorded this song in 1966, after guitarist John Renbourn of Pentangle showed him how to play a D9 chord at a house party. People who were there say the IrishScottish folkie then spent seven hours playing around with it, and “Season of the Witch” was written soon after. It was considered one […]
Song of the Day 10/30: The Traveling Wilburys, “End of the Line”
This one’s for the Trump administration and the entire Republican Party, which is indeed facing the end of the line. The Traveling Wilburys were rock history’s most peculiar supergroup — five middle-aged singer-songwriters, all but Tom Petty past their commercial peaks, combining their writing and singing talents just for the fun of it. The project […]
Cuckold Fetishist Jerry Falwell Jr. Sues Liberty University
You couldn’t make this shit up because it wouldn’t be believable. Jerry Falwell Jr., whose predilection for watching his wife fuck the pool boy caused a wee bit of an image problem for the pretend-Christian university his father founded, is suing the school because, he claims — how’s his for bloated cojones — it ruined […]
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