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…
Song of the Day 2/23: America, “A Horse With No Name”
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Guest post by Nathan Arizona When listeners first heard America’s “A Horse With No Name” in 1972 a lot of them had questions. Why did this new Neil Young song…
Song of the Day 9/22: Snoop Dogg, “Sexual Eruption”
The 2026 Winter Olympics close today, and the most titillating story out of Milano Cortina, Italy, was that the 2,800 athletes on hand ran through 10,000 condoms in three days.…
Song of the Day 2/20: U2, “American Obituary”
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U2 released its first new music in nearly a decade on Ash Wednesday, and the lead track on the six-song EP "Days of Ash" joins the growing list of anti-DHS…
DL Open Thread Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
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Spotlight Delaware unveiled a major project yesterday that assesses the statewide reassessment that has gored many an ox. Not surprisingly, it found that poor people and minorities got hit the…
Song of the Day 2/19: Joe Frazier and the Knockouts, “Knock on Wood”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona It seems wrong to put a movie-prop statue right next to a major collection of great art, yet there’s Rocky at the steps of the…