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Song of the Day 7/9: Randy Rainbow, “Poor Deplorable Troll”

By Alby July 9, 2020

I noticed that a lot of Randy's recent parodies have used Disney tunes, and then I remembered that half of Broadway's musicals these days originated as the mouse house's animated…

Song of the Day 7/8: Styx, “Come Sail Away”

By Alby July 8, 2020

This one's for Allan Loudell, who loved to tell the story of Styx playing at his high school prom in the early '70s, back when the band was a popular…

Song of the Day 7/6: Cast of “Hamilton” featuring Phillipa Soo, with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots, “Helpless”

By Alby July 6, 202010 Comments

I don't know what the weekend was like for the rest of you shut-ins -- was it just my neighborhood, or did it sound like the civil war had broken…

Song of the Day 7/4: Madisen Hallberg and Emmanuel Henreid, “The Star-Spangled Banner”

By Alby July 4, 20203 Comments

I'm no fan of "The Star-Spangled Banner" -- IMHO the national anthem should be "America the Beautiful" as sung by Ray Charles -- but this rendition is special. Madisen Hallberg,…

Song of the Day 7/2: Randy Newman, “Jolly Coppers on Parade”

By Alby July 2, 20201 Comment

Critics were lukewarm toward Randy Newman's "Little Criminals" LP when it came out in 1977, but thanks to the surprise success of his controversial hit "Short People," it became his…

Song of the Day 7/1: Johnny Cash, “God Bless Robert E. Lee”

By Alby July 1, 20207 Comments

Statues are coming down and names scrubbed from buildings as once-revered figures are recast as traitors and racists. The Lost Cause has no greater hero than Robert E. Lee, whose…

Song of the Day 6/30: David Bowie, “I’m Afraid of Americans”

By Alby June 30, 20202 Comments

The European Union has banned tourists from the United States because of our nation's inability to get a handle on its COVID-19 pandemic, making fear of Americans an official policy.…

Song of the Day 6/29: Randy Rainbow, “Cover Your Freakin’ Face”

By Alby June 29, 2020

Randy Rainbow dropped this timely public-service message this morning. It's a simple message, but too many simpletons are resisting it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kOesPt7iBY

Song of the Day 6/28: Neil Young, “White Line”

By Alby June 28, 20203 Comments

Neil Young's deep vault of unreleased material is legendary, but one important tranche is unreleased no longer: This week Young finally released his 1975 LP "Homegrown" in its entirety. Several…

Song of the Day, 6/27: Spinal Tap, “Hell Hole”

By Alby June 27, 20201 Comment

With the European Union's decision to ban American tourists, it's pretty clear we're living in a hellhole, so maybe we should adopt this as our new national anthem. Most people…

Song of the Day 6/26: Michael Stipe and Aaron Dessner, “No Time for Love”

By Alby June 26, 20201 Comment

I'm so old I can remember when record companies would have made a big deal about a collaboration between Michael Stipe, late of R.E.M., and Big Red Machine, itself a…

Song of the Day 6/25: Old Crow Medicine Show, “Quarantined”

By Alby June 25, 20201 Comment

Old Crow Medicine Show frontman Ketch Secor released this song a month ago, when armed lamebrains were clamoring for an end to self-isolation and asserting their right to a haircut.…

Song of the Day 6/23: The Ramones, “Somebody Put Something in My Drink”

By Alby June 23, 2020

Hey, kids, 'memba that story last week about the three New York cops who got "poisoned" at Shake Shack? Turns out it wasn't just embellished, it was made up out…