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Song of the Day 4/29: The Platters, “With This Ring”

By Alby April 29, 20211 Comment

Some days there's no news peg for the song, and you just get whatever has become my latest earworm. In this case it's this tune, now best known among Northern…

Song of the Day 4/27: Alan Price, “O Lucky Man”

By Alby April 27, 20213 Comments

We have entered a world where British tabloids now print the truth in order to dispel internet rumors. Take the case just this week of British musician Alan Price --…

Song of the Day 4/26: The Kinks, “Celluloid Heroes”

By Alby April 26, 20216 Comments

I should have posted this yesterday in advance of the Academy Awards, though the Hollywood Ray Davies was singing about -- most of the stars he names were dead or…

Song of the Day 4/24: Digital Underground, “The Humpty Dance”

By Alby April 24, 20212 Comments

Old school rap lost an influential figure this week. Greg Jacobs, better known as Shock G, the rapper who fronted the Oakland rap collective Digital Underground, was found dead in…

Song of the Day 4/23: Bay City Rollers, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Love Letter”

By Alby April 23, 2021

You know rock is over the hill when the lead singer of the first boy band dies at age 65. Les McKeown, the lead singer for the Bay City Rollers…

Song of the Day 4/22: Ennio Morricone, “For a Few Dollars More”

By Alby April 22, 2021

The proposal to increase Delaware's minimum raise to $15 an hour over the next several years got a House committee hearing longer than a Sergio Leone spaghetti western yesterday. It…

Song of the Day 4/20: Peter Tosh, “Legalize It”

By Alby April 20, 20211 Comment

Peter Tosh once told an interviewer that ganja would someday be as legal as cigarettes. That's still years off, but as this handy map shows, in only six U.S. states,…

Song of the Day 4/19: Pixies, “Here Comes Your Man”

By Alby April 19, 20214 Comments

Why did rock music sputter out after the 1990s? I don't know the answer, but the anti-commercial pose that became de rigueur with punk and extended into the era of…

Song of the Day 4/16: Toronto, “Your Daddy Don’t Know”

By Alby April 16, 20213 Comments

Protectionism has a bad name among economists, but as with most things, in some circumstances it's absolutely the right thing for a country to do if it wants to grow…

Song of the Day 4/15: Ludovico Einaudi, “Due Tramonti (Two Sunsets)”

By Alby April 15, 2021

Oscar season is upon us -- the ceremony takes place April 25 -- and it will be a major shock if "Nomadland" isn't named best picture. Everything about the film…

Song of the Day 4/13: Less Than Jake, “The State of Florida”

By Alby April 13, 2021

As pop-punk band Less Than Jake noted in this 2008 song, Florida is sinking into the sea. I would note that the process isn't going fast enough. Unlike, say, Neil…

Song of the Day 4/12: Sinéad O’Connor, “Black Boys on Mopeds”

By Alby April 12, 2021

The continuing plague of police brutality against Black men has kept this song relevant more than 30 years after its release. Colin Roach was a 21-year-old Black man living in…

El Somnambulo Reviews Wrestlemania 37: Night 2

By El Somnambulo April 11, 20212 Comments

The hot rumor making the rounds is that Becky Lynch will return tonight, likely in a truck, following her being away for almost a year away as she became a…