Thursday, February 29, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #60


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So...


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Democrats = Party of Freedom


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Putin's waterboy


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The Tennessee GOP is sanctioning the rape of children


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Where the hell is our fucking media on all this?


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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDLXXVII--Squeeze: Messed Around

 Lordy, lordy, only two three four five days late...

My introduction to this week's tune actually came with its inclusion on a 1981 album...however as the years passed and I moved from shiny new object to shiny new object it kind of got forgotten.  Fast forward to the pandemic, when businesses were first allowed to open up and taking my youngest son to his Tae Kwon Do lessons, wherein the school was only allowing students in the building for health and safety reasons.  I'd have an hour to kill twice a week in the parking lot and I began listening to old favorites on YouTube Music, when lo and behold one of those old favorites had a "You might also like..." feature.  This week's song popped up at some juncture and it was one of those Holy Shit I Forgot All About This Great Tune moments and began listening to it again.  Which is a rather long way to note how it became another Friday Night Jukebox post....

This will be the third time I've written about Squeeze (Vol. CCXXVII and Vol. CCCXIX), with the last being in 2021.  The band continues to tour and has plans to record two albums in the near future.  Sadly, as I noted in the 2021 post, the band has still not been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  An absolute travesty.

Fun Fact:  A lot of great bands in their early days opened for Squeeze, including R.E.M., U2, The Specials, XTC, The Jam, and Dire Straits.  

"Messed Around" appeared on Squeeze's classic LP, East Side StoryThe song was released as a single only in the U.S. but did not chart.  The album reached #19 in their native U.K., while it peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200 here in the States.

"Messed Around" is a delightful slice of rockabilly (Chris Difford has said the song was influenced by the Stray Cats) that sounds quite unlike anything Squeeze ever did.  The song features the usual deft lyrics, an impassioned vocal from Glenn Tilbrook, a brilliant piano solo from Paul Carrack, and a guitar solo from Tilbrook that could have come out of the Sun Sessions.  It also has a catchy as all hell--and incredibly short--chorus ("She feels messed around").  Quite simply, this one is a lot of fun, will stay joyfully in your head for days, and is one hell of a closing song for a brilliant album.

Lyric Sheet:  "She wants to give up love for good/She kicks the fence and splits the wood/She cries her eyes out in the rain/She swears aloud and so again/She feels messed around..."

Enjoy:




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#VoteBlue2024 #59


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Chain of fools


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Bet they'd like to bring back lynching, too


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Nothing more than Russian dupes


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Project 2025 is a welcome to hell


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There are no limits to the GOP plan to curtail reproductive rights


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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #58


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Could it be...Satan?


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Pass it on


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What the fuck is wrong with these people?


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Not hard to see this coming


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So much losing for the GOP


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Monday, February 26, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #57


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The biggest loser


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Even more from Dementia Don


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They are both psychopaths, though


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Trump has never been right


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Deadly lies


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Sunday, February 25, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #56


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Reproductive rights are on the line


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This is good...for Democrats!


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The utter gutlessness of the GOP will be the history of this era


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Trump fatigue?


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Alfred Einstein


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Saturday, February 24, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #55


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Assolini


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It's wittingly


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Nothing more than a common criminal


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Open season


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No confusion like the confusion of a simple mind


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Friday, February 23, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #54


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The messiah for morons


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The thrill is gone for MAGA?


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The religious right is wrong for America


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For the GOP, it's Russia first


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The ramblings of dementia


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Thursday, February 22, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #53


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Go fuck yourself, indeed


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A tough motherfucker


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Trump is a human shit stain


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Boring! Sad!


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The senile psychopath


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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #52


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Golden shoes from the golden shower guy


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Always trust dear leader and vote November 27th


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GE is utter horseshit


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There is nothing remotely "Christian" about Donald Trump


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Apparently, human life is second to fealty to Donald Trump


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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol.CDLXXVI--The Waterboys: The Big Music

Yikes, only four days late....

Kind of surprised it took me 477 posts to get to this week's tune, though in fairness, even some twenty odd years down the road since I first heard it, its greatness in my estimation only continues to grow and that perhaps explains it--just waiting for its apex.  I have to admit it did take a while for the song to sink in--I first heard it on a greatest hits package and there were a few other songs that struck a chord (so to speak) before this one.  But over time...man what a song. In fact, in my ever so humble opinion, it's one of the ten greatest rock and roll songs ever....

I wrote about The Waterboys in Jukebox CXIII so there's no need for an elaborate bio.  However I should note that Mike Scott and his rotating cast of bandmates have released four more albums since then (2017) and have toured several times as well.

"The Big Music" was released in 1984 as the first single from their rather blasphemously named album A Pagan Place.  The song would reach #124 on the U.K. Singles Chart, while the album would hit #100 on the U.K. Albums Chart.  Neither charted here in the States.

Fun Fact (well, at least for me):  My post for The Waterboys "A Man Is in Love" has the second highest number of pageviews in the history of Friday Night Jukebox.  And if any of my three loyal readers are wondering which FNJ volume has the most page views...oddly enough, it's Chatham County Line's "Speed of the Whippoorwill."

Mike Scott has said that "The Big Music" is not about music but is about something religious.  For me, the song is about music--there is nothing religion related that has moved me spiritually one/one hundredth as much as music has.  And though he may not have intended it, that's exactly what I've taken from the song.  Scott's vocals conjure all the grandiosity of its metaphysical quest, while the band, with the wailing sax and the angelic backing vocals, takes us all to a higher plain.  Even the ending, wherein the exhilarating journey we've been on comes to a quiet close with the drums slowing slowing slowing like a heartbeat...and then just stops.  And then you ask yourself--is this heaven?  It very well might be, but the one thing I can say for certain is that it's a stunning piece of rock and roll.

Lyric Sheet:  "(You'll never get there, you'll never get there, you'll never get there)/But I will/I will always climb the mountain/Because/I have heard the big music/And I'll never be the same..."

Enjoy:



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#VoteBlue2024 #51


 

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Make America Great Again


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Going to be a long election season for the GOP


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"Pathological" pretty much tells you all you need to know


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So much for his business skills...


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Nditements for Dodo Donnie


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Monday, February 19, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #50


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The biggest embarrassment in American history


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The Democrats' secret power


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There was an old man who grifted a shoe...


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Scumbags, the both of them


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Not sure "I'm Incompetent" is quite the campaign slogan Trumpie thinks it is


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Sunday, February 18, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #49


 

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Dirtier than a cesspool

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Wonderful news for Democrats


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Bank on it--Trump will have his opponents killed


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Seriously--we already take too much shit from the rich


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GOP = Fucking Worthless


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Saturday, February 17, 2024

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDLXXV--John Mellencamp: It Don't Scare Me None

Once again we have A Week and a Day Late Jukebox....

My introduction to this week's tune came when it was included on the soundtrack to the movie Falling from Grace which starred, and was directed by (both were debuts), John Mellencamp.  For a novice, Mellencamp did a credible job both as an actor and a director, putting together a fine little movie (I've seen it twice and both times enjoyed it thoroughly).  He also put together one hell of a soundtrack--I listened to it for months when it was first released and will still put it on the stereo on occasion....

I wrote about John Mellencamp in Vol. CLXXIX, and like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty from my early posts this year, it's hard to believe I've only written about one of his songs prior to this one.  I'm sure that will be corrected over the next few years, good Lord willing.  Since I wrote about Mellencamp in 2018, he has released two albums (his Strictly a One-Eyed Jack was actually a pretty nice record) and had a 78-date tour last year.

"It Don't Scare Me None" was included, as noted above, on the 1991 soundtrack to Falling from GraceThe song was not released as a single, and try as I might, I was unable to find any chart info for the album.  

Written by Larry Crane (backing guitarist for Mellencamp from 1976-91), "It Don't Scare Me None" is a song about an older man who is full of piss and vinegar, sung by a younger man who is full of...piss and vinegar.  Mellencamp delivers a rollicking performance, capturing not only the protagonist's fearlessness, but also his joie de vivre.  Mellencamp produced it, and you can hear where he was at musically with this one, with its Americana vibe (lots of fiddle in the instrumental break).  Great chorus, a fine pop groove, and my favorite part, right before the instrumental break when Mellencamp tells the band to "Take it."  A great song from a man who was at the height of his musical powers.

Lyric Sheet:  "Woke up blurry-eyed/Wonderin' where I've been/I've wrestled with my conscience/But my conscience never wins..."

Enjoy:




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#VoteBlue2024 #48


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Poisoning our democracy


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We need to protect our democracy


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When a despot tells you who he is, believe him


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Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, Donnie, it tolls for thee


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The GOP is supporting a murderer


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Friday, February 16, 2024

#VoteBlue 2024 #47


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Class warfare on steroids


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Traitors, traitors, traitors


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Donnie tied a big anchor around his neck


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Inhuman piece of shit


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The smell of GOP defeat


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Thursday, February 15, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #46


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America needs separation of church and state


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The GOP can't govern--and it's going to cost them come November


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Trump is most definitely an idiot


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Completely deranged


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Man, you have to wonder if Trump fellates Putin, too


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Wednesday, February 14, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #45


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Which one were you?


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It's gonna be a blue November...


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Twenty years of GOP failure to protect our borders


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Four hundred times


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This should be in hundreds of Democratic ads between now and November


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Tuesday, February 13, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #44


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Yellow-bellied mush muffins


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Kamala nails it


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This is flat out terrorism


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Wondering if Vlad and Tucker tan their testicles together...


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Punch line


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Monday, February 12, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #43


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