Tuesday, April 30, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #121


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Donald is an asshole


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Another reason to vote Democratic in November


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Utter insanity


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Pretty much time for all Democrats to end their NYT subscriptions


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Gotta appease their Nazi and KKK voters...


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Monday, April 29, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #120


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How beautiful it would be

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We have the power


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The right to let women die


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Selfishness and malevolence


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But can we get enough Americans to understand this?


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Sunday, April 28, 2024

#VoteBlue #119


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Exactly what Trump would say


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Biden: So much winning!


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The end of your right to dissent


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Could not and would not be trusted


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The only thing Trump will end is the American dream


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Saturday, April 27, 2024

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDLXXXV--Huey Lewis and the News: Trouble in Paradise

It's the late show....

My coolness quotient, never that high to begin with, takes a hit this week with the revelation that my introduction to this week's tune was from its appearance on an album thrown together (more or less) for charity.  While the nobility of its cause (famine in Africa) is beyond reproach, the single that spawned the album--and most of the album for that matter--are not among rock and roll's finest.  That being said, I do believe there is a second song from said album that will be featured in a future post.  Exit stage right from Coolsville....

Huey Lewis and the News formed in 1979 in my forever home of San Francisco.  While their first album generated good reviews, it didn't sell, but the next four more than made up for it with a top fifteen, back to back # 1's, and another top fifteen.  They faded slowly but surely with their next several releases, though the band continued to tour regularly for many years.  They have sold over thirty million albums, won a Grammy and been nominated for two more, and have won thirty Bammys (Bay Area Music Awards, now known as the Californian).  For their career, Huey Lewis and the News have released ten studio albums, three compilation albums, and one live album.  They have also released thirty-nine singles, with ten of them reaching the top ten, three of which went to #1.  While the band hasn't broken up, they haven't performed since 2018, sadly because lead singer and frontman Huey Lewis was diagnosed with Meniere's disease, an inner ear disorder, which makes his performing impossible.  

Fun Fact:  The band's career really took off when their song "The Power of Love" was featured in the megahit movie, Back to the FutureThey also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song.

"Trouble in Paradise" was originally released on their debut album, the ever so cleverly named Huey Lewis and the News.  It was not released as a single, and the album did not chart.  The version I'm featuring this week is a live version from the charity album We Are the WorldIt was once again not released as a single (for obvious reasons), but the album would go on to reach #1.

While I can't say I was ever a big fan of Huey Lewis and the News, being a pop music aficionado they did have a song or two that I enjoyed.  I chose the live version of this week's song because it seemed more vibrant to me than the studio version, though the difference between the two is minimal.  The band is tight, Lewis has a good voice for power pop, and the subject matter of the song (the evils of drugs) is a notch above their usual fare.  Lewis' lyrics do a nice job of questioning what drugs have done to a once promising life without getting preachy--and with the singer admitting he's been there a time or two himself.  While doing my listening this week, I couldn't help but wonder how I'd never noticed how central the saxophone was to the song--it's wails and screeching mimic not only the travails of the user, but also the friends and family left in his wake.  In the end, it's another pop gem for the annals of Friday Night Jukebox--albeit a pop gem with a message.

Lyric Sheet:  "American son he's not very old/An American dream that's never been sold/The smile on his face is his last disguise/We've got trouble in paradise..."

Enjoy:



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#VoteBlue2024 #118


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A very special kind of stupid


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Once again, Trump colluding to screw Americans


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Trump's contempt for women


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Unlike the disaster of Ford pardoning Nixon


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Six paid operatives


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Friday, April 26, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #117


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Monopoly money


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It isn't only Trump who's delusional...


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Are pollsters taking this into account?


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This is why your vote matters so much this November


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Trump guilty? Whoever would have guessed?


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Thursday, April 25, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #116


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The only opinion that matters


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Fox News making the case for Joe Biden


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This is huge for working Americans


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Aiding and abetting an attack on America


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That old time racism


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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #115


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One and the same


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If they don't want to vote for the GOP, so be it!


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Reminder of just how stupid Trump is


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No one should take the GOP seriously, period


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What a whiny ass wimp


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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #114


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Prescience


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How pathetic do you have to be to kiss Trump's smelly ass?


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But his supporters are stupider...


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Putin's special envoy


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A deep sickness


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Monday, April 22, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #113


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The real GOP


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And we can scorch right back


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Wouldn't surprise me


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Fox News = Anti-American


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Gonna be a blue election day in Arizona


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Sunday, April 21, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #112

 

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The least Christ-like Christian ever


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The Trump crime wave has ended


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Fascists like rigged courts


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Russia's best agent


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No shit--at this point Trump's nothing more than a whiny ass bitch old fart


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Saturday, April 20, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #111


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Giveaways to corporations and the rich--the real culprit


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Yet again, Hillary nails the essence of Trump


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Never been a more hateful President, either


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A dirty rat


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Kind of like his buddy Putin?


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Friday, April 19, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #110


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God's will


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Lots of MAGA folks are apparently dumber than a kumquat


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Let's not give Trump the chance to kill more children


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This is EVERYBODY in the GOP


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This shit is getting old--time to charge these fuckers with the crimes they're committing


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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDLXXXIV--The Clash: Hitsville U.K.

What's all this fuss about being late?

This week's tune came from the much-anticipated follow-up album to The Clash's stunning masterpiece, London Calling.  It was a three-record set, sprawling and experimental and adventurous...and it took a while to grow on me.  But once it did, holy shit, what a record.  Always reminded me (not musically, just in its disparate songs) of The Beatles' unwieldy but brilliant White Album (and Lord have mercy would The Clash have ripped my heart out of my chest for that comparison).  And in its disparity, it yielded one of their more pop oriented songs, with a tongue-in-cheek nod to Motown....

I wrote about The Clash in Volume CCXXX, and as Joe Strummer hasn't risen from the dead (not from lack of trying, I'm sure), and Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon have repeatedly said they have no desire to reunite or go on an oldies tour (like The Clash have anything that could remotely be called an oldie), I'll just leave it at the very good bio (if I do say so myself) of "The only band that matters" that I wrote for their first post.

"Hitsville U.K." was the second single released from the band's revolutionary named three LP set, Sandinista! (exclamation point theirs, not mine--the Sandinistas were a revolutionary left-wing Nicaraguan political group).  The single hit #56 in the U.K. but did not chart in America.  The album reached #19 in Great Britain and #24 here in the States.  It was also ranked at #323 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time."

Fun Fact:  Despite the fact that Joe Strummer sang the vast majority of their songs, somehow I've managed to pick two that were sung by Mick Jones (though this week he is ably supported by his then girlfriend Ellen Foley).

Every now and again, a song has a small but indelible moment.  In "Hitsville U.K.," it's about halfway through right before the instrumental break when Jones says (with his English accent) "So 'it it."  Can't ever listen to the song without waiting for that two second blip--it was one of the first things I noticed about the song when I first heard it some forty-three years ago.  The song, its title a nod to Motown's nickname "Hitsville U.S.A.," is a paean to the then burgeoning indie music scene in Great Britain, and how it had opened up the music business for everyday boys and girls.  It features nice vocal play between Foley and Jones, some funky ass bass work from Simonon, and is, much like my last post on The Clash, much more pop oriented than their usual fare.  Wonder why I'd like those two so much....

Lyric Sheet:  (Remember)/They say true talent will always emerge in time/When lightning hits Small Wonder/It's Fast Rough Factory time..."

Enjoy:




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#VoteBlue2024 #109


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In other words, they're lying


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The GOP is coming for every women's rights


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Truth-telling is often seen as bias--WTF?


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There's something wrong here


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Losers losing together


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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #108


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Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?


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What freedom will you lose next?


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Trump for sale to the highest bidder


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Says the son convicted of stealing from a children's cancer charity


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How much does this have to do with dementia?


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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #107


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It is--there's no way Trump wins in 2016 if the Stormy Daniels story breaks before the election


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How many national security secrets do you suppose he sold them?


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Be prepared to fight like hell come November


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See you in Roevember!


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#SleepyDon


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Monday, April 15, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #106


 
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The Son of God appeared...to destroy the works of the devil


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This is being Presidential


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The right to make your own choices


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The embodiment of cowardice


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Biden speaks truth to power


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Sunday, April 14, 2024

#VoteBlue2024 #105


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Sums it up pretty nicely


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Now is not the time for a protest vote


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Believe this--the religious right has been after a nationwide ban since abortion was legalized


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The lazy boy


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This is all on the GOP for cowering to Trump instead of passing the aid package


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