Great news! The Mountain Goats have a new album “Transcendental Youth,” official release date October 2. You can preview pretty much the whole album right here. While I struggle to pick out a favorite, here’s one of the singles, “Cry for Judas”:
What Happened to Randy Newman?
September 20, 2012 By 3 Comments
Veteran musician Randy Newman has just released the new satirical song “I’m Dreaming (of a White President)” that has your diarist, frankly, baffled beyond belief.
It’s terrible. Newman sets out to mock a certain kind of nostalgic white American chauvinism and then rabbittrails off into an explanation for what happened to all the would-have-been African Einsteins. They were eaten by lions!
Seriously, watch as much of this video as you can stomach and then scroll down for more comment:
Cletus Save Us
September 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Forgot to spin up a song for you yesterday, dear reader. Well how about this, then: Tim Hawkins doing one of the finest parody bits of all time. He listened to that insufferable standard on Christian radio, “Jesus Take the Wheel” and transformed it into “Cletus Take the Reel”!
Bob Dylan Beats Youth, Innocence and a Bad Haircut
September 7, 2012 By 1 Comment
To play you out for the week, here is Bob Dylan’s very funny and very true new music video for the song “Duquesne Whistle” (pronounced “dew cane” whistle). Because of a few of the lyrics (“I can hear a sweet voice gently calling / Must be the mother of our Lord”), I assume it’s meant to point us to Pittsburgh’s Duquesne University, a Catholic school. But it’s Bob Dylan, so I could be wrong about that.
What I Told You / Wasn’t True
September 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Here is Olu Dara doing a very long live multilingual version of “Your Lips (Are Juicy).” It’s not in any wise bad but he did a much shorter, better English version that I cannot find online. Anybody have a line on that?
Oh Dear Johnny I’ll Miss You
August 31, 2012 By Leave a Comment
To play you out for the week, dear reader, here is Pomplamoose performing “Bust Your Knee Caps.” It’s a song about a jilted lover who happens to be part of a “small family business.” She doesn’t take it so well.
Man on the Moon
August 25, 2012 By 1 Comment
Anybody know if a reporter ever put the question to Neil Armstrong, “What did you think of that R.E.M. song?” And if not, why not?
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