Shuffle #134 (May 30, 2020)

Exodus – Bob Marley & The Wailers

Working My Way Back To You – Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons

It’s All Right – The Impressions

Uptight (Everything’s Alright) – Stevie Wonder

Wishing You Were Here – Chicago

Simple Twist Of Fate – Bob Dylan

Ventura Highway – America

I’m Gonna Make You Love Me – The Jayhawks

Lyric Of The Day #16 (May 29, 2020)

Two musical metaphors I’ve always found interesting (and I love both videos):

 

I guess he's an Xbox and I'm more Atari

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKxodgpyGec

 

You're The Great One, I'm Marty McSorley

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkamonwD2yM

Lyric Of The Day #15 (May 27, 2020)

Oh, the dashboard melted

But we still have the radio

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penvn9VL32Y

 

At least the most important part is still functioning …

Lyric Of The Day #14 (May 23, 2020)

Sweet talking guy, talking sweet kinda lies

Don't you believe in him, if you do he'll make you cry

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpFotOi3hDs

 

Of course, all characters portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual national officeholders is intended or should be inferred.

Shuffle #133 (May 23, 2020)

Don’t Ask Me Why – Billy Joel

Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing – Chris Isaak

Southern Man – Neil Young

Stoney End – Laura Nyro

Long May You Run – The Stills-Young Band

Rocket Man – Elton John

The Usual Thing – Marshall Crenshaw

Personal Jesus – Depeche Mode

The Gentle Rain – George Benson

Notable Quote #10

“There is no act, no crime, no petty deceit which he would not commit, and which would not be at once represented on the lips of those about him as a great deed.”

 

From Tolstoy’s War And Peace, by way of a column in this morning’s Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-finished-war-and-peace--and-now-im-over-pandemic-self-improvement/2020/05/19/28ca2384-99e9-11ea-a282-386f56d579e6_story.html

 

Note – Tolstoy was referring to Napoleon.

Music and politics

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/196680/coleman-insights-study-reveals-sharp-musical-divid

 

The overall conclusion is fairly obvious, but some of the details are quite entertaining.

Sports without spectators will be fun. I promise!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-sports-without-fans-could-be-even-better-than-before/2020/05/15/eb964906-96c4-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

 

Some advantages and opportunities of fan-less sports.

LP #33 Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On (1971)

Mother, mother

There's too many of you crying

Brother, brother, brother

There's far too many of you dying

 

Motown turned out classic hit singles by the truckload in the 1960s and beyond. This is arguably the first really significant Motown album. “What’s Going On” and “Inner City Blues”, the opening and closing tracks, are as relevant now, almost 50 years later, as they were when the record was released.

 

Favorite tracks:

 

What’s Going On 

Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

What’s Happening Brother

Mercy Mercy Me

Save The Children

Lyric Of The Day #13 (May 11, 2020)

Got to be closer to you

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQ70TNDLUA 

 

Not a brand-new pandemic song, but one from the 1987 movie The Big Easy. Who knew Dennis Quaid could both sing and write songs???