Music Thread: End Of Bin Cleanup

My apologies for bringing the real world into this thread, but this made me laugh, and it is excellent on so many levels. Not least of which is poking marvelous fun at the Woke bullsh*t that oozes out of so many organizations that are designed for non-political pursuits.

Anyway, behind the graphic is a great American Rock And Roll song. Even Duncanthrax will like it...I think.

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Love them or hate them; The Rolling Stones are an amazingly impressive band. They have been successful for more than 60 years, have made a ton of money, didn't implode because of "creative differences," and at least one of them is immortal, which is sort of cool in a scary way.

She's A Rainbow is a bit different for them (at least to my ear), although one of the reasons for their success has been their openness to changing their music to suit the fashion of the time. "Some Girls," I'm looking at you!

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Carl Perkins' version of Blue Suede Shoes is far better than the more popular Elvis Presley version.

Fight Me!

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Is Watermelon In Easter Hay good Zappa? Bad Zappa? Weird Zappa? Mainstream Pop Zappa? I have no idea...maybe Misanthropic Humanitarian can tell us!
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The Band is a great rock band, and here is proof of that: Atlantic City, with the additional delicious reality that Springsteen sucks in comparison. His version of this song is sh*t compared to The Band's original.
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Merle Haggard! Hey...I like country music. The Fightin' Side Of Me
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Posted by: CBD at 07:30 PM

Comments

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1 When you’re running down the King, man, you’re gettin’ on the fightin’ side of me.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:34 PM (sk9DV)

2 What, no Bay City Rollers?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

3 Since I have your attention, I strongly recommend Mark Steyn’s weekly On the Town, at 12 Eastern on Serenade Radio on Saturdays. Fascinating bits about music and musicians.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:37 PM (sk9DV)

4 What, no Bay City Rollers?

Roxy!

Posted by: Nick Gilder at July 18, 2026 07:38 PM (sk9DV)

5 Martyn is funny

Posted by: what the cat drug in at July 18, 2026 07:39 PM (jrgJz)

6 "The governing body has set out a plan to improve inclusivity."

Not many black dudes in metal bands, either.

https://youtu.be/2sx8Yt-tAlU

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 07:42 PM (VHUov)

7 Ella Langley

youtu.be/9D-uBr4Y9T0

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 07:45 PM (jrKun)

8 Is this music only ??

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2026 07:47 PM (diia5)

9 Thanks for linking "Watermelon in Easter Hay", a new one to me. I'd call it "resplendent, transcendent Zappa"; it's more prog rock than jazz to my ears.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 18, 2026 07:47 PM (kpS4V)

10 Lotta St. Joan doing a cover of a Townes Van Zandt song. Kind of stumbled into her on YTube. I have no idea who she is other than she's from Germany.

youtu.be/Z1jIY9fMKTE

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 07:47 PM (jrKun)

11 I thought this was a movie review night. Oh well.

Posted by: Tuna at July 18, 2026 07:48 PM (lJ0H4)

12 Is this music only ??

If you can abide it, let the hurdy-gurdy play.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:49 PM (sk9DV)

13 Is this music only ??
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Political opinions must be expressed in non-Queensrÿche lyrics.

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 07:49 PM (VHUov)

14 At the risk of inflaming CBD's temper -- it takes so little -- has anybody seen Nolan's "Odyssey"?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 18, 2026 07:50 PM (kpS4V)

15 Cole Chaney - The Big Empty
youtu.be/3eFKTmwzVcU

An Appalachian cover of the STP classic.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 07:50 PM (jrKun)

16 Political opinions must be expressed in non-Queensrÿche lyrics.
Posted by: mikeski

Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2026 07:50 PM (diia5)

17 Anyway, Tate Brothers arrested in Miami, and...

@disclosetv 8m
UPDATE - UK's Crown Prosecution Service says they are prosecuting the Tate brothers for additional alleged offenses dating from 2010-2017, and will seek extradition to the UK.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2026 07:51 PM (diia5)

18 Political opinions must be expressed in non-Queensrÿche lyrics.
Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 07:49 PM (VHUov)

We've never gotten a ruling on Tears for Fears (or better covers.)

https://youtu.be/MM0BiOjd3hs

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:52 PM (zZu0s)

19 At the risk of inflaming CBD's temper -- it takes so little -- has anybody seen Nolan's "Odyssey"?

I have been tempted to rewatch Ulysses 31.

(I also heard there was a very good Odyssey out of Italy in 1968.)

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:53 PM (sk9DV)

20 I thought Tate went down in flames after he lost that boxing match?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:53 PM (zZu0s)

21 Some random girl in Applachia meadow, with her banjo.

Murphy Cambpell - Swannanoa Town

youtu.be/1vT8hN_2yx0

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 07:53 PM (jrKun)

22 I have been tempted to rewatch Ulysses 31.

(I also heard there was a very good Odyssey out of Italy in 1968.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:53 PM (sk9DV)

Armand Assante from the ... early 90s?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

23 Off to the land of very bad music soon…

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 07:54 PM (4g5V+)

24 What I was listening to while driving into work.

youtu.be/lvBOZCrJsAI

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 07:54 PM (jrKun)

25 Armand Assante from the ... early 90s?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:54 PM (zZu0s)

That one was from 1997 and from the reviews I am seeing is infinitely better than the crap Mr, Nolan has served up.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (4g5V+)

26 I have been tempted to rewatch Ulysses 31.

(I also heard there was a very good Odyssey out of Italy in 1968.)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

Watch last year's "The Return" with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche.

Posted by: Tuna at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (lJ0H4)

27 Armand Assante from the ... early 90s?

No, never heard of that one. With Isabella Rossellini and Christopher Lee it has to be worth watching. With Bernadette Peters it has to be bad.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (sk9DV)

28 The Stones were “sloppy” but they had been playing so long together it was a precision sloppiness. I’m sure if a cover band tried to get sloppy they couldn’t do it

Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (UHbyc)

29 Is Watermelon In Easter Hay good Zappa? Bad Zappa? Weird Zappa? Mainstream Pop Zappa?

Good. Not weird. Not mainstream, nor pop, but probably "accessible."

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 07:56 PM (VHUov)

30 At the risk of inflaming CBD's temper -- it takes so little -- has anybody seen Nolan's "Odyssey"?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 18, 2026 07:50 PM (kpS4V)
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Nope.

But I did watch a YouTube video about how The Odyssey has influenced science fiction.

Once you know that, you can't unsee it in a wide variety of science fiction stories.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 18, 2026 07:56 PM (FZ29D)

31 A bit too maudlin on that last.

Al Hirt

https://youtu.be/fqwIpH6phJs

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

32 Hiked 10 miles round trip on a section of the Caprock Canyons Trailway. After which I listened to Black Label Society’s “Death March”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 07:57 PM (4g5V+)

33 That one was from 1997 and from the reviews I am seeing is infinitely better than the crap Mr, Nolan has served up.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (4g5V+)

I saw it when it aired. Liked it. Armand Assante always came off a bit to sweaty/greasy to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:58 PM (zZu0s)

34 27 Armand Assante from the ... early 90s?

No, never heard of that one. With Isabella Rossellini and Christopher Lee it has to be worth watching. With Bernadette Peters it has to be bad.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (sk9DV)

I thought Bernadette Peters did quite well as Circe.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 07:59 PM (4g5V+)

35 Vanessa Williams was in it as well playing... Calypso?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:59 PM (zZu0s)

36 Once you know that, you can't unsee it in a wide variety of science fiction stories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 18, 2026 07:56 PM (FZ29D)

Anabasis by Xenophon is one i would like to see done well. But it is the basis for voyager (badly) or Battlestar Galactica when you think about it as well as a lot of isekai stories of military companies. Harry Turtledove did several.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)

37 33 That one was from 1997 and from the reviews I am seeing is infinitely better than the crap Mr, Nolan has served up.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 07:55 PM (4g5V+)

I saw it when it aired. Liked it. Armand Assante always came off a bit to sweaty/greasy to me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:58 PM (zZu0s)

How long ago was this? One of my friends taped it (!) A bunch of us met at his place and binged watched the whole thing in a setting late one evening over beer, all of us having read and loved The Odyssey.

It was an NBC 2 part miniseries.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:01 PM (4g5V+)

38 I generally like tango but don't speak tango so often I don't know what they’re warbling and kicking up their heals about. Among the tangos I especially like is Por una Cabeza, a song frequently heard in the movie as here from Scent of a Woman.

https://tinyurl.com/4ypkd2kp

I happened across a YT with the lyrics translated and now have a reasonable guess as to what the song is about. The title is a horse racing term meaning a close race, by a head. The song, I think, analogies love to betting on the ponies. You pays your money and you takes your chances often times not making it across the finish line.

https://tinyurl.com/3yk699ra

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 18, 2026 08:02 PM (ndZc7)

39 Musically, I recommend Symphony X “The Odyssey”.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:03 PM (4g5V+)

40 "Is Watermelon In Easter Hay good Zappa? Bad Zappa? Weird Zappa? Mainstream Pop Zappa? I have no idea."

Not really. I don't know why music critics latch on to that song. There is so much Zappa that is better. Probably because music critics don't know shit about music.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:04 PM (MWfyi)

41 I thought Bernadette Peters did quite well "

Yep...

Oh, you meant acting?

Posted by: man at July 18, 2026 08:06 PM (cGjQu)

42 Listening to "Three Preludes" by George Gershwin played on mandolins.

Posted by: Tuna at July 18, 2026 08:08 PM (lJ0H4)

43 "Thanks for linking "Watermelon in Easter Hay", a new one to me. I'd call it "resplendent, transcendent Zappa"; it's more prog rock than jazz to my ears.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes"

It's at the end of the 3 album "Joe's Garage", after Joe gets out of prison for destroying a sexbot and becomes resigned to a world without music.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:09 PM (MWfyi)

44 At end of the Odyssey, he proves to Penelope that it's really him by shooting an arrow through a row of axeheads. Is that just a little Freudian?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 18, 2026 08:10 PM (ndZc7)

45 Sailboat racing and rock n roll? My cupeth runeth overeth.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:11 PM (viF8m)

46 At end of the Odyssey, he proves to Penelope that it's really him by shooting an arrow through a row of axeheads. Is that just a little Freudian?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 18, 2026 08:10 PM (ndZc7)

The only man who can string my bow and hit the target.

Posted by: Penelope at July 18, 2026 08:11 PM (zZu0s)

47 I have never been a fan of the Rolling Stones, but Keith Richards and Mick Jagger seem pretty cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:11 PM (0aYVJ)

48 Wow, I love Joe's Garage Parts I and II, but didn't recognize that cut.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 18, 2026 08:12 PM (kpS4V)

49 Pot roast roasted. A leetle heavy on the salt, but it was thoroughly potted.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2026 08:14 PM (diia5)

50 Listening to SRV and Johnny Lang.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 08:15 PM (abScH)

51 What, no Bay City Rollers?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:35 PM (zZu0s)

The nice lady who played Charlie's mum in "So I Married an Axe Murderer" passed away. Brenda Fricker. I loved how she kept hitting on Anthony LaPaglia.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:15 PM (0aYVJ)

52 The title was supposedly from Zappa saying "Playing a guitar solo with this band is like trying to grow a watermelon in Easter hay".

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:16 PM (MWfyi)

53 I have never been a fan of the Rolling Stones, but Keith Richards and Mick Jagger seem pretty cool.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:11 PM (0aYVJ)

Then I saw this.

https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc

Verdict: thats gayer than 10 guys blowing 12 guys on top of Liberace's piano.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

54 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 18, 2026 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)

55 I like "Black Napkins" better than "Watermelon" but what do I know I'm no music critic.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:18 PM (MWfyi)

56 Thx CBD
The Stones when they toured in 2022 played "Out of Time" live for the first time. One of my favorite songs of theirs.
Saw them twice , both times a blast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2026 08:19 PM (OXYE0)

57 Atlantic City was a Springsteen original. If the Band did it, they were covering him, not the other way around.

Posted by: tsj017 at July 18, 2026 08:19 PM (xakWh)

58 After listening to a podcast on my phone all the way to Lancaster it shut off mobile data until I got home and picked up WiFi

Posted by: Skip at July 18, 2026 08:20 PM (Ia/+0)

59 Great post

Posted by: LASue at July 18, 2026 08:20 PM (lCppi)

60 This Merle Haggard was a staple of Dead shows in the early 70s.

https://tinyurl.com/22as9dmy

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:21 PM (viF8m)

61 >https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc

Verdict: thats gayer than 10 guys blowing 12 guys on top of Liberace's piano.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

Classic. I don't care who you are, that's just hysterically funny.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:23 PM (GTqXr)

62 The 1979 film The Warriors is based on a novel that was a retelling of The Anabasis.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at July 18, 2026 08:23 PM (D7w1V)

63 Some random girl in Applachia meadow, with her banjo.

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You said the magic word, "Appalachia", which allows me to post this even though it's not in Appalachia, in LA I think, but looks like it should be in Appalachia in a trailer house converted into a church. Watch these ladies flop around like fish after meeting self-described female "apostle". Yeah, it's apparently a SpongeBob service because these AWFLs are so overcome by meeting the Apostle they fall on the floor and flop like a fish.

https://tinyurl.com/4zz8jh7e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 18, 2026 08:23 PM (ndZc7)

64 Anyway, that stuff is ancient history. As far as new stuff goes, Angine de Poitrine has my attention. Once you get past the polkadots you can't look away.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

65 Then I saw this.

https://youtu.be/BHkhIjG0DKc

Verdict: thats gayer than 10 guys blowing 12 guys on top of Liberace's piano.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 08:17 PM (zZu0s)
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Somehow, the Official Version in 4K is even gayer than the video you linked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRRax4ph3E

Also one of the most 80s videos ever produced.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 18, 2026 08:24 PM (FZ29D)

66 Huh. Today is the anniversary of Ted Kennedy killing Mary Jo Kopecne and walking away scot free.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 08:25 PM (zZu0s)

67 41 I thought Bernadette Peters did quite well "

Yep...

Oh, you meant acting?
Posted by: man at July 18, 2026 08:06 PM (cGjQu)

Why, yes. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:26 PM (4g5V+)

68 The Yankees baseball game is Postponed due to.................. OMG

"Canadian GLOBAL WARMING Forest Fires" !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mike Hunt at July 18, 2026 08:26 PM (6K4H4)

69
I like "Black Napkins" better than "Watermelon" but what do I know I'm no music critic.
Posted by: fd

I like Waka Jawaka better than Watermelon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2026 08:27 PM (Cqx++)

70 The Band covered Atlantic City on their album Jericho from the early 90s.
Agreed CBD, its way better than the original

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2026 08:27 PM (OXYE0)

71 If you don't know who Angine de Poitrine is, you have to watch this. Just give it a few minutes and you shall see:

youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

72 I like that Stones album. It came out when I was in high school.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2026 08:29 PM (Cqx++)

73 50 Listening to SRV and Johnny Lang.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 08:15 PM (abScH)

On the way to see Rush we had to stop by the grave of SRV at Laurel Land cemetery in Dallas.

(And later on, in Arlington, to visit the Abbott brothers Moore Memorial Cemetery.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:29 PM (4g5V+)

74 "I like Waka Jawaka better than Watermelon.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. "

It's like the critics have never heard any Zappa but Watermelon and Jazz From Hell.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:30 PM (MWfyi)

75 Is Stan Laurel buried in Laurel Land?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2026 08:31 PM (Cqx++)

76 >>The Band covered Atlantic City on their album Jericho from the early 90s.
Agreed CBD, its way better than the original

A thread about covers would be fun. So many covers I like even better than the originals.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:31 PM (viF8m)

77 71 If you don't know who Angine de Poitrine is, you have to watch this. Just give it a few minutes and you shall see:

youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?
Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

Very interesting dudes. I first heard of them three months or so ago.

A “news story” by CBC (or was it CTV) identified them as French. They are from Quebec. Dumbasses.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:31 PM (4g5V+)

78 Anyway, behind the graphic is a great American Rock And Roll song. Even Duncanthrax will like it...I think.

Well, since Duncanthrax is the one who points out, semi-consistently, that CBD declared The Beach Boys the world's greatest band, a declaration that Duncanthrax completely, totally, and 100% concurs with, I believe that the probability that Duncanthrax likes it is at least (unity - epsilon), if not higher.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:32 PM (0sNs1)

79 Never was a big Rolling Stones fan, but “She’s a Rainbow” was always one of my favorites.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2026 08:32 PM (l+3gx)

80 fd, did you find this group while sober ?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 08:32 PM (abScH)

81 This came to me recently and I wrote it up. I guess this is a place to drop it: Hallucinating relationships

🎶Her voice was soft and cool
Her eyes were clear and bright
But she's not there
https://youtu.be/HN6sJBNaPXw

What were they smoking?

🎶I'll run to tenderly hold you
But darling, you won't be there
https://youtu.be/lecXDjlsA4E

Seems t'me I had thought of a third example, but forgot it before writing it down. As one does. Oh, what was that song - something something of you and me…

🎶Through the mirror of my mind
Time after time, I see reflections of you and me
Reflections of the way life used to be
https://youtu.be/8Nlbj1t99m8

No, no, that wasn't it…

Posted by: mindful webworker - the meandering mind ponders, and having pondered, dozes off at July 18, 2026 08:32 PM (p+5Bi)

82 >Carl Perkins' version of Blue Suede Shoes is far better than the more popular Elvis Presley version.
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because Carl wrote it

Posted by: Don Black at July 18, 2026 08:32 PM (ZxPkt)

83 One may point out, and someone likely will, that Duncanthrax agrees with CBD almost all the time, however.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

84 And if you like Angine de Poitrine, you will LOVE Meshuggah.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:34 PM (4g5V+)

85 >>One may point out, and someone likely will, that Duncanthrax agrees with CBD almost all the time, however.

Get a room.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:35 PM (viF8m)

86 Sloop John B (Remastered)
The Beach Boys

I knew the song, sorta. Never really paid attention to the lyrics before. Imagine my surprise as MiladyJo started singing along.

Her eldest brother (RIP) had a thing for sea stories, she says. Navy guy.

Posted by: mindful webworker - land-locked landlubber at July 18, 2026 08:35 PM (p+5Bi)

87 83 One may point out, and someone likely will, that Duncanthrax agrees with CBD almost all the time, however.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:34 PM (0sNs1)

Cow Demon would like to point out that Duncanthrax likes to refer to himself in the third person. But Cow Demon sees nothing wrong with that.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:36 PM (4g5V+)

88 Here's a weird thing. I have seen Tom Waits in *numerous* movies, such as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, but I have never heard his music.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:36 PM (0aYVJ)

89 That The Beach Boys recorded Sloop John B was due entirely to the persuasive influence of Al Jardine, who was the composer of several of The Beach Boys best songs, including California Saga Pt. 3 and Lady Lynda.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:37 PM (0sNs1)

90 "fd, did you find this group while sober ?
Posted by: Ben Had"

I can't remember but they are fascinating to me. The drummer is right on despite his ridiculous outfit, and the white polkadot guy is using microtonal guitars to go somewhere new.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:38 PM (MWfyi)

91 I’ll never leave your Pizza burning… is my favorite Stones tune, probably. There are better tunes maybe but it has memories that go with it

Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 08:38 PM (WcNzu)

92

https://tinyurl.com/22as9dmy

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:21 PM (viF8m)

Not really a fan of country music but I like some Dwight Yoakam.
https://youtu.be/_GjY5rHQZ14?si=g1j1p49VUDXWtO1e

Great cover of the Blasters original.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:39 PM (GTqXr)

93 >>Here's a weird thing. I have seen Tom Waits in *numerous* movies, such as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, but I have never heard his music.

You have but might have heard him sing them.

Lickity splicly is and underused term.

https://tinyurl.com/mha9cjkx

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:40 PM (viF8m)

94 >If you don't know who Angine de Poitrine is, you have to watch this. Just give it a few minutes and you shall see:

youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:28 PM (MWfyi)

The anti-White Stripes?

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:41 PM (GTqXr)

95 Cow Demon would like to point out that Duncanthrax likes to refer to himself in the third person. But Cow Demon sees nothing wrong with that.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 08:36 PM

Duncanthrax would like to point out that this is, in fact, the first time that Duncanthrax has referred to Duncanthrax in the third person.

Duncanthrax would like to further point out that he is not putting on aires by using "The" in front of his name, unlike, say, The Paolo or The Bob Dole.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:41 PM (0sNs1)

96 I linked the studio version of "Rasa" last Music Thread, as one of the better things the YouTube Algorithm has pointed me to.

I guess this is a "live in the studio" version, since there's no audience (except the camera crew).

Ms. Svedberg isn't just a studio voice; this is about 95% of what she's got on the album. (album? EP? They've only released 5 songs.)

https://youtu.be/gMQBaCUxoy8

And the other two songs from the same session:
https://youtu.be/2wak338RrKA
https://youtu.be/9GzLHxhejSI

I hope she's got a good vocal coach. Or she's gonna burn her voice out singing from the ~~diaphragm~~ soles of her feet like that all the time.

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 08:41 PM (VHUov)

97 Tom Waits is a man acquired taste but anyone who can come up with the lyric:
The owner is a mental midget
With the IQ of a fence post

Is a talent. His "Downtown Train" is brilliant

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2026 08:42 PM (OXYE0)

98 To be fair, Cow Demon is not referring to himself as The Cow Demon, either.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:42 PM (0sNs1)

99 >The anti-White Stripes?

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:41 PM (GTqXr)

And nice use of a loop pedal.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:43 PM (GTqXr)

100 "The anti-White Stripes?
Posted by: Heavy Meta"

You may have spotted the joke.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:43 PM (MWfyi)

101 Duncanthrax would like to further point out that he is not putting on aires by using "The" in front of his name, unlike, say, The Paolo or The Bob Dole.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

mikeski is kind of bummed that the rules about acknowledging your political advertisements landed one campaign too late, so we never got to hear the TV say "Bob Dole is Bob Dole, and Bob Dole approves this message."

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 08:43 PM (VHUov)

102 I still own Some Girls, and it still kicks..but what I remember that is hilarious now is that the general take at the time was that it was amazing the Stones could still rock at their advanced age..they were in their mid 30s lol

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 18, 2026 08:44 PM (3/XaG)

103 >You may have spotted the joke.

Posted by: fd at July 18, 2026 08:43 PM (MWfyi)

I'm only one Scotch in.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:44 PM (GTqXr)

104 Jack White looks like Sigourney Weaver's retarded baby brother.
No disrespect to Ms. Weaver. I like her.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:44 PM (0aYVJ)

105 The only man who can string my bow and hit the target.
Posted by: Penelope at July 18, 2026 08:11 PM (zZu0s)

Ring my be-e-ell, ring my bell!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2026 08:45 PM (l+3gx)

106 And nice use of a loop pedal.
Posted by: Heavy Meta

I'll be the judge of that.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2026 08:46 PM (diia5)

107 >If you don't know who Angine de Poitrine is, you have to watch this. Just give it a few minutes and you shall see:

youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?

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Well, she's no Leningrad Cowboys.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 18, 2026 08:47 PM (ndZc7)

108 Love the Beach Boys, and Sloop John B is a wonderful song, but it got me thinking. Are they really what you think of as a Rock and Roll band? Some stuff, yes. Some stuff, IDK. They're almost in their own category, given Brian Wilson's idiosyncratic abilities.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 18, 2026 08:47 PM (QaH55)

109 >>Not really a fan of country music but I like some Dwight Yoakam.

I'm not very knowledgeable about country but a lot of bands I do like cover country songs and I've come to really like some of it.

I like a pretty diverse collection of music. About the only stuff I have no time for is rap. Cause most of it isn't music.

If you've never been to a blue grass music festival on a summer day in some random cornfield you are missing some great stuff. And the influence that music has on a lot of rock is obvious when you hear it.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:47 PM (viF8m)

110 @102 I was in college in the early eighties. One of my house mates was a Jewish kid from Long Island who said " I have a tough time picturing my father playing bass for the Stones. " His dad was the same age as Wyman

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2026 08:47 PM (OXYE0)

111 Speaking of Rolling Stones songs that are a bit different, Heaven is a good example. Originally recorded for the Emotional Rescue album, it didn't make the cut. It was later included on the Tattoo You album.

Although Keith Richards got a song writing credit (along with Jagger), Richards was not involved in the recording.

The song was also used in the movie Vanilla Sky.

The Rolling Stones - Heaven
https://youtu.be/UxYU_r4Aluc

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 18, 2026 08:47 PM (syz1S)

112 Oldie but goodie. Song by Lobo in 1971.

Song about a guy and his girl traveling across America.
"Me and you and a dog named Boo" An easy listening song that was good driving music back in the day.
"How I love being a free man." is a good line in the song.

I can't believe that song came out 55 years ago.
I guess time does keep on slipping into the future.

Posted by: Case at July 18, 2026 08:50 PM (bqIVz)

113 the Stones could still rock at their advanced age..they were in their mid 30s lol
Posted by: Azjaeger at July 18, 2026 08:44 PM (3/XaG)

I recall an early Bloom County where the Stones were scheduled to play at a festival, and Bobbi (the teacher) shouts "Oh my God", and Milo says, "Right? These shmoes look almost 40."

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:50 PM (0aYVJ)

114
94 >If you don't know who Angine de Poitrine is, you have to watch this. Just give it a few minutes and you shall see:”

Doesn’t that mean the Anguish of Canadian French fries?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2026 08:50 PM (l+3gx)

115 Would a pole dancer gyrating with a fan blowing on her be performing Air on a G-String?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

116 I’ll never leave your Pizza burning…

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Meet the “Abolish Rent” Ideologue Teaching DSA Tenant Organizers How to Wage War on Landlords Tracy Rosenthal . . . Rosenthal says tenants pay rent “at the barrel of a gun,”

-
Now do pizza!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at July 18, 2026 08:51 PM (ndZc7)

117 The incomparable Bill Withers.

https://tinyurl.com/2afbcxen

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:52 PM (viF8m)

118 One of the commenters on the Angine vid said "I just fired my therapist"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2026 08:52 PM (OXYE0)

119 Here's a weird thing. I have seen Tom Waits in *numerous* movies, such as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, but I have never heard his music.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:36 PM (0aYVJ)

Bone Machine is a haunting album. It is full of active contradictions. It is worth listening to at least once. It may draw you back in.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2026 08:53 PM (rbvCR)

120 OK... too good not to share...

Helen of Troy should not look like Helen DeTroit.

/rimshot

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 08:53 PM (mP0Kj)

121
The Stones album with "She's a Rainbow", His Satanic Majesty's Request, isn't a particularly good album, but it does have two great songs on it.

"She's a Rainbow", of course, and-

"2000 Light Years From Home"

https://tinyurl.com/mw3rtvzc

HSMR is a bit of a Sgt Pepper's ripoff back when the Stones and the Beatles were competing to see just who was the most far-out and hip and psychedelic.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2026 08:53 PM (iJfKG)

122 Della, and the dealer, and a dog named Jake, and a cat named Kalamazoo, left the city in a pickup truck, gonna make their dreams come true

If that cat could talk, what tales he'd tell about Della and the dealer and the dog as well, but the cat was cool, and he never said a mumbling word.

Hoyt Axton was a treasure

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:54 PM (0aYVJ)

123 Huh. Today is the anniversary of Ted Kennedy killing Mary Jo Kopecne and walking away scot free.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Keeping it on-topic.....

https://youtu.be/fnFoxHIUIt4
https://youtu.be/JbQFMkTINTY
https://youtu.be/doWTE0aaIjM

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 08:54 PM (VHUov)

124 Beach Boys were in a pretty weird spot by the late 1960s and just weren’t considered cool any longer. Brian wigged out and became a recluse and they couldn’t put together albums that would sell.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 08:55 PM (WcNzu)

125 >I like a pretty diverse collection of music. About the only stuff I have no time for is rap. Cause most of it isn't music.

--

I do as well - I have very eclectic tastes. I categorize old school hip hop as its own genre - but I'm much too old and much to white to appreciate 'rap'. I can respect the brothas throwin' down rhymes, but I don't have the context to understand, let alone like it. Most of what I've heard is banal grunting over a heavy bass track.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 08:55 PM (GTqXr)

126 I saw the RS on 1975, at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, and I though they were old back then …

They’re the ultimate musical cockroaches

Posted by: browndog painting it black at July 18, 2026 08:56 PM (TTAGa)

127 Keith described “Sergeant pepper” album as “rubbish” and he wasn’t too far off.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 08:57 PM (WcNzu)

128 Recognized as one of the best songs to ever come out of New Zealand. Which is kinda sad.

Still, fun and the large blond dancing girls are nice.

https://tinyurl.com/yw7yphb8

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:58 PM (viF8m)

129 Over at Steve Hoffman’s music site, there’s a 6 page thread discussing who played the drums at the end of “Dear Prudence”, a Beatles tune. They are just nuts. “That’s George on take 12 blowing his nose!”

Jeeze Louise.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 09:00 PM (WcNzu)

130
Speaking of music in movies...

There's a great little, low budget multiverse thriller
titled-

"Redux Redux" currently streaming on Hulu.

It got justifiably good reviews and concerns a woman traveling across the multiverse, hunting down versions of the main who killed her daughter and killing them...hijinks ensue.

Well worth your time.

But the music part comes in at the very beginning with the credits and title.

It a very odd, heavy, almost oppressive piece of music that drew me right in even before the movie started.

I'd love to get a recording of it.

Anyway, check out the movie - great script, acting, and directing - and you'll her a very cool piece of music.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 18, 2026 09:02 PM (iJfKG)

131 I'm going to string a hot wire around my lawn.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 09:02 PM (abScH)

132 Beach Boys were in a pretty weird spot by the late 1960s and just weren’t considered cool any longer. Brian wigged out and became a recluse and they couldn’t put together albums that would sell.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 08:55 PM

I would say that's not incorrect, but also incomplete. The Beach Boys and The Beatles had a significant creative rivalry. Paul McCartney called "God Only Knows" the greatest song ever written.

The Beatles’ Rubber Soul inspired Brian Wilson to write Pet Sounds, which in turn was a massive influence on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and its pre-release, non-album single “Strawberry Fields Forever,” the very song that caused Brian to abandon his storied Smile album, claiming The Beatles had already achieved what Smile had set out to do. Pop music was advancing so quickly in the 1960s, and it was largely because its two leading bands were constantly trying to outshine each other.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 09:02 PM (0sNs1)

133 31 A bit too maudlin on that last.

Al Hirt

https://youtu.be/fqwIpH6phJs

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 07:57 PM (zZu0s)

funny, have always liked his sound ...he always said he wasn't a jazz trumpeter, but , I really wish he had done stuff with Goodman, Miller knock off bands, etc, if he wasn't wanting to Bop, Be-Bop... there is a very cool clip of Hirt with Red Nichols and Pete Condoli https://youtu.be/Aea21Btwf-4?si=dUQLx8tcdbbT_6Sp

Posted by: zigggggy at July 18, 2026 09:03 PM (EDeJ/)

134 >128 Recognized as one of the best songs to ever come out of New Zealand. Which is kinda sad.

Still, fun and the large blond dancing girls are nice.

https://tinyurl.com/yw7yphb8

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 08:58 PM (viF8m)

I'll take Kimbra over that. She easy on the eyes, plus that phat bass track.
https://youtu.be/5eDQdYIqhbE?si=ZL8evmCTPNdIvjOq

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 09:03 PM (GTqXr)

135 I like the music threads. I end up with a lot to listen to that I would not otherwise run across. Could we have them a little more often? Maybe cut one of those boring movie threads.😜

Bonus: playing those songs loosens up my YouTube algorerhythm. Or, ought to.

Posted by: mindful webworker - algorechakras at July 18, 2026 09:04 PM (p+5Bi)

136 Michael Stanley Band

youtu.be/raH8s8O3qyk

RIP Michael Stanley

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 09:05 PM (jrKun)

137 Pouring down rain, glad I got home when I did

Posted by: Skip at July 18, 2026 09:05 PM (Ia/+0)

138 124 Beach Boys were in a pretty weird spot by the late 1960s and just weren’t considered cool any longer. Brian wigged out and became a recluse and they couldn’t put together albums that would sell.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 18, 2026 08:55 PM (WcNzu)

Part of what destroyed them was that Brian bypassed the real band, and worked with the Wrecking Crew (studio musicians) almost exclusively.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 09:06 PM (mP0Kj)

139 This will get Eris dancing.

https://tinyurl.com/mu2hpmd2

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 09:06 PM (viF8m)

140 I recall an early Bloom County where the Stones were scheduled to play at a festival, and Bobbi (the teacher) shouts "Oh my God", and Milo says, "Right? These shmoes look almost 40."
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 08:50 PM (0aYVJ)
----
I don't think the Stones were going to play at a festival.

I believe Milo had booked them for their school dance (which makes it even funnier).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 18, 2026 09:06 PM (FZ29D)

141 Brian wigged out and became a recluse and they couldn’t put together albums that would sell.
Posted by: Common Tater

Marillion got a novelty song out of it.

https://youtu.be/yFdXuaWpcI0

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 09:06 PM (VHUov)

142 I am soooo stealing that top picture

Posted by: Diogenes at July 18, 2026 09:07 PM (2WIwB)

143 And for those on the edge of liking country?

May I suggest a casual stroll through the Brad Pailsley songlist?

Whiskey Lullaby? I'm gonna miss her? Online?

100's of songs... a lot with humor.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 09:08 PM (mP0Kj)

144 Like jazz, no good country was released after 1965.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 18, 2026 09:09 PM (diia5)

145 Peter Gabriel - San Jacinto (Live)

youtu.be/_61sjeayD1M

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 18, 2026 09:11 PM (jrKun)

146 98 To be fair, Cow Demon is not referring to himself as The Cow Demon, either.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 08:42 PM (0sNs1)

There is no “The Cow Demon”, comrade. There are cow demons and snake spirits and ALL will be swept away.

Posted by: Mao at July 18, 2026 09:11 PM (4g5V+)

147 Barenaked Ladies had the song "Brian Wilson" with the line "Lying in bed , just like Brian Wilson did". Pretty good tune for a weird subject

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 18, 2026 09:12 PM (OXYE0)

148
Before each show of the summer Houston dog shows, the National Anthem is sung by one of the club members, who has a nice voice that is, all the same, very gentle and languid.

I've concluded that it's far better to have the Anthem sung by everyone in attendance. It might sound awful, but it would be an act of community uniting those present. It would also end "creative" interpretations, which can't happen soon enough.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 18, 2026 09:13 PM (O0L8i)

149 143 And for those on the edge of liking country?

May I suggest a casual stroll through the Brad Pailsley songlist?

Whiskey Lullaby? I'm gonna miss her? Online?

100's of songs... a lot with humor.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 09:08 PM.

I never knew any of George Strait's music until I heard someone do a cover of "Amarillo by Morning". I really liked it and started checking out more of his songs. It turned me into a fan.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:15 PM (Lzhdy)

150 This is not for radio, so I guess it's okay here:

https://youtu.be/2lZ_slY8Zxo

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 09:16 PM (VHUov)

151 Used to love Bloom County. Would love to see it come back and comment on our current political landscape.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 18, 2026 09:17 PM (2Ez/1)

152 My good luck song I listen to before trips.

https://tinyurl.com/33ja8atx

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 09:18 PM (viF8m)

153
151 Used to love Bloom County. Would love to see it come back and comment on our current political landscape.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 18, 2026 09:17 PM (2Ez/1)

Only if someone who doesn’t have their head up their ass is writing it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2026 09:19 PM (l+3gx)

154 I never knew any of George Strait's music until I heard someone do a cover of "Amarillo by Morning". I really liked it and started checking out more of his songs. It turned me into a fan.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:15 PM (Lzhdy)

There’s always “Is This The Way To Amarillo?” by Tony Christie.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 09:19 PM (4g5V+)

155 >And for those on the edge of liking country?
-----

come down from the ledge
we can work this out

Posted by: Don Black at July 18, 2026 09:20 PM (ZxPkt)

156 >100's of songs... a lot with humor.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 09:08 PM (mP0Kj)

Many years ago, I worked as a book designer. One of the book covers I designed was being printed at a printing plant in western Va. Due to circumstances, I had to drive there in the wee morning hours. The only radio stations I could receive were what I would consider hard core country. It was...interesting to my young Yankee ears.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at July 18, 2026 09:20 PM (GTqXr)

157 108 Love the Beach Boys, and Sloop John B is a wonderful song, but it got me thinking. Are they really what you think of as a Rock and Roll band? Some stuff, yes. Some stuff, IDK. They're almost in their own category, given Brian Wilson's idiosyncratic abilities.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 18, 2026 08:47 PM (QaH55)

Well, they popularized Surf Rock and the guitar solos on their early singles copied Chuck Berry, so I think of them as a rock and roll band, probably America's greatest.

Posted by: Joemarine at July 18, 2026 09:26 PM (y171U)

158 Popped up in the sidebar of the Angine de Poitrine vid:

Please STOP Sending Me This
Rick Beato
https://youtu.be/zO8bt94-ybg

Posted by: mindful webworker - dot-ilism at July 18, 2026 09:27 PM (p+5Bi)

159 154- There’s always “Is This The Way To Amarillo?” by Tony Christie.
Posted by: Cow Demon at July 18, 2026 09:19 PM

(muffled snickering)

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:29 PM (Lzhdy)

160 I never knew any of George Strait's music until I heard someone do a cover of "Amarillo by Morning". I really liked it and started checking out more of his songs. It turned me into a fan.
Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:15 PM (Lzhdy)

the pride of Pearsall, TX. He used to have a 2 day music festival in San Antonio.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 18, 2026 09:30 PM (wOO3z)

161 If'n you can make it through the Paisley version of Whiskey Lulluby, with a dry eye...

Yer a better Man than I am Charlie Brown.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 09:31 PM (mP0Kj)

162 Dancing must be a lost concept.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 09:33 PM (abScH)

163 135 I like the music threads. I end up with a lot to listen to that I would not otherwise run across. Could we have them a little more often? Maybe cut one of those boring movie threads.😜

Bonus: playing those songs loosens up my YouTube algorerhythm. Or, ought to.

Posted by: mindful webworker - algorechakras at July 18, 2026 09:04 PM (p+5Bi)

well, having ZERO idea what you like....you are welcome in advance https://youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg?si=Qb4auMwjUZhxT2oR

Posted by: zigggggy at July 18, 2026 09:34 PM (EDeJ/)

164 Keb Mo

https://tinyurl.com/525wss27

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 09:37 PM (viF8m)

165 Dancing must be a lost concept.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 09:33 PM

Well, it didn't help when that meanie foreman came out and yelled at his men for their Terpsichorean frolicking.

Posted by: Kansas City Men's Dance Troupe at July 18, 2026 09:39 PM (0sNs1)

166 Ask your podiatrist if Terpsichorin is right for you.

Posted by: Big Fiser at July 18, 2026 09:41 PM (2Ez/1)

167 If'n you can make it through the Paisley version of Whiskey Lulluby, with a dry eye...

Yer a better Man than I am Charlie Brown.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2026 09:31 PM (mP0Kj)

Its sad but it's also more than a bit ridiculous.

1) War weary veteran returning home, troubled by the things he's done. The loving letters from his wife one of the only things that got him through.

2) He comes home to their house (would be even better if they had made it a house he built for her.)

3) He find her, not just banging a dude, but banging one in their bed.

Ok, fine enough (although she's retarded. She might not have known when, but she should have known he was coming home any day.)

1) the first part of the song is fine. He drinks himself to death, that all scans. The line 'She put him out, like a midnight cigarette' is dynamite

2) but then we are to believe that she was so heartbroken that she drank herself to death? Please. She would have moved and had done. She did not give a flying fuck about him or things would not have been set up that way.

And I am supposed to feel sympathy for this skank? No thanks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:41 PM (zZu0s)

168 The video was directed by Ricky Schroeder, btw. He also played the veteran.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:43 PM (zZu0s)

169 Years ago, I bought an album from the metal band Xandria. They are still in my playlists, but I had mostly forgotten about them. At least until a week or so ago, when YouTube recommended their new single to me. It's called 'Northstar,' and it's....pretty good. I think I'll be buying the album when the full thing gets released.

Posted by: Castle Guy at July 18, 2026 09:44 PM (3v7ra)

170 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:41 PM (zZu0s)

Fuckin' Jody *spit*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 09:45 PM (0aYVJ)

171 The trailer for "I Play Rocky" came out two days ago and has created a lot of buzz. It looks like the movie could be a hit and I am interested in seeing it when it is released in November. Anyone else here see the trailer?

Posted by: Joemarine at July 18, 2026 09:45 PM (y171U)

172 Clarence Gatemouth Brown came up on JackStraw's link. That is my kinda music.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 09:46 PM (abScH)

173 Apologies, line is 'She put him out, like the burning end of a midnight cigarette.'

A great line and the song itself is great, it's just the video is so overdone as to be laughable. Its a straight version of the 'Saddest Country Western Song Ever.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:47 PM (zZu0s)

174 Ella Langley is not hard on the eyes.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 18, 2026 09:48 PM (qFwJc)

175 171 The trailer for "I Play Rocky" came out two days ago and has created a lot of buzz. It looks like the movie could be a hit and I am interested in seeing it when it is released in November. Anyone else here see the trailer?
Posted by: Joemarine at July 18, 2026 09:45 PM

I did. It looks good but I found it unsettling hearing Stallone's voice coming out of another person's mouth. I don't know why but it was just so distracting to me.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:49 PM (Lzhdy)

176 Howdy CBD! Love me some Merle / Fightin' Side.

And totally agree with you on Carl Perkins Blue Suede rendition

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at July 18, 2026 09:51 PM (kOluj)

177 >>Dancing must be a lost concept.

I didn't lose it. I never had it. I aspire to be as good a dancer as Elaine on Seinfeld. White boy overbite disease.

Still, when I hear music that touches me I move.

https://tinyurl.com/5yaz8jps

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

178 I did. It looks good but I found it unsettling hearing Stallone's voice coming out of another person's mouth. I don't know why but it was just so distracting to me.

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:49 PM (Lzhdy)

LOL, perhaps too good an impression? Yeah, was/is weird to hear

Posted by: zigggggy at July 18, 2026 09:52 PM (EDeJ/)

179 You can post a link you know.

https://youtu.be/V_g_Ut0jO-0

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 18, 2026 09:53 PM (2Ez/1)

180 I think that's one of the reasons I am not too into country: the maudlin storytelling. That song sounds like a Telemundo soap opera. (I freely admit this is all subjective, and that I listen to plenty of things that other people would detest and/or scorn.)

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 18, 2026 09:53 PM (yjflf)

181 The first song I learned to play on guitar was Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee, because it only has two chords. I did add more chords to my repertoire later on.

Posted by: huerfano at July 18, 2026 09:54 PM (VJX5o)

182 178-LOL, perhaps too good an impression? Yeah, was/is weird to hear
Posted by: zigggggy at July 18, 2026 09:52 PM

Exactly! It just seems like laying it on a little too thick!

Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:54 PM (Lzhdy)

183 Its a straight version of the 'Saddest Country Western Song Ever.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:47 PM

In addition to everything else, if his truck didn't get wrecked, his dog didn't die, he didn't lose the bull-riding event by 0.8 points, AND his horse trailer wasn't crapped in by penguins, it's not the saddest country song ever.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 09:54 PM (0sNs1)

184 Just about the end of the music thread - but I think I know the sound track that goes with this news item:

“The US is currently striking Iran, with reports that President Trump told the military to "rain hell" down on Iran after the death of 2 American soldiers from an Iranian ballistic missile.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2026 09:55 PM (l+3gx)

185 You know racism is over when the argument is that black people aren't yachting enough because of racism

Posted by: 18-1 at July 18, 2026 09:56 PM (sKqQm)

186 JackStraw, checkout Clarence Gatemout Brown doing Honky Tonk

Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2026 09:56 PM (abScH)

187 I see the cops in Maine shot a guy that tried to hit them with a car in 2019. The Maine police and state government ruled it a good shoot because if you weaponize a car the cops can and should shoot you.

I wonder what is different now?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 18, 2026 09:57 PM (sKqQm)

188 In addition to everything else, if his truck didn't get wrecked, his dog didn't die, he didn't lose the bull-riding event by 0.8 points, AND his horse trailer wasn't crapped in by penguins, it's not the saddest country song ever.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 18, 2026 09:54 PM (0sNs1)

Isnt... his mom's in prison or something? Not dead but...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:59 PM (zZu0s)

189 Oh and seeing what the left's argument actually is for why it was ok for cops to shoot a perp trying to run them down in 2019 but not for ICE now is...its ICE and ICE are literal NAZIs.

Now that's some logic right there isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 18, 2026 10:00 PM (sKqQm)

190 Turn that racket down and get upstairs!

ONT is NOOD!

Posted by: mikeski at July 18, 2026 10:00 PM (VHUov)

191 >>JackStraw, checkout Clarence Gatemout Brown doing Honky Tonk

Will do. When you visit I will take you dancing.

I know a place.

https://tinyurl.com/4szyhj38

Posted by: JackStraw at July 18, 2026 10:01 PM (viF8m)

192 I wonder what is different now?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 18, 2026 09:57 PM (sKqQm)

I agree with the Asmongold take that the reason the left does not tell people to protest in a civil manner but just keep stoking them is because they WANT people to get shot- even their adherents. They are grist for the mill.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

193 And I am supposed to feel sympathy for this skank? No thanks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 18, 2026 09:41 PM (zZu0s)

The other side of that is The Steeldrivers' If It Hadn't Been For Love

youtu.be/QAxEJ67MIH4

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2026 10:05 PM (rbvCR)

194 Oops!

Springsteen actually wrote Atlantic City. It's just that The Band did such a better job that it seems like it's their own song.

Mea culpa... mea culpa.. Mea Maxima culpa

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 18, 2026 10:06 PM (l4RKn)

195 This one is for Anna Puma, Sayo Komada doing a cover or the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song Snow, on the Shamisen

youtu.be/H7mPTcBSuYI

Posted by: Kindltot at July 18, 2026 10:14 PM (rbvCR)

196 Posted by: Moonbeam at July 18, 2026 09:49 PM (Lzhdy)

LOL, perhaps too good an impression? Yeah, was/is weird to hear
Posted by: zigggggy at July 18, 2026 09:52 PM (EDeJ/)

Hell, I can do a pretty good Stallone impersonation. But I look more like Wilford Brimley. No Italian in my heritage.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 10:17 PM (0aYVJ)

197 Sigh

Willowed yet again

whatever

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at July 18, 2026 10:17 PM (0aYVJ)

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