Clearly after all of today’s political sturm and drang we’ve got plenty of bits and bobs that could use some soothing. So here’s some music to take you through the overnight!
by Adam L Silverman| 79 Comments
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Clearly after all of today’s political sturm and drang we’ve got plenty of bits and bobs that could use some soothing. So here’s some music to take you through the overnight!
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redshirt
The Plow King.
The Dangerman
This is probably well known but it’s a favorite (and a favorite lefty in BR):
Bonnie Raitt and Norah Jones, Tennessee Waltz
Mnemosyne
I linked to one of my favorite post-WWII propaganda shorts in the previous thread: “Don’t Be A Sucker!” where listening to people like Trump is compared to thinking you can beat a game of three-card monte.
Sadly, it was produced by the War Department and was only shown to servicemen, though there’s probably no theater in the South that would have run it anyway. Note that its production date is the same year that the House Un-American Activities Committee was first convened and started doing the exact things the film said not to do.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
if you’re going with Roseanne Cash, seems like this one is more appropriate to the day. And it’s got her dad, too.
Splitting Image
I’ve been listening to a lot of Buffalo Springfield lately. They didn’t stay together long enough to do a lot of music, but what they did do has aged like fine red wine.
Out of My Mind.
lamh36
was going to bed but looks like finally someone on MSNBC is not gonna play up to the stupid games… thank you Rachel Maddow.
good night guys
AkaDad
OMFG, the illegals are coming after all of us!! Start building your panic rooms, NOW!
Steeplejack
Smoky late-night music: Dexter Gordon, “Tanya.”
Steeplejack
@Splitting Image:
Buffalo Springfield! A commenter after my own heart. Their three albums are on the desert-island list.
“Pretty Girl Why.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@AkaDad: Too late, they’re already here.
Steeplejack
Buffalo Springfield, “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing.”
Fever Tree gives it a go.
lamh36
oh & there is finally agreement between left and right… the NYT is trash…smh,
are they under new management ?
danielx
Bonnie Raitt….Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
The woman has never sounded better…..and she does step out on that slide.
amk
Can we bomb, bomb, bomb
Iranmsm at least now?Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Fever Tree’s
bigonly hit: “San Francisco Girls.” Psych-o-delic, man!The Dangerman
@AkaDad:
I don’t fear the illegals right now and I don’t fear Trump (he will lose, though I’m starting to feel it may get close enough for some serious drinking 11/8; the media wants a horserace, and, fuck all, they will try and get one)…
…but a whole bunch of his supporters are gonna be PISSED when he loses in November. Them I fear (not personally, but from a national perspective).
Thankfully, I’m spending just about every day from 1/October through sometime early to mid-Novemberish (I’m not sure when absentee’s come out so I may miss this election if I don’t get back in time) well away from it all because it’s gonna get fucking crazy (Hannity is damned near unhinged) and then … with the Trump loss … it should be damn interesting.
ETA: Since I’ll mostly be on the road, how about one that shows some local kids that done good. The second song in this sequence is one of my favorites (and the bassist is very nice and kinda cute – again, local kids that done OK).
Steeplejack
My favorite Bonnie Raitt song: “Everybody’s Cryin’ Mercy.”
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’ve opened the box and I’ve touched the treasures of the earth
They’re buried on the island far away
And I’m here in England with the map burning my pocket
Dreaming of diamonds..
Such a blinding secret to bear.
Or, from the same album:
I met this man in Utrecht Netherlands
He was a doctor of the body and the soul
He said to me:
Man, there’s a book you have to read.
I feel your pain. It makes me cry
But these tears are yours – not mine.
TaMara (HFG)
@Mnemosyne: I shared that on FB, it was so perfect. Thanks.
TaMara (HFG)
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TaMara (HFG)
Dangers of mopping in the shower. Submitted without comment.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Nope. Same old management that’s hated the Clintons since 1992. Remember, the NY Times basically fabricated the whole Whitewater “scandal” out of whole cloth, and if there’s one thing we know about the NYT, it’s that they can never, EVER be shown to have been wrong. They still claim Judith Miller’s Iraq reporting was A-OK, just a teensy bit flawed.
JordanRules
I hope that piece of shit is out of my city now. Time to GOTV hard here. Nice musical interlude and fabulous Walter interlude before that – full service blog!
Stay calling out the media too juicers! It does not mean we give up. It does not mean we are naive. It does not mean we are whiners. I hope they are irrelevant too, but I fear that a big part of normalizing this bullshit is enabled by using their infrastructure. I wonder a lot about how the reporting happens every day (the nuts and bolts of it) and whether most of the front line media folks are just going thru the motions or actively supporting the ‘both sides’ framing. Damage is still done.
I’m in a ‘Voyage to Atlantis’ mood. Time for some Isley’s.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TaMara (HFG): The dangers of mopping in the shower are well known on this here blog.
Steeplejack
If we’re going to listen to the alt-country songbirds, I think it’s okay to go for some real (moderno-)country ones, too.
Martina McBride, “Independence Day.”
Faith Hill, “Take Me as I Am.”
Martina McBride, “Wild Angels.”
Peale
@amk: I think we might have to. Change the name of the “deportation force” to “deportation task force” and apparently we’ve softened so much that no one noticed that legal immigrants will now face immediate deportation if arrested (no trial needed) and we’re appointing a special committee to reduce legal immigration to historic levels and come up with love tests. Yes. I’m not certain if bombing is the answer. But it’s bold and stupid, so it might be praised as softening.
hovercraft
I’m feeling like listening to the music of my youth, this takes me back to the parties my parents used to have when I was a kid. Miriam Makeba. Malika . In the bio beneath the video it mentions that her mother was arrested for selling Umqomboti, Yvonne Chaka Chaka made this song of that same name.
Steeplejack
BoDeans, “Good Things.”
Mnemosyne
@TaMara (HFG):
I forgot to tell people to watch for the great character actor Felix Bressart as the professor who is dragged off by the Nazis. He was himself a German Jewish refugee who managed to escape when Hitler came to power.
ETA: Among many other scene-stealing roles, he plays Pirovich in The Shop Around the Corner: “Listen, if someone is really your friend, he comes over AFTER dinner.”
Elmo
@Peale:
Not “historic levels.”
Historic norms.
That is straight-up white nationalist code for the pre-1965 preference for white Europeans. Whooshed straight past nearly everyone in media, and every neo-Nazi racist white nationalist “race realist” un-American fuck heard it loud and clear.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elmo: I believe that’s what’s called a dog whistle.
The Dangerman
OK, one last from a Folk artist that isn’t afraid of going very political; I think this is her most pissed off song:
Nanci Griffith: Time of Inconvenience
hovercraft
@Elmo:
One of the NY Times reporter noted this. I guess that’s how we make America great again, we return it to a majority white country. Perhaps someone should let them know that the barns been open too long, we’re reproducing faster than they are, and they’re dying faster than we are.
Elmo
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know. Perfect example of one in real time, and I think it’s important to point em out at every opportunity.
MomSense
I’ve been listening to this CD a lot lately. Love her voice. Ohio
Bruuuuce
Let’s add some Iris Dement to the playlist. Let the Mystery Be
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elmo: Though I’m a bit surprised that Trump could and would use it.
Adam L Silverman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I thought about that, but it seemed too easy.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: That was a good segment.
hovercraft
This is Brenda Fasse – Memeza.
Peale
@Elmo: yep. I’m pretty convinced at this point that if you are to the left on anything and aren’t bothered by this speech, don’t care about his praise of torture, aren’t concerned when he wants to give tough policeman free reign in black neighborhoods, and will reintroduce racial quotas to ensure white majorities as federal policy because you have bigger concerns about banks and neoliberalism…I’m done. the mushy middle…I’m still not sure what to do about them.
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
I guess she’s having a better last week than usual, perhaps she reads this blog and has been less meandering than usual.
SoupCatcher
@Steeplejack: From around that same time period, a song that’s guaranteed to bring a smile to my face: Mary Chapin Carpenter “I Feel Lucky.”
“Bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car”
MomSense
@hovercraft:
I listened to it tonight as I drove home and was thinking that there were probably a lot of references I didn’t pick up because I don’t speak white nationalist. Judging from some of the tweets from white supremacists, they had no trouble.
I feel sick after listening to that ugly mess.
Mnemosyne
A little bone for the Hamilmaniacs: for the final #Ham4Ham show, Lin-Manuel asked Renee Elise Goldsberry to perform a discarded number, “Congratulations,” a few biting lines of which were recycled into “The Reynolds Pamphlet.”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Peale: Over the past year; two terms now make me want to punch a hippie: activist and progressive.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
Ball Park Music –
Rich People are Stupid
Everything is shit except my friendship with you
MomSense
One more with some fiddle
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: They’ve been this bad since they opened. I just finished composing and scheduling a post for tomorrow morning that quotes their reporting from mid 19th Century. You can see it was just as bad then as it is now.
Jeff Spender
This election is turning me into a misanthrope.
grrljock
One of my favorite rocking Indigo Girls song (though I have yet to see it live): Tether.
Although I did have the privilege of witnessing them do an absolutely blistering “Fay Tucker” at last year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Dayum!
Mnemosyne
@MomSense:
At this point, he’s openly running as a white supremacist and the Villagers are giving him a motherfucking free pass.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: He didn’t write the speech. Despite what Hewitt said that speech was written by Bannon and most likely Stephen Miller (Senator Jeff Sessions’ Jeff Sessions to borrow the turn of phrase), then it went to Trump for inputs, then back to them and finally to Conway for some smoothing.
hovercraft
@MomSense:
But to listen to the commentary afterwards most villagers are claiming that he has ‘moderated’ his stance, compared to his muslim ban/ Mexicans are rapists stage.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Yep, this. I mean, we always knew, but this was perhaps the most insidious since it was so dogwhistley. That made it all the louder for me though, dunno why.
hovercraft
@Adam L Silverman:
Costa said mostly Miller.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: The opener was still meandering, I think she could have gotten where she needed to go with fewer twists and turns, but I may be bringing a fight with her I shouldn’t. I tend to talk the way she does – part of it is me by nature, part of it, I’m pretty sure, is the doctoral training and education in the social sciences. One of the things I had to learn when I started working with the military was how to brief, present, make inputs at planning meetings, working groups, war gaming, and staff meetings that was much, much more concise. I’m much better at it than I was ten years ago, though since my job is to provide context, I’ll never be three words and done. I’m even better at it when writing. The joke is if I had to write my doctoral dissertation today, I could do it in 25 pages. So my issues with her delivery may just be seeing something of me that I’ve worked on not doing in professional settings in what she’s doing. She’s also jettisoned the naif act over the past week, which helps.
Adam L Silverman
@SoupCatcher: I’ve always preferred this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axspDIa8p0g
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
Even knowing how dreadful our media have become, I still cannot believe they are giving him a pass. How many former grand wizards have to endorse him before they pick up the clue phone?
Adam L Silverman
@grrljock: I use to make their chicken wings.
MomSense
@hovercraft:
The NYT really floored me. I wanted to tweet Delete your paper. I still might.
ETA fixed spelling
Major Major Major Major
@MomSense: Both sides do it! Robert Byrd!
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
INORITE
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: They can’t bring themselves to do so. So they compartmentalize. I saw an interview with Keith Olbermann after the 2000 or 2004 election, can’t recall which now. He basically said (I’m paraphrasing) that the reason the news media wasn’t covering the voting irregularities that were dripping out in various places was that they are in the same boat as the rest of America and they just can’t bring themselves to report that not only is the boat sinking, but that some Americans may have deliberately drilled holes in its hull. The vast majority of our news media has, like almost all of us do, an understanding of how things work. Trump, his campaign, what he’s proposing, what those supporting him expect, etc are so outside the accepted and acceptable boundaries of that understanding that it is impossible for them to get their heads around it. It is a failure of critical and creative thinking. And then you get the professional norms that are conditioned in: never take a side/both sides do it, never call a lie a lie its always an inaccuracy or a mistatement. And when you combine that with the failure of critical thinking that has them hooked on the narrative that Hillary Clinton is, sui generis, corrupt, conniving, and scheming (cough Andrea Mitchell cough), you get the reporting we get.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
@MomSense:
After tonight’s speech, anyone who still supports Trump is a racist.
Full stop. No excuses left.
Adam L Silverman
@hovercraft: He’s a piece of work:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/stephen-miller-donald-trump-2016-policy-adviser-jeff-sessions-213992
grrljock
@Adam L Silverman: chicken wings for Amy Ray and Emily Saliers?
MomSense
@Mnemosyne:
Zero excuses.
Adam L Silverman
@grrljock: Yep. Or whatever else they ordered. They were Emory grads – several years before me. When I was a student there I worked across the street from the Dowman Gate (main entrance) at a place that was then called Jagger’s Tavern. They would come in from time to time to eat and drink. Several of the staff new them pretty well. Two of the managers. One of the other cooks (I also worked the front door/circulated on the floor on busy Friday and Saturday nights) was, for a time, one of their tour cooks.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
I admit, I was propagandized in the opposite direction from a very young age. The second-best Illinois Nazi scene (though IIRC they cut it short because I thought the idiots actually did go inside).
Mnemosyne
Somebody needs to tell Gary Johnson that the ad line, “You don’t have to vote for the lesser of the two evils,” um, doesn’t say what he thinks it says. There’s a reason why Cthulhu is usually part of that sentence.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I don’t know, I heard that they were just middle class people left behind by neoliberalism who happen to be white and hate brown immigrants in a completely understandable way.
grrljock
@Adam L Silverman: Cool! They hold a special place in my heart because their first major record came out as I was coming out.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: Tracking. I have a good friend who is a mass comm, PR, and journalism professor. I do several guest lectures for her a year via facetime. We often discuss just why things have gotten so bad in American journalism. I keep asking her: what is it that you all are teaching. She said what she sees has nothing to do with what is taught in journalism classes. And that there are a lot of journalists that have no journalism training in major positions in the news media. Which is true.
Also, I hate Illinois NAZIs.
Adam L Silverman
@grrljock: My two favorite songs of their’s are Secure Yourself and Kid Fears. I was introduced once or twice as the Emory student working at the place, though I’m sure they wouldn’t know me from Adam.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: I’ve noticed that when you look the educational background of many “journalists” you find a JD degree.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yep, especially the big names on the cable channels and at the networks. Not sure about the newspapers. Though the guy that butchered the NY Times coverage of Trump’s speech tonight used to be the Time’s film critic… So he was more than qualified to cover this type of thing.
laura
@grrljock: HSB!!!
grrljock
@laura: Yeah! Proof that billionaires can do the right thing once in a while (RIP Warren Hellman, who started HSB and left an endowment to ensure its continuance after his death).