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Innocent people do not delay justice.

The revolution will be supervised.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

When I was faster i was always behind.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

No one could have predicted…

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

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  1. 1.

    lamh36

    Man, that was long. I really was only interested in the final act of John Legend and Common with Glory.

    I’m finding it ironic that people seem to be upset bout Beck “robbing” Beyonce of her Album of the Year award, when Beyonce ended the night singing a song that has renewed reverence thanks to the movie Selma, as sung my Grammy nominated artist Ledisi.

    I know Gospel music may not be the thing for alot here at BJ, but believe me when I tell you Beyonce did NOT do the song justice. There was/is controversy over Beyonce being given chance to sing it over Ledisi, and with good reason, IMHO.

    GRAMMYs 2015: Ledisi, John Legend Respond to Beyonce ‘Selma’ Controversy

    Beyonce’s rendition, while perfectly serviceable had not real spirit or gospel soul in it. Please check out Ledisi’s version here:

    http://youtu.be/qxVpHiyT5kE

  2. 2.

    Anya

    This thread is so timely. I need help, ya’ll. My dad is turning 50, and my brothers and I are doing a musical montage of every decade he lived. What are your suggestions for a must include 60s and 70s songs?

  4. 4.

    srv

    @Anya: 50? He’s not going to remember any top 40 original airplay from the 60s.

    My earliest musical memory was Joy To The World.

  7. 7.

    Anya

    @max: He listens to good music of all types but mostly he likes rock, jazz, soul and blues. He also listens to old school rap music

  8. 8.

    Tommy

    @srv: I am not that hip on current music. I am not even sure I could pick Beyonce out of a crowd. But I own everything Beck has ever done. Morning Phase is one heck of an album IMHO. I don’t know if it is that popular to like Beck. Not sure if he gets any “radio” play so I am stunned he won. Just put all of Beck’s albums on shuffle!

  13. 13.

    sharl

    @Anya: Yeah, I’d agree with Emerald on the Beatles for the 60s, especially given he was only about five years old when he went into the 70s.

    I’m about ten years older than your dad, and I remember being totally entranced with what I heard in the mid-60s, even in those pre-teen years of mine, and limited though the radio selection was back where I grew up.

    At least on 60s music, I’m mostly with the bad-guy character played by Peter Fonda in The Limey (who as I recall was speaking more generally, beyond music alone):

    Terry Valentine: Did you ever dream about a place you never really recall being to before? A place that maybe only exists in your imagination? Some place far away, half remembered when you wake up. When you were there, though, you knew the language. You knew your way around. *That* was the sixties.

    [pause]

    Terry Valentine: No. It wasn’t that either. It was just ’66 and early ’67. That’s all there was.

  15. 15.

    Mike J

    @Anya: Check the Billboard charts and see what was #1 the week he was born, and that week for the next (n) years.

    For me, start with Wild Thing (The Troggs). I always considered Billboardology a more exact science than astrology.

  16. 16.

    Tommy

    @sharl: I don’t know how you do the 60s without the Beatles. There are only a few moments I recall the exact second in time. I was 11. Mom had picked me up from a gymnastics class. We always went to this little deli after my classes. Word came in Lennon had been killed. People freaked out. My mom included. This was in Leavenworth Kansas BTW. The Beatles had that much of a pull.

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    There was another gun rally in the capitol building in Olympia, WA yesterday. This caught my eye, the Republican state representative complaining about militarization of police; I thought it was just we liberals worrying about that, and maybe some of the libertarians. Pretty sure these two RW idiots are tea partiers.:

    “….State Reps. Elizabeth Scott and Matt Shea addressed the crowd. Shea, R-Spokane Valley, gave a fiery speech that included a list of more than 20 grievances against the government, including militarization of police, high taxes, surveillance programs, Sharia law and restrictions on guns. Scott, R-Monroe, opened her coat to show the crowd her pistol….”

    http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Armed-gun-rights-advocates-rally-in-Olympia-291167031.html

  19. 19.

    Tommy

    @opiejeanne: I live in a rural area. Hunting and guns are kind of a way of life. I don’t know a single person that wants to carry a gun in public. I’d go as far to say it would be a foreign concept to them. It is at this point I should note most of the people I know are not card carrying liberals. If I went to a business and somebody was carrying a gun and not a cop it would freak me the fuck out. I hope I am not alone here!

  20. 20.

    ljt

    Music open thread: I saw Glen Hansard in concert tonight. Middle of his first encore (Falling Slowly), he invites kid (maybe 9-10 years old) from front row, who is singing along, to come on stage and finish with him. Then, next song, starts by talking about a young musician he met earlier in the day at a music store, nice guy, living in the area with his brother, while touring.., then someone yells ‘Morris Brothers’, Yes! Are they here? ‘Yes!’, Come up and sing a song…they go on stage…”what the hell is happening…I came to see my idol, and now I’m on stage’?’..Great music. Glen and band went on after that with the Gift…phenomenal night of music. Make Art everyone, Make (and Love) Art.

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    opiejeanne

    @Anya: 70s: Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Linda Ronstadt. Rolling Stones. “London Calling” by The Clash. Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin, and American Pie by Don MacLean. “More Than A Feeling” by Boston.

    80s, Rolling Stones. Queen. Talking Heads. Peter Gabriel’s album “So”, Prince “Little Red Corvette” or “Party Like It’s 1999”, Devo, Men with Hats, Echo and the Bunnymen “Lips Like Sugar”, “Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo. Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. Every Breath You Take by The Police.

    90s: (Too much Bette Midler for my tastes, and I like her, but “Wind Beneath My Wings” sung by every soloist in every amateur competition that year, not to mention “God Is Watching Us”, those finished her for me.)
    “No Rain” by Blind Melon, Bare Naked Ladies. No Doubt. Smashmouth “Walking on the Sun”. Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. Rolling Stones.

    2000s: “Hey Ya” by Outkast. Usher, Alicia Keys, Fergie, Black-Eyed Peas. Rolling Stones.

  22. 22.

    opiejeanne

    @Tommy: I am not anti-gun, but I will not be happy with idiots who open carry around my area. I look on it as a form of bullying, and if I see it I will tell management of any store or restaurant that we will not patronize them it they allow it on their premises.

    I live in a blue state, Washington, but there are a lot of rednecks the farther you get from the bigger cities. The regions with smaller populations are red, and they don’t like majority rule when the votes don’t go the way they would like. Washington voters just passed a new set of laws for background-check requirements on several types of gun transfers, including purchases and loans, and it passed with a 60% margin. It was presented by petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures but the legislature was too chicken , or too Republican, to pass it so it ended up on the ballot.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    @opiejeanne:
    I don’t know about the Stones in the 90s and aughts. The three albums they released in those decades weren’t among their best or most characteristic. They spent much of that time playing their oldies on tour.

  27. 27.

    Anya

    Thank you, everyone for these great suggestions. I didn’t want to have a weird conversation with dad to get out of him the music that meant something to him. Of course, this would’ve tipped him off that mom is planning something big for his big birthday. But these are great starting points.

    @Mike J great suggestion.

  28. 28.

    sharl

    @Anya: Yeah, MikeJ’s idea sounds good.

    Your quest inspired me to go looking again for an (IMO) achingly beautiful soul ballad from 1970, “Black Pearl”. This time, success! (and there’s a more, um, I guess reggae-ish?, version here).

    Your dad is certainly not now, nor has he ever been, a “precious little girl”, but if you’re going more for sweet and popular music of different eras for background listening, (rather than something descriptive or otherwise directly connected to your dad), that one’s worth a listen.

    Damn, that poignant photo montage at the (first) YouTube link was assembled by someone who has superb aesthetic sensibilities. A little weepy, I am!

  29. 29.

    Anya

    @sharl: thanks! If I know my dad, he’ll hate every minute of the elaborate birthday party mom is planning so I want to make the music part enjoyable.

  30. 30.

    Paul in KY

    @Tommy: I saw Beck at last year’s Forecastle festival. Had been bummed about him being a headliner. Saw his set & I must say he & his backing band did a great job. He’s a very talented individual.

  32. 32.

    opiejeanne

    @Amir Khalid: I included them in every era partly as a joke, and partly because they were among the other things I heard in each era; they were ubiquitous. I don’t claim that my list is indicative of great music, just what I remember hearing.

    I suppose I should have included ‘Wishing Well’ by Terence Trent D’arby in the 80s, because that song was constantly on the radio in 1988.

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