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I Am Gonna Make It Through This Year If It Kills Me (open thread)

by Major Major Major Major|  January 1, 20199:48 pm| 61 Comments

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Looks like we could use an open thread; here’s a prompt: what are some songs that you like to listen to on New Year’s Eve or Day? I’ll start.

This Year by The Mountain Goats:

Kings by Steely Dan:

Discuss.

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61Comments

  1. 1.

    JR

    January 1, 2019 at 9:49 pm

    The Ice of Boston

  2. 2.

    DemJayhawks

    January 1, 2019 at 9:51 pm

    @JR: OMG, I’m glad there are other DPlan fans that read this blog.

  3. 3.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 1, 2019 at 9:56 pm

    Oh, and I should take this opportunity to note that I finally posted another installment of my webcomic.

  4. 4.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 1, 2019 at 10:02 pm

    As the father of two young girls, apparently I listen to “Baby Shark” at the beginning of the year. And also every other day.

  5. 5.

    eclare

    January 1, 2019 at 10:08 pm

    Because I am an 80’s child, the obvious, “1999”.

  6. 6.

    chris

    January 1, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Yay! On my way. Happy New Year!

    Some time ago in a book thread you recommended Sandman Slim. Thanks for that, I’m enjoying it immensely and looking forward to the rest of the series.

    ETA: Upvoted

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    January 1, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    I didn’t even know New Year songs were a genre. I can think of only Auld Lang Syne, but I suppose that’s too obvious to list here.

  8. 8.

    Tom Levenson

    January 1, 2019 at 10:10 pm

    The Steely Dan tune is all that.

    I’m old enough and given to depressing music enough to listen to Jason Isbell’s Vampires a lot on days that mark lost time.

    If I want to spit in the face of Death’s hourglass, I go for this.

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 1, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    @chris: They’re fun books, though I’ll admit I’ve only read the first three.

  10. 10.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:14 pm

    I am going to make it through this year if it kills me

    And it just might.

  11. 11.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 10:14 pm

    I listen to the stuff I usually listen to: lots of noisy punk rock!

    Whew…about to crash after a long day getting home from the Bahamas. Looks like this coming weekend’s NFL playoff games are going to be good ones! Here’s hoping the Colts can steal one from the Texans and that the Ravens knock out the Chargers!

  12. 12.

    PaulWartenberg

    January 1, 2019 at 10:16 pm

    New Year’s Day? Not in a mood for a particular song but usually a band, I tend to listen to some U2 on the playlists.

  13. 13.

    Jay

    January 1, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Hey Adam,

    Ran across this recently,

    https://russianmilitaryanalysis.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/is-a-russian-military-operation-against-ukraine-likely-in-the-near-future/

    Any thoughts?

  14. 14.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    Also: pretty safe bet that once Twitler gets wind of the Mittbot’s op-ed in the WaPo, we’re gonna have ourselves a nice little GOP set-to. Long overdue, and may both sides be KO’d

  15. 15.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    January 1, 2019 at 10:17 pm

    @Tom Levenson: You might like Rake, then. Townes was one of the g*dparents of depressing music.

  16. 16.

    lahke

    January 1, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    Too full of chocolate to think. My mom gave me a pound of See’s Candy for Christmas and I vowed to take it unopened into the office tomorrow. Almost made it– tapped it at 3 pm today. I am so sick. https://youtu.be/HJwxj1fE2IY

  17. 17.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    January 1, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    @Tom Levenson: @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Link to Rake.

  18. 18.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 10:24 pm

    @Jeffro:

    I listen to the stuff I usually listen to: lots of noisy punk rock!

    Do you like the Dead Kennedys?

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:27 pm

    @Jay: I think it is a solid analysis. My biggest concern is what he describes as item 3: the increase and escalation in provocative language on the Russian side. Including repeated claims that the Ukrainians are planning a chemical weapons attack. To me this is the most worrisome indicator. That Putin has his people out establishing a narrative he can use to justify escalating matters.

  20. 20.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    @Jeffro: Already happened. Parscale’s on the case. He’s not making sense, but he’s on the case.

    The truth is @MittRomney lacked the ability to save this nation. @realDonaldTrump has saved it. Jealously is a drink best served warm and Romney just proved it. So sad, I wish everyone had the courage @realDonaldTrump had. https://t.co/mbxoTqbSX6

    — Brad Parscale (@parscale) January 2, 2019

  21. 21.

    Victor Matheson

    January 1, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    A Great Big World’s “This is the New Year” is really a gem of hopefulness and energy.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=27R_goWiAAU

  22. 22.

    zhena gogolia

    January 1, 2019 at 10:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    “Jealously is a drink best served warm.” Okay, this is Surrealist poetry, right?

  23. 23.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    That Putin has his people out establishing a narrative he can use to justify escalating matters.

    Yeah, but can’t the entire world just call him out and say he’s full of shit?

  24. 24.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:33 pm

    @zhena gogolia: I try not to make sense of it. I think he may have applied to much beard oil and its having some strange side effects.

  25. 25.

    Jay

    January 1, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    Who doesn’t, along with DOA, Slow,….

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Could he be moe Russian?

  26. 26.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:34 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: How well has that worked so far?

  27. 27.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 1, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Yeah, that part really caught me flat-footed.

  28. 28.

    Victor Matheson

    January 1, 2019 at 10:35 pm

    @PaulWartenberg: Really? You are listening to U2 on New Years and you can’t even come up with one song you would like to hear?

    Might I suggest “New Year’s Day” by U2?

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:37 pm

    @Jay: If you’re talking about Parscale, I think he’s from Texas.//

    More seriously, I think his claimed success in data operations in 2016 was not the result of his talents, education, training, and hard work, but rather of that merry band of mirth makers at the GRU.

  30. 30.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: And now that Parscale has you flat footed, 2019 can kill you.

  31. 31.

    debbie

    January 1, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    @Jeffro:

    “What do you mean, I can’t fire a Senator?”

  32. 32.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 1, 2019 at 10:39 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Losing your dexterity bonus to AC can in fact kill you, it’s true.

  33. 33.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    January 1, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    @Victor Matheson: I had the same thought.

  34. 34.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    @debbie:
    “What do you mean I can’t appoint my horse a Senator?”

    This time as…still farce?

  35. 35.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 1, 2019 at 10:42 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Sure, that, even with the Lollipop Guild, the Star-Twinkle Toddlers, the Sparkly Unicorns, etc. chiming in, doesn’t mean shit To Vladimir Vladimirovich.

    That said, people in Ukraine are more sanguine about this than “foreign-policy experts” in the West.

  36. 36.

    Steeplejack

    January 1, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    @lahke:

    Good song. Everyone remembers older, matronly Ella and forgets her good early stuff.

    “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” 1938.

  37. 37.

    Citizen_X

    January 1, 2019 at 10:43 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Boy, talk about “sounds better in the original Klingon…”

  38. 38.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Not that well, but that’s because nobody’s willing to properly stand up to Putin.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    January 1, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Yeah, Parscale.

    Are you sure he’s a Texan, and not a Soviet Year X?

  40. 40.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    January 1, 2019 at 10:44 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Ya think? Way too sophisticated to be plausibly Parscale’s shop on its own.

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    @Jay: Just repeating here what’s been reported.

  42. 42.

    Adam L Silverman

    January 1, 2019 at 10:46 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Apparently I do.

  43. 43.

    JR

    January 1, 2019 at 10:47 pm

    @DemJayhawks: “Here’s to another goddamn New Year…”

  44. 44.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 10:49 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    That said, people in Ukraine are more sanguine about this than “foreign-policy experts” in the West.

    I hope they’re right for their sakes.

  45. 45.

    Citizen_X

    January 1, 2019 at 10:50 pm

    And then Cathy showed up and we hung out,
    taking swigs from the bottle, all bitter and clean.
    Locking eyes, holding hands,
    twin high-maintenance machines

    Yeah, I’d go with the Mountain Goats for New Year’s, too.

  46. 46.

    Steeplejack

    January 1, 2019 at 10:55 pm

    @Victor Matheson, @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:

    Eh, I thought P.W.’s comment was an oblique reference to “New Year’s Day.”

    Bet the over with most Balloon Juice commenters.

  47. 47.

    chopper

    January 1, 2019 at 11:00 pm

    oh man, This Year is one of my favorite songs.

  48. 48.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 11:01 pm

    @debbie:

    “What do you mean, I can’t fire a Senator?”

    Oh he’s definitely saying that right about now…I love it…tweet about how Mitt was kissing his ass for the SoS job and/or also ‘couldn’t get the job done’ (or even more vulgar) in 2012 in 3, 2, 1…

  49. 49.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 11:03 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: EXCELLENT!

    Have at it, GOP surrogates for (giggle) Donald Trump and (tee hee) Mitt Romney! What a wussy slap-fest this is going to be!

  50. 50.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 11:07 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Um that would be no. Also no Violent Femmes plz. Stooges, Dead Boys, Gang of Four, Against Me!, Descendents, Social D, X, that kind of thing.

  51. 51.

    J R in WV

    January 1, 2019 at 11:09 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Thanks for posting the new chapter beginning! Looking forward to following along.

    Happy new year in NYC!

  52. 52.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 11:12 pm

    @Jeffro:

    Or Agent Orange? What punk bands do you like? Like the Clash?

  53. 53.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 1, 2019 at 11:16 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: he listed a bunch!

  54. 54.

    Crashman06

    January 1, 2019 at 11:21 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I love this song and this album so much but it’s been a while since I’ve listened to it. Thanks for posting it; feels like encouragement for a scary year ahead.

  55. 55.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    January 1, 2019 at 11:26 pm

    @Steeplejack: Good point. It’s been a long week and it’s only Tuesday.

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack

    January 1, 2019 at 11:32 pm

    @Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:

    Inorite. I was in the “Today is Sunday, right? No, it’s not Sunday!” zone all day.

  57. 57.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:
    He listed ones he didn’t listen to. Checkmate! QED! ;P

  58. 58.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 11:34 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Yup – I like the ones I listed, love the Clash. Agent Orange is good. “punk” is such a broad label these days, it doesn’t mean a lot, but lately I’ve been enjoying stuff from further and further back (in addition to just playing Warped Tour compilations)

  59. 59.

    Jeffro

    January 1, 2019 at 11:35 pm

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??: Nah, I wasn’t really clear – those are ones I do listen to. My bad.

  60. 60.

    Major Major Major Major

    January 1, 2019 at 11:51 pm

    ‘Night everyone, enjoy your music!

  61. 61.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    January 1, 2019 at 11:57 pm

    @Jeffro:
    No harm done. You ones you listed are pretty good. I’ve listened to at least a few of those, like the Descendants.

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