I have this bookmarked and every now and then I fire it up and listen to it just because it is so much fun:
Feeling a lot better today. Hoping tomorrow I will be in the clear.
No covid, fwiw.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.
Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?
Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
“But what about the lurkers?”
In after Baud. Damn.
He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.
Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.
I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.
Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”
Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.
Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.
Democrats are back in array!
“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
If you found this by me sharing it on FB, you are welcome. It’s so damn good, isn’t it? I like that they play it like the original, and yet it still has its own sound here. Styles’ drummer is fucking amazing, too.
Geoduck
If this is a Random You Tube Music thread, here’s a fun thing from Japan I have on my regular re-listen list.
eversor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koxa2fsoqyM
HumboldtBlue
Despite wearing a doily around his neck and his Nan’s fake pearls, Harry Styles is as lightweight a voice you will ever hear, and people wanna pretend he’s the new king of pop.
Styles sings like his balls never dropped and has all the soul of a Trump rally. I’m not sure the motherfucker has a diaphragm.
This is a pop voice with some depth and feeling and soul.
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@HumboldtBlue: I’m not sure if you’re being sarcastic or something, considering what you linked to, but if you listened to his whole catalog, you would not say that. Don’t come for Harry in my presence, I will cut a bitch!!
HumboldtBlue
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
Me? Sarcastic?
Sounds like you already got to Harry!
Alison Rose 💙🌻💛
@HumboldtBlue: You’re trying to make me cry, aren’t you? Imma find out where you live and blast all three of his albums from a boombox outside your bedroom windows!
John Cole
Why can’t i like Harry Styles and MJ?
HumboldtBlue
@Alison Rose 💙🌻💛:
Pretty much sums up the Harry Styles vibe.
Can’t out-sing the rain.
@John Cole:
¿Por qué no los dos?
Ain’t nobody stopping you!
elliottg
I am not a Howard Stern fan except his sound engineers are amazing. He undoubtedly cared enough to hire the best.
Nancy
Goo’ness me, am I really reading a blog?
I stumbled upon a mostly polite disagreement over personal musical taste.
Even “I will cut, etc” was remarkably nice when it turned out to mean boomboxes at dawn at 20 paces.
I needed pleasantness this morning.
And glad to read that Mr. Cole is feeling better.
oldster
Gotta agree with HB that the vocal performance is underwhelming. For the first minute he keeps hitting flat on the high notes. Once he has warmed up he gets better but still lacks power and does little with the opportunities of the song. On the whole, he gives a master class in why Peter Gabriel is a better singer.
But Alison, I am with you on the brilliance of the drummer. She has exactly the right bounce. Also interesting to hear how often her hi-hat goes disco. I don’t recall if that’s in the original, but in light of the dates it probably was.
Strange — they sing “show for me,” when I had always thought the lyric was “shelter me.”
Old man grumps aside, it’s nice to hear the kids respecting the classics.
SFAW
@John Cole:
Hmm — basketball, baseball, now singing — what CAN’T Jordan do?
Evinfuilt
The whole time, I was entranced by the incredible drumming. It carried it, I think the main thing missing was real brass.
StringOnAStick
I’ve always loved Peter Gabriel, Solsbury Hill is in my top faces of all time and I’m happy to see a current star covering his stuff and talking about how great an album that is. I also really like the even gender mix of the band; nice!
Also, Harry did a big concert in TX to support Beto and the place was packed with fans, and Be to was there, so he gets decent person points in my book!
dr. bloor
I don’t think I’ve ever heard Styles sing before. The band is solid and his voice is fine, but the arrangement is what you get when the bride tells the wedding band that she wants it to sound just like the original.