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For something rather mellower, with beautiful playing and arranging:


I don't normally care much about lyrics, but I love this verse:

We'll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink Kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell.
Well I should know by now
That it's just a spasm
Like a Sunday in T.J.
That it's cheap but it's not free,
That I'm not what I used to be
And love's not a game for three.

Or an ever better lyric (again, with quality music) is The Royal Scam, about the broken dreams of poor Puerto Rican migrants, thinking US will be the land of milk and honey:

They are hounded down
To the bottom of a bad town,
Amid the ruins
Where they learn to fear
An angry race of fallen kings,
Their dark companions.
While the memory of
Their southern sky was clouded by
A savage winter,
Every patron saint
Hung on the wall, shared the room
With twenty sinners.

https://www.google.com/search?q=the+royal+scam+lyrics

I wish we had a "like" system whereby to acknowledge things we like without having to make a full response.

Anyway in terms of lyrics I love these from this song.

Those who stand proudly on the wrong side of history, mark my words
Your time will come

The heartless will be the sick and the dying left with nowhere to turn
I hope I have the strength to help them in their time of need
To forgive them, though I know they never would have done the same

Papus79 wrote: ↑June 27th, 2022, 7:16 am

I love Massive Attack

Since the SCOTUS ruling I've been gassing up on overtly political anger

Astro Cat wrote: ↑June 27th, 2022, 7:35 am I love Massive Attack

Something that caught me off guard a while back, admittedly I don't watch enough TV to know it's a show opener, but I heard Jose Gonzales's rework for the first time when I was in an eclectic IPA, microbrew, and cigar back room of a local chain restaurant with some guys from my martial arts class. Had to ask around who did it. Been listening to him off and on now and I think he nails something like a modern take on James Taylor vocals (more other places than here though).

Astro Cat wrote: ↑June 27th, 2022, 7:42 am Since the SCOTUS ruling I've been gassing up on overtly political anger

I'm still profoundly confused by it.

A big part of me can't believe that this is actually a Christian backlash winning through a few SCOTUS appointees - ie. that there has to be some neoliberal backdoor meaning to it like immigration drying up and thus needing to grow the lower classes to pick strawberries or something like that. This is like immigration as well where we've never wanted to have a sane discussion on it either, ie. only one absolute poll or the other with no in-between or real consideration of what the problems are that need to be addressed. It's a bit like how the war on drugs has been mostly a big employment game (along with suppressing minorities, dissenting political voices, etc.), I sometimes think these issues and the insanity of how they've been handled might be like that as well. That this even had to go before the SCOTUS and turn out like this is a shame on our whole establishment.

Our public sphere and messaging is so disorganized and so built for limbic hijack and infantilization that it's really difficult not to assume ulterior motives in almost everything (and so often there's been at least a grain of truth to that in most cases).