The first morning after Trump's immigration ban, I dug out my old copy of the Jazz Singer soundtrack, put it on the turntable, and played "America" at high volume.

Yup, bought Richard Buckner's 1994 album Bloomed on vinyl via Merge. I've owned it a few times since it came out. Can't wait to hear Blue & Wonder and Daisychain on the turntable. Also bought a copy of the newest A Giant Dog for my wife's birthday.

The thing I hate most about that Nordstrom tires urban legend is that I had to hear it from every damn 20-something "I'm a professional now!" restaurant manager during an employee meeting in the 90s with no means of calling BS on the hyperbole because the Internet hasn't came around yet.

Tragically I can't find it on youtube anymore. But there used to be this really good MS Paint/Misheard Lyrics video for this song. (the one that comes up isn't it). I really liked the "Always sleeping'…with a flashing 'Ah!'".

At the protests at the Portland Airport last Sunday, there was a large crowd of people singing "This Land is Your Land" right in the middle of the terminal. One of the hippie protesters started screaming "THIS ISN'T OUR LAND IT BELONGS TO THE NATIVE AMERICANS". He didn't get much traction.

I Against I, but really I just need to hear that transition from the pulling-the-slingshot-back ending of "Don't Need It" into the letting-it-go-release of "Attitude" and then I am good.

I always liked how Steve Albini said in his WTF Interview how: "If a song starts with cowbell, you turn it up, because the number of great songs that start with a cowbell is extraordinary"

I Am (I'm Me) by Twisted Sister.

In case it hasn't been posted, here she is surprising Oprah. The end even has an outtake from the commercial break:

I don't, but plenty of people do at the hardware store, lumber yard, restaurants, etc. Yeah, it is the classic rock stations being the offenders though.

True, I do remember my uncle once going "WOW THE BOSTON POPS ARE ON TV!" with genuine excitement. He also didn't know who Chuck Berry is.

I wonder how many more years the Beatles have left before they kind of pass into history and they aren't common knowledge. Well, I also wonder how old I'll have to be until I don't hear a damn Boston song at least once a week.

That was the album I got after Led Zep II and LZ "The One With The Guy With The Sticks on His Back", it kind of blew my mind that it was Led Zeppelin.

It can sound worse…don't forget the 12" mixes which thankfully have never been officially reissued on CD that I know of.

Despite the version linked above which is a Nebraska outtake, there are earlier/rougher demos of that song called "Vietnam" which has lyrics from "Shut out the Light" and early BIUSA lyrics. The best part is you can hear Bruce turning the pages of his notebook. Thankfully Youtube exists now so I don't have to get…

Maybe someday we will have a magic device which will remove 80s production from songs.

I'm surprised nobody has printed (or written a giant tome so it can't be OCR'd!) out a hex dump of an mp3 file. You gotta manually type the thing in to hear it, just like in the days of the old BASIC programs.

I was actually going to suggest this inventory…and then never got around to it, oh well. A couple others I can think of:

Yeah totally…if you go, stand by stage left where Lou will be. He puts on quite a show, including the aforementioned kicks, jumps, attitude, but also, low cruise missile swoops with his bass.

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