Kamala on the Stump

Hey. The big tent party has to have a place for people with shitty taste in music.

That doesn’t extend to Billy Joel.

 

I'm surprised it's not all Taylor all the time

 

You know your audience.

 

It ain't white people event until you get the trifecta. Brown eyed girl, sweet Caroline and the Cecilia song. Either one of those three can be traded out for Country road or God bless America.

 

As an authentic, certified white person, 2 of those 3 are in the nose. Not sure on Cecilia.

 

Harris has proposed expanding Medicare to help with home health care expenses. At first blush, this seems like a really intelligent proposal to help the US deal with the big increase in old and older Americans. (I put old and older because the first covers retirees, but the latter is about the fact that people are living a lot longer after retirement.)

 

I too question the quality of his native informant. He has been (ever so slightly) slightly misled.

 

It seemed the case in WNY but maybe in Carolina, you guys called an audible on the third song.

 

You should see the Whites when this one comes on at Schnuck's:

 

Feels like we need to re-up the wypipo thread.

 

I'm about as young as boomers get and I want nothing to do with the Beach Boys. Or Brown-eyed Girl. I was tricked into checking out Pet Sounds. Wipeout isn't any better.

 

Cecilia is a great song.

God, I'm swimming in such whiteness I may as well make a fluffer nutter. I did not expect that this is what 40 would be.

 

I have some love for Wouldn't It Be Nice, but that's about it.

I agree, if we're talking about Simon and Garfunkel. But they have several better ones.

Alt and punk are just as White as the BB and Lawrence Welk. I dropped some Lost Poets here a few months ago. Now, they deal with REAL issues, but they can be a bit too real for future CEO slumming at the moment...

 

You Still Believe in Me moves me to tears. Until that damn bike horn goes off in the end.

 

Also it's a crime that all the Beach Boys have in Hawthorne CA is a bus stop bench and the distinction of being from the same hometown as Gyasi Zardes.

 

We may be around the same age (about as young as one can be and still fall within one of the various Boomer cutoff dates), and I concur re: the Beach Boys, and even Wouldn't It Be Nice; while it starts off well enough, I get bored with it before the end of the song.

I understand the numerous, undeniable weaknesses of Brown Eyed Girl, but the song has some happy associations for me. Namely, as one of the vinyl 45s on the jukebox in the Rathskeller at the University of Wisconsin back in the early 80s. Fortunately, its collection also included other, far better Van Morrison tunes. As well as Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Neil Young, Bill Withers and a lot of other great stuff. I'm willing to claim that Brown Eyed Girl was a musical gateway drug to far better things. As such, it played a valuable role. But it's no Into The Mystic, that's for sure.

Incidentally, it's been over a decade since I've been back to Madison (sadly). Unsurprisingly, the jukebox was long gone, and had been replaced with something pumping out digital music. All current.

It was ********ing terrible. An absolute shame. Not that the music was terrible (I'm not qualified to judge, honestly). But when I first walked into that space, decades ago (and I remember that first time), the music was not only an education, but also served as a reminder that the space I was in, the institution and its culture, wasn't just about and defined by me. The music spanned 2-3 decades, as I recall. That indoctrinating, learning opportunity is now totally lost. Wiped out (no pun intended) by music that responds to the sugar-high desire to hear what's heard everywhere else and isn't likely to be more than six months old.