Thought it might be fun to give a little post-under-oath-testimony-come-down-off-the-nerves tunage suggestions for La Diva Judy.
– You're So Vain. (Oops, how did that get in there? Bad me. "You probably think this trial is about you…")
– Like A Virgin. (What? You don't like Madonna?)
– If We Hold On Together. (Sure, it's the theme song from a Land Before Time cartoon. But really, it's much better than "Aspens Turning" as a title, isn't it?)
You just know there are lots more tunes — why not suggest a few in the comments. Just because it's Friday, and we could all use more giggles.
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note for La Diva Judy…
Christy!
(and h/t twolf1 on teh zed!)
Punch & Judy?
twolf1 @
1
heh heh,good one.
Remember the old Capitol Steps send-up “I’m Not Indicted”? (Pointers Sisters take-off, back from Iran/Contra days IIRC)
_
If Libby is found guilty, where does this investigation go as far as Fitz going on with the investigation of who outed a CIA agent? Will he remain hampered and will it stop here or will he then be able to continue onto other targets?
Hey Judy!
New!
“I’m So Indicted” (mp3)
I may have missed it, but do we have any idea who will be testifying for the defense? Dickerson has been blogging it, so he’s not. Any thoughts? Do they just have Shooter and Scooter?
Any Sondheim fans out there? Then behold:
The Ballad of Cheney Todd
ARI FLEISCHER
Attend the tale of Cheney Todd
A rotten eggplant was his bod
He served the forces of greed and death
Denying and lying with every breath
His toothpick was a cattle prod
For Cheney Todd
The Schemin’ Veeper of D.C.
He lived but to make corporate rain
From Baghdad to Lake Pontchartrain
He filled the needs of C.E.O.’s
Ignoring the public or thumbing the nose
Of Cheney
Of Cheney Todd
The Schemin’ Veeper of D.C.
COMPANY
Wage war far and wide, Cheney
See stock options rise
Freely flows the blood of those you
Mobilize.
He hid away when indisposed
In dank locations undisclosed
A mask of guile upon his face
In place of a heart, a Maker of Pace
A myocardial infarction god
Was Cheney Todd
The Schemin’ Veeper of D.C.
Faithful servant that Cheney was
Halliburton’s true swain, he was.
Cheney would plan
Proddin’ and shooin’
Iraq and Iran
Into rack and ruin.
Bent on vengeance our Cheney was
Keen to cause Wilson pain he was.
Cheney heard “Plame”
Cheney told Scooter,
Broadcast her name
Let Al-Qaeda shoot her.
Bent on vengeance our Cheney was
Keen to cause Wilson pain he was.
Cheney heard “Plame”
Cheney told Scooter,
Broadcast her name
Let Al-Qaeda shoot her.
Cheney Cheney Cheney Cheney
Cheney….
CHENEY TODD
Attend the tale of Cheney Todd
COMPANY
Attend the tale of Cheney Todd
CHENEY TODD
Belongs in jail and not Gstaad
COMPANY
Belongs in jail and not Gstaad
CHENEY
What happens next
Well, that’s the joke
A happy retirement, impeachment, a stroke
For Cheney
For Cheney Todd
ALL
The Schemin’ Veeper of
D.
C.
“Embraceable Ewe”
OK Twolf1, lets kickit up a notch.
What Scooter told Judy after lunch.
Chain Gang by the Pretenders!
Like A Virgin. (What? You don’t like Madonna?)
Nothing against Madonna, but if you post that, I just *gotta* post a link to Weird Al’s Like a Surgeon.
I’m sorry, that wasn’t phrased in the form of a question.
What is Back on the Chain Gang by the Pretenders, Alex?
“Twenty-Twenty Vision, and I’m Walkin’ ‘Round Blind” ?
Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys.
This is Judy to a tea! About 30 seconds.
“If I were you, I wouldn’t Be”, by Kip Adotta
http://www.kipaddotta.com/soun…..7;t-be.wma
Englebert Humperdinck’s “After the Lovin’”.
I’m so not searching YouTube for that link.
You might have to go to Kip’s page and scroll downalmost to the bottom of the page–worth the trip!
http://www.kipaddotta.com/kips-cds.html
EPU’d from last thread:
OT – (whatever the topic is – heh) I have been wanting to ask if Monk ever finished the collage for Jane? If so, are we going to get to see it? Also – how is Jane getting to DC – is she able to fly?
curious minds want to know . . .
Kathie
P.S. You guys and gals on FDL just crack me up – quick wits, all! Again, my heartfelt thanks to Jane, Christy, Trex, Marcy et al! A lifesaver for me, this site!
{{{BobbyG}}}
{{{Busted}}}
…and Judy…this one pretty much says all I have to say.
Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen, Chen
Chen, Chen, Cheney of Fools
For 6 long years I thought you were the man
But I found out I am just a link in your Chen
You got me where you want me
I ain’t nothin but your fool
Oh you treated me so mean
You treated me so cruel
Chen, Chen, Chen, Cheney of Fools
‘Chen of Fools’ as sung by the Decider
How about:
Not Ready to Make Nice Video
This pretty much says what I feel about a woman who enabled this administration to gin up a WAR.
our lips are sealed – the go go’s
Y’know, I’m sitting here with my iPod in front of me, scrolling through my songlist.
There are WAAAAAAAAY too many songs that fit.
“Lawyers Guns and Money”
Warren Zevon
Although plenty of two out of the three don’t seem to have done any of the people involved any good at all.
No one mourns the wicked
no one cries they won’t return
no one lays a lily on their grave
the good man scorns the wicked
through their lies our children learn
what they miss when we misbehave
- from the musical Wicked
This query was stranded on an earlier thread.
Christy:
What’s your take on Libby’s efforts to have the grand jury tapes that will be played to the jury sealed, so there is no public access to the recordings themselves?
Libby: Don’t Release Grand Jury Tapes
My brief research on CD Circuit law suggests that although Walton has the discretion to do that, the strong presumption is to allow public access and that he has to find a strong countervailing public interest compelling their being sealed. What that public interest could be is not clear to me. Seems like the public interest would be to treat them like the rest of the trial exhibits — part of the public court record. After all, it’s not as if reporters won’t hear them played and report on them using their note taking skills (though no one is as good as you all at FDL!)
Any prediction as to what Walton will do and whether a sealing order would hold up on appeal?
“American Woman” (the Lenny Kravitz version)
“Another Nail for My Heart” – Squeeze
“At Least That’s What You Said” – Wilco
“Ball of Confusion” – The Temptations
“Believe What You’re Saying” – Sugar
“Blasphemous Rumours” – Depeche Mode
“Bright Future in Sales” – Fountains of Wayne
“Brown-Eyed Girl” – Van Morrison
And that’s just A-B.
Heavy Duty Judy
Frank Zappa – Shut Up ‘N’ Play Yer Guitar
I think the lyrics reflect our Judy, Judy, Judy perfectly.
Listen to the flower people… ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjxb9m5edI
Tanbark @ 16
Excellent! Some more country music?
Tammy Wynette’s classic, “Stand by Your Man.” With a full load of irony.
An old song from a Flatt & Scruggs album, about a man facing a long prison sentence: “Ninety-Nine Years is Almost for Life.”
I’m sure that either Kinky Friedman or the Reverend Billy C. Wirtz has something appropriate, but I can’t think of anything (”Christmas in the Peckerwoods,” maybe, though the season has passed for the year).
“If I Only Had a Brain,(A Heart, Da Noive)”
ACK! ACK! JAMES TARANTO is on my TV!
He’s as big a stuffed shirt in person as he is on television.
I recommend Roy Zimmerman to anyone who hasn’t heard of him before. He’s got a certain Tom Lehrer-esque quality.
If I were you, I wouldn’t be by Kip Adotta
The things I’ve seen you trying to sell
The way you cheat, the lies you tell
You’ve made a lot of men’s lives a living hell
If I were you, I wouldn’t be.
Don’t talk to me about the love you’ve gotten
The rich old men who take you yachting
Your style is bogus and you ways are rotten
If I were you, I wouldn’t be
Don’t try to tell me that you’re changing
When your entire mind needs rearranging
You’re a puzzle with a piece that’s missing
You might stop and look but you won’t listen
Baby you’re headed for an early grave
When the wine stops flowing you rant & rave
The party’s the master and you’re the slave
If I were you, I wouldn’t be
judy
I don’t have a whole song just the opening lines from Ian Dury’s song Plaistow Patricia.
Somehow when I think of this Administration the words just stream through my head.
Thoughts while watching the snow come down…
How come Rove isn’t on trial/indicted?
From the revelations to date, why isn’t the
press outraged and calling for impeachment…
Is the Congress listening to the trial?
In Fitz’s heart, he must be saying to himself
how in the fuck has my country got to this
low point?
Just a few questions, after having a few
Corona’s… and thinking what a wonderful site we have in FDL…
Thanks,
Jack
Judy Is A Punk
Judy in disguise, well what you aiming for
A circus of horrors, yeah, that’s what you are
You made me a life of ashes
I guess I’ll just take your glasses.
The actual last verse of ‘Judy in Disguise’ by John Fred & His Playboy Band
I don’t care if it makes sense. It’s what I’m listening to, and to me, if you listen to the chorus “…black holes and revelations….” it can even be considered on target.
Muse – “Starlight”
“Center of the World” by Portastatic.
BayState: One brick at a time.
ET has Laura Bush on…..ewwwwwww
Red dress party in New York
G. Love and Special Sauce – Stepping Stones
Something I think is a pretty funny “misheard lyrics” video: Wishmaster (misheard as Fishmaster).
Ship of Fools
World Party
We’re setting sail to the place on the map
from which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
by the light of the crosses that burned.
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
and the gold and the cotton and pearls
It’s the place where they keep all the darkness you need.
You sail away from the light of the world on this trip, baby.
You will pay tomorrow
You’re gonna pay tomorrow
You will pay tomorrow
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools. No, no
Oh, save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools
I want to run and hide right now
Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
or drowning in the oceans of history
Traveling the world, you’re in search of no good
but I’m sure you’ll build your Sodom like you knew you would
Using all the good people for your galley slaves
as you’re little boat struggles through the warning waves, but you don’t pay
You will pay tomorrow
You’re gonna pay tomorrow
You’re gonna pay tomorrow
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools
Where’s it comin’ from?
Where’s it goin’ to now?
It’s just a it’s just a ship of fools
A fair response to the arguments of the defense.
Chinois – I posted a youtube link to Ship of Fools years ago.
Hey Scooter, can we be friends?
At the heart Disease event in NY:
Laura Bush: I work out because my husband shamed me into it. I walk around with weights.
There were 17,ooo less deaths since the campaign started (heart disease, not Iraqi’s) Her daughters work out too.
How do you feel about a women in the WH? I am ready for it but I was hoping it would be Condi.
“The Bagman’s Gambit” by The Decemberists.
How I long to hear you say: ‘No they’ll never catch me now!”/No they cannot catch me!/No they’ll never catch me now.”/We will escape somehow. Somehow.
I’m sure she’d love to hear someone tell her that.
Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees
And begged you not to leave
Because I’d go berserk?
Well. . .
You left me anyhow
And then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I’ve gone
Completely out of my mind
And. . .
They’re coming to take me away, HA HA
They’re coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I’ll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they’re coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!
Ballad of Irving, anyone?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U077BiDMmPE
Arcadia – Election Day
Wild kind of look to the day
Opening eyes impale neon flickers
She moon, she turning away
The city’s her slave, he’s cheating his mistress
She’s moody and gray
She’s mean and she’s restless (so restless)
So restless near me
All over you as they say
Rumours or rivals yell at the strike force
Hi guys, by the way
Are you aware you’re being illegal
It’s making your saviour behaviour look evil
’scuse my timing but say
How d’you fit in with this flim flam and judy
Maximum big surprise
Your smile is something new
I pull my shirt off and pray
We’re sacred and bound
To suffer the heatwave
Pull off my shirt and pray
We’re coming up on re-election day
Stretching my luck down the way
To your invitation stretching my body
Use your intuitive play
’cause maybe we have more play time than money
Maximum big surprise
She knows something new
I pull my shirt off and pray
I’m saving myself to suffer the heatwave
Pull off my shirt and pray
We’re coming up on re-election day
By roads and backways
A lover’s chance downwind
Cut open murmurs and sounds
Becalm hands on skin
Carry further
Entangled strands all sing
Time
Saving some time to slip away
We could dance
Oh… shouldn’t be asking
Wild and scheming
Could be my election day
Maximum big surprise
You know something new
I pull my shirt off and pray
We’re sacred and bound
To suffer this heatwave
Pull off my shirt and pray
We’re coming up on re-election day
Re-election day
Well, my son just informed me that he is taking me to dinner. Woohooooooooo. No dishes tonite….Later!
*OT*
update in Sacramento Bee about Charlie Brown and Rep. Doolittle, including a wee bit more dirt about Doolittle.
Eminence Front (it’s a put on)…
Get Your Lies Straight — Terry Evans
Lies — Thompson Twins
LindaR @
50
LindaR–you gotta win the prize for widest divergence in two distinct links.
What the hell am I doing here?
Another Doctor Demento artist:
Logan Whitehurst
Just a reminder that the Friday news dump was particularly rich today.
The NIE came out today. It said that Iraq is going to h*ll in a hand basket and that there is very little that anyone can do about it. It leapfrogged the term civil war that the Administration has so assiduously avoided. They say it looks like a civil war, only more complex. I hate to tell them but most civil wars are pretty complex affairs.
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its report which for the first time tied global warming to manmade activities. While the report’s findings are serious, this is a consensus document and is a lot weaker than it could and should have been. I loved Energy Secretary Bodman’s presser where he claimed that Bush had been a real leader on the climate change issue and had spent $29 billion on research. These claims would no doubt come as a surprise to many including Bush himself. I also liked Susan Solomon’s (the US representative on the panel in Paris) response to a question about how urgent was action in the face of the report’s findings. Well, she said she was just there to report the findings not to say what should be done with them. This is a little like someone watching a 600 lb piano falling on their head and saying I know the piano is falling but it’s not up to me to say what I should do about it. Shorter version: If Bush has anything to do with this, we will all fry.
The Administration announced its $100 billion supplemental request for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is on top of the $70 billion already budgeted for in the regular appropriations process. This $100 billion is not fully included in deficit projections so the federal deficit will be larger than was stated.
What I want to know is what would this Administration do without Fridays to dump news into?
RBG @ 62
tee hee
For this whole mis-administration.
Yeah, I’m talking to you, DICK.
Just a thought on Jerry Jeff Walker being appropriate here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvrbEOWXKg
Change LA to DC or Beltway and it might fit the spirit. Christy, I hope Peanut (I referred to my daughter with the same name) is on the mend. I didn’t get in much yesterday, but the early illness innoculation theories seemed to mirror my fathering / parenting of a child 35 yrs ago, but then it is best to check with the general practitioner you think you can trust I imagine. Thanks to all posting on the site.
[For once and for all, no prison rape jokes on this blog. Period. — CHS]
How about “I’m Still Standing”
“You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”
A rare recording with vocals by Tom Cruise in a special session for Irving Scooter Libby.
What? No Dylan?
There must be something, Please.
He is the king of irony in many ways.
;)
Help! The Beatles
Dust in the Wind Kansas
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, then the momen’t gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind, ohh Now, don’t hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won’t another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind
The wind
And Saturday night, while performing Haydn’s Creation, I swear I was thinking of Cheney, Rove, Bush, and Co. when we sang these lyrics:
Affrighted fly hell’s spirits black in throngs.
Down they sink in the deep abyss to endless night.
Despairing, cursing rage attends their rapid fall!
Nobody Loves You When Your Down and Out (off of John Lennons album – Walls and Bridges)
LIES – JJ Cale
Talking Heads -
Don’t Worry About The Government
&
No Compassion
Dr John – Xmas in New Orleans
Parliament – Handcuffs
(TRex song from Parliament on such an occasion as this post suggests) Night of the Thumpasorus People
Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heavens Door
Or just the Soundtrack from Mr Ed.
I’m Still Standing
OK
“She’s Got a Dog That Don’t Bite”
Delbert McClinton
accountability @ 72
Masters of War Dylan
Come you masters of war
You that build all the guns
You that build the death planes
You that build the big bombs
You that hide behind walls
You that hide behind desks
I just want you to know
I can see through your masks
You that never done nothin’
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it’s your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
You fasten the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
You’ve thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain’t worth the blood
That runs in your veins
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I’m young
You might say I’m unlearned
But there’s one thing I know
Though I’m younger than you
Even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
And I hope that you die
And your death’ll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand o’er your grave
‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead
Copyright 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music
Ach, how could we forget:
Criminal – Fiona Apple
With the undead Dick Cheney, you might be waiting a long time.
Heh.
Cry Me a River – Julie London
watertiger — good one!
You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon
Demetrius and I once tried to make up our own version about hour cat, entitled “You Can Call Meow”. I can’t hear that song without thinking of the (incomplete) “alternate lyrics”.
New post at egregiousBlog.
It’s a sorry world. But we need to stay engaged as long as possible.
The question: how to keep going. How to keep sensitive people from quitting. The very ones who sense what is wrong are the ones who become overwhelmed by knowledge of what is happening.
WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS. If you are wondering about whether to become involved, consider this your invitation.
Jump in, and let others of us have a small rest in between battles.
Another of my Paul Simon favorites:
Born at the Right Time
(This one doesn’t have a corresponding cat-themed parody
Bobo trying to sell the “soft partition” of Iraq option again on NewsHour.
“Didn’t I Blow Your Mind This Time” by the Delfonics.
watertiger @
78
I’m so glad I responded to that mail.
I Put A Spell On You – Nina Simone
Further On Up the Road – Clapton
A Real Mother For Ya – Johnny Guitar Watson
RBG @ 86
Heh. How about “Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone” by Glass Tiger?!
[runs out of the room]
Did anyone mention Johnny River’s Secret Agent Man?
“Secret agent man, they’re giving you a number and taking away your name….”
Ummm, who else do they do that to?
Testify
Grace Jones – The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
“Would I Lie to You?” – the Eurythmics
Strange Fruit – BH or Nina
The sound you are about to hear is me beating feet for the door. Have a great weekend and we’ll kick some more Neocon ass on Monday.
WOOT!
Judas Priest, Breaking the Law
“You don’t know what it’s like…”
Bad Company
Twisted Martini @ 95
Lol, I got my first speeding ticket listening to that full blast.
Hold up. Did no one use “I Fought The Law” (the Clash version) yet?
This is interesting. I was looking for songs by They Might Be Giants on YouTube and found this from 1994, when they appeared on the Jon Stewart Show. You can see a few seconds of “Early Jon” before the music starts.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 87
ESprings
You have mail & an EPU note last thread ;~)
I’ve seen the neos and the damage done….
Christy, I just sent you a query in e-mail. If you have an answer for me, please drop me a line. Thanks!
How ’bout, “Mama’s Got A Squeezebox”
npb – Thanks..)
David Brooks was just on the NewsHour at his talking points best.
Point 1: The NIE says a quick pullout from Iraq will lead to greater chaos. Even though a security analyst pointed out only a few minutes previously, that the NIE did not address a phased withdrawal or how the the aftermath to withdrawal would be changed if the withdrawal was delayed by a year or two. Brooks takes the report’s quick withdrawal and spins it into any withdrawal.
Point 2: Brooks hawks his plan for a soft partition of Iraq. I believe this is called “soft” because you would have to be soft in the head to buy into it. Basically, if you could get the Iraqis to negotiate a partitition, you could just as well get them to negotiate a plan to stay together. The problem is nobody is negotiating seriously about anything.
Point 3: Bush never questioned General Casey or his strategy. This revives the narrative of Bush listening to his generals and doing what they told him. It ignores the reality that this was true only as long as they did what he wanted. The current escalation exposes the hollowness of Brooks’ narrative, which of course doesn’t stop him from recycling it again anyway.
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
Taking out the garbage: Charles “Cully” Stimson, the DoD attorney who tried to intimidate attorneys who were representing Guantanamo detainees, resigned today.
Bye bye
There must be an appropriate song.
Toby Martin @ 103
My mom was the kind of mom you just could not talk about anything sexual in front of. When that song came out, it made my prim, prude of a mother apoplectic. “That’s filthy!” she cried, the first time she heard it, astonished.
Her reaction was so pure, so shocked, so true — we all just busted up laughing. It was wonderful.
“It’s darker than the dark bottom
It rumbles more than the Rumba
If you think that the two-steps got ‘em
Just take a look at this number
It’s got that certain swing
That makes you wanna sing
Don’t go left, but be polite
Move to the right
Doing the reactionary
Close your eyes to where you’re bound
And you’ll be found
Doing the reactionary
All the best dictators do it
Millionaires keep steppin’ to it
The Four Hundred love to sing it
Ford and Morgan swing it
Hands up high and shake your head
You’ll soon see red
Doing the reactionary
Don’t go left, but be polite
Move to the right
Doing the reactionary
Close your eyes to where you’re bound
And you’ll be found
Doing the reactionary
All the best dictators do it
Millionaires keep steppin’ to it
The Four Hundred love to sing it
Ford and Morgan swing it
Hands up high and shake your head
You’ll soon see red
Doing the reac-
Doing the reac-
Tionary
So get in it, begin it
It’s smart, oh, so very
To do the reactionary!”
Hahaha, y’all missed one that I’m gonna use for the videotape of Scooter’s GJ testimony on Monday…
Judy in Disguise
Guantanamaro
scarecrow- Spanky & Our Gang did a Garbage Truck song
“We’ll be fighting in the streets,
with our children at our feet,
and the morals that they worship will be gone.
And the men who spurred us on
sit in judgement of all wrong,
they decide and the shotgun sings the song.
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
take a bow for the new revolution,
smile and grin at the change all around,
take up my guitar and play just like yesterday,
and I’ll get on my knees and pray.
— We don’t get fooled again.
The change it had to come,
we knew it all along,
we were liberated from the fold, that’s all.
And the world looks just the same,
and history ain’t changed,
’cause the banners were all flown in the last war.
I’ll move myself and my family aside,
if we happen to be left half alive,
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky,
though I know that the hypnotized never lie.
Nothing in the street looks any different to me.
And the slogans are replaced by the by,
and the parting on the left is now parting on the right,
and the beards have all grown longer over night.
Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss”
“Judy in disguise,
well that’s what you are
Lemonade pie with a brand new car.
Cantalope eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise
with glasses.
Keep a-wearing your bracelets
and your new rara.
Cross your heart
with your living bra.
Chimney sweep sparrow with guise.
Judy in disguise
with glasses
Come to me tonight,
come to me tonight,
Taking everything in sight,
Except for the strings on my kite.
Judy in disguise,
well what you aiming for,
A circus of horrors,
yeah, well that’s what you are.
You made me a life of ashes,
I guess I’ll just take your glasses.”
Cry Baby
Janis
“It’s astounding
Time is fleeting
Madness takes its toll…
Ahh… But listen closely…
Not for very much longer…
I’ve got to keep control.
I remember doing the Time Warp.
Drinking those moments when
The blackness would hit me.
And the void would be calling.
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
It’s just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hand on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it’s the pelvic thrust.
They really drive you insa-ya-yane
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
It’s so dreamy
Oh, fantasy free me
So you can’t see me
No not at all.
In another dimension
With voyeuristic intention.
Well secluded
I see all…
With a bit of a mind flip…
You’re into a time slip…
And nothing can ever be the same.
You’re spaced out on sensation.
Like you’re under sedation.
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Well, I was walking down the street
Just having a think
When a snake of a guy
Gave me an evil wink.
Well it shook me up
It took me by surprise
He had a pick-up truck
And the devil’s eyes
He stared at me
And I felt a change
Time meant nothing
Never would again.
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
It’s just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hands on your hips.
You bring you knees in tight.
But it’s the pelvic thrust…
That really drives you insa-ya-ya-yane
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Ah! Oh! Oh! Yeoooww… Ahhhh.
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
It’s just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
With your hands on your hips.
You bring you knees in tight.
But it’s the pelvic thrust…
That really drives you insa-ya-ya-yane
Let’s do the Time Warp again!
Let’s do the Time Warp again!”
Swopa @ 110
Is it Tell Me Lies???
LindaR @ 107
Curious thing. My mother thought the same way about that song. But, she thought Melanie’s “Brand New Pair of Roller Skates” was so cute, because, I think, she just didn’t get it. The cuteness just overwhelmed her ability to divine the symbolism. :)
LindaR @ 118
or. ‘memories’
DavidE—I would have thought that since you’ve spent so much time with artists, you’d want to credit them for their work.
I would expect you;d know who they are.
What about a little classic Beatles?
“I’m a Loser“
David Ehrenstein @
120
We are a diverse group here and there is no guarantee that every commenter will recognize each and every artist’s work you reference.
John Dickerson is now on Washington Week explaining the Libby trial to us. He did not mention his role. Gwen Ifil of all people points out that both he and Sanger had some part in the affair. As an aside she added that Russert was her former boss. There are lots of times that I will go off on Gwen Ifil, but for this, all I can say is good on her. Still there was no mention of the blogging of the trial. Can’t let the peasants get too uppity, don’t you know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv6RRBeR0Ko
Beatles—I’m Really Down
(The line I like is “How can you laugh, when you know I’m down?”)
This is the early Beatles at Shea Stadium. EEeeeeeeK!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..mp;search=
Want it all back – Seatbelts Live
Jobs…money…reputation…
Well you’ll never win on Gay Jeopardy with that attitude!
Montag, my mom liked Brand New Key too, ha.
The FCC Song (by Eric Idle)
[Spoken intro]
Here’s a little number I wrote the other day while I was duck-hunting with a judge.
[quacking sound]
Fuck you very much, the FCC
Fuck you very much for fining me
$5000 bucks a fuck, so I’m really out of luck
That’s more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me
So fuck you very much, the FCC
For proving that free speech just isn’t free
Clear Channel’s a dear channel, so Howard Stern must go
Attorney General Aschcroft doesn’t like strong words, and so
He’s charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh
So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you very much, dear Mr. Bush
For heroically sitting on your tush
For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies that fail
Let’s send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail
She’s an uppity rich bitch, and at least she isn’t male
So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you, dickhead Mr. Cheney too
Fuck you and fuck everything you do
Your pacemaker must be a fake, you haven’t got a heart
As far as I’m concerned, you’re a pasty-faced old fart
And as for Condoleeza, she’s an intellectual tart
So fuck you all so very much
So fuck you very much, the EPA
For giving all Alaska’s oil away
It really is a bummer when I can’t fill my Hummer
The ozone’s a no-go-zone, now that Arnold’s here to say,
“Ze Nuclear Winter Games are going to take place in L.A.”
So fuck you all so very much.
So what, the planet fails?
Let’s save the great white males
And fuck you all so very much.
[quack]
Go Tell All The People – Dr John
(really the whole Desitively Bonaroo album 1974)
or how about this one
judy sings Barbra Striesand
Anyone who plays “The Pina Colada Song” should suffer intense pain and scratch their own eyes out.
In honor of Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize nomination.
Swopa @ 109
Are they video? I thought they would be audio?
Regardless…is it Loser?
Friend of the Devil
Sitting Here in Limbo
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Dazed and Confused
If Dogs Run Free, Why Not Me
Back Door Man!
The Assassination of President McKinley
you are one amazing bunch of human beings………the biggest compliment i could pay……..
just found you all two weeks ago through achenblog on washingtonpost.com……….
i am in awe…………and have been clicking on your blogs…….ALL OF YOU who have them…..can’t hardly keep up, have spent many hours on the computer this past week listening to all you have to say….but have been having trouble posting a comment in your blogs…….am a newbie at this……was out of the computerland for 10 years and now back in it……was in at the beginning, years ago, before many were on the net…….but a lot has changed………so, since couldn’t post on blogs, wanted you all to know i appreciated what you wrote, all of you.
keep it up. …it is spreading…….and growing…….and that is the point, isn’t it……
d
Bob Dylan: Death is Not the End
I’m sorry, so sorry (can’t remember that artst)
Of course, remember the classic Chicken Payback — which I believe, with all my heart, contains somewhere within it the answers to all our questions.
Music = Reporters file to get Libby recordings:
Can anyone get a copy of the filing? I’d love to read it before Monday.
:::rubs hands together:::
“How can I miss you if you won’t go away?” Dan Hicks
Eureka Springs- Patsy Cline
oldtree @
138
I scare myself, just thinkin’ about you.
For Gawds sakes would somebody bury James Brown.
(Here’s a Mick Jagger number of recent vintage:)
“You ride around your white castle,
On your little white horse
You lie to your people,
and blame it on your war of course
You call yourself a Christian,
I call you a hypocrite
You call yourself a patriot,
well I think you’re full of shit
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
What path have you led them on?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
Is it time for the atom bomb?
You parade around in costume,
Expecting to be believed
But as the body bags stack up,
We believe we’ve been deceived
The horror you’ve unleashed,
Will backfire with more grief
When will you ever learn,
Sweet Neo Con,
as the world burns?
How come you’re so wrong?
My sweet neo-con,
where’s the money gone,
in the Pentagon.
It’s liberty for all,
democracy’s our style,
unless you are against us,
then it’s prison without trial.
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
What path have you led them on?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
Is it time for the atom bomb?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
What path have you led them on?
Oh, sweet Neo Con,
Is it time to drop the bomb?”
Chestnuts Roasting?
LindaR @
77
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWkWSLEW-Ds
Life During Wartime.
Kathryn in MA @ 144 — you are a gentlewoman and a scholar!
Well, there is one old R&B chestnut that we know is not appropriate, and that’s …
(wait for it)
“Framed”
CCR: Heard it through the Grapevine
David Ehrenstein @ 127
Good one!
Linda R,
You had me at “haha.”
Jerry Lee Lewis – I think I Need To Pray
“If you’ve got time to listen, I think I need to pray.”
LindaR @ 146
Well, that song is so right on target (as it were) that an audio is only appropriate!
Welcome dmac!!!!
Mama Tried- Haggard (not THAT one)
Dogs of War by Pink Floyd. This has some good and apt graphics to go with it.
Dogs of War
Someone already mentioned “I Fought the Law,” but how about another Clash tune, “Jail Guitar Doors?”
And there is a wonderful song on one of Karan Casey’s early albums called “Song of Lies.”
Or how about Dylan’s “Tweedledum and Tweedledee?”
And, for the general air of anticipation, Jimmy Buffett:
“Come Monday”
I’ll be Watching You.
dmac @ 133
hi, d. You’re not alone. I’m amazed every day.
Uh, nice segue.
If I do say so myself.
linda and oldtree @140
dan hicks–saw him last year, absolutely deserves being included here………….
xtc generals and majors
dmac @ 161
He’s the walking one and only.
And, in my own twisted way … Industrial Disease by Dire Straits.
I couldn’t find a stream so here are the lyrics. Yeah, I know, I’m out there again.
Warning lights are flashing down at quality control
Somebody threw a spanner and they threw him in the hole
Theres rumors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Somebody blew the whistle and the walls came down
Theres a meeting in the boardroom theyre trying to trace the smell
Theres leaking in the washroom theres a sneak in personnel
Somewhere in the corridors someone was heard to sneeze
goodness me could this be industrial disease?
The caretaker was crucified for sleeping at his post
Theyre refusing to be pacified its him they blame the most
The watchdogs got rabies the foremans got fleas
And everyones concerned about industrial disease
Theres panic on the switchboard tongues are ties in knots
Some come out in sympathy some come out in spots
Some blame the management some the employees
And everybody knows its the industrial disease
The work force is disgusted downs tools and walks
Innocence is injured experience just talks
Everyone seeks damages and everyone agrees
That these are classic symptoms of a monetary squeeze
On itv and bbc they talk about the curse
Philosophy is useless theology is worse
History boils over theres an economics freeze
Sociologists invent words that mean industrial disease
Doctor parkinson declared Im not surprised to see you here
Youve got smokers cough from smoking, brewers droop from drinking beer
I dont know how you came to get the betty davis knees
But worst of all young man youve got industrial disease
He wrote me a prescription he said you are depressed
But Im glad you came to see me to get this off your chest
Come back and see me later – next patient please
Send in another victim of industrial disease
I go down to speakers corner Im thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say theyre jesus one of them must be wrong
Theres a protest singer singing a protest song – he says
they wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
Theyre pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you rule brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in espana and sunday striptease
Meanwhile the first jesus says Id cure it soon
Abolish monday mornings and friday afternoons
The other ones on a hunger strike hes dying by degrees
How come jesus gets industrial disease
Ball and Chain
new thread
This is kinda OT but I’ve been bursting at the seams all week ’cause of something I found on youtube and I’ve had no one to share it with so I figure I’m gonna post it here.
I’ve been a big Led Zeppelin fan since I was a little moi and I found a gold nugget this week.
Jimmy Page @ 14
Jimi- The Star Spangled Banner
Only this one says it all:
http://www.neilyoung.com/lwwto…..ch_qt.html
david at 142 you win……..and i’m not a stones fan, but am now….
ccmask, thanks, have really enjoyed bein’ on the fdl lake shoreline.
d
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes,
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums,
Should I leave them by your gate,
Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
–Bob Dylan
How could we forget this one?
For Shame of Doing Wrong
Trident @
169
Quite right … I even HAVE that one!
I got the perfect one:
“You Can Run (We’ll Find You)”
by Matchbook Romance
Lousy lousy lousy audio examples on YouTube, but you can navigate into the link below to the “Featured Band Archive”, and download the song itself.
http://justforthefofit.com/
(great site, BTW, send them kudos for a fine job)
(I solemnly declare that I have nothing to do with the site)
((((((((lindy))))))))
((((((((linda r)))))))
new thread, am leaving, changing train of thought, love all of you more than i can say. keep on bloggin’……..after 10 years of no computer, am so elated to see what has become of the net…….keep on talkin’, people are listening…..plants seeds…and that leads to change.
barrelhse @
168
First choice for required listening for La Diva Judy, followed immediately by:
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didnt you?
Peopled call, say, beware doll, youre bound to fall
You thought they were all kiddin you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin out
Now you dont talk so loud
Now you dont seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Youve gone to the finest school all right, miss lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out youre gonna have to get used to it
You said youd never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
Hes not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it aint no good
You shouldnt let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a siamese cat
Aint it hard when you discover that
He really wasnt where its at
After he took from you everything he could steal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
Theyre drinkin, thinkin that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But youd better lift your diamond ring, youd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you cant refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
Youre invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
“Like a Rolling Stone” Bob Dylan
Judy, Scooter, Dick, Georgie, just so you know… we’ll be watching you.
Computer hiccup resulting in double post. Sorry.
I know I’m late, but I just love this kind of thing. How about…
Stop the World (I Wanna Get Off)
Liar, Liar
Folsom Prison Blues
Pressure
That’s Why the Lady is a Tramp
late in commenting but here’s a great jazz tune i think applies here – les mcann and eddie harris – COMPARED TO WHAT? trying to make it real – compared to what! dont know how to link to song tho
Marie Roget- #168 Yes! Lots of irony..
Been listening to a lot of old Dylan & other early 60’s protest songs lately- stirs the blood.
juslin @ 180
good one
here is part one
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OawoYrv9OUY
part two
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RkDmSGU37l8
“Mamma Said There’d Be Days Like This”
(another oldie)
Spin Doctors (How appropriate is that?) Little Miss Can’t be Wrong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQ2zE5RI7U
eureka @182 – i’m in your debt!! i have les mccann and eddie harris’s albums but the video is new to me – thanks – i love my fire dogs!!
The Harder They Fall — Jimmy Cliff
Stand By Your Man — Tammy Wynette
Crew Slut; Harder Than Your Husband — FZ
I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair — R&H
Do You Want To Know a Secret — Beatles
Our Lips Are Sealed – Go-Gos
Here’s a ditty of mine – I think one reason I’m so wrapped up in this trial is that, for once, there’s a possibility of someone being held accountable for something in this vile Administration. It’s just maddening to watch these people get away with literal murder, day after day – laughing and winking and daring us to do something about it…
‘Twas the Night Before Fitzmas…
…in each town and village,
A hope was held out for an end to the pillage.
An end to the theft of American dollars,
An end to the demonization of scholars.
The folks in America wished, hoped and prayed
For justice and peace to be no more DeLayed.
They longed for the day that their country would be
No longer a captive of venality.
For many a year now, American people
Have cried, “What’s the matter with all of you sheeple?
How can you just sit there and let this go on?”
But, sadly, their outrage was met by a yawn.
And those who were stealing from those who have least,
Rampaging like some kind of greed-maddened beast,
Were holding us up, shouting, “This is a heist!
So put up your hands in the name of our Christ!”
Then, what to our wondering eyes should appear
But a man speaking words that we so longed to hear:
“It’s time for the Piper at last to be paid”
And all of us happily hip-hip-hoorayed.
Indictments all round for the scum who would claim
That they’d never known Wilson or Valerie Plame
And all along, vengeance had been the sole reason
To ‘out’ our own agent, and so commit treason.
For war must be waged, and their coffers be filled -
Who cares about mothers whose sons have been killed?
Who cares for the dying, the crying, the hurtin’ -
Just look at those profits for ol’ Halliburton!
It’s time for the hammer of justice to fall;
Time we put a stop to it once and for all.
A stop to corruption, and cronies, and lies.
Let’s stop before one more American dies.
And what do I want ‘neath my own Fitzmas tree?
A Scooter, a Rover, maybe a Cheney!
“Oh, Ju-udy, don’t take your love to town..”
And for her GOP/Halliburton pals: “Downpresser Man – where you gonna run to?….You got the money but dat money get funny…