CRANKY OLD FART
WITH THE NEWS #337
• "Double agents": fossil-fuel lobbyists work for US groups trying to fight climate crisis
• Trumpian Judge restricts Biden administration's ability to stem misinformation on social media
• For the first time, US allows UN investigators to take to Guantanamo victims
• Oklahoma schools superintendent says Tulsa race massacre wasn't, um, about race
• Experts say climate change likely to increase US malaria cases
• Human adaptation to heat can't keep up with human-caused climate change
• Malaria is back in Florida and Texas
• New York City buys $90,000 in submachine guns for officers at Rikers
• Inglewood police officer arrested for narcotics trafficking
• Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader data with anti-abortion states, records show
• Trump tells women's group that Democrats want to take away their washers and dryers
• Conservatives are falsely blaming a mass shooting on trans people, again
• Trump-loving lawmaker faces legal trouble for sharing X-rated Hunter Biden images
• Republicans are losing money because of Trump
• DeSantis clings to a weird right-wing meme in chasing the misogynistic-sociopath vote
🖯 MY BROWSER HISTORY 🖯
• How the Obama administration helped kill the democratic uprising across the Middle East
• For most people living in the United States, owning a car is a necessity, not a choice
• I've reported on gun violence in the US for more than a year and I just can't get used to it
♫♬ AUDIO ♫
• Beast of Burden — Bette Midler
• Home of the Brave — Jody Miller
• Pulling Rabbits Out of a Hat — Sparks
👁 VIDEO 👁
• Peter Fernandez voices David Letterman, 1986
• Tom Hanks says he won't appear on Letterman's new CBS show
• When not-Michael Jackson performed "Clean It" in a McDonald's training video
• Mall City: A Cultural Adventure
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In the 1960s, you were either a Beatles person or a Stones person. Of course there were other bands, but if you were serious about music, you had to choose between the Stones and the Beatles.
ReplyDeleteI have always been a fan of American vernacular music which is mostly Black music of one kind or another (except country which is even still pretty white). That should have made me a Stones guy. They paid their dues to R&B and Soul and The Blues on every album and I appreciate people who whip it out and pay for the privilege. But alas, I was a Beatles guy, and bought and played their albums. I liked the Stones just fine, and Mick knew how to sing. He also knew how to cover, and when he was singing Robert Johnson, he damn well treated him as the Master. Bette Midler covering Mick is iffy on her best day with the wind at her back, and I got my cans working (speakers still broken) and she has no business singing Beast of Burden. Few people will be offended by it, so I guess it's OK, and it's your blog, but Beast of Burden should be Mick or a Black guy. It's blue-eyed R&B. Maybe Bette has a big finish that I missed.
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I was neither a Beatles guy nor a Stones guy. I liked rock'n'roll on AM radio between the banter and the commercials, but paid almost no attention to who the performers were until years later.
DeleteDefinitely remember being surprised by the Beatles Greatest Hits double or triple album, that so many of my favorites were by the Beatles.
You could say I became a Beatles guy, but it was years after the fact.
Me and music: It was mostly in the background, not something I sought out. Plebeian me.
Keith & Mick's "Beast of Burden" is about getting a junkie monkey off your back, isn't it? I like the tune and some of the lyrics, but me and heroin don't go way back, so while I like it, it's never grabbed me by the throat and gut.
When Bette sings it, it's about a woman taking some of her man's crap but not all of it. That resonates with me more than drugs, so her version is the one that's been in my ears for all these years.
Also, I never masturbated watching Keith or Mick flounce around on stage, but Bette...
Clearly you get to enjoy the music you enjoy. I always thought it was just a song about personal independence, but I'm more of a Beatles guy. It's a nice song though.
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Bette Midler is awesome, though.
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