TOXIC TUESDAY. (A Tribute To Mike The Knife)
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.........Mike The Knife used to post some fabulously acerbic reviews of some of the aural detritus of this music culture we love so much. With a sharp wit & humorous turn of phrase Mike had me laughing out loud sometime as he demolished sacred cows such as Zager & Evans' "In The Year 2525".....or any other sacred cow caught in his crosshairs.
.......and so...for this Tuesday only....as a tribute to Mike..........I give you Graham Nash with his impossibly sappy "Military Madness"............I know what you're thinking....Its not fair.....Impossibly Sappy is Graham's calling card (heck, the man could make pollyanna seem like a hardened cynic) & to single one track out for special scorn is mean. You're right
MILITREE MADNESS
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Comments (21)
Not crazy about the arrangement, but the lyrics aren't that bad. Funny how much WWII affected a generation of English musicians, more so than in America. (Yes, I am old enough to remember VJ day, but we had it easy compared to post-war England.) Love your new avatar, wish I was technically sophisticated as y'all.
I not touching this post or BerkelyBob's comment about your technical sophistication... LOL
Bob. I have never been called technically sophisticated before. & with damn good dreason. LOL.
Inrumford.......We can Chaaaaaaaaaaaaange the world.
Where did Mike the Knife go, anyway?
He must be honing his skills somewhere. (nyuk nyuk)
he's in de-tox :-)
oh! No Way! Mike is as clean as I
exactly!
Yeah, he's getting clean....in the dishwasher. (Groan at myself!)
I'll see your groan & raise you an eye-roll
Bob has a good point. It's a simple tune, but the arrangement did not have to be out of the EZ Method guitar book. Maybe someone could cover it with a more intimate, less bouncy halo.
Bones: I guess nobody's prefect. And "for good dreason." Speaking of being clean, a skeleton walks into a bar and says, "I'll have a beer and a mop."
Southbound train (I don't know the title) has powerful lyrics and an understated melancholy. I liked how Leo Kottke sang, "Louise rode home on the mail train."
Oh, I get it, Rummy! de-TOX as in Toxic Tuesday! I was a little slow on the up-take, there. A pointed comment, indeed.
"We can change the world" Wasn't that Obama's platform?
Mike drops by Orphans from time to time, so he's still part of the community.
I heard the track a while back, and I've read one former soldier referring to himself as a "political prisoner of FDR" during World War II. Then there's that "military-industrial complex" warning issued by that peacenik, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, after he'd finished his presidential tour of duty. Instead of Graham Nash, I'm grooving to the scat+songs of Esperanza Spalding, who disappointed Justin Beiber fans at the Grammy awards. Imagine that, a multi-instrument musician with a fabulous voice who was doing much more than JB when she was 16, putting that teen idol down. It's more than enough for a congressional investigation by the TEA party folk!
ROTFLMAO. I know nothing of the grammys..who won...who lost...who cares?
"Then there's that "military-industrial complex" warning issued by that peacenik, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, ......."
.......He was a peacenik....His political posturing as commander of Allied Forces cost many thousands of lives. But over all he was pretty good....as a General.
....But i truly believe the twenty-first century is more endangered by the "politico-infotainment" complex.
We can wish that everyone would just get along. But it won't happen in our lifetime...or our children's...or our children's children's children's.
and as long as there are beasts in the jungle...i wanna be the baddest.
You missed seeing Dylan on the Grammys doing a version of Maggies Farm? He's at the end of this medly of artists you may have heard of.
I know from time to time there are acts on the grammys that i'd like to catch..............but...overall
Agreed. I ff through most of it, but I watched this part to see Dylan. It's better the 2nd time around.
Not the best Dylan, but not the worst. He doesn't do well in large group sing-along things. The rest of the performers--meh. An act not on the Grammys, but deserving of it is the incomprable Jerry Swamp Dogg Williams--I was listening to his scathing "They Crowned an Idiot King". He was not talking about Obama, and DMDM won't like it.
LOL. I have that song Bob. Its funny. I'm a Swamp Dogg fan from way back. One cannot blame him for throwing meat to his (meager) base. Maybe he thought he could corral the "tolerant crowd" who would never countenence "hate Speech".