You’ve waited so long I can no longer disappoint you. I’ll be back on the radio — public radio, that is — this morning at 9:05 a.m.
With me will be my faithful sidekick, Andy — you know, like Andy Devine. Jingles. Wait for me, Wild Bill? I guess you’re too young.
Anyway, I think we’ll be talking about a TV show from the night before. Whatever. Just as long as it’s not a pledge drive.
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Another headline from a late 1970s-early 1980s song. Can you do the Pretenders or Tom Petty next? Or how about the Jam?
Good ones,Gary,I wanna hear this;Elvis wrote it about Brad-
Poor Fractured Atlas
He’s out in the woods with his squirrel gun
To try to recapture his anger
Hes screaming some words at the top of his lungs
Until he begins to feel younger
But back at his desk in the city we find
Our trembling punch-drunken fighter
Who cant find the strength now to punish the length
Of the ribbon in his little typewriter
Poor fractured atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirates cutlass
I’m almost certain hes trying to increase his burden
He said thats how the child in me planned it;
A woman wouldn’t understand it
I believe there was something that I wanted to say
Before I conclude this epistle
But you would forgive me for holding my tongue
cause man made the blade and the pistol
Yes man made the waterfall over the dam
To temper his tantrum with magic
Now you can’t be sure of that tent of azure
Since he punched a hole in the fabric
Poor fractured atlas
Threw himself across the mattress
Waving his withering pencil
As if it were a pirates cutlass
I’m almost certain hes trying to increase his burden
He said thats how the child in me planned it;
A woman wouldn’t understand it
A woman wouldn’t understand it
A woman wouldn’t understand it
I do late 70s-early 80s songs just to try to keep you young kids engaged. Otherwise I’d do much older stuff. But “Radio, Radio” can’t be overdone; it’s from his very best album.
As for the lyrics: Is that from one of the later albums? I feel like Elvis just of lost his touch a bit, sometime between “Punch the Clock” and his partnership with Burt Bacharach, which did neither of them credit. I was even disappointed by the Brodsky Quartet (I have both of those latter CDs, to my regret). But I think he may have moved beyond his Jump the Shark stage, even though he recently appeared on “Two and a Half Men.”
When I saw him in Charlotte (“SHAH-lut”) last year, he was jamming with some of his recent stuff and it was excellent. I still need to get that CD…
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Music doesn’t provide Lee with something to get outraged about, so it bores him.
National Socialist Radio is another big chunk of pork that needs to be abolished.
You knew Lee would find something, didn’t you? Silly me, doubting him.
Brad, Don’t It Make Your Brown Eyes Blue?
Brad, what place does government radio or TV have in a nation that was established on free markets and individual liberty?
What news could they possibly be providing that is not broadcast by the for-profit media? None. Much of their programming is corny intertainment that cannot attract a commmercial audience. Their “news” is all editorialized to sustain the atmosphere of ignorance and myth breathed by liberals.
Those lyrics are from “All This Useless Beauty”.That’s my favorite album by Costello,although “This Year’s Model” is probably more of a classic.I think he’s the greatest lyricist in pop music.One of the most impressive things he’s done in the last few years is actually teach himself to read and write notated music,an incredibly difficult task.His most recent foray into classical music,”Il Sogno”,is much more enjoyable than “The Juliet Letters”.I did like the divorce song on that one,though.I think it was called “Jacksons,Monk and Rowe”.
I,m determined to get the last word on this one.Lee must hold the world’s record.
Bill, not to steal your thunder, but I just hope people like Lee never gain too much influence. The world would be bleak indeed without Performance Today and Fred Child. Sorry to be so old and irrelevant, but it’s still (almost) my favorite music–except violin. Yeah–my Dad played the violin–earned his way through college teaching it, but in spite of that, I still don’t enjoy it.
“Bill, not to steal your thunder, but I just hope people like Lee never gain too much influence. The world would be bleak indeed without Performance Today and Fred Child.”
Herb, why would the world need to be so bleak? If you feel so strongly about this why don’t you and a few thousand others get together and start your own cable channel to present this sort of material, on your own dime of course? Why do the rest of us have to subsidize your viewing/listening habits?
Herb,
That’s not “old and irrelevant” at all.I love classical music.Too bad more people don’t educate themselves about the sublime and soothing effects the great composers can have on their lives.They say that listening to Mozart can actually increase your intelligence.I love Mozart’s Mass in C minor.When I listen to that on the headphones,I feel at one with God and the universe.Happy Easter.
Complex answer, Lex, but I don’t believe in the utter goodness of American human nature like you do. It needs some government tweaking. And, since you know I come from a Biblical standpoint, I can also repeat what I’ve said before, that governments are put in place by God to hold back human tendency towards evil. Otherwise the only fare we are going to eventually get is Desperate Housewives and their moral equivalent, whether TV or radio.
I have to listen to the BBC if I’m going to get an informed, balanced view of foreign affairs, and I want to know what is really going on in Afghanistan. Or I can, alternatively, watch Brian Williams on TV talk about very little that is relevant to anybody, or Fox News show me Miss USA in her underwear.
And I might add that public radio does some mighty intense fund-raising of its own, which you would know if you ever listened to it.
Sorry to pre-empt your last word again, Bill. Happy Easter to you as well. Mozart is superb, but my favorite is still, well in high school I intensely liked Shostakovich and even Ives, but in my latter years I’ve reverted back to Bach and Haendel, especially Bach’s Oratorios. For a couple of years I preached every Sunday in a Baroque church in Germany. I miss it. Happy Easter to you as well.
I guess I “happy Eastered” you twice! Comes with old age. Or as the Germans say, “doppeltgenaeht haelt besser” — the seam holds better when you sew it twice.
Only the good governments are put in place by God to protect the weak.
Most of them are put in place by fallen men, to usurp the authority of God and of honest men over their own lives.
Herb,
Thanks for mentioning Shostakovich.I think the first movement of his eighth symphony is perhaps the most beautiful half hour(depending on the conductor)of music I’ve ever heard.