Thanks! This is exactly the kind of psychotic I love, even though it's not a holiday for me. I know you have the Tubb original of this but Neko's cover is classic: youtu.be/_ZMwOS6K7g4?... (also Big Star is in there twice I think?)

(Along with Cooke as a comparison I would add Curtis Mayfield - not as major a name, but whose style was a little closer to Cliff's, and to whom I respond instinctively in a very similar way.)

Love the idea of Reagan's portrait as the gf looking askance.

I just distinguish between humane, livable apartments and condos that are like overpriced urban-professional veal pens in the sky, which is what it feels like developers were cranking out for a decade and a half here.

Lol I was just looking up that reference to post!

Fair. This is why I said that I didn't really want to work this out here. I'd need to dig deeper to have a rounded argument. The criticisms just seem exaggeratedly backlashy to me. But I'll leave it there.

I come at it more finding the digital take on the practice of writing topical songs in real time, week to week, structurally interesting. Like Josh Johnson's weekly standup. I haven't noticed JW doing any South Park edgelord stuff, could be wrong. But also not much interested in his albums.

I was disappointed he went on Rogan for sure. I have mixed feelings about him too. Just many of the ways ppl are criticizing him seem ungrounded in any of the specific work, except that one song.

I'm confused by the proposal that this applies to anything except the Kirk song (which was a song written *that day* about not shooting people, basically). But maybe I haven't heard these right wing songs of his.

I disagree - I don't think all the songs are good, some are schticky for sure - but this isn't a productive place to get into it. At some point maybe we'll each write longer things.

You know the song is *against ICE, right?

We're part of that special group of nervous people who are soothed by listening to music that makes other people nervous.

So many overlaps. (I think I'd have to own up to ranking "Angular" first.)

Oh, he was being provocative in a totally Stephin way, and no doubt sincere on a deeper level. Stephin just never lets truth get in the way of a good stance

A certifiably insane thing to say.