The other two are EPs. The Dan Bern EP is a full-band set that was recorded in Fall 2020 with all parties remote (obviously). An old favorite on there in “Butterflies,” a song from the 1990s which gets its first studio recording here. A timely song about George Floyd.
The Mangan thing is a sampler of songs from his great release, “Nice, Nice, Very Nice.”
Playing today:
Lorde, “Virgin”
Rufus Wainwright, “Unfollow the Rules”
The Divine Comedy, “Swallows and Amazons: The Original Piano Demos”
Dan Bern and the Remote Ramblers, “Shining”
Ben Folds, “Rockin’ the Suburbs”
Dan Mangan, “Robots vs. Indie Queens”
#music #lorde #rufuswainwright #thedivinecomedy #danbern #benfolds #danmangan
The Bern album is a double CD thing that he released independently (in Canada?) shortly after his major label debut album. Some of his great early songs, including a few songs that went on to be re-recorded better with #AniDifranco on his next album Fifty Eggs.
The Divine Comedy album is definitely short, but among my favorites of Neil Hannon’s. No fat on it.
Listening today:
Dan Bern, “Smartie Mine”
The Divine Comedy, “A Short Album About Love”
Gracie Abrams, “The Story of Us”
Elliott Smith, “Roman Candle”
#DanBern #TheDivineComedy #music #elliottsmith #gracieabrams
Bern has written lots of music for TV and film projects - most prominently “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” and “Get Him to the Greek,” but bits and pieces in tons of other stuff. This is one set of that music that actually got a release.
A set of very short, cute kids’ songs - many about transportation as you’d expect from the pictures, but a lot of general stuff too.
Playing today:
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show!”
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show!: Season 2, vol I”
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show! Season 2”
Dan Bern, “The Stinky and Dirty Show! Song for Sender Heart of Go City”
fun., “Some Nights”
Ben Folds and ymusic, “So There”
Phoebe Bridgers, “Sidelines”
#music #danbern #thestinkyanddirtyshow #fun #benfolds #ymusic #phoebebridgers
The Dan Bern albums are a collection of songs he recorded and submitted for the Tony Kornheiser Show (a sports podcast). Not all of them aired, apparently, but the collections are full of punchy songs about sports and other stuff which is presumably related to this show.
I don’t care at all about sports but a good sports song can be as funny or affecting as a song about anything else.
Listening today:
Lana Del Rey, “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass”
Everclear, “Sparkle and Fade”
Dan Bern, “Songs for Mr. Tony” vols 1-5
#music #poetry #pop #rock #lanadelrey #everclear #danbern #folk
The Bookie Baker song is nice. I picked up because of Bern and Shimoni. He has a cool voice - reminds me of The Tallest Man on Earth.
The Brandi Carlile album was how I discovered her, through some free MP3 of the titular single. Glad I did, as I still keep up with her.
The Duckworth Lewis Method is Neil Hannon’s cricket side project. I know even less about cricket than I do about tennis, but this is fun.
#music #bookiebaker #danbern #oritshimoni #brandicarlile #theduckworthlewismethod
Dan Bern releases:
“Tennis Songs” is an iTunes EP that is long since out of print. He’s released a longer tennis album which includes different recordings of these, but this one is a nice, folky distillation of some of his better ones.
“The Swastika EP” has a song about reclaiming the symbol. It also has a few of my favorites: the lilting “Friends” and “Lithuania,” a reflection about his family history in the holocaust and the turn of the millennium.
Playing today:
Leonard Cohen, “Thanks for the Dance”
Dan Bern, “Tennis Songs”
Bookie Baker with Dan Bern and Orit Shimoni, “A Tall Tall Climb”
Brandi Carlile, “The Story”
#music #leonardcohen #danbern #bookiebaker #oritshimoni #brandicarlile #folk #tennis
Tom is now listening to Jerusalem
https://open.spotify.com/track/2aCqeD8sJNjZ28qdhKLRdl
“Walk Hard” is full of great genre and era pastiche, and very funny. Reilly sells it, and many of the songs are written or co-written by my favorite modern folk artist, Dan Bern.
The other Bern release is a single that was released on Bandcamp back in the before-times, early to mid 2016. It imagined a world where he won the presidency and the lunacy that ensued. It was deleted from his catalog after the absurdity became a reality.
Today’s listening:
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “Wild God”
John C. Reilly et al, “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”
Lana Del Rey, “Ultraviolence”
Dan Bern, “Trump”
#nickcave #nickcaveandthebadseeds #music #rock #folk #pop #protestsongs #johncreilly #walkhard #lanadelrey #danbern
And one more: Dan Bern w/ Jane’s Great Dane, “Starting Over”
Had this digitally since it came out in early 2024, but the CD is finally out and I rebought it. A good collection of never-before-recorded songs that I’ve known forever from live tapes and some newer compositions. I like it overall - sometimes my brain has a difficult transition to make from years of hearing a solo acoustic song filled in by a band, though.
My final love song for February's #StupidAccordionTricks, here's #DanBern's unrecorded (and very silly) #CashAndNin, an NSFW exploration into two tastes that just might go great together.
I was really hoping I'd never find grounds to play this song again, last performed twenty years ago at a benefit for Spartacus Books - the first time my name was ever on a gig poster. But the longer you live, the more disappointments the world dishes up for you. From the wild #DanBern songbook, it's #Fascist. "It's the fascist in me": your most important job in this life is to find that inner fascist and keep him away from the steering wheel.
Polyrical Podcast
Elbit | Billy Bragg
#ThaTruth #thecoup #JamieWebster #SteveWhiteandtheProtestFamily #DanBern #AllisonRussell #OurNativeDaughters #TracyChapman #billybragg #PattiSmith
#PalestineAction
Critical Thinking by Tha Truth
The message:
Jamie Webster - New Album - 10 For the People
Steve White - New Song - Just Another Day at Elbit
Palestine Action - PalestineAction.org
Dan Bern - New Song - Bible
Alison Russell - Eve Was Black, Grammy Award, Love Rising
Tracy Chapman - Country Music, Black artists, Black Opry, Our Native Daughters, Americana
Billy Bragg - Americana Award, Roaring Forty Retrospective, Sexuality
The music:
Critical Thinking (feat. D King) | Tha Truth : Music for a Better World
Land of 7 Billion Dances | The Coup : Land of 7 Billion Dances - Single
How Do You Sleep At Night? | Jamie Webster : 10 For The People
Just Another Day at Elbit | Steve White & The Protest Family :
Bible (feat. Jane’s Great Dane) | Dan Bern : Bible (feat. Jane’s Great Dane) - Single
Black Myself (feat. Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla & Allison Russell) | Our Native Daughters : Songs of Our Native Daughters
Why? | Tracy Chapman : Tracy Chapman
Between The Wars | Billy Bragg : Back To Basics
The Milkman Of Human Kindness | Billy Bragg : Back To Basics
The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions | Billy Bragg : The Internationale [EP]
People Have the Power | Patti Smith : Dream of Life (Remastered)
#Elbit #Music #PoliticalMusic #Palestine #Gaza #Americana #countrymusic
https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/p172-elbit-billy-bragg
My #radio show on Saturday falls on Jan. 20 ( #inaugurationday / "#AmericanCarnage Day" ) so I'm featuring an extended set in the second hour, commenting in song on the last 8 1/2 years of electoral #politics. Listen: 6pm ET at wrfi.org #communityradio also at 88.1/89.7 FM in the #fingerlakes region of #NewYork. Audio archive, playlist up for 2 weeks after air. Music from #CowboyJunkies #aimeemann #jillsobule #danbern #loudonwainwright #pavement #yolatengo et al. ... and #blazefoley on Reagan.
