Randy Newman- Political Science REACTION & REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Song Link: • Political Science (Rem...
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Randy Newman is an American treasure. He's a brilliant satirist. If you like this, JP, you should hear TOM LEHRER. He was (and maybe still is) a math professor in the San Francisco Bay Area... and he did political satire in the 60s... and it's STILL relevant. "Who's Next," "Wernher Von Braun," "The Elements" (FUN!), "MLF Lullaby" and more... Good Stuff!
I subscribe TOTALLY. Lehrer was a brilliant e artist and a wonderful person. I never met him personally, of course, but when an artist provides his entire work for free for future memory and for all to enjoy, I cannot help but put him in high level of estime.
The king of satire.
Thanks for the call out. Great reaction as always. You definitely "got" it and had insightful analysis.
Thank you Blues!😊
I’ve always loved this one, especially as an Australian - knowing at least we’ll be spared😀.
I mean, I would fear Emu retribution, there have been 2 Human-Emu wars, and the Humans didn't win either of them. 😉
@@jon-paulfilkins7820 very true - you don’t want to mess with emus. And don’t forget the drop bears!
I used to teach Political Science. This helped keep me sane!
Randy New can take his place among great American songwriters. Also, his movie soundtracks are superb (esp Ragtime). He writes with his pen dipped in venom, and has a voice like his sinuses are blocked with concrete. Love the way you laughed at this wonderful satire. MORE Newman, please!
Loved his album “Land of Dreams”. Mark Knopfler played on that album and I’m sure Randy helped to inspire Mark’s next album, “On Every Street”. Both massive albums for me.
Great choice, my favourite Randy Newman album is Little Criminals, Jolly Coppers on Parade and Baltimore a couple of great tracks.
Early Randy Newman is the best. Love it.
This whole album is hilarious and brilliant. I suggest you work your way through it all. "Great Nations of Europe" is fantastic. The title track will make you laugh... and then cry.
Good reference to A Modest Proposal. This ditty plays during the closing credits of a great comedy called Blast From The Past starring Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone. Enjoy.
Thank you for the mention, Justin! This short song is a fine example of how Randy Newman can put across a serious point, but always with dry, ironic humour! Although Newman is not the greatest singer in the world, I have somehow always enjoyed the sound of his voice.
One of my favourite albums is "Bad Love" (1999). I would highly recommend the songs, "I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It), "The Great Nations Of Europe" and "The World Isn't Fair".
Tom Lehrer, Tom Waits, Randy Newman, Nick Lowe, all fantastic with the word play and the sarcasm.
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Hi Justin. Dave from a warm, muggy London (I Think It's Going To Rain Today). Another interesting song infused with Randy's 'say the opposite of what you mean' brand of satire. Sure, he wrote some terrific stuff but like you I've never been sold on his voice. There have been some fantastic covers of his songs. Here are three of my favourites:
Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear - Alan Price (from The Animals) gives it a jazzy exuberance.
Just One Smile - many covers of this bitter-sweet ballad, my favourite being a soulful rendition by one of the great vocalists, Dusty Springfield (but you may prefer Scott Walker's more introspective version)
You Can Leave Your Hat On - by another all-time great vocalist, Joe Cocker (also Tom Jones, in the film The Full Monty)
Thanks for getting him. The perpetually offended don't.
I enjoyed the jazz of it, the sarcasm, the self-awareness. (Self awareness doesn't have to be sound. All that's required is for there to be a tendency to self-correct. It's OK if you in doing so, you deviate from the better course, and go somewhere ill advised, since it's the self-correction that matters more than the results.)
(Apropos Vietnam - being something I've managed to avoid knowing too much about, but that doesn't stop me having opinions - the fashionable "anti-war" snarkiness strikes me as having elements of kindergarten morality, and I think those who often congratulate themselves for having been so right about that situation - almost omnisciently so - the temptation is to attempt some snarky snark, here - er ...
Oh yes. Kindergarten morality. The bad bad badness of intervening in Vietnam is not so open and shut as those who "won the argument" - like this is a kind of competition - would proclaim from their pulpits. Looks to me like it had its pluses and minuses. A big minus is the rational self interest involved in not wanting to get your own intestines rearranged by N-word people who said something like "hail", and failing that, not sending your sons to also get rearranged, so, having, yourself been rearranged on some Greek isle in violent times, so the family having already done enough for world peace, duty and all those old fashioned ideas.
(This gets slightly personal. I have family who left Australia so that the sons didn't have to be sacrificed to the gods of war in Vietnam, like dad was in WW2 - even though he survived that - sort of. Abstract things like policy that chops and changes in the hands of vacillating politiicians. Trying to obfuscate is both working too well, and not well at all, now.)
When it comes to music and lyrics, this is one of the reasons I treat lyrics as optional, and the intended meaning of the writer as completely optional. A song is not a good medium of discussion. When one goes there, it feels to me like it's cheating a bit. Something like that. Taking a shortcut past all the messiness of actual life to score some playground goal in a misappropriated game. At least you never have this problem with nonsense lyrics, or words chosen for syllabic sonorous qualities.
Bloody hell. Sorry, I'm spouting mouthfuls innit? Gobbledegook, almost. Think I'll just get out while I'm behind.
Thank you for your shout, dear friend.
@@Eduardo-Ferreira1982 :D Thanks. I'm glad at least someone can tolerate me overstepping the mark like that.
@@sicko_the_ew We're all humans.
Greetings from Portugal.
I’m pretty sure this is my favorite Randy Newman song. Some much needed poking fun at ourselves.
Harps and Angels, from his most recent album. He's one of a kind.
Classic cut right here. Handy object lesson in Newman's writing style, outside the more earnest movie soundtrack stuff. Hard to mistake the narrator of this song for Newman himself, as tends to be the case; giving the assholes and lunatics of this world their own beautiful songs without forgiving them their failures seems to be his mission in life.
I just loved it!
Besides Tom Lehrer - which I hope you listen (it appears more than three times here in the comments, if that gives a bit of a pressure) - you should go back to Phil Ochs. It fits perfectly here the last lines of his "Cops of the World" :
We own half the world, oh say can you see
The name for our profits is democracy
So, like it or not, you WILL HAVE TO BE FREE
'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
We're the Cops of the World"
I think Randy recorded with Phil, by the way...
Genius.
Please, react to 'Night on Bald Mountain' by Bob James. As you liked Lucifer's Friend and that jazz-oriented style, and you like drums, this is a good choice. By the way, what an iconic cover...
Check out SHORT PEOPLE by Randy Newman 😂
'Ole Audiophile to JustJP: Last time you played Newman, I explained my wife had hard feelings about one song in particular he wrote. Then you pick this wonder for his next track. It's funny because I don't listen to him anywhere near earshot of my wife as my part of obliging my wifes' wishes for the sake of the politics involved of being married 47 years. Knuk, knuk, knuk...Thanx
The funny part of that is I recently reviewed this with my wife. I further explained something we missed about the whole issue in the first place. Randy Newman IS short of stature himself so he's ALLOWED to compose a somewhat abusive song of sorts. She was not aware of that, now she feels different. Thought she would...
Seriously. Who listens to this stuff? Can't abide Randy Newman.