This is a fun if inconsequential ‘89 salute to early rock ‘n’ roll staples that has gone overlooked for so long, no one’s even bothered to rip a quality copy of the thing onto YouTube.
Elton John
Soundtrack Sunday: All This and World War II
Thought you’d encountered the worst movie musical ever when Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees starred as ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ in ’78? You ain’t seen nothin’, Billy Shears — a pronouncement applicable to this misbegotten mishmash in myriad ways, considering it was pulled from theaters after two weeks in late ’76, rarely to be witnessed since.
Saturday Saloon Costume Party
They’re throwing a country costume party today over in #TheSaturdaySaloon, what with Halloween rapidly approaching. When I first heard about this masquerade, my mind immediately conjured words I never expected to think let alone type out for public ridicule:
Sleepless Dissidents: Confidential Transmission
¡ATENCION! ACHTUNG! ВНИМАНИЕ! ATTENTION!
TO: All Rebels, Disunited States of AmuriKKKa, Planet Inferno
FROM: Dix Winstanley, Counterintelligence Division
SECURITY LEVEL: 9 – Deep Classification
CODE: Mauve
Comrades,
We regret to inform you of the apparent disappearance of Benjamin Venercour.
Sleepless Dissidents: A New Playlist Series
Fellow Still-Sheltering Observers of the Ever-Raging Inferno Known as 2020: How ya been? Ah. Alive. Good. Me? Same.
Yes, you’re right: It has been a scalding hot minute since I last laid a playlist on you. I’d like to say this was my plan all along, and that the previous mondo mix — Emergency on Planet Earth, and hey, thanks, I too think it’s the best of the bunch so far — was designed to provide enough fodder to keep your boomboxes blasting through Independence Day.