Thursday, November 06, 2008

An Early Clue to the New Direction (First Obama Era Edition)

From 1971, here's extremely poor man's Crosby Stills and Nash the insufferable America with their evergreen annoyance "A Horse With No Name."



I believe the late great comedian Richard Jeni said it best: "You're in the desert. You got nothing else to do. Name the freakin' horse!"

In any case, as always, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
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14 comments:

  1. Anonymous11/06/2008 2:30 PM

    sort of like paul mccartneys "someones knocking at the door someones ringing the bell , someone knocking at the door ,someones ringing the bell" let the guy in for cryin out loud !!! lol

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  2. ms. rosa11/06/2008 4:35 PM

    Bands or songs that make reference to the United States of America and/or its territories?

    Man, is everybody still out partying or what?

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  3. Anonymous11/06/2008 4:54 PM

    Songs about animals.

    ROTP(lumbers)

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  4. Kid Charlemagne11/06/2008 5:13 PM

    Songs about plants and birds and rocks and things?

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  5. ms. rosa11/06/2008 6:03 PM

    Rock, paper, scissors?

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  6. steve simels11/06/2008 6:16 PM

    None of the above, but it does have something to do with the lyric.

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  7. Anonymous11/06/2008 7:07 PM

    Songs with painfully ungrammatical lyrics?

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  8. TJWood11/06/2008 9:43 PM

    Most stupid lyric lines in post-Elvis Pop/Rock songs? (In this such case, "The heat was hot")

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  9. steve simels11/06/2008 10:13 PM


    tjwood said...
    Most stupid lyric lines in post-Elvis Pop/Rock songs? (In this such case, "The heat was hot")

    11/06/2008 9:43 PM


    That line is the clue.....
    :-)

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  10. TMink11/06/2008 10:19 PM

    songs concerning temperature?

    Trey

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  11. Anonymous11/06/2008 10:32 PM

    Randy Newman once said this song was about a kid who thinks he's taken acid.

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  12. steve simels11/06/2008 11:01 PM


    tmink said...
    songs concerning temperature?

    Trey

    11/06/2008 10:19 PM

    Close enough!

    Your coveted No-Prize is coming at you by paramecium sled as we speak!!!!!

    Hope this takes the sting out of the election my friend!!!!
    :-)

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  13. steve simels11/06/2008 11:03 PM

    dave lifton said...
    Randy Newman once said this song was about a kid who thinks he's taken acid.

    11/06/2008 10:32 PM

    And originally this was going to be a clue about drug songs until I checked and found I had already done that list a few months ago.
    :-)

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  14. TMink11/07/2008 9:34 AM

    Steve, the kindness of my progressive friends took care of that sting! I promise to return the favor by supporting my new President with grace and polite disagreement where warranted.

    I would be all cocky about getting two in a row, but you handed this one to us after we floundered.

    Have a great weekend you guys!

    Trey

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