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.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

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

ms. rosa said...

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

Man, is everybody still out partying or what?

Anonymous said...

Songs about animals.

ROTP(lumbers)

Kid Charlemagne said...

Songs about plants and birds and rocks and things?

ms. rosa said...

Rock, paper, scissors?

steve simels said...

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

Anonymous said...

Songs with painfully ungrammatical lyrics?

TJWood said...

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

steve simels said...


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.....
:-)

TMink said...

songs concerning temperature?

Trey

Anonymous said...

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

steve simels said...


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!!!!
:-)

steve simels said...

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.
:-)

TMink said...

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