"Pearls" by Sade

I was looking through my tweets from the last few days and it's frightening how much nastiness is coming from our new administration.  I thought of posting Sade's "Fear" song today.  But in checking my previous posts I posted it on July 21st of last year when I was worried about not being able wear high heels anymore.  Oh the good old days if that was all I had to worry about, sigh!

Anyway, this is another awesome song from Sade...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMg8M4HmnQ
YouTube (Vevo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfxEbZr8Tjo
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI8ppnEJVAg
YouTube (live 2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q98vhT0QhFM

"Step Right Up" by Tom Waits

I've been listening to this old record I found at Savers a week or two ago.  It's cool that this album was part of the University of Utah Library at some point.  There's a date scribbled inside the cover: 12-13-79, almost 40 years ago.

I've played side 2 several times and pretty fine.  This song starts off side 2 and it's really fun.  I discovered when I looked it up on you tube that the version on this album is a shortened version, 2:54 long.  All the ones I see on YouTube are around 5:41, so they cut out about 3 minutes for the sampler record.

The live 1977 video recorded in West (that seems so weird now) Germany is so freakin' awesome, just so crazy cool man!  His voice is so awesome!  I've always loved the quote in the Tom Waits article on Wikipedia:

Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car"

"... It makes excuses for lipstick on your collar."  LOL 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URp-Dbhr7EU
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_snSkpULQ
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z73NCyEs7-g
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGShQsxiy1c
YouTube (live 1977): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByomIJf5n9w
YouTube (live 1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rpJZQfz2no
YouTube (live 1979): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6he-jo814U

"Kiss This Thing Goodbye" by Del Amitri

I've decided I have to just get these posts done.  I can't keep up with everything going on anymore. As of right now I have 34 "Drafts", I.E. posts I've started and not finished.  There is so much going on with President Psychopath.  All these videos, tweets...

Anyway, I watched this Bill Maher monologue and he said "It's day 7 in the war on facts."

YouTube (Monologue): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQwkVgl6eHw

So I'm worried we are kissing facts goodbye...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ify_f6XoqMU
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuHIbGqFbqI
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCc4szf9Gqo
YouTube (live TV 1990): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF4-gh__hbk

I loved the joking around in the David Letterman video about "the annoying hum". 

"Quiet" by MILCK

Update 11-Mar-2017:  Added the "MILCK + Choir! of 1300 Can’t Keep Quiet!" video.

Oh my hell I hate 3 A.M.!  It is definitely the worst time of day!   But I ran across some videos by Samantha Bee that are hilarious and one of them had the I Can't Keep Quiet Choir singing this song and it is awesome!

Some of my favorite signs from the "Iconic Signs" video:

• Resistance is NOT Futile!  #PussyGrabsBack
• 90 Years a #NastyWoman
• Melania: Blink twice if you want us to save you!
• Hey Trump, you can't grab my pussy but you can suck my dick
• You haven't seen NASTY YET!
• Orange is the new WACK  (with Cheetos around WACK) #NotMyPresident
• If I wanted the government in my womb I'd fuck a senator
• (A picture of Trump grabbing the Statue of Libery's pussy)
• Trump sandwich recipe: white bread, baloney, russian dressing, small pickle

There are so many good ones!  I love it, you gotta check it out!

YouTube (official): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnexOFOxCo
Y0uTube (Choir 1,300): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cc_neVdjb4
YouTube (iconic signs): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScQ8Fr21QM 
YouTube (dance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmOj5YGs5NY
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mHGF-R-MZw
YouTube (#WomensMarch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQD9QwYC5M
YouTube (#WomensMarch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_DvGP6Y4jQ
YouTube (Samantha Bee): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pEcvteQo9g

MILCK website: http://www.milckmusic.com/
#ICANTKEEPQUIET website: https://www.icantkeepquiet.org/

The other Samantha Bee videos:

YouTube (Kellyanne): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOzQrOPrjwk

Loved the bit about "four incredibly happy Mormons gang banging one piano": "relax bro you're 4 white Christian guys from Utah, things are going to be okay for you." and "by the way in the church of Latter Day Saints it is legal for a piano to have four husbands".

The sad part is that what she says at the end is true: "dress rehearsal is over guys, the tragedy has begun!  So, as the curtain goes up on Shit Show the Musical..."

YouTube (Coronation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1AvNnJRMts

Oh, and the clip of the rhino while talking about plopping out executive orders was perfect!

"What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M.

My sleep has been... erratic this week.  Actually for a couple of weeks.  Had a lot of dreams last night...  maybe even more like nightmares.  I thought of the song "I Don't Sleep, I Dream", but it turns out I posted it almost 5 years ago on 26-Feb-2012.  But this is another of my favorites from the "Monster" album.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOLt0NrB3CU

"Don't Let Yourself Down" by Swing Out Sister

Trying to post from my phone for the first time. Heard this on SueZQ's playlist today.

Update 27-Jan-2017: Made a mess of this on my mobile.  In thinking about this song a day later, some days it's such a struggle not to let yourself down...

YouTube: https://youtu.be/NCXQSMaPcMU

"The Best Thing" by Boom Crash Opera

I know I've said this in my blog before, but I can't say it enough: being a trans-woman IS the BEST THING that ever happened to ME!!!!!!!  I've found joy and happiness that I never thought possible.

I love the "Art" video, all of the colors are so pretty!  I swear that colors are more vivid now.  All of my senses seems more intense.  It is amazing!!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQCbPbPS8E
YouTube (Art): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7pTjKavOp8
YouTube (moonscape): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7tIFquHx4E
YouTube (drone): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mexk8QrLbIc
YouTube (extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRsPGo2mP20
YouTube (acoustic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS8fWTFkpyM
YouTube (live 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-aM9gmcmIU
YouTube (live 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PKEvBG-Qfs
YouTube (Topic acoustic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omT-JhOT954