#551 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday January 7)
Good morning,
MUSIC
Last month I shared my list of the worst pop songs—songs whose tunes make you cringe and/or whose lyrics defy comprehension. I also shared some of your favorite worsts. Here are a few particularly enjoyable disasters. The first actually is strangely camp and intended to be ridiculous. I loved it as a kid, yet it seems inappropriate and insensitive in retrospect. The second, by The Captain and Tennille, is an early example of a music video, in its silliest and “syrupiest.” It’s hard to imagine this song was on the charts:
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away,” by Napoleon XIV:
“Muskrat Love,” by The Captain and Tennille: https://www.google.com/search?q=muskrat+love&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS738US738&oq=muskrat+love&aqs=chrome..69i57j46i512j0i512l8.6381j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8b82cb38,vid:KgCk3bnvO5Y
POETRY
Adam Torson sent this one and I love it. I hope you do too:
THE CHOIR INVISIBLE
O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that end with self,
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
And with their mild persistence urge men's search
To vaster issues.
-- George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible (1867)
Have a great weekend,
Glenn