Saturday Soother – December 17, 2016

Welcome to Saturday. For the rest of the year, we are going to rely heavily on music and cartoons to help get us through to the inauguration of El Jefe, our Orange Overlord. This is how Wrongo expects it will go on January 20th:

Our collective futures have been placed on hold by electing Donald Trump. His big idea is that America should return to doing what grandma and grandpa did, because fifty years ago those policies were just so darn successful.

Generals will be in charge of foreign policy, while banksters will run our domestic policy.

The lesser agencies will be re-designed to make America great again. They will be run by people specifically picked to destroy them from within. The white shoe classes are about to get free rein, knowing America will soon be willing to work for food.

And all it took to achieve this brilliant result was fooling the usual suspects, those who started following Trump when he yelled about the birth certificate, and who stayed for the yelling about the emails.

America is finally getting the government it deserves.

Today’s musical soother is no soother. It’s a Christmas partying song that pokes fun at the issues we all see when we get together with family on the holidays. Here are Dropkick Murphys with “The Season’s Upon Us”. Play this early and often:

This is for Wrongo’s Irish family, and all families everywhere!

Sample Lyrics:

The season’s upon us, it’s that time of year
Brandy and eggnog, there’s plenty of cheer
There’s lights on the trees
And there’s wreaths to be hung
There’s mischief and mayhem
And songs to be sung

There’s bells and there’s holly, the kids are gung-ho
True love finds a kiss beneath fresh mistletoe
Some families are messed up while others are fine
If you think yours is crazy
Well you should see mine

My sisters are whack-jobs, I wish I had none
Their husbands are losers and so are their sons
My nephew’s a horrible, wise little twit
He once gave me a gift wrapped box full of shit

My mom likes to cook, push our buttons and prod
My brother just brought home another big broad
The eyes roll and whispers come loud
From the kitchen I’d come home more often

If they’d only quit bitching

The table’s set, we raise a toast
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
I’m so glad this day only comes once a year
You can keep your opinions, your presents, your “Happy New Year”
They call this Christmas where I’m from
They call this Christmas where I’m from

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Saturday Soother – December 10, 2016

There are just three more weeks to go in this Trumptastic year, so you probably need a soother to get you relaxed enough to enjoy the weekend.

Since we are getting snow here at the Mansion of Wrong, try to stay warm and cozy as we remember Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer who died on Wednesday. Greg was also a founding member of King Crimson. As Matty Karas said, being a founder of those two groups places Greg Lake near ground zero in the history of progressive rock. Did you know that progressive rock has not been recognized by the R&R Hall of Fame?

So, today we listen to Greg doing “I Believe in Father Christmas”, which was released as a solo on 45 by Atlantic in October, 1975. Although most people think of it as a Christmas song, that was not Lake’s intention. He said that he wrote the song in protest at the commercialization of Christmas.

Here Lake performs it live at St. Bride’s Church, in the City of London, along with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson on flute, David Arch on keyboards, Florian Opahle on acoustic guitar, and the church’s choir:

Kind of breathtaking with Ian Anderson on the flute, along with the church choir!

Those who read the Wrongologist in email can view the video here.

Sample lyrics:

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave new year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there’ll be snow at Christmas
They said there’ll be peace on earth
Hallelujah noel be it heaven or hell
The Christmas we get we deserve

We get the Christmas we deserve…

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