That is a great song. A lot of his newest album has overly-cutesy lyrics, and he looks exactly like Weird Al Yankovic, but it's worth it for that song and "See the Elephant".
I think the other protest song of the current millennium is Josh Ritter's "Girl in the War", although I may be overlooking one or two.
I'd pull for a combo of Weird Al, Frank Zappa and Don Imus.
I saw the performance at the AMA here in Nashville and it was excellent. The crowd was very stoked that he won, and the song was very powerful to hear in a room that probably contained some of the people he disdains in the lyrics.
Wait, I forget, how does O-embarrassing correspond to real embarrassing again?
Posted by washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 10:56 PM
Or perhaps he just wanted to push his own embarrassing post further down the page.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:02 PM
So, how 'bout them tunes?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:05 PM
You're being harsh on McMurtry.
Though one has to admit some people might be put in mind. If they were squares.
Posted by Doctor Slack | Link to this comment | 09-27-06 11:44 PM
That is a great song. A lot of his newest album has overly-cutesy lyrics, and he looks exactly like Weird Al Yankovic, but it's worth it for that song and "See the Elephant".
I think the other protest song of the current millennium is Josh Ritter's "Girl in the War", although I may be overlooking one or two.
Posted by Cryptic Ned | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 7:55 AM
#5: Xiu Xiu's `Save our Troops' comes to mind...
Posted by Anonymous | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 9:13 AM
I'd pull for a combo of Weird Al, Frank Zappa and Don Imus.
I saw the performance at the AMA here in Nashville and it was excellent. The crowd was very stoked that he won, and the song was very powerful to hear in a room that probably contained some of the people he disdains in the lyrics.
Posted by KJ | Link to this comment | 09-28-06 4:12 PM