Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 32 - threespires - Could have been a Contender (pg 472)

OB1 said:
Warren Zevon: “Lawyers, Guns & Money”
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I'm glad you wondered that, because though this song is oft discussed I don't think we've ever had it in a playlist?

As the dad of teenagers who sometimes find it hard to make a decision or articulate a need, it's occurred to me more than once that whatever trouble Zevon's protagonist had got himself into, he at least had the virtue of being very clear and explicit about what help it was he required!

Probably best not to hold him up as a role model though!
 
RobMCFC said:
"Johnny Law" - William Eliot Whitmore
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By and large Mrs Spires gets quite annoyed by the range of colloquial names I like to, jokingly, refer to the police as. She gets particularly annoyed when I refer to them as Babylon but that's another story. However Johnny Law never seems to raise the hackles, I suspect because she's never listened to that song.
 
Del Amitri - Close Your Eyes and think of England

Mentions and references small and seemingly inconsequential lawmaking, surrounding a significant change, that at the time had a bigger impact on our lives. And will for some time I guess. A bit loose maybe, but the topic is in there.
 
Coatigan said:
Del Amitri - Close Your Eyes and think of England

Mentions and references small and seemingly inconsequential lawmaking, surrounding a significant change, that at the time had a bigger impact on our lives. And will for some time I guess. A bit loose maybe, but the topic is in there.
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It's definitely legislative and on the basis we're unlikely to have a playlist theme dedicated to self-harm born of idiocy and misplaced hubris, then you might as well get it in on this one!
 
threespires said:
It's definitely legislative and on the basis we're unlikely to have a playlist theme dedicated to self-harm born of idiocy and misplaced hubris, then you might as well get it in on this one!
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I will say, I am jealous of @Black&White&BlueMoon Town , having not listened to Del Amitri before. Inagine finding a band like them with the amount of material there, and quality too! Oh to be in that position
 
Coatigan said:
I will say, I am jealous of @Black&White&BlueMoon Town , having not listened to Del Amitri before. Inagine finding a band like them with the amount of material there, and quality too! Oh to be in that position
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I've been listening to Idlewild all week and trying to get my review done in and around all this Olympic tennis juice and whatever else I can fit in. It's still working hours here and there's City on tonight vs. Gündoğan and Barca as well.

That is the right band, correct?

Ooops... no Judgement then. Busy, busy, busy...

(I've heard a little Del Amitri now, I just have lots ahead of me)
 
I'll put up a song that addresses the theme of "Justice" in my first selection.

Released back in 2016, this song was written by Patterson Hood and inspired after the 2014 untried death of Michael Brown, and after the 2012 Trayvon Martin shooting in Florida by that gunman supposedly "stand(ing) his ground" per that state law.

After the first murder, online references to the phrase "black lives matter" were first seen, which took on a whole new meaning by 2020's events.

Drive-By Truckers - "What It Means"
 
The version of this song from the Copperhead Road album is one of my favourite story songs and wraps up with a courtroom scene and clever use of the song title. The production on this album, and particularly this song, is so good - just listen to those gunshot drums.

"The Devil's Right Hand" - Steve Earle
 
RobMCFC said:
The version of this song from the Copperhead Road album is one of my favourite story songs and wraps up with a courtroom scene and clever use of the song title. The production on this album, and particularly this song, is so good - just listen to those gunshot drums.

"The Devil's Right Hand" - Steve Earle
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I’m going to bring the mood down with Steve Earle’s “Billy Austin”.
 
And up rolls the riot van
And these lads just wind the coppers up
They ask why they don't catch proper crooks
They get their address and their names took
But they couldn't care less

Thrown in the riot van
And all the coppers kicked him in
And there was no way he could win
Just had to take it on the chin

Could have done with a bit of old school justice in Southport last night

Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van
 
Sorry I haven’t been about lately.
I appreciate the comments about the last theme and will try to contribute to this one, but I fear I may be a little busy for quite a while yet.
 
OB1 said:
I’m going to bring the mood down with Steve Earle’s “Billy Austin”.
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There's loads of Earle's songs that fit the bill and was hopeful/thought that a couple of people would throw ones in and so glad you and @RobMCFC did.

The whole of that song is powerful but the fourth verse in particular is great storytelling.
 
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