At the end of Animal House, we are shown the future careers of the characters and John Belushi's Blutarsky becomes Senator Blutarsky. It always got a big laugh. But since Greil's 1998 piece, we've gotten 'W' and Trump. Not so funny anymore, is it?
Your criticisms are of course not unfair but for what it’s worth, the Bern song called ‘Monica’ on that album is about tennis star Monica Seles and the lunatic who stabbed her, not Lewinsky. A song about Lewinsky would probably have been better, as the extant article is not particularly good. Fifty Eggs is widely regarded by Bern fans (and Bern himself) as his weakest.
Also: his (many) songs about baseball are generally excellent, and for this native southern Californian, ‘The Golden Voice of Vin Scully’ is like a patriotic anthem.
At the end of Animal House, we are shown the future careers of the characters and John Belushi's Blutarsky becomes Senator Blutarsky. It always got a big laugh. But since Greil's 1998 piece, we've gotten 'W' and Trump. Not so funny anymore, is it?
Your criticisms are of course not unfair but for what it’s worth, the Bern song called ‘Monica’ on that album is about tennis star Monica Seles and the lunatic who stabbed her, not Lewinsky. A song about Lewinsky would probably have been better, as the extant article is not particularly good. Fifty Eggs is widely regarded by Bern fans (and Bern himself) as his weakest.
Also: his (many) songs about baseball are generally excellent, and for this native southern Californian, ‘The Golden Voice of Vin Scully’ is like a patriotic anthem.
God, you’re so fucking cool I want to puke.
I was just thinking about the state of “folk music” in this day and age. Your late Nineties view shows that it hasn’t changed much.