# best song (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover best song. Page: Feed: --- ## [What’s yr take on Cassavetes?? Songs about THE movies](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/whats-yr-take-on-cassavetes-songs-about-the-movies-2/) _2026-08-22 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ One of my few attempts at songwriting, “Gregory Peck” praised the actor for wearing pressed suits, his kind mien, and his dullness. The last point mattered to twenty-year-old me: I wanted a big, courteous, pretty guy with whom I’d enjoy an open relationship while meeting in his library for port and a debriefing. Film has \[…\] ## [I turn on my computer: Songs about Technology](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/i-turn-on-my-computer-songs-about-technology/) _2026-08-22 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ The extent to which rock critics skew left-liberal is inversely proportional to their attitudes about technology. I still chuckle over Anthony DeCurtis’ review of Big Country’s debut The Crossing (1983): Here’s a big-noise guitar band from Britain that blows the knobs off all the synth-pop diddlers and fake-funk frauds who are cluttering up the charts \[…\] ## [Tickets Not Streams](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/21/tickets-not-streams/) _2026-08-21 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ All the focus is on streaming numbers when it should be on how many tickets you can sell. Pop music is a highly-promoted arena based on a single song, which may stream prodigiously, but that does not mean the act has any fans. Fans are made live. That’s where the bond is sealed. For nearly \[…\] ## [Do You Play A Musical Instrument?-SiriusXM This Week](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/21/do-you-play-a-musical-instrument-siriusxm-this-week-2/) _2026-08-21 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Tune in August 22nd to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. Phone #: 844-686-5863 If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz ## [The gangrene of toxic parents](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/the-gangrene-of-toxic-parents/) _2026-08-21 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Celeste Marcus’ column “Cutting Your Parents Off Isn’t the Answer” has kicked around on social media since it went live at the beginning of the week. As Bryan Ferry sang, you can guess the rest. A self-described lesbian and a member of a “politically conservative Orthodox Jewish community” with robust pro-Palestinian views, Solomon shares a \[…\] ## [Truly Wordless Comics Panels](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/truly-wordless-comics-panels-b15) _2026-08-21 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ Electric Safety from A to Zap (1972) ## [Think Small](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/20/think-small/) _2026-08-21 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Don’t sign with a major label. Unless you make broad-based pop or mainstream hip-hop (country is a world unto itself, with its own rules). That’s all they’re interested in. They’re equivalent to NASA. They plot endlessly for rare moonshots, they’re not interested in suborbital journeys, they want to bet it all, play for keeps. And \[…\] ## [Ketch Secor-This Week’s Podcast](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/20/ketch-secor-this-weeks-podcast/) _2026-08-20 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Mr. Old Crow Medicine Show. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ketch-secor/id1316200737?i=1000784556039 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/9bcdc303-3f23-406f-8b02-a53d831acf3d/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-ketch-secor ## [The best song intros](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/the-best-song-intros/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Listening to Ron Carter’s bass part on “Excursions” for the 200th time on a plane last week, I envisaged a project whereby I looped the introductions to favorite songs, forever. Some of these below are brief. The most fraught and delicious ones (“I Need a Lover,” “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Mother of Pearl”) have \[…\] ## [Art damage: ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/art-damage-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ An ambitious queer director, Kris Williams (Hannah Einbinder) gets sent by the studio, in search of profitability for “woke,” to the Pacific Northwest to make a reboot of Camp Miasma, the title for a series of Friday the 13th-inspired cheapo horror films. Kris’ problems with the series’ transphobic presence do not mitigate her affection for \[…\] ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/doeGNoUG4PqA) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [I need to score: Songs about drugs](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/i-need-to-score-songs-about-drugs/) _2026-08-20 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Bernard Sumner of New Order and about 6000 rappers can write about the highs and consequences of drug-taking, which means I could easily quadruple this list. I listen to these tunes most because they’re catchy and their musical complements catch the contradictions in this foul behavior. 1. New Order – True Faith 2. D’Angelo – \[…\] ## [Dark Star](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/19/dark-star/) _2026-08-19 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ 1 This was not the best song on the album, but it’s the one that hit the radio first. This was unexpected. We never thought we’d get another Crosby, Stills & Nash album. And here it was. In June 1977. 1977… The late seventies were about hedonism. Not as bad as the eighties, when greed \[…\] ## [Acting With Impunity](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/19/acting-with-impunity/) _2026-08-19 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ And I thought no one was supposed to be above the law. That’s how society works. Cross the line and you might get fined, assuming you’re caught and someone has enough money, power and wherewithal to hold you to account. But what if you act in plain sight? Thumb your nose at the system, believe \[…\] ## [Dems in array?](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/dems-in-array/) _2026-08-19 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ We tried the moderate old former Republican in the 2022 gubernatorial race. We’re trying the moderate old former Republican in the 2026 gubernatorial race. Let’s try the younger Black leftist woman for Senate. It can’t hurt. I have no illusions about Florida. Treebeard’s lament from The Two Towers rolls around my head often: “It is \[…\] ## [A garland of quotations 186](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-of-quotations-186) _2026-08-19 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ Culled from the finest grinning skulls in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday ## [I won’t give up on my life: Songs about the night](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/i-wont-give-up-on-my-life-songs-about-the-night/) _2026-08-19 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. When the sun goes down, rock ‘n’ \[…\] ## [The inequities of adjunct professorships](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/the-inequities-of-adjunct-professorships/) _2026-08-18 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ I knew adjuncts worse off than me two decades ago: in the years before online courses they’d wake up and remind themselves which of three college and university campuses they had to visit in one day. Lucky enough to work in an administrative position, I regarded this part-time teaching as extra but essential money. Adjuncts \[…\] ## [The best songs about actors](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/the-best-songs-about-actors-2/) _2026-08-18 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Readers will look at the top entry and think, ‘lol wtf.’ But John Grant’s thick rattling synth jam reconstructs an actor’s image in queer form with the thoroughness of a Pet Shop Boys approach to same, and as of 4:30 p.m. EST it’s the song I want to keep listening to. The list: 1. Cornershop \[…\] ## [Eve Myles](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/17/eve-myles/) _2026-08-17 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Have you watched “Keeping Faith”? I’ll watch anything with Eve Myles in it. She’s not a movie star, she’s an ACTRESS! That’s the change we’ve been experiencing in the modern era. You hear about all these movie stars dipping into TV… It’s really about those who’ve been working on both the small and big screens, \[…\] ## [Movie Grosses](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/17/movie-grosses/) _2026-08-17 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ If I read one more story that the movies are back… You might be surprised to discover that “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” has grossed 50% more than “The Odyssey,” the supposed talk of the summer. That’s right, “Spider-Man” has a domestic gross of $785,831,670 compared to “The Odyssey”‘s $504,680,370, and “Spider-Man” has been in release \[…\] ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gIhcJzhTf6Gu) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Purgatorial: ‘Her Private Hell’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/purgatorial-her-private-hell/) _2026-08-17 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Calling Her Private Hell a bad film does me no favors because this is the kind of “difficult” film I want to defend against pedants who prefer biopics starring Judi Dench. I should have expected no less from Nicolas Winding Refn, the wannabe perv who made Drive (whatever) and Only God Forgives (Hague-level offense) and \[…\] ## [The best songs alluding to Shakespeare](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/the-best-songs-alluding-to-shakespeare-2/) _2026-08-16 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ A couple weeks after reading Clinton Heylin’s Despite the System, I needed a monthly excuse to revisit Orson Welles films. In an hour I’ll re-watch Othello for the first time since a 1992 reissue sent a bowdlerized yet accepted edition of Welles’ Shakespeare adaptation to theatres; it earned good reviews anyway. Please watch Welles’ own \[…\] ## [Dave Marsh — RIP](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/16/dave-marsh-rip/) _2026-08-16 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ If readers in 1990 lived in a small town or in a small town like Miami posing as a city, the B. Daltons and Waldenbooks at the local mail saved your life. Dadeland and International malls carried three books of rock criticism: Christgau’s Record Guide: The 1980s; The Trouser Press Record Guide, edited by Ira \[…\] ## [Ranking #11 U.S. edition: 1967-1969](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/ranking-11-u-s-edition-1967-1969/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Every time I post a rundown of hits from the sixties I have to say, Goddamn it and restrain my nostalgia, but, really, any chart with Mother Popcorn and I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) and Is That All There Is will draw attention. Immune to Simon and Garfunkel, I placed Scarborough Fair \[ \] ## [Walk the dinosaur: ‘The End of Oak Street’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/walk-the-dinosaur-the-end-of-oak-street/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Had my screening of The End of Oak Street taken place at night instead of 9 a.m., I hope the audience would ve applauded loudly when Ewan McGregor turns into an amuse bouche for an Allosaurus. The latest film by David Robert Mitchell, director of the excellent It Follows and the unseen by me Under the \[ \] ## [Ranking #6 singles U.S. edition: 1965-1967](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/15/ranking-6-singles-u-s-edition-1965-1967/) _2026-08-15 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Because aging potbellied men ran the music biz and constituted part of the audience during the High LBJ Era, The Men in My Little Girl s Life exists. It so happens that I was watching The Apartment with dinner a few minutes ago and Mike Douglas attitude towards women was Fred MacMurray and his four dwarves. \[ \] ## [Potpourri-SiriusXM This Week](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/14/potpourri-siriusxm-this-week/) _2026-08-14 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Movie Syncs/Best Opening Track/Best Song Not The Single Tune in August 15th to Faction Talk, channel 103, at 4 PM East, 1 PM West. If you miss the episode, you can hear it on demand on the SiriusXM app. Search: Lefsetz ## [My favorite novels about adolescence](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/my-favorite-novels-about-adolescence/) _2026-08-14 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ By necessity incomplete, this list of old, new, and new-ish favorites treat adolescence as a hinterland whose borders recklessly separate childhood and adulthood when, really, to some degree we should ve held on to medieval notions about children as young or little adults. Maybe I knew I was queer by adoring Judy Blume and especially Louise \[ \] ## [Erick the Architect-This Week’s Podcast](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/13/erick-the-architect-this-weeks-podcast/) _2026-08-13 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Songwriter, performer, producer Erick the Architect created the track featured in the Apple WWDC presentation in June. We go deep into that process as well as Erick s career in the Flatbush Zombies and Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/erick-the-architect/id1316200737?i=1000783119847… ## [Criticism in an age of discontent](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/criticism-in-an-age-of-discontent/) _2026-08-13 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Jill Mapes, formerly of Pitchfork and whom I know from Pop Conference, wrote an elegy for Brooklyn Vegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine that doubles as an elegy to an ideal: the full-time music journalist. The way I read it her essay comes across as a mea culpa for failing to consider the utility of \[ \] ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XHsFabZGeiik) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [The Von Pip Podcast – August 2026 | New Indie & Alternative Music](https://www.thevpme.com/track-of-the-day/the-von-pip-podcast-august-2026/) _2026-08-13 · Andy Von Pip · The VPME_ PODCAST : It’s been a little while, but I’m back with another hour of music, old favourites and various things I’ve stumbled across and thought, “well that's a bit good.” ## [Ritchie Blackmore Returns](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/12/ritchie-blackmore-returns/) _2026-08-13 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ https://x.com/MrGameHunter/status/2087737677885866359 Now that made me smile. I ve been reading about this all day, how Ritchie Blackmore was going to return to Deep Purple for one night only, FOR ONE SONG ONLY! It s been 33 years. Then again, this means that Ritchie played with Purple in the nineties. It s hard to keep Purple history straight. After \[ \] ## [Leave Paris in the morning with T.E.E.: Songs about trains](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/leave-paris-in-the-morning-with-t-e-e-songs-about-trains/) _2026-08-13 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ The preferred method of long distance travel for Americans and the cheapest until deregulation lowered airplane fares in the 1980s, trains dominated pop songs well into the 1990s when for example Soul Asylum earned an unexpected top five with Runaway Train. Elvis scored the first and best hit: a missive from a country within a \[ \] ## [A garland of quotations 185](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-of-quotations-185) _2026-08-12 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ Culled from the finest flea-priests in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday ## [Re-Long Hair & Tattoos](https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/11/re-long-hair-tattoos/) _2026-08-12 · bob · Lefsetz Letter_ Original article: https://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2026/08/10/long-hair-tattoos/ The original e-mail that inspired my screed: Bob . Long time reader and have enjoyed your postings so much but what is your thing against long hair on guys? I just played a big outdoor festival up here in Alaska this weekend and there were tons of guys with long hair and tattoos, \[ \] ## [The best songs about states](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/the-best-songs-about-states/) _2026-08-12 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Listening to what is to my ears Public Enemy s most powerful album, I thought about good songs in which states figure. Ray Charles sets the standard: Georgia as state of mind, like Wallace Stevens jar in Tennessee. Many of these tunes are classic in themselves. Which states dominate the imagination? California, whose temperate climes serve \[ \] ## [‘Trans-ideology is far outside of what most normal gays espouse’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/trans-ideology-is-far-outside-of-what-most-normal-gays-espouse/) _2026-08-11 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Interesting! Democrat Elijah Manley, a gay, Black and Jewish Gen Zer, faces two veteran U.S. representatives in a high-profile Democratic primary. Shevrin Jones, Florida’s first out gay state senator, and Kendrick Meek Jr., an out politician whose father and grandmother both represented South Florida in Congress, face each other in a heated Democratic primary. Self-described \[ \] ## [The best songs about business](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/the-best-songs-about-business/) _2026-08-11 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Pop music would not exist without capitalism: the business of recording and distribution, the means of production, the media in which the art gets to the people. When non-critics complain about the Death of the Album, I remind them that the sainted album relied on products (ahem vinyl) and things like radio and stores to \[ \] ## [On Nora Ephron and ‘You’ve Got Mail’](https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/on-nora-ephron-and-youve-got-mail/) _2026-08-10 · humanizingthevacuum · Humanizing The Vacuum_ Although I haven t seen a flood of appraisals, I ve read or heard enough praise for the late writer-director Nora Ephron s comedies from younger film writers and film podcasters for me to reexamine my prejudices. A spring watch of When Harry Met Sally occasioned by the death of Rob Reiner delighted me: a fizzy and still \[ \] ## [Truly Wordless Comic Panels](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/truly-wordless-comic-panels-1b5) _2026-08-07 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ Flash Comics #22 (1941) ## [A garland of quotations 184](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-of-quotations-184) _2026-08-05 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ Culled from the finest Venusians in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday ## [Hourloupe – Last Lost Word](https://culturedarm.com/hourloupe-last-lost-word/) _2026-08-03 · Christopher Laws · Culturedarm_ In February of 1800 the great Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt headed inland from the coast of present day Venezuela with his travelling companion, the French botanist Aimé Bonpland. Their quest was to explore the course of the Orinoco River and its tributaries and to solve the long-rumoured question of a connection between the Orinoco \[ \] The post Hourloupe Last Lost Word appeared first… ## [Ballad of a Summer Love](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/ballad-of-a-summer-love) _2026-08-03 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ a poem ## [Seven of the Best: Songs of July 2026](https://culturedarm.com/seven-of-the-best-songs-of-july-2026/) _2026-07-30 · Christopher Laws · Culturedarm_ 'It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends'. Taking her title from the essay by Joan Didion which closed the author's debut collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, this week Jess Williamson introduces her new album A Mile South of Heaven by way of the single and record opener 'Goodbye to All That'. The singer duly notes: Didion's essay is about leaving New York after… ## [The 200 Best Songs of the 1960s, part 10 of 11 (I'm building suspense!)](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/the-200-best-songs-of-the-1960s-part-913) _2026-07-30 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ #11–20 ## [A garland of quotations 183](https://haljohnsonbooks.substack.com/p/a-garland-of-quotations-183) _2026-07-29 · Hal Johnson · Hal Johnson Books_ Culled from the finest midges in literary history, and re-woven every Wednesday ## [The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)](https://culturedarm.com/the-ox-bow-incident-1943/) _2026-07-28 · Christopher Laws · Culturedarm_ ★★★★ (4 out of 4 stars) - Art and Gil return to the frontier town of Bridger's Wells. Known only so far as to be disdained, the young cowpokes cause quarrels thanks to Gil's combative temperament. When he learns that former flame Rose Mapen left for San Francisco at the start of spring, he begins downing whiskey in Darby's Saloon and bridles at the suggestion that he and Art might be implicated in… ## [Chloe Slater – “Mother Nature’s Killing Spree” | Riot Youth](https://www.thevpme.com/track-of-the-day/chloe-slater-mother-natures-killing-spree/) _2026-07-26 · Andy Von Pip · The VPME_ Bournemouth's Chloe Slater shares "Mother Nature's Killing Spree," the third single from debut album Riot Youth, out October 9th via Stolen Juice/AWAL. ## [Seven of the Best: Jazz Albums Not in Downbeat’s 74th Critics Poll](https://culturedarm.com/seven-of-the-best-jazz-albums-not-in-downbeats-74th-annual-critics-poll/) _2026-07-23 · Christopher Laws · Culturedarm_ A couple of weeks ago Downbeat published their August issue and with it their 74th annual critics poll of the best in jazz. The list is a lengthy undertaking in so far as it contains 62 categories, which invite critics to vote for a mix of established figures and rising stars. The headlines for this \[ \] The post Seven of the Best: Jazz Albums Not in Downbeat s 74th Critics Poll appeared first on… ## [Echo & the Bunnymen – “Brussels Is Haunted”](https://www.thevpme.com/track-of-the-day/echo-and-the-bunymen-brussels-is-haunted/) _2026-07-16 · Andy Von Pip · The VPME_ Echo & The Bunnymen return with "Brussels Is Haunted" The Bunnymen are back with their first new music in over a decade, and I really didn't expect it to be this good. Reports of the demise of Ian McCulloch's voice, it turns out, have been much exaggerated.