Ever mishear a lyric and prefer what you thought it was in the first place? After last week's Nine Inch Nails post, I was listening to "The Hand That Feeds" and finally Googled the lyrics to learn the start of the second verse is not "What if this whole crude shape's a charade?" It is, however, "What if this whole crusade's a charade?" I liked my version better, though the correct lyrics add to the political purpose of the song in a much better way.
Speaking of music and politics, I have some interesting music-related suggestions for Barack Obama's campaign.
The first is that he should unearth Steve Miller Band and put them on his bus. At every campaign stop, he can roll them out and Steve can sing "Keep on Barackin' me, baby."
As long as we're turning his name into a bad pun, the second idea turns this into some serious political coin. If he nabs the Democratic nomination, at the party's convention in August, he should roll out the reunited Led Zeppelin: "Been a long time since I Baracked and rolled!" It'd make the donkey party get all weepy eyed and think of the time Bill Clinton helped encourage the return of the (Fleetwood) Mac.
If Eddie Vedder and Nick Drake had some secret, unlikely love child, it would be named Oren Lavie, who sounds exactly like a cross of the two of them and can be heard in this new commecial ...
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