The Beachwood Playlist Affairs Desk
Who knew so many people were interested in the crappy snippets of music played on Chicago Tonight? From the program’s Frequently Asked Questions:
Posted on July 31, 2006
Rock A Billy Goat
By Don Jacobson
What is the meaning of this strong connection between goats and bars in Chicago? I have detected new evidence of the curious goat/tavern karma here. As if one all-too-popular bar that fetishizes the animal isn’t way more than enough, now there’s another popular watering hole in town that’s sporting a thing for horned ruminants.
Posted on July 31, 2006
Jerry “Iceman” Butler: Love’s on the Menu
By Mick Dumke
The Cook County Board’s been on our minds lately, so I considered it great fortune when I found a bargain-bin record the other day by my favorite soul-singing commissioner, Jerry “Iceman” Butler. Since Butler has now had a long career as a Regular Democratic Party loyalist, it’s easy to forget that, as a founding member of the Impressions and through his solo work, he’s one of the most influential soul artists in history.
Posted on July 23, 2006
Chicago In Song: Hater’s Paradise
By Don Jacobson
As we have seen in earlier installments of Chicago In Song, when it comes to our city’s treatment in popular song lyrics, there seems to be a hate-hate relationship going on. Why do they hate us? Why? We’re not really such a simmering hellhole, are we? If you judge by these common-man poets, that’s just what we are. This time around, we’ll look at a song that comes right out and tells us we’re crap; one that bemoans friends getting killed; one that associates the city with Big Brother mind-control; and one that actually kind of gets it right.
Wow. Had to look around some for that.
Posted on July 23, 2006
13 Anthems
By Tim Willette and Natasha Julius
And the flag was still there.
The Alphabetically-Spangled Banner
Air and and and at
banner bombs brave bright broad
bursting by can dawn’s does
early fight flag free gallant-
ly gave glare gleaming hailed
home in land last light night
o o o’er o’er of of
our perilous proof proudly
ramparts red rockets say
say see so so stars star-
spangled still streaming
stripes that that the the the
the the the the the the the
the there through through
twilight’s was watched wave we
we were what whose yet you
Posted on July 1, 2006