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The song is from 1979 -- the penultimate year of Carter. Of course those were bad times for the US and I remember them well. I chose to escape to Italy for the summer and for part of the fall -- so long that I missed the registration deadline at UW-Madison and had to sit out a semester working full time. But enough of that.

This song goes out to all the old-enough-to-vote-but-dumb-enough-to-vote-for-Carter people. We know who we are. We missed the Reagan bandwagon.

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From my personal collection of political buttons

It's 1972 all over again with Sanders as McGovern and Hillary as Nixon, so here's a great song from 1972:

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Lyrics after the jump. Go on, test yourself. Did you really know 'em all these years?

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That's Jackson Browne's song sung by Glenn Frey  (1948-2016). RIP

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Talking sex with cavemen:

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Ex-Congressman Dares Loretta Lynch To Arrest Him

Former Congressman Unleashes on Attorney General in Rant Against Islam: ‘Go Ahead and Prosecute Me. I Dare You.'

You go, Joe Walsh

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Now we know what bagoh20 did for a living before he became a captain of industry.

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Overheard at Lem's:

bagoh20 said... 

I don't need her to abandon her religion and start twerking to Charlie Daniels... 

November 15, 2015 at 4:52 PM

Huh?

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Despite his self-inflicted demise, I always thought band leader Toy Caldwell's story compelling, and atypically American for its time and place.

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Great guitar, bass, and drums in that track, as well as the vocals. I never got people's animus towards Rod Stewart. He seems like a straight-up guy to me. And so what if he had a taste for hot women...everybody did it (EDI).

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The song starts with a heartbeat, in honor of Lem.

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I've loved this song since it came out.

A friend once remarked how he liked it because he could really hear the other band members. That was intentional, I think. The whole point of "Quadrophenia" was to play on the one-in-four, four-in-one theme. If you listen closely, you can hear how Pete Townshend slowly factors his guitar out of the song to "reveal" the others. In the first verse (not the chorus) he plays clipped chords; in the second verse, his chords are even more clipped; by the the third verse, he's gone completely, leaving us to wonder just who is leading the band!

It must have been like herding cats to lead The Who. There probably never was a better collection of accomplished rock musicians together on one stage. And this was Keith Moon's best drumming! Three years later in 1976, he already looked and sounded exhausted to me. He was dead a few short years after that.

Townshend really lets them shine in this song, but he herds them together around the 4 min 25 sec mark before they all splinter off again. Still amazing.

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Seen on Hawaii:

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Lem is on the road tonight. This is a favorite "road song" from my youth. It's also an attempt to synch a video to a familiar version of an early 1970's Deep Purple song.