Sharon invited me to participate this week, and to use a video of Ian Anderson doing Aqualung live.
Well, as much as I love Ian Anderson, I can’t use him first.
Of course I’m gonna use this guy.
“Boom Boom Mancini” may seem like an odd choice for a Feel Good song. A boxer killing another boxer?
I promise you, though, that this is really a song about getting up again, after the worst has already happened. Even after you feel responsible for someone’s death, say. Getting back in the ring is hard to do.
And of course this is why I keep Warren in my heart, always. Any other person would say “get back on the horse” or “try, try again.”
Not Warren.
That’s why, whenever I have to gird my loins I instead say “Hurry on home. Boom Boom Mancini’s fighting Bobby Chacon.”
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Great choice!
I would have chosen “Bad Karma”, because, even though the words are depressing, put to that happy tune, backed up by REM, it IS a feel-good song.
My brother and I used to sing “Boom Boom Mancini” - such great memories.
Wonderful! And of course, being divorced from a two timing boxer, I actually like the song!
Mahahahahaha.
Seriously, anything by Warren, even his last cd, is a fee good because he even made dying feel good in the sense that he was going to make that last album, and he went out on his terms.
If only he and Hunter S. Thompson had teamed up!
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I’m-a tellya, there are days when I have to fire up the Hindu Love Gods’ “Wang Dang Doodle.”
Because it is all about Butcher-Knife-Totin’ Annie, sometimes.
[grins]