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Three Songs from Decades Ago that Fit Our Current American Climate Perfectly
What was old is new again
If you follow me with any regularity, you’ve probably noticed that I have been ranting more than usual lately. It hasn’t been an intentional trend, it’s simply a case of impending poverty, nonstop political coverage on every media outlet, and two cats being even more demanding than usual wearing me down. Rants keep me sane (it’s no accident that I am an editor for the Blow Your Stack publication).
For this week’s edition of Rate-A-Record, I wanted to change all that by giving you three songs so upbeat that you couldn’t help but smile and so sweet you’d get a cavity simply listening to them. I’m talking songs like “I’m Into Something Good” by Herman’s Hermits and “Daydream Believer” by The Monkees. I even listened to both of these on repeat, hoping that they would lift me out of my current events-fueled rage.
Silly, silly, stupid Paco.
You probably could have told me before I even started that this wasn’t going to happen, and you would have been right. Instead, I offer three angry songs from bygone decades (two from the 1960s and one from the 1980s) that fit life in America today so well that the artists have proven more prophetic than Isaiah and Jeremiah combined. On the plus side, the songs are…
