1. Don’t Stop Me Now
2. Au Revoir Trump Kennedy Center
3. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?
4. Where Have All The Musicians Gone?
5. I Didn’t Shake The World Today (Burt Reynolds cover)
6. My Health Is What I Tell People To Say It Is
7. Handshake Blues
THE BOYS OF DUNGEON LANE is alright, not great—par for the course of late-period Paul McCartney solo albums. Due to Sir Paul’s now-advanced age, Paul-does-no-wrong fans are being extra protective and sticking their collective fingers into pairs of ears worldwide.
DUNGEON LANE was hyped as McCartney taking an album-length look at his childhood/early teen years in Liverpool. Less than half the album is devoted to this subject matter. The rest includes standard love songs, two musical numbers apparently created for the now-dormant IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE musical, the okay intended-for-live-performances Come Inside and a thankfully non bombastic closing song Momma Gets By, a distant cousin to Lady Madonna which digs a little deeper lyrically than most of what precedes it.
Andrew Watt, who’s now his generation’s answer to Don Was in the 90s (producer who tries to make heritage acts modern-friendly), produces sympathetically, with nods to Rick Rubin, Jeff Lynne and 60s George Martin—plus recording Paul’s voice to obscure the upper register quaver now unavoidable in his live shows.
Here’s my Spotify playlist of Paul looking back on his youth:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/067gJQ0mMOoErDKld0jFqs?si=l9vcLB5HQNawpzZeU6dgAQ&pi=R2rXk8S_Q9qct
is he FBI or an influencer in Fed’s clothing
let’s put aside the alcohol and Olympics fanboying
go right to Pearl Harbor where government employees
people doing hard jobs, writing to loved ones on the mainland
soldiers/sailors who died and are permanently entombed
and in the great beyond, they shake their heads wondering why
this unqualified clown is snorkeling where their remains lie
carry that photo like a shield
default to the dream to avoid reality
stuck in a war you can’t end easily
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when did you buy the White House
when did you rename it D.C. A Lago
why are you so vain feckless destructive
will this extravagant ballroom display
TRUMP in golden neon on the roof
six injustices danced their mess around
Inside chambers of not so Supreme Court
dig up and reanimate Jim Crow
Roberts and his Feckless Five ruled for disorder
Clarence pulled up the Black vote ladder
Trump Court saying this is what it is now
we made it harder to fight
what you mere citizens believe isn’t right
His majesty comes from Great Britain
To take the other king to school regarding checks and balances
What power is and isn’t
What democracy should be
The American would be king rudely walks in front of the British king,
The British king, hangs his head, hangs his head (of course Mr. Trump would do that to me)
Everybody, in America, watches the King's Congressional Speech
Wherever they choose: CSPAN, news channels,
We’re so glad to have a respite from the false American king and his bloviating
Plus his urge to use the Correspondents Dinner as the jaw bone of vengeance
While the rumor of possible Secret Service friendly fire isn’t a subject
Making an impact inside the minds of the journalists
Covering the real king and the faux king. at the wonderful state dinner.
1. JESUS CHRIST POSE (Soundgarden cover with altered lyrics)
2. IF I WAS THE POPE (Bruce Springsteen cover with altered lyrics)
3. HOW GREAT I AM
4. I’VE KNOWN NO WAR ((The Who cover)
5. JESUS HE KNOWS ME (Genesis cover)
6. JACOB’S LADDER (Bruce Hornsby cover with altered lyrics)
7. I’M NOT JESUS, I’M JUST A DOCTOR
8. WALKING ON THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
9. CRUCIFIED BY THE MIDTERMS
here until elsewhere
here until taken there
make something work
while you have the chance
get something done
better than wishing and wanting
visit the old places
be happy with the good memories
go somewhere new
keep your faculties alive
don’t believe everything’s behind you
and there’s nothing left to do
but dissipate in ritual silent regret
while you still can
make the best of
the here you have
before elsewhere whisks you away
