I promised you a palate cleanser.


Pretty bold f-ing claim, Bottle, that Trump is a good and proper authoritarian Communist like he was trained to be....

Oh, sorry. That was one i decided not to publish. I meant that Nancy Sinatra was waaaaaay better than Petula Clark.

Yeah. We lead off with her greatest hit, Boots. Already, the horns and strings are infinitely better. Who's the dude? Oh, that is actually Lee Hazelewood. Nancy's voice is way better than Petula's, by miles. For starters, she doesn't do that weird dipthongy vowel garbage. I mean, it's all still way too uncomfortably sexualized, and it's really just a best of Lee Hazelwood album. It's like he produced it, or something... There is the duet with dad, Something Stupid (it's international daughter's day in case you didn't know), and how can you not enjoy that? 

Seriously, you thought i was joking last night, but Nancy Sinatra is fantastic. I'm obviously not a fan of real thematically relevant Country, but Nancy's occasional twang isn't at all bad or displeasing. 

Now, you all know i'm a die hard Marty Paich afficianado, but Billy Strange (you know him as the hall of fame guitarist of The Wrecking Crew) doesn't ruin many songs either. Oh, yeah! Her Bond theme is on here, and man that's amazing. Things, like i talk about. Things, like a Brussel's sprout. Thinkin' 'bout the apostrophes i like to use.....

And the cacophony of Lightning's Girl is the good kind of cacophony. A song that gets even better with the increasing inner-grove entropy of age? Surely a coincidence, but nevertheless delicious. As far as greatest hits albums go it's perfectly fine, and her voice is totally not at all like an Austin Powers sex-bot belting into the microphone like she who shall not be petted. And Nancy thinks Trump is an authoritarian nincompoop. There's a great story about how Trump was mad about how much Frank wanted for an appearance at Taj Mahal with Sammy Davis Jr. in 1990. Like Frank needed the "exposure" or some nonsense. "Loathed Trump" was the expression i think.

Anywho, the moral of the story is Pet bad, Nan good. Clear as mud?

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