Peter, Paul, & Mary - Album 1700


I knew i had it in here somewhere. It's Peter, Paul, and Mary's 7th album named after the Warner Brothers catalog number it was going to receive. It's got a song by Leslie Braunstein, the Chevy Chase/Pete Best, of Blue Öyster Cult's history. For those of you who don't know that story, Chevy was the drummer in The Leather Canary with Fagan and Becker (who later became Steely Dan). There's a song by some Colorado guy too, or something. More interesting is Weep For Jamie. That song is downright macabre for whatever image you had of this beloved folk trio. If you live outside of chronological time like i do, there's even a song named after Green Day's Whatshername.

Sweet Kristofferson, i just got to the Great Mandella (sic) at the end of Side A. If there's an anthem for right now, it's that song without question. 

Obviously, you're going to bring up the answering the door naked and hitting on a fourteen year old thing, and i'll remind you that Yarrow served his sentence exactly like you describe he should do without further incident, and I counter with Jimi Page, who served no time for his much worse crimes against humanity at large. 

How could you not like PP&M? Look, as soon as you bring politics into it we all lose because the liars lie about the lying they lied about yesterday, and as soon as you let the moral righteousness go for a tiny second you realize that we want the same end result and my way of accomplishing it is frighteningly quick and effective. Counterintuitively, nobody has to die, you just have to suck it up and admit that you're wrong. I do it all the time, it doesn't hurt a bit.

These lovely people are the liberal left, the building lighters on fire are totally of your own making. It is indeed the theater of the absurd. Knock me down, i just come back running, as my friend Maynard says.

Sorry, sometimes i like to just rant at the overlords (who can totally hear me). Ignore my sillyness, and enjoy Warner Brothers' 1,700th thing (assuming they started at 0001, that is).

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