There are two things wrong with “Centerfold,” the 1981 J. Geils Band standard. For a song about romantic disillusionment (it’s about a 20something guy who’s shocked to discover his high school fantasy honey in a centerfold of a nudie mag), it’s way too bouncy and happy sounding. The other wrong thing is the title — the song should obviously be titled “My Blood Runs Cold.”
I feel the same way about “Sister Golden Hair,” a title I could never quite get used to. Alternate title #1: “Just Can’t Fake it.” Alternate title #2: “(Can You) Meet Me in the Middle.”
Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping” should have been titled “I Get Knocked Down (But I Get Up Again)”
2:40: “You can’t win against fanatics, at least in the short term. And what we’re realizing about the woke bandwagon…these people are radicals, extremists, fanatics. They have an extraordinary set of claims, and have managed to push them, bulldoze them right into the center of our lives. And there have been no effective barricades, and six or seven years ago I don’t think people realized the scope of what was coming.
“[An oft-repeated quote is that] one day the barbarians will be at the gate, and we’ll be debating which gender pronouns to call them. It is deranging.
“People are being demanded to say things they know are not true. If you assault the things that we know to be true — like the fact that there are boys and girls, that you’re not assigned a gender at birth but you’re subjected to a sort of lottery system…there are boys and girls, of course, but if you persuade people that this is not true, that there are in fact dozens of gender permutations…you can do an awful lot afterwards. Because you’ve made people doubt things they knew to be true.
“The next stage of this is a war on the fundamentals of everything in our society. A war on our history on your past, on our past, on our foundations…and a war on white people.
“The last phrase is something people jump at, but there’s no other way to describe it now. Lots of different bigotries exist in the world but the only one that is completely tolerated, indeed encouraged in our 21st Century market, is hatred of and diminishment of people for being white.
“We wouldn’t tolerate this with any other skin color. Only with white people is this now permissible. Because white people are inheritors of the west, and must therefore pay for the sins of the west.” — Douglas Murray, author of “The War on the West.”
