https://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mttirszkds2s#MusicMonday That green-eyed monster —---------------------- “Jessie’s Girl” (Rick Springfield) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYkbTyHXwbs “Be Her” (Ella Langley) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg47eNL_Usw “jealousy jealousy” (Olivia Rodrigo) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWXIOlmms8424 Aug 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttirszkds2shttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mtbu5js7k22z#MusicMonday Words —---------------------- “Words” (BeeGees) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKyrDyvzCiI “Words” (Missing Persons) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IasCZL072fQ “More Than Words” (Extreme) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIiLvg58SY17 Aug 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbu5js7k22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3msqpqodh622w#MusicMonday Stories from the sea —- “Sloop John B” (The Beach Boys) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAoEf1Ib58 “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (Gordon Lightfoot) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV9PoWQVga0 “Yellow Submarine” (The Beatles) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA10 Aug 2026 18:21 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqpqodh622whttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3ms6mvqrg7s2m#MusicMonday Lotsa reasons ------- Million Reasons (Lady Gaga) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av99SbpsNto&t=54 (Starts 54 seconds in.) Give Me One Reason (Tracy Chapman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6hQ9HSKlIE Reasons (Earth, Wind & Fire) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJBgmoYzRE803 Aug 2026 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6mvqrg7s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mrn26nxvyc2c#MusicMonday International Day of Friendship: July 30 — You’ve Got a Friend (Carole King) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbMI4imWFzY Thank You For Being A Friend (Andrew Gold) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEgCKzves You’re My Best Friend (Queen) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZpZQG2z1027 Jul 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrn26nxvyc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mr3g7ziuwc2j#MusicMonday IT’S NOT YOU; IT’S ME ———————————— Different Drum (The Stone Poneys) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9qsDgA1q8Y Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl) (Looking Glass) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVx8L7a3MuE You Gotta Sin To Get Saved (Maria McKee) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGwwEJ_R16E20 Jul 2026 13:40 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3g7ziuwc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mqjsmmwmxs2e#MusicMonday Early-rock-era female (early girly?) artists with songs that have rhyming-word titles Stupid Cupid (Connie Francis) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aurUAUEMVhs Tall Paul (Annette Funicello) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUD5AEyqnk My Guy (Mary Wells) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTRQily9HQ813 Jul 2026 13:34 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjsmmwmxs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mpyi3s6um22y#MusicMonday Boston M.T.A. (The Kingston Trio) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tc1GUXxr2o Dirty Water (The Standells) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpSIRqvx5us Massachusetts Avenue (Amanda Palmer) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cYbFZpbwgg06 Jul 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpyi3s6um22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mpgmqltmx223#MusicMonday 3 for the 4th (I’m a) Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKeYS1P9j1c Saturday in the Park (Chicago) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mnw9uiYggU Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPhWR4d3FJQ29 Jun 2026 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgmqltmx223https://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mov2er7fck2a#MusicMonday . . . and from the youngins to the elders . . . Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A Papa Don’t Preach (Madonna) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G333Is7VPOgdpx Prisoner Of Society (The Living End) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVtD4qMy5Hc22 Jun 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mov2er7fck2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3modfirwq7k2p#MusicMonday From the elders to the youngins . . . Father And Son (Cat Stevens) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjTC0bmKls Forever Young (Pretenders) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YocAdMSnCAg Yakety Yak (The Coasters) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRA3majpFXI15 Jun 2026 13:33 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3modfirwq7k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mnrtomeucs23#MusicMonday I’ll call you. —--------- 777-9311 (The Time) - https://youtu.be/pijr8s8ZraM?si=FW4wkMNK-_ZFnHL3&t=180 (starts three minutes in) 867-5309/Jenny (Tommy Tutone) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WTdTwcmxyo ECHO VALLEY 2-6809 (The Partridge Family) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP6HtTcYXuE08 Jun 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrtomeucs23https://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mna7y6qxis2w#MusicMonday 2 songs w/ same theme. When I hear the first, I think, “How romantic!” When I hear the second, “What a superficial prick!” What do you think? —--------- Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b78RfUCw_fU The Lady In Red (Chris De Burgh) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxQa4O7Z_k01 Jun 2026 13:51 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mna7y6qxis2whttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mmoqixqe3s2a#MusicMonday Idealized futures I.G.Y. (D. Fagen)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg This Used to Be the Future (Pet Shop Boys w/ P. Oakey)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWiA5SgNIo 50 Years After The Fair (A. Mann)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnO-kV8h3s Newsreel: 1939 World’s Fair- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcfgvzwaDHc25 May 2026 14:58 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmoqixqe3s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mm54pfjme225#MusicMonday Just Dancin’ --------- Dancing Machine (The Jackson 5) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXRXmDoi1jc Dancing In The Street (Martha & The Vandellas) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3SwAiAQvs Vogue (Madonna) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJQSAiODqI18 May 2026 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm54pfjme225https://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mllghnxlts2b#MusicMonday Do I have to spell it out for you? -------- L-O-V-E (Nat King Cole) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K65GpBxsdY Gloria (Them / Van Morrison) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xns3lMWlgWs Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BKKaKT_dtM (I’m leaving out what’s perhaps the most obvious one)11 May 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllghnxlts2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mkzwlvscys2o#MusicMonday In the section about Lucinda Williams in NYT’s “30 Greatest Living American Songwriters” (tinyurl.com/LWsection) were 5 essential songs. Here are 2 I would have suggested: “Side of the Road” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IZSZbe9110 “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgnnrZfoZS0 https://tinyurl.com/LWsection04 May 2026 14:56 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzwlvscys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mkibf4xrek2z#MusicMonday “Hands off, biotch!” “Tennessee Waltz” (Patti Page) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVsJsooSN2Q “Jolene” (Dolly Parton) - https://youtu.be/CPr0IpYzNv8?si=Kg6JIo2P_IBGbQNu&t=33 (until 3:10) “Jolene” (White Stripes) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlULkwhgrc27 Apr 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkibf4xrek2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mjwnzqloac2m#MusicMonday Smokey tears. ------------- “Tears of a Clown” (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsI-DB-25e8 “Tracks of my Tears” (Smokey Robinson & The Miracles) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwkZrj2VT4 “Tracks of my Tears” (Linda Ronstadt) - https://youtu.be/OYLSvXYp_5U?si=MCKFqtB0ovAMYzPe&t=1720 Apr 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwnzqloac2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mjf2e34xmc2e#MusicMonday FAME. Two perspectives. …. “What’s your name?” “Fame” (D. Bowie) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTmiXByd5Qc (Fun fact: John Lennon co-wrote this with Bowie and one other person; he also contributed some backing vocals.) “Remember my name!” “Fame” (I. Cara) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChhCpSVrjvU13 Apr 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjf2e34xmc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mitga53pus2u#MusicMonday What are **you** doing this afternoon? …. “Liquid Lunch” (Caro Emerald) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUV2GPas4aY “Afternoon Delight” (Starland Vocal Band) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JtCA0esyOU06 Apr 2026 13:57 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitga53pus2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mibsdsh7fk2w#MusicMonday A few tributes. …. “Sir Duke” (S. Wonder)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETFvmkIA6S4 “Vincent (Starry Starry Night)” (D. McLean)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3DUsxOIZi4 “Candle in the Wind” (E. John)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYU3F8uUGiw “Candle in the Wind” (4 Princess Di)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg_MIysNGIU30 Mar 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibsdsh7fk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mhqbuv54ds2r#MusicMonday It’s my birthday week so I’m indulging myself in some of my favorite songs. It’s also the week of the next No Kings event. This song/video covers both. …. “Don’t Dream It’s Over” (Crowded House) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXzis29vA6k23 Mar 2026 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqbuv54ds2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mh6ltdxcg22l#MusicMonday Tabloid and sensationalist media: fuck ‘em. …. “Dirty Laundry” (Don Henley) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgJgTL5JmE “Goody Two Shoes” (Adam Ant) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns16 Mar 2026 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6ltdxcg22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mgn2xzlkck2x#MusicMonday Two songs about birdies leaving the nest from the perspective (mostly) of those left behind. The second song’s lyrics are especially vivid. “She’s Leaving Home” (Beatles) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBPY78D88g “Only a Dream” (Mary Chapin Carpenter) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpFcEduzyk09 Mar 2026 14:29 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgn2xzlkck2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mg3ip6nwl22m#MusicMonday Getting lost in the shuffle. Harlem Shuffle – Rolling Stones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNay5FkfonE Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7Ca_s1GgU02 Mar 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3ip6nwl22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mfjtyz3a2k2h#MusicMonday A recent earworm. Gotta get me one of those sparkly jumpsuits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glLkNo60t3w23 Feb 2026 14:21 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjtyz3a2k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3meydjenc722g#MusicMonday Two jazzy contemporary ladies. Lady Gaga, “Get Happy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r82VOnNg_5w Billie Eilish, “Fever”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U0Uu1CZ1uQ16 Feb 2026 15:11 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3meydjenc722ghttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3megolwxwec2v#MusicMonday 🎶Songs from a legendary romance. 💕 “Oh Yoko” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J5QnNV09i8 “Woman”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU3Db-8y_0o “Dear Yoko:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7htvdqzp6gY (I don’t know whether or not Yoko wrote or created anything for or about John.)09 Feb 2026 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3megolwxwec2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/smartia.bsky.social/post/3mdv7duc7bc2aBorrowing one of the Olympics' #MusicMonday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcOQSk_cMO002 Feb 2026 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:mu2xsjqf7ri6o7ea7fpq6o2m/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdv7duc7bc2a