Welcome to another edition of Songs For Saturday, my weekly posts where I share songs I like.
Today's theme is "Songs For Social Distancing".
And we're going to start off with The Police and Don't Stand So Close To Me.
It may not be the one you're familiar with. In 1986, the Police put out a Greatest Hits package and included an updated version of this track.
Interesting tidbit of trivia: the members of the Police were so pissed off at each other at the time, they did not do this video together. Any shots with the three of them together came about due to some judicious editing.
By this time, the Police had broke up but would later reunite for some very profitable reunion tours.
If you think a song titled Don't Stand So Close To Me is ripe for a COVID-19 era parody, you're right. Click here for one of them. If you don't like it, there about a half dozen more to pick from.
Since we're doing everything online now, this seems like as good a time to post this quirky little number, Digital Witness by St. Vincent.
I'm not sure exactly why I like this song. But I do.
Defining my taste in music is not so easily grasped.
Next up, The Black Keys with Lonely Boy
Defining my taste in music is not so easily grasped.
Next up, The Black Keys with Lonely Boy
A lot of us are dancing by ourselves these days.
The guy in the Lonely Boy video was only supposed to be a part of the planned video but he was so captivating, the band just went with this guy dancing for 3 minutes.
The guy in the Lonely Boy video was only supposed to be a part of the planned video but he was so captivating, the band just went with this guy dancing for 3 minutes.
From one video of a man dancing by himself, let's go to another with Christopher Walken cutting a rug by his own damn self to Weapon of Choice by Fatboy Slim
And I think we'll wrap this with the late, great and still very much lamented Warren Zevon with the aptly titled Splendid Isolation.
Well in these days of the coronavirus pandemic and our social distancing to contain the spread of the disease, here's hoping you can at least make your isolation splendid.
That's that for today's Songs For Saturday. Until next time, stay safe, be good to one another and always keep the music alive.
That's that for today's Songs For Saturday. Until next time, stay safe, be good to one another and always keep the music alive.
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