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Certain Songs #2574: Superchunk – “Reagan Youth”

March 17, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: What A Time To Be Alive
Year: 2018

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One of the slyer songs on 2018’s angry What A Time to Be Alive harkened back to the 1980s, when we were all young and railing against the presidency of one Ronald Reagan, who — perhaps starting when the Dead Kennedys rewrote their Jerry Brown satire “California Uber Alles” as “We’ve Got a Bigger Problem Now” — was such a target for hardcore that my friends The Miss Alans jokingly did a song called “Reagan Sucks” that was basically four bars of speedy noise and them yelling “Reagan Sucks!!!” one time.

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Certain Songs #2573: Superchunk – “Erasure”

March 16, 2023 by Jim Connelly

Album: What a Time To Be Alive
Year: 2018

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If you’re one of those people who follows Superchunk’s official Twitter account, then you know that Mac — who runs it — wears his political heart on his sleeve. And I might be projecting a bit, but he’s a clearly a fire-breathing lefty, who isn’t afraid to engage with the world, record sales be damned. And more power to him.

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  • Certain Songs #2622: Talking Heads – “Once in a Lifetime”
  • Certain Songs #2621: Talking Heads – “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”

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