Something in the Air (Thunderclap Newman cover)

Eggnog-uration and revolution thoughts

Chit-Chat Check-In #108 • Transcript

Sharing below a cover of "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman. It’s a great song. I love the earnestness of the belief that permeates it.

There are a lot of different ways to approach the idea of revolution. I don't know if I'm prepared to share all my thoughts on that right now. But the reason I thought about this song is because it represents a counterculture, and I would like there to be more of a counterculture in today's society. I'm looking for it, and wanting it to be something that I can feel a part of.

But I feel it in my mind, and I feel it in my friends and my family. I feel a warm otherness from the general mainstream culture. And I always have felt a little bit outside of it. And that's what this song reminds me of, even though I don't co-sign the romantic notion of violence.

OxO—Jeffy

“Mark, can we hang the disco ball higher? It’s got fingerprints all over it.” | Photo credit: Spencer Tweedy

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2001 / January 15: The Minus Five opens for Wilco at the Abbey Pub in Chicago, joining Wilco for the last three songs of the set, “Modern World,” “Lies of the Living Dead,” and “I Wish I Was Your Mother,” a Mott the Hoople cover.

1996 / January 16: Down by the Old Mainstream by Golden Smog is released on Rykodisc.

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Something in the Air (Thunderclap Newman cover)