Waffles Staff Picks - Trump Edition
Welcome to the Trump edition of the Waffles Staff Picks. Please remember we do not look to balance genres or purposely seek out diversity - these are
simply albums by bands that we love, and hope that you find something you enjoy as well. Note that each pick may be an individual track, or an entire
album (for the purpose of the theme). In every case, however, the entire album will be FL.
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Artist: Various Artists
Album: Our First 100 Days
If you can support the cause monetarily, please do so. We're all in this together...
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Artist: Shout Out Louds
Album: Easy My Mind
Track: White Suzuki
Trump makes some people want to shout out loud. You can just listen to the Shout Out Louds instead.
Again, I'm showing that anyone who is reluctant to making a pick because they can't relate it to the chosen "theme", just pick something anyway. Even
if you just say something like "this doesn't go with the theme, this is my protest". That's good, just get out and vote (by making a pick).
Oh actually my first pick was going to be the soundtrack for the movie, Bloodsport, which is a favorite of Trumps, and is also a favorite of mine. (i'm
not even joking there is some article about this). However, the torrent was dead.
Anyway, I've been a sort-of fan of Shout Out Louds for years, even tho I only listen to their song "impossible" and recently "walking in your
footsteps". I mean they're so good I can just listen to those and don't need to listen to anything else..
I am pretty sure I was in some store, and music was playing and I shazamed it and it was "white suzuki" and i was like holy shit i didn't know Shout Out
Louds had a new album... i guess i didn't even know they were still a band.
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Artist: Turnpike Troubadours
Album: A Long Way From Your Heart
This band is almost local for me
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Artist: Curtis Mayfield
Album: There's No Place Like America Today
Track: Billy Jack
The title and the album art say it all. But here's an excerpt from the AllMusic review anyway: "The title is intended in an ironic way, as illustrated
not only by the cover -- a grim parody of late-'40s/early-'50s advertising imagery depicting white versus black social reality -- but the grim yet
utterly catchy and haunting opening number, "Billy Jack." A song about gun violence that was years ahead of its time, it's scored to an incisive horn
arrangement by Richard Tufo. "When Seasons Change" is a beautifully wrought account of the miseries of urban life that contains elements of both gospel
and contemporary soul." The rest of the songs are all wonderful as well.
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Artist: Best Coast
Album: Best Kids
Track: Cats & Dogs
Dreaming of a less divided world.
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Artist: Yumi Zouma
Album: Willowbank
Nothing like dancing to good music to get your mind off politics. This band is from New Zealand, and the beats are dancable in a smooth disco way. Very
very nice indeed.
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Artist: Minor Threat
Album: Complete Discography
These are troubling times. Instead of focusing on the negative, return to your formative Ethic and remember what makes good people good.
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Artist: Lament Element
Album: Defrag
