June 5, 2025: Reader Tips

Reader Tips 57 Comments

The original version of Walk Like an Egyptian was released by The Bangles in September 1986. Here’s a somewhat newer cover by the Australian group, Sing It Live.

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57 Replies to “June 5, 2025: Reader Tips”

  1. [I manually approved this comment, but this is not how you do links – maximum 2 per comment, or they are grabbed by the spam filter. – ED]

    I’m a boomer and sick to death of boomer music, the originals and covers. They were never better than OK and I have heard them 12 billion times.

    Lots of stuff happening out there that boomers and others are clueless about.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qp5z-GMr0E&list=FLIMYw8MR4rxpoloJO6O44Eg&index=4&pp=gAQB8AUB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KO6kbX-IfQ&list=FLIMYw8MR4rxpoloJO6O44Eg&index=5&pp=gAQB8AUB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI&list=FLIMYw8MR4rxpoloJO6O44Eg&index=6&pp=gAQB8AUB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNXQ6hFFbkQ&list=PLBzXDRCBz49VQ0flNmmIpHe-fG9dmjkDV&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDUdTeAQ4RI&list=PLBzXDRCBz49VD-QHbDctkraiNQnbt4f7L&index=25&pp=gAQBiAQB8AUB

    Hope I did the links right.

    1. Sweet Child of Mine … by a Polka band? Really? So … Boomer music is OK if it’s covered by a bad imitation of an ethnic band? Hey. It takes all kinds … who am I to bash your.music as you bash mine?

      1. I like the Seekers’ “Another You”, and other non-political folk hits from the 1960s

    2. Had a singalong trip down memory lane with the family and that little band from Texas, zzTop. Great fun, entertaining, and they did a cover of that C&W tune 16 Tons. And The Wallflowers opened too!
      To each their own.

    3. The only song I ever liked by The Bangles was their version of Going Down to Liverpool by Katrina and the Waves, which coincidentally was the only song I ever liked of theirs. That said, very nice to look at though.

    1. I guess it’s hardly shocking that people who promote abortion, euthanasia, the mutilation of minors’ sexual organs, secularism, multiculturalism, high taxes, homosexuality, environmentalism, green fees, paper straws, big government, Islamism, antisemitism, feminism, envy, and who idolize European social democracy are mentally unwell.

      But what’s gonna really bake your noodle is that THESE PEOPLE are running most governments and bureaucracies around the world. Yeah … Canada I’m talking about you, eh?

  4. From 1976-1979 the King Tut exhibit toured the USA. Yeah … Tut-mania was rampant. And having seen the golden headdresss … among all the other relics … it was MOST impressive. I saw it at the DeYoung museum … before they dedicated themselves to the art of disabled trans queers.

    https://youtu.be/wgTPH5y1-ZI?si=8OUOBc6bM6hIWVG6

    I’m fairly certain the Bangles who wrote this tune in 1986, got stoned one night and were watching reruns of Steve Martin doing his King Tut … walk.

  11. Woke Proctor and Gamble to slash 7,000 jobs:
    https://www.ft.com/content/a1bf888d-f5f4-4790-87a6-4afdbd906cb5

    The corporate media won’t report this, but conservative are upset with P&G’s left-wing advertising. Whether it’s identitarianism or anti-“toxic male” commercials for razor blades, people are switching to off brands to show their alienation.

    OK, another good-news story of the day.

  12. Jem and Scout,
    Walk Like an Egyptian
    in the 1962 movie To Kill a Mockingbird @ 53:10

  16. Just yesterday, I tripped across this fabulous interview with Denny Dias … my absolute favorite Steely Dan guitarist … of my favorite band Steely Dan. Why? Because he is first, and fundamentally a JAZZ guitarist. Yeah, I like Denny’s work even more than Larry Carlton’s. I adore Fusion music, and none did it better than Dias and SD.

    https://youtu.be/-QBabd3dYPc?si=L8GTP3-NWnfbkcLV

    What an amazing unassuming man. And I had no idea how much mixing and engineering he did of their sound. And he’s an audiophile … not to mention computer programmer.

    1. Saw Larry Carlton many years ago at some mountainside amphitheater near Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley.

      1. That must have been enjoyable!

        https://youtu.be/D2S7y2up-L4?si=HKFDP1T7JPsxfuv2

        There aren’t a lot of rock songs that START with a guitar solo … but Carlton knocked it out of the park with “Don’t Take Me Alive”. And love that BIG strummed (complex – G7#9 ) chord to open it. Nope … my Vienna sausage fingers can’t reach to do THAT

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