My collection to date (excluding the boring ones):
(I couldn’t get the mask to photograph properly, but it was this print)
More on the way.
Speaking of Masks…
Tag / Coronavirus
OT: Well, THIS should encourage social distancing
Coronamaybe
Comic strips continue to inhabit an odd universe in which people express their serious concerns about the Coronavirus while neither wearing masks nor practicing social distancing.
End of the Line
This was, not surprisingly, always intended to be the final Morning Wake-Up song — in fact, as I write this and place in the queue, I’m not even sure when it’s going to be posted. My guess would be the second half of June.
Hopefully, we won’t have to start this up again later in the year. Keep safe, friends.
The Revolution’s Happening in New York!
B.A.: [May 21, 2020] Please queue this up for the morning of July 4. Hopefully by then the Great Quarantine of 2020 will largely be over and “Music to Get Us Started During the Lockdown” will have gone the way of ChadWatch and While We’re Waiting for the Download, and this will just be something fun to listen to a Saturday morning.
I find this version infinitely more appealing than the one in Hamilton, because there’s no sense of “Look how cool we are, and I bet you’re glad you paid $1200 for your ticket.”
I also like the idea of Peggy, an adult (historically accurate) who seems to act like a child (probably not historically accurate), being played by an actual child.
I don’t want the moon
J-L: An Italian song from the 1980s: It’s called “Non Voglio Mica La Luna” which translates to “I don’t want the moon (at all).”
Landslide
Bob: So nice to see kids today covering the music of their grandparents’
generation.
(The barely pubescent lead singer is the baby of this group. The
drummer who is also the background singer in the striped sweater is
about 20 y.o. and I don’t know the approximate ages of the other two
beyond appearances.)
CIDU Bill: Not really “wake-up music,” but worthy of being included as an Honorable Mention.
Goin’ Nowhere
Usual John:
This is more lockdown-themed, but still seems pretty upbeat, and in any case is an obvious choice for a comics-related blog. Rick Moranis has done a song called I Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (it may remind you of another song, at least if you’re a geezer), and the cartoonist Carol Lay (whose comics are available as Lay Lines on GoComics) has helped with its animation.
Carol Lay is apparently not a geezer, since she thinks the original was popularized by Johnny Cash.
Monster Music
Chipper42:
Positive
Submitted by Peter:
