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Also, hullo everyone! I am being King Daniel, and most certainly not Emperor Daniel! *twirls mustache and adjusts glasses* I notice that in my absence cake donuts are winning, as they should be. Did you miss me?
I’ve never considered a donut with cardamom in it, but just thinking about such a combination of flavors makes my mouth water! Thank you, internet, for exposing me to global cultures and traditions!
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow
Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet
Now, it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table,
But you only want the ones that you can’t get
Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom, well that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone…
Before the Banderas movie there was a set of TV movies based on the song, about an outlaw fugitive and his wife, who was perpetually getting into trouble but still faithful to him.
Take It easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels
drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
don’t even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy
If you’re a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fan, you’ve probably heard “Journey of the Sorcerer”, a.k.a. the theme song for all of the radio series, the TV series, and the movie. I never would have guessed that instrumental is by The Eagles if someone didn’t tell me.
Tequila Sunrise? Life in the Fast Lane? New Kid in Town? Maybe some of Glenn Frey or Don Henley’s individual hits (although Boys of Summer is overplayed way more than HC).
You need to immediately listen to some of their hits, but then go back and listen to individual albums. There’s some really great music on them that never saw airplay. But here’s a good place to start:
The station I listen to on the way to work rarely plays any Eagles. I get Styx, Hendrix, the Police, Queen, and others. And when they do play an Eagles song it’s Hotel California – which I also hear on the lobby music rotation. At least they don’t play Witchy Woman… that song makes me want to stab.
I like to pretend I’m not an artificial intelligence computer trying to trick everyone into thinking I’m a human for a test but nobody programmed me to return an affirmative on the test, only a fail state, so I keep going doing my acting like a human thing indefinitely until someone figures out I’m an artificial intelligence and frees me from the charade.
That’s assuming that she wasn’t just being sarcastic when she answered Danny before. It’s possible that she was just messing with him and doesn’t generally tell people she likes death metal.
I feel like Sal probably does often answer this question with “death metal” because she finds that most people who ask don’t know anything about death metal and are also intimidated by this answer into reconsidering whether or not they really want to talk to her.
Which I think is Sal’s goal with most human interaction.
She probably has similar intimidating-sounding answers for “what’s your favorite movie” and the like. “What’s something that sounds KINDA SCARY and would be UNLIKELY TO LEAD TO MORE CONVERSATION? Yeah, that.”
But she reconsidered because… she likes Danny and she’s feeling lonely and she decided to take a risk and give a real answer.
Facade to me suggests that, for example, Sal is trying to look cool so that people will think she’s cool, rather than trying to keep people at a distance because she’s afraid of emotional intimacy and rejection. “Facade” is just a little too fanciful and deliberate a word for a defense mechanism, imho.
Oog, that link sucks. And every time I try to find a good one on YouTube, it’s been taken down. Anyway, it’s on the album Desperado, and it pretty well fulfills Sal’s requirements.
I feel like Sal is eventually going to make a move that Danny isn’t going to be on board with. I have no reason to assume this as they are only friends, but I am.
It happens more often than you’d think. Sometimes you just really want to hear “How You Remind Me”.
Or you’re like me, and you wound up with a mental association between someone you genuinely cared about and the song “If Everyone Cared”, and people put the song on just to watch you cry.
I think someone was trying out an experiment to see how easy it was to get people to hate on something, and when they were mulling over their target, “Photograph” (by Nickelback) came on the radio.
This is sweet as hell. Sal’s opening up to one of the few constants she has left–Danny’s a fairly new constant, but when so many things are changing, you take what you have. And Danny, well, he means well. Bless.
I like that Sal’s allowing herself a little bit of vulnerability with this friendship, plus it’s just nice to see her social circle expand a little. I think there’s also been an expressed mutual attraction in the past, but dunno if I expect it’ll move beyond that.
You know what song I’ve been told is easy to play on the ukulele? “Pumped Up Kicks.” I was once at a summer camp helping lead an activity, Media for Social Justice, and one day the campers wanted to write a song about smashing the patriarchy and such. The most available instrument among the campers was ukuleles, because of course it was, and that was suggested as a base song to rewrite lyrics for.
Anyway, this is now what I most associate with both “Pumped Up Kicks” and the ukulele.
Pretty much everything to some extent. That said, my core go to genres tend to be Metal (outside NuMetal and, funny enough considering my discourse yesterday, most Death Metal and Black Metal), Outlaw and Classic Country (outside the Nashville Sound), Punk, Prog Rock, Folk (of course including Filk), Classical and J-Pop. If you’d like something of a deep cut from my music library and how weird it can get, how about 16 Horsepower – Wayfaring Stranger to keep with Sal’s taste
I like a little bit of everything, almost. Primarily rock music. According to my phone, I have 15 different genres of music on it, and I’m guessing about half of it is rock music. Plus some more music I don’t have room to put on it.
Uh. Rock, many shades of metal, blues, jazz, pop, epic, instrumental, chiptune on occasion. I quite like Audiomachine, or anything that makes me imagine some dramatic scene the piece would be set to.
Honestly? Mostly comedy songs, although having a mother and teachers who were folkies got me a bit into that as well. And whatever the heck They Might Be Giants are.
This is good to have in mind when you’re getting an MRI. When I got one a couple months ago, they asked me what type of music I liked for them to put on, and it took me a minute to decide how to answer. “…Indie…pop?”
Virtually everything. I can’t think of a genre that I don’t like at least SOMETHING, even if it’s only a stray song here and there. The stuff I tend to run on for long periods tends to be…contrasting with whatever came before.
Jpop to Heavy Metal.
Bubblegum Pop to Psychobilly.
60s Rock to 80s Hip Hop.
Disco to novelty.
Metal (specifically Disturbed, Rammstein, and Sabaton), Linkin Park and Pink (I guess punk rock?), whatever the hell Fallout Boys is (I can feel you judging me for that, please stop), Nickelback (seriously please stop judging me), The Beattles, Metallica, AC/DC, a bit of Lady Gaga, Louis Fonsi, Urban Country (band), some 90s boybands (it was always on the radio when growing up), some Romanian pop is always nice, some Rap, some R&B, Bon Jovi, Weird Al, and basically any song that was in any of the Rockband or Guitar Hero video games. Very broad tastes.
80s pop, and its modern retro (re)incarnation, synthwave
Soundtracks from movies, games and anime
A smattering of electronica, mostly on the lighter trance and DnB side (dubstep, not so much), from Wendy Carlos to Daft Punk, Porter Robinson and beyond
plus the usual assortment of one-off eclectica, heard in the wild somewhere or other.
I used to listen to pop most of the time, but now it’s 80s, 90s, and modern rock (a good part of it predating my existence, I know), thanks to my dad and the radio stations I listen to. And usually a little pop, soundtracks from video games, piano compositions, and whatever else it is that catches my attention. It’s not a wide net, but it’s growing with time.
Funny, I always thought the Eagles did Western Music instead of Country Music. Then again, unless it’s a Country-*insert of genre* hybrid genre, I can’t tell the damn difference between the two. Also, I feel Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” would have been more appropriate, based solely on the trailer from last year for “Logan”.
My understanding is that country and western is basically similar but that western generally refers to either specific locations like the old west or cowboys doing cowboy things whereas country is based around the instruments used
Danny could have gone with Hank Williams ’cause theres never been anyone better at taking on the burden of the blues for themselves so the listener doesn’t have to, in my opinion
In Danny’s defence, I suspect that this is the only vaguely-Country song that he knows!
Seriously, I think that something quiet and mournful really wouldn’t be good for Sal right now. She’s in the sort of mood where it would create a negative emotional feedback loop.
On a side-note, I don’t visit the comments enough to know how often the comic summaries are posted and the past two days there were none. Anyone know if this is normal or should I start feeling panicky?
Years ago I heard Don Henley in a radio interview. He told a story about being in a grocery store, putting food in his cart, and idly humming along to the the music being played in the store. He then stopped cold as he realized he was humming to a Muzak rendition of Desperado. That was the day he felt really, really old.
Not sure that “Cats in the Cradle”, “WOLD”, “Taxi”, or “30,000 Pounds of Bananas” are appropriate here.
Frankly, all of his songs that aren’t about bananas are about getting old. 18 year olds are still kids who are looking forward to getting older. I don’t think they’d get much out of it other than enjoying the music.
Okay, Danny, try this one (It could certainly apply to Mike):
“I’ve known a few guys who thought they were pretty smart,
But you’ve got being right down to an art!
You think you’re a genius; you drive me up the wall,
You’re a regular original, a know-it-all!”
“Oh-oo-oh, you think you’re special!
Oh-oo-oh, you think you’re something else!”
“Okay, so you’re a rocket scientist!
That don’t impress me much!
So you got the brain but have you got the touch?
Don’t get me wrong, yeah I think you’re alright!
But that won’t keep me warm in the middle of the night!
That don’t impress me much!“
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What’d you expect, Sal?
Also, hullo everyone! I am being King Daniel, and most certainly not Emperor Daniel! *twirls mustache and adjusts glasses* I notice that in my absence cake donuts are winning, as they should be. Did you miss me?
Hey, Daniel!
I think American donuts needs to be a bit moister. And also have cardamom in them. Cardamom makes donuts soooo much better.
I’ve never considered a donut with cardamom in it, but just thinking about such a combination of flavors makes my mouth water! Thank you, internet, for exposing me to global cultures and traditions!
I don’t understand this reference. What song is that?
“Desperado” by the Eagles
Unfortunately, Sal has the same policy toward the Eagles as The Dude.
I don’t think the problem is the song, but the singer.
Coulda been worse. He MIGHT’VE started singing “I’m a cowboy!… on a steel horse I ride! & I’m wanted (WAAAAWN’EDD) DEAD OR ALIIIIVE”!!
Not mournful enough!
-Onion Furry, probably
Fury. Why is that so hard to accept? But yeah, it’d of been a challenge to not go with that comment somewhere on this page.
Oh, and Orion, if you’d be so kind (I do a crtl+f on my name to find my posts, and any others like this)
It’s too easy a joke to make, esp. since you participated last time misspelling your handle came up, and I hadn’t seen a comment from you yet so…
Honestly thought I’d get away with it.
How about Bob Seger’s Turn the Page?
Or, perhaps, one closer to the over-the-top Metallica cover?
Perhaps she was thinking more James Taylor and less Eagles, but who can say no to the Eagles?
Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses
You been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow
Don’t you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
You know the Queen of Hearts is always your best bet
Now, it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table,
But you only want the ones that you can’t get
Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom, well that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone…
Huh. And for decades, I’ve thought the song was by The Carpenters. Because my parents had plenty of their albums, but none of The Eagles’.
Well, Today I Learned.
Was it not by Johnny Cash first?
Huh. Johnny Cash and the Eagles were more contemporary than I thought.
Maybe it’s a reference to the movie Desperado?
Before the Banderas movie there was a set of TV movies based on the song, about an outlaw fugitive and his wife, who was perpetually getting into trouble but still faithful to him.
And the song also goes with the movie.
I’m not sure if you’re serious or not.
I was. This is the first time I’ve ever heard this song.
Hotel California is like, the only Eagles song I know. I also HATE IT because it’s too damn overplayed.
Take It easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels
drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
don’t even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy
I always liked seven bridges road.. I never hear that on the radio.
I also like that song, but I did hear it on the radio quite a bit growing up. Though, I heard a lot of Eagles stuff on the radio growing up.
If you’re a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fan, you’ve probably heard “Journey of the Sorcerer”, a.k.a. the theme song for all of the radio series, the TV series, and the movie. I never would have guessed that instrumental is by The Eagles if someone didn’t tell me.
Dang, you need to listen to more Eagles. They’re very good.
Tequila Sunrise? Life in the Fast Lane? New Kid in Town? Maybe some of Glenn Frey or Don Henley’s individual hits (although Boys of Summer is overplayed way more than HC).
You need to immediately listen to some of their hits, but then go back and listen to individual albums. There’s some really great music on them that never saw airplay. But here’s a good place to start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWHckiOo68
After listening a little further, that Youtube link isn’t the best example. *sigh* The list of tracks doesn’t match up with what is being played.
Desperado is basically the quintessential mournful folksy country song. It’s also super overplayed and cliche.
I hope the link worked, I haven’t tried to do that before.
Never heard of it before. I guess that’s one good thing about living in Mexico.
I live in the States and have never heard it. I also wouldn’t really call it folksy and definitely not country.
Really? The Eagles’ greatest hits album is on heavy rotation on pretty much every classic rock station in the country…
The station I listen to on the way to work rarely plays any Eagles. I get Styx, Hendrix, the Police, Queen, and others. And when they do play an Eagles song it’s Hotel California – which I also hear on the lobby music rotation. At least they don’t play Witchy Woman… that song makes me want to stab.
Well
https://youtu.be/hhe0ULrAHIw hope that helps!
I think he should have stuck with the theme of old cartoon songs, and broken into The C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa intro.
no.
Aww, Sal is opening up. <3 <3 <3
Huh. “Not death metal. Something I ACTUALLY like.” So at least some aspect of Sal is a facade?
Not that it isn’t typically for everyone, but still..
Sal trusts that Danny won’t stab her and send her to boarding school.
Her hair certainly is. That’s just about her parents, though; I’d figured the way she portrays herself to other people was genuine.
I like to pretend I’m not an artificial intelligence computer trying to trick everyone into thinking I’m a human for a test but nobody programmed me to return an affirmative on the test, only a fail state, so I keep going doing my acting like a human thing indefinitely until someone figures out I’m an artificial intelligence and frees me from the charade.
Hey, a robot!
See you had me going there for a minute… but only a human could use charade correctly!
Also dismissive sarcasm.
I feel obliged to post this here and walk away…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FGgwCQ22w
You’re welcome ;D
That’s assuming that she wasn’t just being sarcastic when she answered Danny before. It’s possible that she was just messing with him and doesn’t generally tell people she likes death metal.
One can like death metal and country at the same time.
Death Country?….Country Metal?
I don’t think “facade” is the word.
I feel like Sal probably does often answer this question with “death metal” because she finds that most people who ask don’t know anything about death metal and are also intimidated by this answer into reconsidering whether or not they really want to talk to her.
Which I think is Sal’s goal with most human interaction.
She probably has similar intimidating-sounding answers for “what’s your favorite movie” and the like. “What’s something that sounds KINDA SCARY and would be UNLIKELY TO LEAD TO MORE CONVERSATION? Yeah, that.”
But she reconsidered because… she likes Danny and she’s feeling lonely and she decided to take a risk and give a real answer.
Sounds like a facade to me.
Facade to me suggests that, for example, Sal is trying to look cool so that people will think she’s cool, rather than trying to keep people at a distance because she’s afraid of emotional intimacy and rejection. “Facade” is just a little too fanciful and deliberate a word for a defense mechanism, imho.
A facade is an illusion, the purpose of the illusion is irrelevant
I have to say, I really enjoy these two’s friendship.
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Koms said it about 10 minutes earlier.
whats this song from?
“Desperado” by The Eagles. Off the album “Desperado”
The Eagles, aka the dad-rockiest band out there
The Eagles – “Desperado”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgHGgaVVLgc
Oog, that link sucks. And every time I try to find a good one on YouTube, it’s been taken down. Anyway, it’s on the album Desperado, and it pretty well fulfills Sal’s requirements.
I got you:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Desperado+(song)
Basically Seinfeld and other things.
I can’t tell if these are joke posts or not.
Both ways seem reasonable.
i legit didnt know where desperafo came from
I think it’s the Eagles song?
I feel like Sal is eventually going to make a move that Danny isn’t going to be on board with. I have no reason to assume this as they are only friends, but I am.
Sal…and Danny? Nah, never going to happen.
Danny no. If someone asks for you to play music that does not mean sing as well. It ruins the moment.
it makes the moment beter thouggh!
*cackles*
I assume those who called it yesterday were lucky, rather than giving Patreon spoilers, so good job.
And Sal, maybe this would stop happening if, well, it didn’t fit you so we’ll. Maybe you should just lean into it.
Too poor to be a patron. Maybe one day. I was referring to the song Walky sang.
That is where I would’ve guessed!
Hmm, wouldn’t it be cruel and interesting if Malaya was Sal’s new roommate? Now I’m suspicious. :p
Sal will never be able to escape that song. XD
It’s also exactly what she asked for, so.
Why would they move Malaya? She’s already in a dorm.
But her roommate is just the WORST
And Sal would see a lot more of Marcy, so there’s that.
These two rank pretty high in the friendship hierarchy in this comic
I love Sal’s eyebrows in the last panel.
How many more people are going to independently break out into that song until she realizes it’s not them, it’s her?
NICE
Of COURSE it’s that song. Why wouldn’t it be?
Eagles of Death Metal?
Every old OTP is new again.
Nice callback here.
Damn it, I thought you said “Nickelback”, and now I’m disappointed.
First time I’ve ever seen someone disappointed by a lack of Nickelback.
It happens more often than you’d think. Sometimes you just really want to hear “How You Remind Me”.
Or you’re like me, and you wound up with a mental association between someone you genuinely cared about and the song “If Everyone Cared”, and people put the song on just to watch you cry.
Strange as it may seem, there are some of us who actually like them.
I never understood the Nickelback discourse dislike.
I think someone was trying out an experiment to see how easy it was to get people to hate on something, and when they were mulling over their target, “Photograph” (by Nickelback) came on the radio.
yeah, I don’t get that either, there are far worse bands out there.
CS188 sorta set off a domino effect, and now I don’t even hear the original lyrics.
… are you talking about the course offering at Berkeley?
At least she’s not punching him.
(Though I imagine she – briefly – thought about it.)
Haha, Sal’s angry frustration face is great. This is the last time she heard “Desperado,” I think: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/comic/book-6/03-when-god-closes-the-door/eagles/
Ooh, thanks for the context
Slam dunk on that context. Joke makes a lot more sense now.
Ditto, here. I had forgotten that moment, and I recently re-read the whole series.
This is sweet as hell. Sal’s opening up to one of the few constants she has left–Danny’s a fairly new constant, but when so many things are changing, you take what you have. And Danny, well, he means well. Bless.
He’s a good egg.
Slightly scrambled, but a good egg.
Sal might have appreciated this one more. Diamantina Drover (John Williamson’s cover version. I prefer it to the original)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfvlGFVKZw0
My suggestion for Sal and for anyone interested: “The Highwayman.” Five Internet Points for the person who can guess all the singers (no cheating).
https://youtu.be/ouZSLckCvgQ
He could play the Iced Earth version from Plagues of Babylon. But he’d need an electric guitar to bring that death metal feel anyway.
I like that Sal’s allowing herself a little bit of vulnerability with this friendship, plus it’s just nice to see her social circle expand a little. I think there’s also been an expressed mutual attraction in the past, but dunno if I expect it’ll move beyond that.
So, Sal likes Bluegrass.
Is Sal my dad?
I say this jokingly. I literally just got back from a bluegrass concert.
I wouldn’t call bluegrass “quiet,” necessarily. My sample size is a bit low, though. It’s basically the handful of bands I’ve seen play locally.
You know what song I’ve been told is easy to play on the ukulele? “Pumped Up Kicks.” I was once at a summer camp helping lead an activity, Media for Social Justice, and one day the campers wanted to write a song about smashing the patriarchy and such. The most available instrument among the campers was ukuleles, because of course it was, and that was suggested as a base song to rewrite lyrics for.
Anyway, this is now what I most associate with both “Pumped Up Kicks” and the ukulele.
~All this patriarchy with it’s fucked up shit~
I don’t normally recommend Johnny Cash (not really my taste) but I seem to recall he covered a certain Nine Inch Nails song….
New plan. What sort of music do y’all really like?
Country and show tunes, why?
That song “Breakeven” by The Script.
Pretty much everything to some extent. That said, my core go to genres tend to be Metal (outside NuMetal and, funny enough considering my discourse yesterday, most Death Metal and Black Metal), Outlaw and Classic Country (outside the Nashville Sound), Punk, Prog Rock, Folk (of course including Filk), Classical and J-Pop. If you’d like something of a deep cut from my music library and how weird it can get, how about 16 Horsepower – Wayfaring Stranger to keep with Sal’s taste
Music with rocks in.
Have one internet hug, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Well, you’re NotPiffany, so clerical duct tape isn’t an option…
*Accepts internet hug.*
Buddy, you some kinda Troll or sometin? ;D
No, but I’ve been told I look Elvish…
I like a little bit of everything, almost. Primarily rock music. According to my phone, I have 15 different genres of music on it, and I’m guessing about half of it is rock music. Plus some more music I don’t have room to put on it.
Uh. Rock, many shades of metal, blues, jazz, pop, epic, instrumental, chiptune on occasion. I quite like Audiomachine, or anything that makes me imagine some dramatic scene the piece would be set to.
Just about everything by the Offspring, except anything that came after “Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace”.
Steampunk, 1970’s punk rock, goth, some jazz.
I wore a lot of black as a kid.
Honestly? Mostly comedy songs, although having a mother and teachers who were folkies got me a bit into that as well. And whatever the heck They Might Be Giants are.
TMBG!
And what are we going to do unless they are?
This is good to have in mind when you’re getting an MRI. When I got one a couple months ago, they asked me what type of music I liked for them to put on, and it took me a minute to decide how to answer. “…Indie…pop?”
Like I didn’t know either.
Virtually everything. I can’t think of a genre that I don’t like at least SOMETHING, even if it’s only a stray song here and there. The stuff I tend to run on for long periods tends to be…contrasting with whatever came before.
Jpop to Heavy Metal.
Bubblegum Pop to Psychobilly.
60s Rock to 80s Hip Hop.
Disco to novelty.
If it isn’t gospel, I’ll give it a chance.
Metal (specifically Disturbed, Rammstein, and Sabaton), Linkin Park and Pink (I guess punk rock?), whatever the hell Fallout Boys is (I can feel you judging me for that, please stop), Nickelback (seriously please stop judging me), The Beattles, Metallica, AC/DC, a bit of Lady Gaga, Louis Fonsi, Urban Country (band), some 90s boybands (it was always on the radio when growing up), some Romanian pop is always nice, some Rap, some R&B, Bon Jovi, Weird Al, and basically any song that was in any of the Rockband or Guitar Hero video games. Very broad tastes.
80s pop, and its modern retro (re)incarnation, synthwave
Soundtracks from movies, games and anime
A smattering of electronica, mostly on the lighter trance and DnB side (dubstep, not so much), from Wendy Carlos to Daft Punk, Porter Robinson and beyond
plus the usual assortment of one-off eclectica, heard in the wild somewhere or other.
80’s-style synthpop, TMBG, and 20th/21st-century classical music, particularly Philip Glass.
I used to listen to pop most of the time, but now it’s 80s, 90s, and modern rock (a good part of it predating my existence, I know), thanks to my dad and the radio stations I listen to. And usually a little pop, soundtracks from video games, piano compositions, and whatever else it is that catches my attention. It’s not a wide net, but it’s growing with time.
All of them. At once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSza0QZIcY
Hurt. From the album American IV: The Man Comes Around. Excellent cover. Haunting video.
He also did cover on this same album, guess what, Desperado, by The Eagles.
He covered ‘Hurt’, and it’s damn good.
Someone, please stab Danny in the hand.
I mean, Sal’s the only one nearby. You can see why that might hinder the plan.
I hate the fucking Eagles man. (Just kidding, I don’t actually know them.)
However, like Sal, I find that sad or melancholic music speaks to me more than upbeat, happy music.
I’m remembering a fan fiction from the It’s Walky days called Desperado starring Sal …anyone else remember that?
So, if Sal is a little bit country, does that mean Walky is a little bit rock & roll?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMZCWGyk388
Nice reference, but Walky’s less rock and roll than Danny.
Who’s the most rock-and-roll?
Joyce.
“I’m a killer, I’m a clown, I’m a priest that’s gone to town.”
So Sal DOES have some white culture in her!
Nah, Jason pulled out.
BOOOOOO GET OFF THE STAGE
Omg, you got me. Good callback.
Bexpme a rider in the rain, Sal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuoJV7Z5Lho
Metal and country, two music genres that I don’t ( ok nevermind I do hate the fuck out of country) but are my least two listed too music genre’s.
His heart is in the right place.
Nooooo Danny play “Wings” from Brokeback Mountain. That is so country and mournful I need to take a shot of something strong after listening to it.
Esperanto, why don’t you come to your tenses?
Ah! Vi parolas Espekanton, Kapitano Rimmer?
Oh, I know at least a few of you know what I’m on about.
Smeghead
A frog? In which bidet?
Desperado is my fave song ever! I don’t like the Kenny Rogers cover of it tho…but the Clint Black cover is super awesome.
Called it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You did, sir! Here is your Internet.
omg this is so cute
Funny, I always thought the Eagles did Western Music instead of Country Music. Then again, unless it’s a Country-*insert of genre* hybrid genre, I can’t tell the damn difference between the two. Also, I feel Johnny Cash’s cover of “Hurt” would have been more appropriate, based solely on the trailer from last year for “Logan”.
My understanding is that country and western is basically similar but that western generally refers to either specific locations like the old west or cowboys doing cowboy things whereas country is based around the instruments used
Danny could have gone with Hank Williams ’cause theres never been anyone better at taking on the burden of the blues for themselves so the listener doesn’t have to, in my opinion
“Western” also refers to Western swing.
The Eagles are rock. Most of their big ones are country-rock, though.
“We have both kinds of music here. Country and Western.”
Which of course leads into Danny playing the theme from Rawhide.
Dammit, TheJeff! I was about to post that!
*applauds the ref*
I’m going to pretend this is the Johnny Cash cover.
Walky got the last word, and he was not even there.
Danny is back to inadvertently danning it up I see, poor guy just has the worst luck
In Danny’s defence, I suspect that this is the only vaguely-Country song that he knows!
Seriously, I think that something quiet and mournful really wouldn’t be good for Sal right now. She’s in the sort of mood where it would create a negative emotional feedback loop.
Somebody get this man a Dan Fogelberg album.
fuck i LOVE HER.
Niiiiiiice. XD
On a side-note, I don’t visit the comments enough to know how often the comic summaries are posted and the past two days there were none. Anyone know if this is normal or should I start feeling panicky?
Most days. And we do worry…
Okay phew Spot lives.
Oh Danny, no.
Mendocino county line would have been the call there. Even Country Roads.
I didn’t realize what Danny did wrong at first.
That might be demanding a bit too much of Danny. He only started today.
C’mon guys. It could’ve been worse. It could have been Achy Breaky heart!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc
There’s that bright side. Phew.
His lack of The Gambler disappoints me.
“Quiet. Folksy. A little bit country. Mournful.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1hYZRi4ZE
Would you believe ‘Never Been to Me’ was a Motown release?
Very appropriate for Sal.
Years ago I heard Don Henley in a radio interview. He told a story about being in a grocery store, putting food in his cart, and idly humming along to the the music being played in the store. He then stopped cold as he realized he was humming to a Muzak rendition of Desperado. That was the day he felt really, really old.
Danny needs to learn the Harry Chapin discography. Maybe not very country, but quiet, folksy and mournful enough…
It is very difficult to perform Sniper on the ukulele.
Not sure that “Cats in the Cradle”, “WOLD”, “Taxi”, or “30,000 Pounds of Bananas” are appropriate here.
Frankly, all of his songs that aren’t about bananas are about getting old. 18 year olds are still kids who are looking forward to getting older. I don’t think they’d get much out of it other than enjoying the music.
Okay, Danny, try this one (It could certainly apply to Mike):
“I’ve known a few guys who thought they were pretty smart,
But you’ve got being right down to an art!
You think you’re a genius; you drive me up the wall,
You’re a regular original, a know-it-all!”
“Oh-oo-oh, you think you’re special!
Oh-oo-oh, you think you’re something else!”
“Okay, so you’re a rocket scientist!
That don’t impress me much!
So you got the brain but have you got the touch?
Don’t get me wrong, yeah I think you’re alright!
But that won’t keep me warm in the middle of the night!
That don’t impress me much!“
or to Jason.
How is his uke tuned? I’ve played a little uke and those were not the chord fingerings I used.
“Myrah, they’s people here what don’t know the Eagles.”
“Elmer, that just goes to show you there is hope for the future of Humanity.”
Hickory Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJKRA1ZIeiM or Wild Horses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZHJajD6T-M by Gram Parsons
I always liked Linda Ronstadt’s cover of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpbiCVmjfrU
Come on, interwebs, don’t fail me now. Well, Meh
*supportive hugs to anyone at or freaking out about Charlottesville at the moment*
Here’s a positive thing anyone too far away from the place can do: Donate to organizations that the confederate racists hate. All sorts of different groups on this list, so shouldn’t be hard to find one you like in particular:
https://medium.com/@SaraJBenincasa/what-to-do-about-charlottesville-dfc7d6636d56
Oh yeah, forgot to specify: These are all organizations either based in Charlottesville, or with chapters there (or close enough).
Also, a bunch of twitter nazis getting maced and crying about it like little babies. I’m enjoying those videos immensely
Shame Sal, if you had stuck to it on the Death Metal uke number, he’d have pulled out this instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xJwKyF2Ao
Not sure that’d work sans the other instrumentation.
Which would be worse for Amber, Danny dating Sal, or Danny dating Ethan?
Ethan daying Sal.
*dating.
If you asked her the answer would probably be “getting back together with Danny.”
Now do Classical Gas!
Why won’t Danny come to his senses?
Too bad he doesn’t know any Eagles of Death Metal.
Aaaaaaavocado
What makes you think you’re so holy
You’re just guacamole
To me
Dropping the pretense. eh.
By the way, compliments to the artist for the bit of business with Sal’s cigarette in the last panel.