{"id":1035,"date":"2015-05-01T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:33:12","slug":"song-of-the-week-bullingdon-club-by-lux-lisbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Bullingdon Club&#8221; by Lux Lisbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Bullingdon Club&#8221; by Lux Lisbon:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2815871031\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=0f91ff\/tracklist=false\/track=704405250\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.luxlisbon.com\/album\/get-some-scars-ep-special-edition\">Get Some Scars EP (Special Edition) by Lux Lisbon<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If Bruce Springsteen were young and British, this is the song he would&#8217;ve written. I suppose that&#8217;s a fancy way of saying this sounds like Bruce Springsteen, but so what? Somebody&#8217;s gotta say these things, and plenty do, but somebody&#8217;s gotta sing about them too, and Lux Lisbon are, so let &#8217;em. And listen. There&#8217;s an election coming up in the UK; remember that Ronald Reagan used &#8220;Born in the USA&#8221; as his campaign song in 1984, and imagine now, if you will, David Cameron prancing across the stage to the call of &#8220;You&#8217;ve been fucked by the Bullingdon Club.&#8221; We can all dream.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Bullingdon%20Club%22%20by%20Lux%20Lisbon\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;Bullingdon Club&#8221; by Lux Lisbon: Get Some Scars EP (Special Edition) by Lux Lisbon If Bruce Springsteen were young and British, this is the song he would&#8217;ve written. 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