{"id":1137,"date":"2015-10-23T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2015-10-22T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:02:43","slug":"song-of-the-week-betty-vs-the-nypd-by-the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1137","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Betty vs the NYPD&#8221; by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion"},"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;Betty vs the NYPD&#8221; by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FKTkJIyTfz0\" width=\"328\" height=\"328\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week I went to see The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion for the umpteenth time, and for the umpteenth time, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion delivered a nonstop set of riff after riff after riff of their own particular style of blues &#8216;n&#8217; roll, which isn&#8217;t the same thing as blues rock, friends.\u00a0 The key to understanding what these guys are about is to understand that word, explosion.\u00a0 It ain&#8217;t the blues.\u00a0 You might want to describe it as bluesy, but that might not be quite right, either.\u00a0 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll band, and it&#8217;s a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll band that for twenty-five or so years has been taking to a stage and firing off an uninterrupted stream of stomping, chugging, yelping, swaggering riffs, with scant regard for the actual recorded lyrics, and a total regard for the thing, the thing, the thing itself: rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll, a party, an excitement, a fun that only happens when the right ingredients make the right explosion. I need a man, a man, a man, a man, a Blues Explosion Man. 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