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Episode 53 of The Young Southpaw Part Of An Hour. The Xmas Special

What about bands making advent calendars as merch? Who would make the best ones? Strong cases for Guns N Roses and Rush. But how does Glenn Danzig fit into all this?

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Bands...should make advent calendars...don’t ya think?....that would be rad...I mean I’m not sure how it would work...I mean you’d want a physical one, ya know...I know they can make digital anything, with an mp3 behind each door...but I want the real thing...like Faith No More...kinda strange choice of name for the holy holiday season but there ya go...or maybe even better than the real thing, bringing it back to religiousity again with U2 there.... but let’s just keep it on the straight and narrow, ain’t nothing like the real thing like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang...but I mean someone should make it happen...obviously Marvin Gaye can’t now...I mean his father shot him...but maybe...Guns N Roses....though I mean there’d be all sorts of legal red tape if one of the windows you popped it open and there was gun...all cocked and loaded and ready to go...not really part of the holiday spirit...cocked & loaded though that’s LA Guns...doesn’t matter...everybody comes together during the holidays, right?....but ready to go, red-dy ya know...can certainly have a red rose be behind door number one...ya know, color of Rudolph’s schnozz...the reindeer...not Rudolph Schenker from The Scorpions...though I don’t know...maybe if he’s drunk...or actually got bit on the nose by a scorpion!....I think it’s best for all of us if the Scorpions don’t manufacture any advent calendars....or any merchandise where a real live scorpion could be lurking behind something you open...

...actually though Guns N Roses is perfect ya know...that time of year...November Rain...but again, ya can’t open a window and... well if you could make it rain, like in real life, these advent calendars would be powerful tools of magic...maybe the band Nelson should get in on this...After The Rain ya know...sort of the counterspell advent calendar...I mean they’d clean up!...literally and figuratively....I mean would these windows offer clues, ya know like Robert Palmer was looking for clues...I mean would Robert Palmer, or heck Power Station’s advent calendar offer clues on the windows themselves...like if it looks like it’s raining through the glass then that’s the one you know to open to make it rain in real life?....

but heck like there’s windows and doors ya know!..just hide the rain behind a door or two...but woah! Guns N Roses covered Knockin On Heaven’s Door! old Bobby Z, ya know....of course they’re the perfect band to have an advent calendar...Use Your Illusion, multiple ones you know...these doors are just illusions to be gotten past to the treasure inside....like the Doors themselves said about things appearing as they really are, infinite ya know....and heck, like Welcome To The Jungle, have a welcome mat... then you’re all psyched that it’s gonna be like an infinitely wild jungle smorgasbord just waiting for you behind every one!...

like....like a Dead Horse...well no one wants that...for the holidays or otherwise...Bad Apples...again.... Welcome to the Jungle...get a nice welcome mat you know!...

they also got that song 14 Years...that would be..a bit...excessive ya know...I mean those calendars are usually what like 25 days...having one 204, 205 times as long as that...well certainly get in the Guiness Book of World Records...but it’s gonna be a struggle man...I mean first off, how long would it take to make........and where would you store such a thing...you might need to build like a whole new city depending on what’s inside it...We Built This City On Advent Calendars ya know, Jefferson Starship could get back together...though might be a legal battle with Guns N Roses over the proprietary rights of the 14 Year size...unless like they joined forces, again in the spirit of the holiday season, and did like We Built This Paradise City On Advent Calendars....I mean if it’s a city you’d think there would be room enough for all of them to live...and LA Guns....though is the name of the city where these are stored and everyone’s living called Paradise City?...cause I mean LA Guns would have to change their name then....Paradise City Guns...this is gonna get confusing!....and like it could just be me, but my idea of Paradise isn’t a city where its main raison d’etre is to manufacture advent calendars that are 14 years long...

I mean that’s 5113 days...pretty close to 5150...Love Comes Walking In ya know...in through the out door...man, I know this is sounding like a GNR VH Leddy Zeppy 14 Year Advent calendar would be the ultimate but I don’t know...I mean, that’s a lot a doors...the Doors themselves didn’t have all that many albums...the surviving members might take it as an affront...

...but then like GNR had that tune Anything Goes ya know...woo!...I mean with that sort of attitude they could surely fill all the windows by themselves...and they covered Attitude! ya know that Misfits song....imagine if GNR convinced Glenn Danzig to be one of the treats himself...........man, that’s a gamble...I mean he’d have to wait for someone to buy it and then wait for them to get to his door...all without snacking on any of the goodies inside........and what if he’s the very last day of year 14?!.... I mean would he have his own private stash of supplies...not to be confused with the actual gifts of the calendar...but he’d have to be sure to finish them before they opened his door to prevent any sort of legal trouble over who owns what...but also not consume them too quickly as to be very early on left high n dry .... Def Leppard ya know...and if there’s a def leopard prowling around this thang well forget it...

But maybe that’s what Danzig is into...lettin it get down the wire like that...talk about a Rush...and speaking of Rush, they’d surely be one of the ultimate advent calendar bands!...Power Windows!...woo!...could have like a copy of Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer behind one...an owl behind another, like Fly By Night...if we’re going big like GNR...for the true connoisseur, have a Red Barchetta parked inside another....

oh man if I were Danzig, I would try and get in on that action!...situate yourself behind the wheel of the red barchetta and when they open the door, slam on the accelerator and get the heck outta town...ride on out into glory with your new wheels...by the time anyone figures out what happened, you’re half the world away!

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from Dekalaug 6: 5160, released May 31, 2021

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"From the existential thread that ties Jean-Paul Sartre to Jon Bon Jovi, to the skinny on what’s floating in TLC’s ‘Waterfalls’, and the possibility that Al Pacino is coaching boxing kangaroos in space, wise-fool Southpaw's ramblings lead listeners on a surreal journey through doors they didn't even know existed, into a highly original, deeply funny land of pop culture confusion." - popbollocks ... more

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