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03 Lover PleaseJonathan Richman

Jonathan Richman - Lover Please (1979)

If I was running a Friday overnight AM radio show, this would be the bumper music. What would we talk about if you called into the radio show in question at 1:58am EST? Off the top of my head, I’d say Watergate, Billy Martin’s 1969 season managing the Minnesota Twins, Linda Jenness’ 1972 run for president on the Socialist Workers’ Party ticket, Dave’s Popcorn Stand on 38th and Cedar in South Minneapolis, Roberto Bolaño’s Nazi Literature in the Americas, tapping trees for maple syrup, white pants dos and don’ts (all dos), “noodling” techniques for catching catfish, left-wing critiques of Sex and the City 2, drug phone camera photography secrets, and a special in-studio visit from Au Revoir Simone with guest Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks on guitar playing a set of Phil Ochs covers.

The usual shit we might talk about anyway, except at night, and on AM radio — nothing in stereo, in other words. I mean, I’d listen to it, but that’s the point.