{"id":1180,"date":"2013-04-18T23:44:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobwiseman.ca\/BobsBlog\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2013-04-18T23:57:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:57:09","slug":"piece-of-the-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Piece Of The Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CLICK HERE TO HEAR <\/a>Randy Newman\u00a0 Piece of the Pie<\/p>\n

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This song by Randy Newman “Piece of the Pie” has been blowing my mind since I realized it came out 5 years ago and I missed it. Firstly it has textures reminiscent of Kurt Weill’s best creations and why wouldn’t Randy Newman who has made most of his living as a film composer, utilize his capacity to arrange for an ensemble with horns and firework textures of blaring minor seconds. They sound like tense intervals, I love it. How poignant as he sings about being poor in America. Being poor in supposedly the greatest place on Earth. Being poor while the rich get richer “I should Know” he says causing me a laugh out loud, he is honest. So many other artists, not as poor as their subjects would never qualify their classism. Adding to the surrealism the narrator comes up with a solution to America’s troubles – Jackson Browne. Then goes on to mock John Cougar Mellancamp only to be admonished by his own baritone chorus. For a moment I agree with his flattering remarks about America because guys like him exist there.<\/p>\n

Like us all you want the very best of life
\nA car, a house, a neighborhood that’s nice
\nWith flowers and trees and lots of little kids around
\nWhere public schools aren’t breeding grounds for vice
\nYou say you’re working harder than you ever have
\nYou say you got two jobs and so’s your wife
\nLiving in the richest country in the world Wouldn’t you think you’d have abetter life
\nIf you lived in Norway You’d be fine right now
\nGet sick there You make the doctor wait If you lived in Belgium
\nYou could mediate
\nHey knock it off! And the French fries are great Hey!
\nJesus Christ it stinks here high and low
\nThe rich are getting richer I should know While we’re going up You’re going down
\nAnd no one gives a shit but Jackson Browne Jackson Browne Jackson Jackson
\nThere’s a famous saying someone famous said As General Motors goes so go we all Johnny Cougar’s singing it’s their country now He’ll be singing for Toyota by the fall
\n[Patriots]: That’s not ture John’s a patriot He’s not like you He’s a……
\nJesus Christ it stinks here low and high Some get rich And others just get by Bono’s off in Africa – he’s never around The country turns its lonely eyes to who? Jackson Browne Jackson Browne Jackson Browne
\nA piece of the pie That’s all we’re asking for A piece of the pie<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a famous saying someone famous said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[187,186,188,185],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","has-excerpt","post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-writing","tag-bob-wiseman-and-randy-newman","tag-i-love-randy-newman-because-of-songs-like-this","tag-political-songs","tag-randy-newmans-masterpiece"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}