Iowa Guy

A soul song from 1971 that shares the title and little else. Thanks AI

Listening to “Hurts so Good” and realizing it is just UK glam in Americana clothing. (Almost like Mellencamp had just been in the studio with Mick Ronson. Wink wink). Also AI says it’s a cover song which I am sure John would love to hear.

I was just barely smart enough to know Rod didn’t sing it and I knew Laine wrote it

Wait, he showed up……?!?!?!

This started out as a normal Too Much Joy interview (which I already had heard some of the anecdotes) but just about 20 minutes in, when Tim talks about Tapedeck, Rhapsody and the music industry (and the REM anecdote) it becomes fascinating.

Morrissey, JK Rowling and (name redacted) that I went to high school with are surely the Holy Trinity of “forgot what it was like to be an outsider when they were a teen”.

Jim is my most streamed Pandora artist for the month of November. I still got it

If you are not at Bomgaars on Black Friday, are you even an Iowan?

Just saw the global reset was coming and everything will be down for three days so a benevolent dictator will make certain people rich if they take their money out of FDIC insured banks. So that sounds pretty exciting

Ms IowaGuy: What generation are we?

Me- Generation X

Ms: You know I don’t really care what generation I am

Me: Exactly!

I didn’t realize Ron Wood sang “Ooh La La”. Assumed it was Ronnie Laine. I guess even I can be wrong at music trivia sometimes

One of my favorite moments of 2025 was Austin Murr signing an autograph for my son. My son is a Tigers fan and Murr was called up to the Tigers triple A team in September. Come to find out he went to DMACC the local community college. Austin Murr has a fan for life. We will be cheering for him

And I am not a total AI hater too. But as a Gen Xer, we saw pensions go away in our generation and the rise of Jack Welch style constant layoffs. How do you think younger generations are going to react. No wonder there is talk about work life balance.

It was a joke. But I feel like that’s usually the answer I get

“There is no known correlation between the flow of the Amazon in South America and layoffs in the US”

When I hear things like “this younger generation isn’t just loyal to their job anymore”.

Well, maybe….

Right?! Everything is a conspiracy and if I don’t win the world is against me. It’s totally stupid and I guess the only consolation is that people who think this are miserable all their days

Right! I mean I occasionally get caught up in those Rock n Roll Hall of Fame conversations. But cmon now -at the end of the day it is what it is. My favorite post I have seen is “I have never heard of the Red Clay Strays. WTH?”

Somebody check on Peter Hook

CMA Awards pick has country music fans outraged: ‘Done with your rigged show’ Many fans were not happy with the biggest award of the night.

This is hilarious to me. Wait until they find out about pro wrestling

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I always find it funny that Des Moines has Warren Harding Middle School because you definitely can track that down to a few months when that was built

I am confusing it with something else but I am glad I looked it up. There’s a posthumous Saints album coming out on 2 weeks with Chris Bailey and the group he had been playing with.

Also I don’t know anything about the Hysteria51 podcast but I had to listen to their latest as it was about Burrows Cave.

Maybe that is it

Epic week for podcasts- Bo Gritz’s the topic on @iwriteok.bsky.social’s Behind the Bastards. Remember him as a hero of the Gun Show scene when I was a teen. While Timesuck has Go Ask Alice which I only found out few years ago was totally fabricated. Teen trainwreck reading that fascinated me

I believe there is an accompanying album as well which sounded promising

Yeah, you’re right. There’s no reason to “like and follow” a band that just does cover, unless you have a friend or relative in the band.

I am still a little intimidated by PKs which of course is ridiculous because not only did I spend a few nights there, there was a summer where I was probably there weekly.

Rodney Crowell would not do this. I don’t think. Steve Earle would definitely never do this.

Not meaning to throw shade but pretty disheartening to go on social media and see how popular a cover band can be but bands with original material have empty rooms