That line in the Kings' song below ("Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view"), reminds me of something I was thinking of a few days ago: do people write songs about working any more ?
Think back, dear reader, to the hard-working days of yore. There's the aforementioned Kings' "Switching To Glide", and also Huey Lewis' "Workin For A Livin", Rush's "Working Man", Styx's "Blue Collar Man", Loverboy's "Working For The Weekend", BTO's "Takin Care Of Business", Dolly Parton's "9 To 5", The Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night", Superchuck's "Slack Motherfucker", etc..
Where are today's tributes to the hard-working blue-collar men and women? Did they go offshore with the blue-collar jobs? Are there Chinese and Indian songs about the Weekend? Do they have weekends in China?
Oh man, I wanted this album so bad. But thanks to a long series of record club screw-ups, I could never manage to get it. You might be tempted to skip the intro and get right to the leopard lounge gear rock action, but then you'd miss the laser guitar blast. So don't.
The Cars, "Just What I Needed"
Benjamin Orr got no respect. Everybody assumes Ric Ocasek sang all the Cars songs, but Orr sang many of them - many of the hits, even. And Elliot Easton remains a criminally underrated guitarist.
Red Rider, "Lunatic Fringe"
Back in the day when MTV wasn't pure flaming ass, they played this one a lot. I loved it. And then he did that fucking "Life Is A Highway" song.
Split Enz, "One Step Ahead"
I always liked this one better than "I Got You". I'm not sure if I still do.
Devo, "Girl U Want"
Search the iTunes store for "Girl U Want", there are dozens of covers. For good reason. Devo's best song, IMO.
Pretenders, Tattooed Love Boys
My favorite Pretenders song, I think. The guitar break is just fucking awesome. I get chills every time I hear it. All hail J.H. Scott.
Blue Oyster Cult, "Burning For You"
Not a great song, but a sentimental favorite because it was one of the first wave of vids on MTV.
The Kings, "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide"
Not sure if there was ever a real video for this one; I don't remember seeing one. But I remember hearing this song a lot because my mother and all her friends were really into it. "Nothing matters but the weekend, from a Tuesday point of view". You said it, head King.
David Bowie, "Ashes To Ashes"
Love this video.
Depeche Mode, "Just Can't Get Enough"
I was amazed when I first saw this: it was all done with keyboards! The future was now. Then. Whatever.
This plugin masks comments so that a user can only see comments written by himself or by an admin. Admins can see all comments.
This was written to make my trivia contests more interesting; by masking the contents of comments from everyone but the person who wrote the comment and admins (where "admin" = anyone with the ability to edit users), users cannot copy answers from other users. This gives everyone a fair chance at answering questions before the contest ends.
But, there is nothing in the plugin that is specific to trivia contests, that's just what I use it for.
How it works:
The Create Post page gets a "Make comments Semi-Private" option. This can be turned on and off at any time. When a user visits a post with Semi-Private Comments turned on, the plugin compares the user's current IP address with that of each comment. If the IP addresses match, the comment is displayed as usual. If the IP address doesn't match, a substitute comment message is displayed instead. The message text is configurable on the Admin pages, but defaults to "This comment is hidden".
You can also change the plugin to work off of WordPress user IDs, but that only makes sense if all your visitors are registered on your blog.
Installation:
1. Upload `semiprivate_comments.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Optionally, change the "comment hidden" text in the Admin settings page.
