The show this week is called "the holy show." Will it be a collection of my favorite gospel tunes, especially those of old-time country & blues songs? Or will it an ironic collection of skeptical/critical songs in the popular music idiom taking aim at religiosity? Or will it be both?
It will be neither. Because I am a boring dude, it'll be songs in which people use the word "holy," either in the sense of an oath ("Holy Moly!") or to describe something ("Holy Thursday"). Seriously, I am so boring. Rereading my first paragraph, I'm like, why couldn't I have played an entire two hours of cool old gospel music? (It might be because I've kinda already done it, for an hour at least.) But no, it's a Self Help Radio thing.
& there are a lot of songs in which things are described as holy. Quite a few. So I then thought to myself: maybe I should just play songs in which the title is "Holy Blank" (where the word blank indicates another noun or whatever). Further, what if I try to do it in alphabetical order?!?
Holy spit, I think I lost you there. Hey, I haven't even finished listening to music for the show, I don't know how the hell it's going to come out.
As a bonus, here's a song I'll probably talk over - but it's an awesome piece of music by David Axelrod, called "Holy Thursday." (It's based on the William Blake poem.) Enjoy it!
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