Tuesday, September 8, 2015

The Rebel Black Dot Labor Song of the Day

Jeff Landau, "Work and Satisfaction" from Let Alone/Much Less (Mike Papa Whiskey)

Commentary: Mr. Landau, an old acquaintance from the halcyon days in Ann Arbor, released two E.P.s, Let Alone & Much Less. I consolidated them in my library, so I no longer know which songs were on which E.P. Mea culpa. There is much to like on Let Alone/Much Less, but naught more so than "Work and Satisfaction," a soulful meditation on the dichotomy that faced us trailing members of Generation X as we graduated from school & entered the labor force in the early years of Christianity's third millennium.
"It seems so simple,
But so hard to do, I've found—

"Can I find work and satisfaction?
Not either/or.
Can I find work and satisfaction? Yeah,
Not either/or…"

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