I couldn't do Superbowl headliner Bad Bunny justice with my Duolingo Spanish, so today's #StupidAccordionTrick celebrates the openers #GreenDay with 2004's #AmericanIdiot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUknd619Yws
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Rowan Lipkovits
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mastodon 4.7.3Founder of @mistfunk@oldbytes.space, half of the @accordionnoir@zirk.us tag-team, onetime frontman of the @creakingplanks@klezmor.im. Formerly UnwashedMass on the birdsite. Interests include #ANSIArt and vintage computing, gamebooks and #InteractiveFiction, cognitive dissonance, and free-reed aerophones.
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Here's a brief funny #StupidAccordionTrick for my April of Foolishness - from 1962, #BernardCribbins' #TheHoleInTheGround, championing class war. Why not?
Ok, the first day of April is here, meaning I get to turn over a new leaf and be explicitly silly in my #StupidAccordionTricks selections all month long in honor of #AprilFools. (I know, you're wondering... What were his excuses for doing it all the other months before?)
My #StupidAccordionTricks spree of iconic songs by women winds up with my running #TammyWynette's 1968 #StandByYourMan through the squeezebox:
Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette, 1968) ... played on the accordion!
Either #JesseWelles is really going against the stream with his recent composition #JoinICE or possibly it is not intended in complete sincerity.
Join ICE (Jesse Welles, 2025) ... played on the accordion!
With 13 hours left on the clock before the winter solstice, I finally record a winter song for 2025 with The #LegendaryPinkDots' bizarre and sarcastic 1984 #GovernmentHealthWarning at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvRVH_j707c
@Geoffberner@zeroes.ca saw this comic strip from over a hundred years ago and immediately thought of you: https://bsky.app/profile/everetttrue.bsky.social/post/3m6lz5xhwuc2k
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I didn't cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck", but Bobby Sands' song "Back Home In Derry" which shares its melody:
Back Home In Derry (Christy Moore, 1984) ... played on the accordion!
My #StupidAccordionTricks quest to celebrate IWD all month long has led me to some strange places, perhaps none odder than here: #ShaniaTwain's 1997 anthem #ManIFeelLikeAWoman:
I keep trying to ride IWD all through March, so my latest #StupidAccordionTrick is, from 1999, #GoodbyeEarl as made famous by the #DixieChicks.
A bolder foray into my #StupidAccordionTricks campaign of songs by kick-ass women for IWD all month long, here's last year's #Manchild by #SabrinaCarpenter:
Manchild (Sabrina Carpenter, 2025) ... played on the accordion!
As the start of my spree of IWD-inspired #StupidAccordionTricks cover songs this month, I kick it off with #Jax's #VictoriasSecret song. (Why? Epstein, sadly.)
Victoria's Secret (Jax, 2022) ... played on the accordion!
For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, here's something a little more romantic than the song I shared for Valentine's day earlier this month - #BrandiCarlile's #TheStory. (sorry about the clams in the solo!)
Valentine's Day kind of snuck up on me, but I should be sharing more #StupidAccordionTricks love songs in February, and they start with this improbable 2003 #Goldfrapp banger, #StrictMachine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZLcS1C8e2w
For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick -- RIP to Catherine O'Hara, who famously lip-synched to this calypso standard while possessed in a kitchy retro moment of indulgence in Beetlejuice.
Banana Boat (Day-O) (Harry Belafonte, 1956) ... played on the accordion!
When things started spiraling the drain I queued up this song in my to-cover list and hoped I wouldn't have cause to record it, but here we are today with #NeilYoung's 1970 Kent State shooting protest song #Ohio.
And one final #StupidAccordionTrick for 2025, to ring out the stupid old year and ring in the stupid new year, here's my very unlikely squeezy take on #KoolAndTheGang's 1980 occasion-agnostic groove #Celebration. Come on!
Celebration (Kool & the Gang, 1980) ... played on the accordion!
The last Dionne sister died on Christmas Eve, so I pay tribute to those five Canadian heroes by recording this song from 90 years ago in which they are name-checked, #ILikeBananas (Because They Have No Bones).
It's been maybe a month since I got any new #StupidAccordionTricks recordings together -- but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to celebrate #DickVanDyke's 100th birthday with #FidelityFiduciaryBank from 1964's #MaryPoppins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsghgSolS6o
Fidelity Fiduciary Bank (Mary Poppins, 1964) ... played on the accordion!
A big day for old #Zork fans such as myself - not only did Microsoft open-source the first three games from nearly 50 years ago, but I also received a sweet little book from ACMI about the game, including a scan from my #PixelPompeii blog a dozen years ago! https://pixelpompeii.blogspot.com/2025/11/zork-thursday.html
For this week's #StupidAccordionTrick, I persist in my April folly of covering humorous songs by going all the way back to 1939 to this number #GrouchoMarx sang in #AtTheCircus: #LydiaTheTattooedLady.
Lydia the Tattooed Lady (Groucho Marx, 1939) ... played on the accordion!
I guess I was taking it for granted that I could just play silly songs for April but an emergency recording session was convened after someone threatened to immolate an ancient civilization, big vibe killer. So at a loss, here's #FlandersAndSwann's 1964 anti-nuclear-arms #20TonsOfTNT