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Alex Izenberg’s forthcoming album I’m Not Here
Song of the Day: Eccentric, enigmatic but infectiously catchy like film musical number, with added woodwinds and wailing guitar, influences such as Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman, this joyously odd single from the Los Angeles singer-songwriter comes from his forthcoming album I'm Not Here
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Putin takes Trump for a ride
Song of the Day: After Rocky Mountain Mike's humour take on Donald Trump and the far right, another great satirist focuses on the Russian leader's ego through the prism of musical hall and ragtime
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Pete Seeger
Song of the Day: A Boxing Day special - less about putting your gifts into boxes, but the boxes people put themselves into, with a satirical song performed by Seeger, but originally written by the folk singer Malvina Reynolds in 1962
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Randy Newman
Song of the Day: From Newman's new album Dark Matter, and typically filled with irony, pathos, humour and tragedy, the perspective of bluesman who died whose identity was then taken on by someone else
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Randy Newman
Song of the Day: Narcissism takes a different style now with the award-winning film score writer tripping gently along with a typically crisp and gentle irony. And yet he is really is different too …
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