{"id":1485,"date":"2010-08-19T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T01:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2010-08-22T17:52:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T23:52:56","slug":"song-of-the-day-i-wanna-make-the-world-turn-around-by-steve-miller-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day &#8211; &#8220;I Wanna Make The World Turn Around&#8221; By Steve Miller Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More 80s!\u00a0 And&#8230; lord help us all&#8230; KENNY FUCKING G!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16271_Kenny-G.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1486\" title=\"16271_Kenny-G\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16271_Kenny-G.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16271_Kenny-G.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/16271_Kenny-G-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSo&#8230; I know what you&#8217;re thinking.\u00a0 How does that spindly little greasy-haired bastard have anything to do with good music?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking the same thing too.\u00a0 But the sax solo in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ufikuyj3MZs\" target=\"_blank\">this song<\/a> was done by a then relatively unknown Kenny G.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that Kenny G and Warren G are twins?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Warren-G-drug-trail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1487\" title=\"Warren-G-drug-trail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Warren-G-drug-trail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Warren-G-drug-trail.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Warren-G-drug-trail-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s true!\u00a0 Would I go and just make shit up?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-large-intestine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1488\" title=\"the-large-intestine\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-large-intestine-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-large-intestine-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/the-large-intestine.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOkay, so I would.\u00a0 But not this!\u00a0 I Swear!\u00a0 Like a sailor!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pirate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1489\" title=\"pirate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pirate-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pirate-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pirate.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNo, this Sailor:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20071216-steve-miller-sailor-album-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1490\" title=\"20071216-steve-miller-sailor-album-cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20071216-steve-miller-sailor-album-cover-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20071216-steve-miller-sailor-album-cover-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20071216-steve-miller-sailor-album-cover-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/20071216-steve-miller-sailor-album-cover.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGroovy man.<\/p>\n<p>So, one of the reasons why I despise a lot of 80s stuff is that a lot of 80s music was made by people who were fucking BRILLIANT in the 60s and 70s.\u00a0 Steve Miller is a prime example.\u00a0 Even when he was a pandering pop mega star in the late 70s, he was still talented as all get out and could bash anyone else to death with his cave-man-club-of-talent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bamm-Bamm_Rubble.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1491\" title=\"Bamm-Bamm_Rubble\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Bamm-Bamm_Rubble.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"231\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBam Fucking Bam.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that episode of The Flintstones where Betty separated from Barney, and Barney made a &#8220;robot&#8221; Betty to replace her?\u00a0 And the &#8220;Robot&#8221; Betty he made was actually just a hollow tree trunk with a bunch of squirrels inside?<\/p>\n<p>No?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe just me.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, when Warren G agreed to rap on Steve Miller&#8217;s album, Steve Miller was all &#8220;I never agreed to this!\u00a0 You&#8217;re just talking and rhyming!\u00a0 That&#8217;s not singing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Warren G was all &#8220;Word, yo, you can&#8217;t sing any more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then Nate Dog came in and sang circles around Steve Miller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/41816.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1492\" title=\"41816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/41816-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/41816-248x300.jpg 248w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/41816.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJust like Steve Miller used to sing circles around anyone else back in the late 70s.\u00a0 And so now we have come full circle.<\/p>\n<p>And I still haven&#8217;t said much about the song.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s all we had for you tonight, goodnight everybody!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1-6682-Lawrence-Welk-Band-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1493\" title=\"1-6682-Lawrence-Welk-Band-Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1-6682-Lawrence-Welk-Band-Photo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1-6682-Lawrence-Welk-Band-Photo-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/1-6682-Lawrence-Welk-Band-Photo.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More 80s!\u00a0 And&#8230; lord help us all&#8230; KENNY FUCKING G!!!!! So&#8230; I know what you&#8217;re thinking.\u00a0 How does that spindly little greasy-haired bastard have anything to do with good music? I&#8217;m thinking the same thing too.\u00a0 But the sax solo in this song was done by a then relatively unknown Kenny G. Did you know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[46,161],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-80s","tag-steve-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}