Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Working Up a Playlist for Social Distancing and Self-Quarantine

 

Just to be helpful, and because there was white space in the monthly theme calendar, I give you my first cut at the Social Distancing and Self Quarantine Playlist.

Let’s start off nice and easy, with a tune from those quintessential boys of summer:

Hunkering down in our house? Here’s a bit of silliness from the early 1980s:

Whether home or rolling down the road, you’ll tap your toes:

Dedicated to the Americans trying to get home from Europe, hoping they all are properly screened and properly treated:

Home as a part of us:

Bon Jovi says “this house is not for sale:”

This is still the place we all call home:

From the early 1960s, and the composing team of Gerry Goffin and the incomparable Carole King, a social distancing song:

Now let’s kick up the performance level, with the divine voice of Dionne Warwick on a Burt Bacharach and Hal David number. Just walk on by:

Mr. George Thorogood and the Destroyers are the obvious clean-up hitters:

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  1. Clifford A. Brown Contributor
    Clifford A. Brown

    This post is part of our Group Writing Series under the March 2020 Group Writing Theme: “Working.” There are plenty of open days, so get busy and work it! Stop by and sign up now.
    Interested in Group Writing topics that came before? See the handy compendium of monthly themes. Check out links in the Group Writing Group. You can also join the group to get a notification when a new monthly theme is posted.

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    • March 13, 2020, at 12:21 AM PDT
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  2. Judge Mental Member

    Seems obvious…

     

    • #2
    • March 13, 2020, at 12:32 AM PDT
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  3. Clifford A. Brown Contributor
    Clifford A. Brown

    Judge Mental, Secret Chimp (View Comment):

    Seems obvious…

     

    Yup!

    • #3
    • March 13, 2020, at 12:37 AM PDT
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  4. JosePluma Thatcher

    Judge Mental, Secret Chimp (View Comment):

    Seems obvious

     

    As does this:

    • #4
    • March 13, 2020, at 12:41 AM PDT
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  5. JosePluma Thatcher

    But, of course, we know how it’s going to end:

    • #5
    • March 13, 2020, at 12:47 AM PDT
    • 3 likes
  6. Gary McVey Contributor
    Gary McVeyJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    This post is proof that America’s warriors can become great disc jockeys, at least some of them, anyway.

    (Could the reverse be true? Has anyone tried it? Wolfman Jack in charge at Fort Benning? Scott Muni mellowing out the US Army War College? Casey Kasem as a public affairs officer in Iraq? C’mon, people, this looks like “Federal grant magnet” is written all over it.)

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    • March 13, 2020, at 12:48 AM PDT
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  7. Gary McVey Contributor
    Gary McVeyJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

     

     

    • #7
    • March 13, 2020, at 12:51 AM PDT
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  8. Ben Sears Member

    On the boys of summer, my seven year old loves to sing along to the song “Sloop John B” but he will insist to the end that the title is “Sloop John Beef.” 

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    • March 13, 2020, at 1:07 AM PDT
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  9. Eustace C. Scrubb Member

    I’m calling The Police:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM

    • #9
    • March 13, 2020, at 1:26 AM PDT
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  10. E. Kent Golding Member

    Going more for the title and music than for the video.

    • #10
    • March 13, 2020, at 1:39 AM PDT
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  11. MarciN Member

    How about Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”:

    • #11
    • March 13, 2020, at 4:35 AM PDT
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  12. Matt Bartle Member
    Matt BartleJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    The simple pleasures of being home with the wife and kids…

     

    • #12
    • March 13, 2020, at 5:32 AM PDT
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  13. Matt Bartle Member
    Matt BartleJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Same again…

     

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    • March 13, 2020, at 5:33 AM PDT
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  14. DrewInEastHillAutonomousZone Coolidge

    The obvious:

    • #14
    • March 13, 2020, at 6:22 AM PDT
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  15. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

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    • March 13, 2020, at 8:24 AM PDT
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  16. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

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    • March 13, 2020, at 8:30 AM PDT
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  17. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

    • #17
    • March 13, 2020, at 8:38 AM PDT
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  18. EJHill Podcaster
    EJHillJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Alone again, naturally…

    • #18
    • March 13, 2020, at 9:11 AM PDT
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  19. B. W. Wooster Member

    There’s a room in everyone, where a cold answer can be found.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBEUX13bOtU

     

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    • March 13, 2020, at 9:13 AM PDT
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  20. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

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    • March 13, 2020, at 10:57 AM PDT
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  21. colleenb Member
    colleenbJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Thanks @cliffordbrown and everyone for these great songs!

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    • March 13, 2020, at 11:04 AM PDT
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  22. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

    People are crazy

    Times are strange

    I’m locked up tight

    I’m out of range

    I used to care

    But things have changed

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    • March 13, 2020, at 11:13 AM PDT
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  23. MWD B612 "Dawg" Member

    “One,” by Three Dog Night.

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    • March 13, 2020, at 1:18 PM PDT
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  24. kylez Member
    kylezJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

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    • March 13, 2020, at 1:40 PM PDT
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  25. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

    When it’s a quarter to 3 in the morning:

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    • March 13, 2020, at 1:58 PM PDT
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  26. Judge Mental Member

    kylez (View Comment):

    Watch the news and it’s more like this…

     

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    • March 13, 2020, at 2:01 PM PDT
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  27. Gumby Mark (R-Meth Lab of Demo… Thatcher

    Some advice from The Kinks.

    Wait till the summer comes along and the warm weather hopefully takes care of Mr Corona:

    For those who are anxious:

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    • March 13, 2020, at 2:15 PM PDT
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  28. Umbra Fractus Inactive
    Umbra FractusJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member

    Edit: Remembered the title wrong. Never mind.

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    • March 13, 2020, at 2:23 PM PDT
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  29. cirby Member

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    • March 13, 2020, at 2:32 PM PDT
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  30. Clifford A. Brown Contributor
    Clifford A. Brown

    Judge Mental, Secret Chimp (View Comment):

    kylez (View Comment):

    Watch the news and it’s more like this…

     

    Yup, or maybe Suicidal Tendencies “You Can’t Bring Me Down,” although that is strictly NSFW.

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    • March 13, 2020, at 2:41 PM PDT
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