1. Blues Clues - "Mailtime"
2. The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"
3. Wire - "Another The Letter"
4. Dead Kennedys - "Stealing People's Mail"
5. Blind Snooks Eaglin - "Mailman Passed"
6. Bob Dylan talks about the mail
7. Guided by Voices - "Postal Blowfish"
8. Sloan - "Penpals"
9. The Pixies - "Letter to Memphis"
10. The Zombies - "Care of Cell 44 (Alternate Mix)"
11. Shocking Blue - "Send Me A Postcard"
12. Bob Dylan talks about the mail some more
13. La Parsifónica - "Correo"
14. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - "1st of tha Month"
15. 2pac - "Letter to the President"
16. Spice 1 - "Mo' Mail (feat. E-40)"
17. Thundercat - "A Fan's Mail (Tron Song Suite II)"
18. Vivian Copeland - "Key In The Mail Box"
19. Vangelis - "Mail From India"
20. The Cure - "A Letter To Elise"
21. Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Metal Postcard (Mittageisen)"
22. The Velvet Underground - "The Gift"
23. Bob Dylan sure knows a lot about the post office
24. Living Colour - "Postman"
25. Vilma y los Señores - "Correo"
26. Hermanos Zaizar - "Amores Por Correo"
27. Bob Dylan, Mail, and Heartbreak
28. Beirut - "Postcards From Italy"
29.
30. Slove - "Carte Postale"
31. chief. - "no mail today"
32. 21 Savage - "letter 2 my momma"
33. The Brothers Johnson - "Strawberry Letter 23"
34. The Chi-Lites - "A Letter To Myself"
35. Leonard Cohen - "The Letters"
36. Tom Waits - "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"
37. More Bob
38. Meek Mill - "Letter to Nipsey (feat. Roddy Ricch)"
39. Linton Kwesi Johnson - "Sonny's Lettah (Anti-sus Poem)"
40. Nina Simone - "African Mailman"
41. Bud Powell - "Air Mail Special"
42. Moor Mother - "Letters From Earth"
43. Wisp - "A Letter In The Mail"
44. Laurie Anderson - "O Superman"
Edit: Previous tracklist listed "Strawberry Letter 23" as being by Shuggie Otis, but it's actually The Brothers Johnson version. I had my files misnamed, apologies.
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NOTES
Today's episode is about the Postal Service! No, not the band, though we do play them at some point - because of course we do. It's not every day that the most essential branch of your country's government is being ripped to pieces, limb from limb, like a rotisserie chicken fresh out of the oven. Louis DeJoy - aka Trump's recent appointee to the position of Postmaster General, has effectively kneecapped the USPS at Trump's request. The reason: to curb mail-in voting, AKA the only safe way to vote during a global pandemic, and possibly the only way Trump can lose the 2020 presidential election. It's corruption at it's most blatant (Trump's admitted his plans in the news), and we the people are powerless to do much about it at this point, short of burning it all down I guess.
On today's show, I play 44 songs about the postal service. Songs about postal workers, about sending and receiving mail under a wide variety of circumstances, including many letters to lovers, mothers, and others in our lives. The mail is a huge part of our culture, and we have come to take it for granted in our lives. We forget that most people throughout the world, not just the USPS, rely on postal services to survive. Postal workers get us our medicines, paychecks, legal documents, consumer goods, and in some cases, services! It's one of the only few lifelines incarcerated people have to the rest of the world! Without it, our country is as good as dead, and in November, Trump will take a big fat shit on the corpse if he wins. So, that being said, if you have your torches ready, I've got the music. Let's gooooooooooooooooo.
Links to learn more about WTF is going on with the USPS:
https://facts.usps.com/top-facts/ (facts from the horse's mouth)
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-u-s-postal-service/11433/ (more factoids)
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/16/902977021/the-history-of-political-interference-in-the-usps (great audio story here too)
Thanks for listening. Stay vigilant, and keep that lighter handy.
AS
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