This week is about to be filled with my people flocking to each others houses to cook an enormous meal and then wait to eat it...and wait...and then wait more. As a public service, I'm offering up a more tolerable service for the Jews who are listening, as well as an experience that is guarantee to clarify 5000 years of tradition and culture for the Goy who might be tuned in. Listen to my Seder supplement and I personally guarantee you promotion from wicked son to wise son and we can do what has, for centuries been done in four questions in three or less. Take that Maimonides!
Un-leaven your bread, hard boil an egg and enjoy:
First Cup of Wine:
Pere Ubu – Drinking Wine Spodyody
Hand Washing:
A Silver Mt. Zion – Take These Hands and Throw Them In The River
Saltwater Tears:
Magnetic Fields – Bitter Tears
4 Questions:
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - Three Questions
The Four Sons
Simple Son: Songs: Ohia – Just Be Simple
Wise Son: Devo – Smart Patrol
Wicked Son: Pixies – Holiday Song (Sit right down my wicked son and let me tell you a story)
Son Too Young To Ask A Question: Johnny Thunders – Ask Me No Questions
Here's
where the whole story of the Exodus comes into the service.
We
set the scene with the Jews as slaves in Egypt. Hope you like the architecture
Slavery:
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
10 Plagues:
Blood: Swans - Blood Promise
Frogs: William Harris – Bull Frog Blues
Lice: Guided By Voices – Of Mites and Men
Flies: Wire- I Am The Fly
Livestock Death (Anthrax): Gang of Four - Anthrax
Boils: Bauhaus – Rosegarden Funeral of Sores
Fiery Hail: Comets on Fire – Comets on Fire
Locusts: John Cale - After The Locust
Darkness: Gram Parsons – In My Hour Of Darkness
Death of the Firstborn: The Velvet Underground – Black Angel Death Song
Talking Heads - Thank You For Sending Me An Angel
Exodus:
Davy Jones & The Lower Third – You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving
Pharaoh changes his mind:
Tyrone Davis – Can I Change My Mind
Egyptians Drown:
Julian Cope – Not Waving But Drowning
Dayenu (It would have been enough):
Sleater-Kinney – It’s Enough
Second Cup of Wine:
Murder City Devils – I Drink The Wine
Matzoh:
Boris - Pseudo-Bread
Maror:
The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Charoset:
The 5th Dimension – Diggin’ For A Livin’
Third Cup of Wine:
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – Alligator Wine
Lee “Scratch” Perry – Feast of The Passover
