Ghost of Vroom - Rona Pollona

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Ghost of Vroom - "Rona Pollona" from the 2020 Ghost of Vroom 2 EP on Mod y Vi Records.

Back in the '90s, NYC-based band Soul Coughing combined improvisational jazz with samples and the stream-of-consciousness poetry of frontman Mike Doughty. Decades later, Doughty returns with Ghost of Vroom (the band name a nod to SC's debut 1994 album Ruby Vroom), a project with bassist and longtime collaborator Andrew “Scrap” Livingston.

"This is the Soul Coughing stuff that was never made," Doughty explained to Stereogum. "It’s a very specific return to ’94, ’95 Soul Coughing. I’m getting deep, but the way the band sounded at the end of the Ruby Vroom tour, but before we went in with David Kahne to make 'Super Bon Bon' and 'Lazybones,' all those songs."

On today's Song of the Day, Ghost of Vroom take a lighthearted look at the current pandemic. "If you dig enough, there’s darkness in there, but it’s essentially jokes about coronavirus," Doughty confirms.

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0:00.0	Don't touch the box, don't touch the shelf.
0:07.0	Don't touch the people, don't touch yourself,
0:10.0	Lice all, sprayed on the wheel, no hugging, no shaking hand holding no feel.
0:16.3	Sab warfare, a Pikachu pillowcase mask, a book of debonair, conversating with an Amazon pot, water burger drive through dressing like an astronaut.
0:27.0	We do the Rona Polona.
0:32.0	Yes. You do the Rona, Polona.
0:33.0	Yes, you do the Rona or Polona.
0:38.0	You won't know it if you're doing it right. You never know it if you're doing it right.
0:45.0	You won't know it if you're doing it right and if you're doing it right.
0:49.0	Out that curve.
0:52.0	My lurchin if I was a kid I'd find me a store to loo chin up.
0:56.0	At least you learn to use the phone.
0:58.0	Sauterberg reboot of home alone's what you live.
1:01.0	Don't watch the vain man who can't forgive Jesus would for the common good.
1:05.0	I got the mask on laying in the cut.
1:08.0	Have the ducking like an extra and eyes wide shut.
1:11.0	You do the Rana Pomona.
1:13.0	Yeah.
1:15.0	You do the Rona Pomona.
1:20.0	Right?
1:21.0	You won't know what if you're doing it right. You never know what if you're doing it right.
1:23.0	You never know what if you're doing it right.
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