Now, Lord knows we love us some Kevin Bacon. And when I say “love,” you best believe I mean L-U-V. But this whole thing about The Bacon Brothers recording a song to raise money for the Mummers, well, it touches on some things that we’ll probably always just have to agree to disagree about with some of our fellow Philadelphians. But we can table that question for a moment in favor of a more salient question: Is the song any good? Answer: Probably not. If you go over to the Bacon Brothers’ MySpace page, you can hear an earlier recording of “New Year’s Day,” the tune in question, which sounds like nothing so much as a beer commercial or something you’d hear cranked up for a few seconds as ESPN goes to break. (Six of one, half dozen the other.) Now, granted, the addition of banjos and accordions and upright bass can always help a poorly written tune — just ask The Decemberists — but if you were looking for the tune that, once and for all, would be your Mummers anthem, your ode to overdoing it, your paean to pissing in the streets, well, this is probably not it. On the other hand, there’s always The Pogues.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 10:52 am.