🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

Day 1 : Post a song that spells something out loud in the lyrics (a name, a word, anything). (Empire)

The Empire Strikes Back - Bad Religion
20 years ago the artists were calling out warnings. They are usually the first alarm and interestingly, they are often the last silenced.
 
I have a really weird, frankly unusable fascination with toilets. I lived in Japan, where toilets are treated as a serious design problem and also a small daily joy. Heated seats. Bidets with opinions. Buttons that feel like you’re about to launch something important. But my favourite detail isn’t even the high-tech stuff. It’s the simple elegance of the sink built into the top of the tank, so the water you use to wash your hands refills the cistern for the next flush. It’s efficient, thoughtful, and respectful of resources. It’s so simple and so smart that it kinda turns me on 😉

That leads me to today’s history lesson.

FEBRUARY 2

On February 2, 1852, the first modern public toilets opened on the streets of London, following the success of the penny-paid “Monkey Closets” installed by George Jennings at the Crystal Palace. For the first time, peeing became a small, civilized public service instead of a private endurance sport. You paid a penny, got a clean seat, and walked away with your dignity intact. I love this moment for the same reason I love dictionaries: it’s invisible infrastructure made visible. Someone cared enough to design for humans. Someone archived the solution. Someone decided this was worth doing properly.

So with that in mind...

Day 2: Post a song that contains any bathroom word in the title or lyrics (toilet, loo, bathroom, restroom, flush, pee, piss, poop, shit, ass, butt, etc).

No analysis required. Claim your word and move on with your day like a civilized mammal.
 
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On February 2, 1852, the first modern public toilets opened on the streets of London…..
The current episode of the podcast “Betwixt The Sheets” is titled “How Dirty Were The Victorians” and the guest has researched, and written about London’s public baths, cisterns, sewers and public toilets during the Victorian era.

Public sanitation, fascinating stuff.
 
Day 2: A song that contains any bathroom word in the title or lyrics
According to my handy-dandy spreadsheet, this is now the third time I've used this song in the past 2 years. I don't care. I'm posting it again, it's that good.
"Michael in the Bathroom" - Be More Chill
 
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