Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
[This post contains spoilers from “Reservoir Dogs”] God save the 70s, ladies and gentlemen. Four years before “Afternoon Delight” reached the top of the US Hot 100, another song was unexpectedly elbowing its way through the chart’s Top 10. The tune was the legendary “Stuck in the Middle With You” [1.] , and its popularity totally surprised the Scottish band, Stealers Wheel, who were relying on “Late Again” and “You Put Something Better Inside Me” as the singles on their album. It’s common knowledge that Gerry Rafferty, guitarist and lead vocalist along with Joe Egan, didn’t hold the music industry in such high esteem (to say the least); so it’s not surprising at all that some of their songs depict such a decayed world through the use of very obvious, almost brazen lyrics. Within these satirical songs there’s “Stuck in the Middle With You”. The hit was born after a pre-signing dinner, which, in words of Rafferty, felt “like one of those scenes from the Last Supper” (I’m p