Zevon: Satire<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI was gambling in Havana, I took a little risk \/ Send lawyers, guns, and money, Dad, get me out of this,\u201d<\/em> sang the great Warren Zevon.<\/p>\nHe was being satirical about the misadventures of wealthy young Americans abroad, but we\u2019re not sure the politburo in Beijing would see it that way.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I’m hiding in Honduras, I’m a desperate man,\u201d he continues. \u201cSend lawyers, guns, and money \/ the shit has hit the fan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Social and cultural disharmony rating:<\/strong> 8<\/p>\n3 Pokerface \u2013 Ghostface Killah<\/strong><\/h2>\nFour years before Lady Gaga sang about her \u201cp-p-poker face,\u201d the Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s Ghostface Killah gave us this, a track in which he described his own poker prowess in loving detail. Except Ghostface\u2019s poker strategies were spotty at best.<\/p>\n
Looking at quads, waiting for someone to bluff \/<\/em> \nSo I checked ’til someone said I had enough<\/em><\/p>\nQuads! OK, Ghostface, how long have we got? Never slow play your monsters. You need to extract maximum value from those hands, you noob.<\/p>\n
Social and cultural disharmony rating:<\/strong> 7<\/p>\n2 The Gambler \u2013 Kenny Rogers<\/strong><\/h2>\nBetter advice came from Kenny Rogers, whose The Gambler<\/em> has been overplayed to the point of exhaustion, especially when there\u2019s anything vaguely related to gambling on TV. But the song contains simple but vital wisdom for anyone who has ever gambled and whoever will: \u201cYou got to know when to walk away.\u201d Simple as that.<\/p>\nSocial and cultural disharmony rating: 6<\/strong><\/p>\nAce of Spades – Mot\u00f6rhead<\/strong><\/h2>\nLemmy: That’s the way he liked it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cYou know I’m born to lose, and gambling’s for fools\/But that’s the way I like it, baby,\u201d explains Lemmy from Mot\u00f6rhead in the greatest song about gambling ever.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the way we like it too, Lemmy. But we suspect the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection is not so down with it.<\/p>\n
Social and cultural disharmony rating:<\/strong> 10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that songs mentioning gambling will be banned at the nation\u2019s 50,000-odd karaoke venues. The ministry said it would shortly compile a blacklist of music that will be off-limits to karaoke operators because it contains \u201charmful information\u201d and \u201cillegal content.\u201d Along with gambling, this includes songs with lyrics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":182952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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