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There are so many things to say about today’s 12 O’Clock Track, “Sheena Is a T-Shirt Salesman.” There’s the fact that it’s the first single off The Plot Against Common Sense, the forthcoming full-length from Welsh punks Future of the Left, whose Travels With Myself and Another was one of my favorite albums of 2009. There’s its tongue-in-cheek title, a not-so-subtle call-back to the Ramones’ classic “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” that points up the band’s frustrations with the state of the music marketplace. There’s its hilarious video, with guys in blue zentai suits running around the band with giant signs that work like annoying YouTube pop-up ads. (Fortunately, the video posted below is free of actual pop-up ads, so you can read signs like THIS SONG CONTAINS 50% LESS FAT free of distraction.)
