Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)

Anyway, in that set we heard Tears for Fears with Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

Before that was The Temptations with Ball of Confusion.

And at the top was Elvis Costello with Oliver's Army, all songs that were fairly controversial during the Gulf War era.

They were considered too relevant to what was going on for our sensitive, delicate ears, and so they were kept from the airwaves during that time of conflict.

All he left us was alone.

That song written by same two legends who also wrote I Heard It Through The Grapevine, and War, and Ball of Confusion.

Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote Papa Was a Rolling Stone in 1971.

And before that version from The Temptations, the original in the hands of the undisputed truth, The Temptations' version climbed all the way to number one, earned them three Grammys.

Barry John Williams, he says, "What song best describes how you feel about the state of the world right now?"

Ball of Confusion.

Who's that by? I don't think I know that one.

Ball of Confusion.

You don't know Ball of Confusion?

I mean, just saying Ball of Confusion at me doesn't tell me who it is.

That's what I asked you.

Type it in.