I know this doesn't really belong here but... favorite songs!
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UPDATED: Saturday, January 18, 2025 07:56
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SIX: you like alt bands? How about
Starsailor "Some of us"
http: //youtu.be/g7k1rWZQbbU
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Hard to hate on Henley.
I love the lyrics for End of the Innocence.
Still can't post the studio video. After all these years nothing can stop Don from keeping his music off of youtube.
Quote:
Remember when the days were long
And rolled beneath a deep blue sky
Didn't have a care in the world
With mommy and daddy standing by
When "happily ever after" fails
And we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers dwell on small details
Since daddy had to fly
Oh, but I know a place where we can go
Still untouched by man
We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
And the tall grass waves in the wind
You can lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair fall all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence
O' beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man that we elected king
Armchair warriors often fail
And they've been poisoned by these fairy tales
The lawyers clean up all details
Since daddy had to lie
Oh, but I know a place where we can go
And wash away this sin
We'll sit and watch the clouds roll by
The tall grass waves in the wind
Just lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair spill all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence
Who knows how long this will last
Now we've come so far, so fast
But somewhere back there in the dust
That same small town in each of us
I need to remember this
So baby, give me just one kiss
And let me take a long last look
Before we say good bye
Just lay your head back on the ground
And let your hair fall all around me
Offer up your best defense
But this is the end
This is the end of the innocence
A lot deeper than your typical love song. And really not about love so much as seduction possibly leading to a one night stand.
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A lot deeper than your typical love song. And really not about love so much as seduction possibly leading to a one night stand.
I think what Henley lyrics really paints are intense scenes about places and moments. End of summer, the empty beaches and lakes. Empty fields, people captured by evil dreams. Lyrics not JUST about seduction, but I feel the protagonist in that song had a ather who went away to war ("fly") and died, and that he, too, will be going away to war soon, too, ending HIS innocence.
Plus, I like his voice. And the instrumentals don't overpower that.
*****
Having all of two(!) lyrics to analyze, I think Henley (if he wrote his own lyrics) paints his pictures by contrast.
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Can't let Kashmir and Dream On go by without a mention: I really like them, too.
Kashmir has that really interesting progression that almost sounds like something out of those old spy-show theme songs, but this song is totally not that.
Dream On has the same "sound", to me, as Henley (altho Boys of Summer has a faster tempo) and also America, but the Aerosmith lyrics are much more interesting than (say) A Horse with No Name.
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So, BRENDA, I've sampled some of your picks. You seem to like "outlaw/outsider" songs?
I could never appreciate Elvis bc he became famous when I was young, and I know he was trying to look sexy but at that age "sexy" didn't mean much to me, all I could see was the sneer. Big turnoff. Funny, but I think Billy Idol was a lot the same, but more extreme.
What do you think of Johnny Cash? He's my favorite in the "outlaw/outsider" category.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So, BRENDA, I've sampled some of your picks. You seem to like "outlaw/outsider" songs?
I could never appreciate Elvis bc he became famous when I was young, and I know he was trying to look sexy but at that age "sexy" didn't mean much to me, all I could see was the sneer. Big turnoff. Funny, but I think Billy Idol was a lot the same, but more extreme.
What do you think of Johnny Cash? He's my favorite in the "outlaw/outsider" category.
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As I said my mom liked Elvis since I was very small and I have seen the film "Flaming Star" which is the only Elvis movie I like as he doesn't sing in it. There aren't many Elvis songs that I "like" but that is one of them.
I like a few Canadian artists too like Roch Voisine. Colin James, Susan Aglukark, Kashtin. I'll see later if I can did any of them up.
Stumbled across Los Lonely Boys a number of years ago and like some of their stuff.
Johnny Cash another one I grew up listening too. Both my parents seemed to like him. I can take him or leave him.
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The song I was trying to post is called "One Piece at a Time"
It's about a guy moving from Kentucky to Detroit.
Lyrics for "One Piece at a time"
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
And went to Detroit workin' on the a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on Cadillacs
Everyday I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black
Chorus
I'd get it one piece at a time and it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style, I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
I've never considered myself a thief
But GM wouldn't miss one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years
The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me a engine and a trunk
Then I got me the transmission and all the chrome
The little things I could get out in my big lunch box
Like nuts an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home
Now, up to now my plan went all right
Till we tried to put it all together one night'
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong
The transmission was a '53 and the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an adapter kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlights was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when he pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we were through
Well, that was when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said, "Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds
Uh yow, Red Ryder, this is the Cotton Mouth
In the Psycho-Billy Cadillac come on, huh, this is the Cotton Mouth
And negatory on the cost of this mow-shine there Red Ryder
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Uh, what model is it
Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55,
'56, '57, '58, '59 automobile
It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67, '68, '69, '70 automobile
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Not familiar with any of them, but if I can find them I'll give them a listen and tell you what I think.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Did Cher copy Mark Cohn?
Some of mine:
Love Is - Alannah Myles
Downtown - One 2 Many
When the Blackbird Sings - Saraya
Seventeen - Chris LeDoux
No Roots - Alice Merton
Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
Housecapade Mix of Janet Jackson's Escapade
Holiday - Madonna
One 2 Many was recorded the same stuio as ABBA. I'm not aware of any Petula Clark connection. I thought the entire album was original work - and I would play the entire album, on repeat, endlessly.
Come downtown, in the city theres a lot of fun...
vocalist Camilla Griehsel, before she married and became opera singer.
Alannah, Saraya (both albums), Madonna I loved the whole album, but those cuts were more popular.
Chris has more than 40 albums, 5 or 6 hits or compilations, and I love many of them. Little Long-haired Outlaw, Hooked On an 8-Second Ride, Born In Mississippi, Wild and Wooly.
I should have included Addagio For Strings by Samuel Barber.
I think also a title "Baja 1000" by Michael Nesmith. No lyrics.
eta: I personally own over 1,000 CDs (as of 1999), and quite a few 12" singles.
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