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I think i was a little late on the Three Dog Night song, Comf has already ferreted it out!
I usually read all the text and then go back and check the links. I guess I'll have to change my procedure! Comf, I don't know any of those bytes.
Edited by - mac on 26 July 2002 18:22:35
OK, time to revive this thread again with a few challenges. I've tried to not make them quite as hard this time (I hope):
1. Your mother's ghost stands at your shoulder
Face like ice, just a little colder.
2. Through all efforts you've been changing, getting a little bit better, no doubt
The doctor bit was so far out
3. Ah, the lovers as they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others but to choose off and fight
4. Love, like the autumn sun
Should be dying, but it's only just begun
5. The winds of change are blowing wild and free,
You ain't seen nothing like me yet.
6. My father was a fisherman, my mama was a fisherman's friend
And I was born in the boredom and the chowder.
Madman, #1 is "Triad", written by David Crosby, performed by Jefferson Airplane. #4 is Barbra Streisand, but I don't know the name of the song.
Mac, you've missed out! The "Music, music" thingie is "Over My Head" by King's X. It's a pseudo-spiritual thing (they're a pseudo-spiritual band) about being surrounded by angelic music while praying. Here's a snippet that contains the title. Maybe it'll be more recognizable.
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/fredsaw/Files/over.mp3
The other one is "Zoot Suit Riot" by Cherry Poppin' Daddies. Here, also, is a snippet where the title is sung.
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/fredsaw/Files/zootsuit.mp3
Edited by - COMF on 26 July 2002 19:52:53
Comf, right on #1 (although my favorite version is the one on the CSNY "Four Way Street" Album). I don't know of a Streisand version of #4 (though I'm not saying it doesn't exist). Hers wasn't the hit version, in any event.
Interesting the way you picked that off. I thought the other 5 would get answered quickly, and "Triad" would be the stumper of the bunch. Shows how much I know...
I've decided I'm wrong about #4. I was thinking of Streisand's "Evergreen" but those lyrics aren't it.
Triad always interested me, first because the concept was so foreign to my nature (I kept trying to figure out how somebody could want to live like that), and later because I liked the use of imagery in the "mother's ghost" lines (his mother doesn't even have to be dead for this to work). Finally, after years of "looking for the special one for me" I came to understand the reasonableness and functional value of the philosophy of Triad and its twin, Love the One You're With.
None of the others you posted are ringing any bells. Care to add a line or two of lyric?
Edited by - COMF on 27 July 2002 9:25:1
"I don't mind stealing bread
From the mouths of the dead
Cause i'm goin hungryyyyyyyy."
Did Eddie Vedar sing this prior to becoming Pearl Jam? I'm trying to remember the name of this tune. (Temple of the Dog?)
Adding a line or two of lyric where appropriate:
2. Through all efforts you've been changing, getting a little bit better, no doubt
The doctor bit was so far out
Looking through crystal spectacles, I can see you've had your fun
3. Ah, the lovers as they run through the night
Leaving nothing for the others but to choose off and fight
And tear at the world with all their might
While the ships bearing their dreams sail out of sight
4. Love, like the autumn sun
Should be dying, but it's only just begun
Like the twilight in the road up ahead
We can't see just where we're goin'
And all the secrets in the universe...
5. The storms are raging on the rollin' sea
And on the highway of regret
The winds of change are blowing wild and free,
You ain't seen nothing like me yet.
6. My father was a fisherman, my mama was a fisherman's friend
And I was born in the boredom and the chowder.
And when I reached my prime, I left my home in the Maritimes,
Headed down the turnpike to New England, sweet New England
OK, dead giveaways here - I'm expecting massive surges of recognition any minute now...
Edited by - NeonMadman on 27 July 2002 9:37:5
Arite, arite, here's a fresh crop for yazz. Anybody can't peg at least two of these is a nu-nu.
Dayum, Madman, you've got me stumped all around on those. I'm sure I'm about to be mightily embarrassed when somebody gets them and I have to go, "Ooooooh, yeeeaaaaaaahhhhh I remember that now!"
Hey there, farmer
Put away the DDT, now
Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell (and many others - even Dylan did a version)
Do you catch it on your tonsils
And you heave it left and right?
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight? by I don't know who...a Dr. Demento classic if ever there was one.
Histories of ages past
Unenlightened shadows cast
Down through all eternity
The crying of humanity
Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan...from the same Greatest Hits album as one of the unidentified snippets in my most recent post on this thread...
I hope and I pray that some day
I'll be the vision of your hap--happiness
Earth Angel - again, can't remember the group and am too lazy to go look it up right now.
Dayum, Madman, you've got me stumped all around on those. I'm sure I'm about to be mightily embarrassed when somebody gets them and I have to go, "Ooooooh, yeeeaaaaaaahhhhh I remember that now!"
May not happen; I'm starting to suspect that you and I are the only ones following this thread anymore...
