Sweet Jane 61 Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I'll ruin any song you want just by singing it. So you want my real voice or falsetto? Jenny, you need to join our girl group here on SF. Me, Laurie, Peaches, and Mags. We all sing like angels! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyguitar Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 But in this ever changing world in which we live in This snippet from Live and Let Die has always got my pip....and they say there's no room at the inn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 ^ yes! I can't bear that line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 This snippet from Live and Let Die has always got my pip....and they say there's no room at the inn! I know what you mean, but might it not be "In this ever-changing world in which we're livin'"? Still a bit ham-fisted, but that's McCartney for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edna Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 "Ticket to ride" by The Carpenters is... weird... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 "You Give Love A Bad Name" was sung by Bon Jovi. The day I realized I am getting older was the day I realized I can no longer stand Bon Jovi. With age comes wisdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fish Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 "Ticket to ride" by The Carpenters is... weird... I was reading a little thing about that song just last night... Somebody was saying that the actual song title had originally been "Ticket to Rye," some town in England (although I searched and only found a place named Ryde). They never clearly pronounce the "d" at the end of it, so you can see where that came from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Somebody was saying that the actual song title had originally been "Ticket to Rye," some town in England (although I searched and only found a place named Ryde). wikipedia knows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fish Posted January 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Ah, thank you. I only tried "Rye," and my knowledge of other lands isn't that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyguitar Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 I know what you mean, but might it not be "In this ever-changing world in which we're livin'"? Still a bit ham-fisted, but that's McCartney for you. Are you suggesting that Sir Paul of the Hoppy Folk is a persuant of the habit of 'pig fisting'? You cad, bounder and all-sorts of nasty phrases person, you.! I am aghast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLizard Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Creedence Clearwater Revival, who sang songs like about Mississippi riverboats and being born on the bayou, is from California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Don Posted January 30, 2007 Report Share Posted January 30, 2007 Starbuck, whose biggest hit "Moonlight Feels Right" is about Baltimore, is from Atlanta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otokichi Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 On a long-ago NPR podcast, one of the subjects was "California Rock Singer/Songwriters." This may have been book review, and the subject of John Fogerty came up. Apparently certain Northern California rivers have Bayous and are as green as stated in the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 It's not exactly news , but you know that really distinctive guitar-riff that permeates Nirvana's "Come As You Are" (intro and verses); y'know, the hookline? It was stolen wholesale from influential UK post-punk band Killing Joke's jaunty stomper "Eighties". Not just vaguely reminiscent ofthe original, not hinting at plagiarism, but a flagrant and indisputable rip-off. I believe Nirvana fessed up and settled out of court. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Don Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 The Standells, whose big hit "Dirty Water" is about Boston, are from San Francisco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Can't help noticing that alot of people are hung up on matters geographical. Lou Reed did an album about Berlin, but (shock!horror!) he's actually from New York...not German at all. I'm from Leeds, but if I wanted to write songs about Edinburgh, Doncaster or St.Albans, I can't see what's to stop me. Come to think of it, I once wrote a song, in French, about France...but am I French? Non. I suppose where there's wilful fakery going on... Ever wondered about the origins of Joe Strummers highly individual manner of speech? I supposed you would have had to have heard him speaking, but, believe me it's a little unusual. You can't pin down that accent, that timbre. It resulted from years of faking his identity, straining for "street credibility" and to conceal his privileged background (son of a foreign diplomat, expensive boarding-school education), far, far, removed from the "guttersnipe, multicultural class-warrior/man of-the-people" image he wished to project. Chew on that, whilst headbanging along to "Career Opportunities, (the ones that never knock)", "White Riot", or whatever. Being several years older than his punk-rock peers, Strummer also spent much of the late 70s lying about his age, (as well as indulging in countless examples of crass, pseudo-violent, macho posturing). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Oh... you're good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fish Posted February 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Snow is not actually Jamaican, or black. He's just a white nerd. It's impossible to listen to Creed's My Sacrifice again after interpreting the lyrics as, "my sack of fries." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daslied Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 You could've stopped that sentence before "again". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyguitar Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) Oh... you're good!He is good...he's so good he's a bit frightening...but he's also wrong sometimes...so don't be afraid to diss him...he loves it really! Joe Strummer was adopted. Edited February 1, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) You could've stopped that sentence before "again". Edited February 1, 2007 by Guest weeeeelllll.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fish Posted February 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 You could've stopped that sentence before "again". Probably true. Creed's... shmokay, but it ruins the whole band because Scott Stapp's in it. I guess that's another thing I can say ruins their songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daslied Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 He's not in it anymore, and I still hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazooka Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 The Black Crowes' Hard To Handle is a pallid cover version of the song originally cooked to perfection by Otis Redding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Though he may seem patriotic, Toby Keith actually hates America, as evidenced in his plan to make everyone in the world hate America as much as he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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