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and it’s about time to honor the passing of springtime by picking your favorite springtime songs. Here are my favorite songs that I think help celebrate the new life that comes forth in the springtime. ...Here’s my list:
1. Somewhere over the rainbow (J. Garland)
2. What a wonderful world (L. Armstrong)
3. Morning has broken (C. Stevens)
4. Daydream (Lovin’ Spoonful)
5. '59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (Simon & Garfunkel)
Follow Ups:
Seriously! Winter is an under-rated season.
Well, I guess you're just trying to save your spot, right?
Jim
*"Cocomo", Beach Boys
*"It's Rainin' Again", Roger Hodgson
*It's Five O'clock Somewhere", Alan Jackson
*"Sky King", Danny Gatton
*Summertime", Gene Harris' version on Ray Brown's "Bam, Bam, Bam"
Jim
Although this one is my all time favoriteA Pirate Looks At Forty Lyrics
Mother, mother ocean,
I have heard you call,
Wanted to sail upon your waters
since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all,
You've seen it all.Watched the men who rode you,
Switch from sails to steam.
And in your belly you hold the treasure
That few have ever seen, Most of them dreams,
Most of them dreams.Yes, I am a pirate
Two hundred years too late.
The cannons don't thunder there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over forty victim of fate; arriving too late
Arriving too late.I've done a bit of smugglin'
I've run my share of grass.
I made enough money to buy Miami,
But I pissed it away so fast, Never meant to last,
Never meant to last.I have been drunk now for over two weeks,
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks,
but I've got to stop wishin', got to go fishin'
I'm down to rock bottom again. Just a few friends,
Just a few friends.I go for younger women,
Lived with several awhile,
And though I ran away, They'll come back one day.
And still I can manage a smile
It just takes awhile, just takes awhile.Mother mother ocean,
after all these years I've found
My occupational hazard being
my occupation's just not around
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown.
Ask enough women that, and one's bound to say yes... whilst at least a dozen are bound to call the cops. Oh well.
when using it as a pick up line. Perhaps the drunken part scares them away.
On the grill as you look at this, provided it's no more than 5 minutes past post time.
although it looks like a marinated Duck from where I am sitting.
My own sauce mixture, plus I only have the chicken on the grill long enough to cook the sauce just a little, as I boil it first.I shucked some sweet corn right there in the store and had some along with the chicken. I'm full.
shuck the ears. Wrap each piece of corn in one large (or two small) pieces of bacon, using toothpicks to hold it in place. Place the ears in some aluminum foil (not wrapped, just make a sort of canoe for them), then heavily season the corn with Parmesan cheese. Set it on the top rack of your grill for 30 - 40 minutes and enjoy. You'll abandon any other method you've tried.
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We weren't in love, oh no, far from it.
We weren't searching for some pie in the sky summit
we were just young and restless and bored
living by the swordIn the sweeeeeet Summertime Summertime.
and she had points of her own, sitting way up high
way up firm and high
in Grover Beach.
Since we're on this *sticking songs in peoples heads* thing I thought I'd throw that out.
Twas a cute asian girl trying to skate around a porch topless in tight shorts. It fit the video somehow.Otherwise, it's a silly, catchy song, and I don't know whether to love it or loath it.
You're qite right to throw that out.
for a reason. Now it is playing full blast. You guys can be so cruel.
1. Ride Captain Ride
2. Cinnamon Girl
3. Mama Told Me Not to Come
4. It Don't Come Easy
5. Tomorrow's Girls
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That’s an oldie and a good one to boot my Mama used to play it on our old and rickety 45-changer turntable when I was a toddler to put me to sleep.
Mine used to keep a tank of chloroform handy for just that purpose.She was always boasting to the neighbors that " MY son has NO problem falling asleep."
Don Ho. ;~)
Is this him?
That is Scary Ho!
Blue Sky - Allman Bros.
Here Comes The Sun - Beatles
New Morning - Dylan
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Four Days of Rain - Flying Burrito Bros.
Why did the ultimate Beatles fan leave "Here Come's the Sun" off of his list?Ah, I know. I tie that album in with Winter for some reason.
GTR, "When The Heart Rules The Mind"
INXS, "What You Need"
Journey, "Be Good To Yourself"
The Outfield, "Your Love"
Vinnie Moore, "April Sky"But of course, having ALL music at our fingertips is what makes everything so damn enjoyable.
-Lummy The Seahorse
High end audio? Accounting/finance? You remember Pacific Stereo? Acne? Good thing you put the year you were born on your blog, or I would have thought I was posting under an alter ego in my sleep.
I thought that's what Audio Asylum was for :-)All the kids are on myspace.com. I find that, on xanga, the percentage of teenagers is less, so it's more appropriate for us "old" guys. My wife (lilkilljoy) is also on xanga. The basic xanga account (which is all we really need) is free. Pick a user name, and blog away!
On AA, I'll talk straight-up about audio. But on xanga, readers will gain insights about how my musical tastes came about. If we Inmates get on xanga, we can form our own blogring.
Doctor sez it's nuthin ta worry about - tends to happen as we get older.I did change soon afterwards.
Sorry and each to his own of course but I really don't enjoy any of those tunes, anytime, anywhere. Nor can I stand that compilation of Rainbow and World by that Hawaiian ex-sumo wrestler guy (that song completely ruins an otherwise decent "Finding Forrester" soundtrack).
I suppose I should come up with some choices of my own but I'll have to work on that. I do know the Allman Brothers "Jessica" is on that list.In the interim I might mention that along with the local tulips that are blooming is the fact that the new Canuck governing "Conservative" party has released it's first budget and has reduced the Goods and Services tax by 1% (from 7% to 6%) effective July 1st and has also reduced several corporate capital gains taxes. This "GST" is a tax we pay on damn near everything we buy.
This is all good.
This is all good.
However, someone forgot to tell us that what this means is the average Joe loses as more taxes for the middle class and more money to be had by the corporate world and this means that the rich gets richer.
Having said that on this federal budget the typical family of four earning $60,000 a year, for instance, will save an estimated $275 a year from the GST reduction -- something around $5 a week. However, any family that has an income average of $30,000 would have to pay 15.5% of income tax, .5% more than last year after all the feds have to recover that 1% taken away from the GST.I was thinking perhaps that the fitting song for the fed’s spring budget should be “Take this budget (job) and shove it” by J. Paycheck.
BTW, you must be proud and smug that the Oilers finally bite the Redwings. We’ll see what the Flames can do tonight pending the Battle of Alberta. Red mile is prime and ready for the fans tonight and so are the cops.
revjac: ""
I do know the Allman Brothers "Jessica" is on that list.""You....are my hero..
the version on one of the live albums (CD) where they start with "Jessica" and then Dickey starts flicking in little licks from the "Mountain Jam" as if he's showing Warren the changes and then they drop right into it full tilt and givin' 'er. More guitar fun than a folk has a right to hear!
Most excellent road (and spring) music. I think I'll go upstairs and haul that CD out and get it on the player down here forthwith.
I'm sittin here with the phones on, listenen as I type...sheesh..I enjoy the studio mix. The piano, the slides, and...especially, the parts of the song where changes are..the buildups....whoa.
Several years ago, with my children, I met a very famous popular piano player...he was in his car, playing Jessica. He had it really cranked loud, windows up. He turned it off smack dab in the middle of the piano section.
When he got out, I vented...I said, what the "H" are you doing, that was the best part of the song!!!!...he apologized profusely (he understood my intent, which was just plain fun), said he had some kinda movie thingy to go to..
My older son looked at me, and said "do you know who that was??"..my reply: Yah, but that's no excuse...he STILL shoulda kept it playing..
For you goth devotees out there.Those are great selections, and since today here in Bermuda is absolutely gorgeous, the all fit my mood.
Overheard by the lady wife outside a Wolverhampton shop...
"Nice day, isn't it?... All the leaves are coming out on the trees, and the early blossom is really beautiful"...
"Yes, but we've only got May, June, July, August and September before we start getting to winter again!..."...
Not sure what that is, but we do have about that for the seasons here.Now down Tortolla, British Virgin Islands - that's heaven for the summer worshiper. Same temps all year round and sunny. 'Tis why my brother has settle there and spends his days sailing and occationally visiting his office to work. I hate him (not really - especially when I'll get to go visit and I stay in his guest room by the pool ;-).
is a previously intensely industrialised area of the Midlands, here in England... The inhabitants tend to be rather measured in approach and not over-blessed with optimism!...Though living on the outskirts of Birmingham, I have long been a supporter of West Bromwich Albion Football Club, and since West Bromwhich is itself on the fringes of "The Black Country" there are occasional insights into the cultural temperament from other supporters...
As an example, at a particular game I was located in the "Brummie Road" (Birmingham Road) stand, immediately behind two typically Black Country characters... Both were middle-aged, wore long coats, flat caps, and silk scarves around their necks... Without asking, you just KNEW that they would both be whippet-racing on Sunday morning, before going to the pub to arrive by opening-time...
Whilst there was a lull in activity whilst a player received medical treatment, one bod turned to the other, and had the following conversation...
"Yow see thet Alistair Brown?"...
"Aar" (Yes)...
"I were on this very spot a year ago when he played his first game for us, after his move from Lesster (Leicester)...
"Aar?"...
"'Bout twenny minutes into the game, 'is pace and puzishunin meant that 'e was able to play 2 great "wall-passes" with the wing, leaving 'im in clear space, about 40 yards from goal...
'E let loose an absolute screamer of a shot which flew into the corner of the goal, giving their goalie nooo chance..."
"Aar"...A 3-second pause...
"E's done fuck-all since."...
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Great song - was it an S&G cover?
Sounds Of Silence Lyrics
Artist: Simon & GarfunkelHello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silenceIn restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silenceAnd in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silenceAnd the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence
This spring the top down tunes repeated in my car have been:Norah Jones/Ray Charles - Here We Go Again
Los Loney Boys - Heaven
Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You (from the Unplugged album)
The Cure - Purple Haze
and Bob Marley, Legend (album)I think I will add What a Wonderful World - this is usually holiday listening, but I think it will be good on the road.
It is interesting that I have a VERY modest car stereo (old Blaupunt Cd and one pair of Boston Acoustic 6-1/2 in. rounds in the door), but I enjoy music in the car this time of year in a different, but good way vs. the rig at home. Must be endorphins.
and you'll be on top of the world.
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