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Sat Sep-13-03 01:45 AM
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Poll question: Favorite John Denver Song..... |
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Don't lie, you know you like John Denver. Don't be ashamed, it's okay.
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Sat Sep-13-03 01:50 AM
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1. It was the one that went . . . |
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Oh fuck, this plane has no w-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ngs!
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Sat Sep-13-03 01:51 AM
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Sat Sep-13-03 01:52 AM
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Edited on Sat Sep-13-03 02:01 AM by leftofthedial
but so was he
now I feel guilty.
Rocky Mountain High is a great song. One I also always liked was his version of Mother Nature's Son.
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Sat Sep-13-03 01:53 AM
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:03 AM
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5. had occasion to meet him |
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:06 AM
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I would be intersted to know of that experience. Go ahead, destroy the picture I have of what he might have been like.
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:13 AM
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7. he was wonderful and talented and kind |
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I'm sick of bursting bubbles.
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:19 AM
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My image of him is protected.
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:22 AM
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9. and did I mention cute? |
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:24 AM
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Cute like a country road in the springtime.
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Sat Sep-13-03 02:26 AM
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11. man, everybody's dumping on my mother tonight |
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Sat Sep-13-03 05:17 PM
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35. i heard he could be nasty as well..... |
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....i know that when he recorded steve goodman's "city of new orleans" he changed the line:
freight yards full of old black men
to
freight yards full of old grey men
and took half the songwriting credit on the album and screwed goodman out of the royalties.
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Sat Sep-13-03 05:44 AM
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destroyed his personality in his later years.
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Sat Sep-13-03 08:44 AM
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19. Perhaps he was having a bad day. |
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He didn't strike me as any better/worse than the rest of us. Famous people aren't perfect either.
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Sat Sep-13-03 03:04 AM
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Edited on Sat Sep-13-03 03:05 AM by JDWalley
I couldn't choose between Isabel and Follow Me (the second and third cuts on his fantastic second album, Take Me To Tomorrow -- he later re-recorded both, but not as well, IMHO).
Seriously, that album was great. Unfortunately, celebrity took a toll on him, and he was never the same, artistically, once Rocky Mountain High made him a music-industry star. But his early records (if you can find them in used-LP stores) were as good as anything coming out of the "folk singer-songwriter" movement of the time.
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Sat Sep-13-03 10:41 AM
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I really loved his early albums--worth checking out (and you can find them on CD, although you might have to order them)...
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Sun Sep-14-03 03:03 AM
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(specifically Rhymes and Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, and Aerie) are listed on Amazon as having been available on import CDs, but being currently out-of-print. Used copies are available, but they start at $79 in most cases...
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Sat Sep-13-03 05:07 AM
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13. Rhymes and Reasons (check out my Sig Line) |
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This song always moved me, but check out the line about the towers. Eerie.
So you speak to me of sadness and the coming of the winter, The fear that is within you now that seems to never end, and the dreams that have escaped you and the hope that you've forgotten, and you tell me that you need me now and you want to be my friend, and you wonder where we're going, where's the rhyme and where's the reason? And it's you cannot accept: it is here we must begin to seek the wisdom of the children and the graceful way of flowers in the wind. For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, their laughter and their loveliness would clear a cloudy day. Like the music of the mountains and the colors of the rainbow, they're a promise of the future and a blessing for today.
Though the cities start to crumble and the towers fall around us, the sun is slowly fading and it's colder than the sea. It is written: From the desert to the mountains they shall lead us, by the hand and by the heart, they will comfort you and me. In their innocence and trusting they will teach us to be free. For the children and the flowers are my sisters and my brothers, their laughter and their loveliness would clear a cloudy day. And the song that I am singing is a prayer to non-believers, come and stand beside us we can find a better way.
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Sat Sep-13-03 05:40 AM
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in my eyes can make me cry.
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Sat Sep-13-03 08:30 AM
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16. He did a song called "Friends" |
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that was sung at my high school graduation. Still chokes me up.
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Sat Sep-13-03 08:40 AM
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17. You Fill Up My Senses... |
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Sat Sep-13-03 08:42 AM
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18. Poems, Prayers, and Promises |
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is one of my favs. I voted Rocky Mountain High, though. Not a better 12-string guitar song in the singer/songwriter category.
POEMS, Prayers, and Promises
I've been lately thinking about my life's time Days they pass so quickly now, the nights are seldom long
all the things I've done and how it's been, time around me whispers when it's cold.
and I can't help believin' in my own mind The changes somehow frightens me, still I have to smile
I know I'm gonna hate to see it end. it turns me on to think of growing old.
I've seen a lot of sunshine slept out in the rain It's tho' my life's been good to me there's still so much to do
spent a night or two all on my own so many things my mind has never known
I've known my lady's pleasures had myself some friends I'd like to raise a fam'ly I'd like to sail away
spent a time or two in my own home. dance across the mountains on the moon.
Ref.) I have to say it now it's been good life all in all, it's really fine to have a chance to hang around. and lie there by the fire and watch the evening tire, while all my friends and my old lady sit and pass a pipe around and talk of poems and prayers and promises and things that we believe in, how sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday what about tomorrow and what about our dreams and all the memories we share,
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Sat Sep-13-03 08:48 AM
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20. Thank God I'm A Country Boy |
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Sat Sep-13-03 11:31 AM
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30. my old cowpunk band used to do "Thank God I'm a Millionaire" |
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Sat Sep-13-03 08:52 AM
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21. Almost heaven, West Virginia . . . . . . . |
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Edited on Sat Sep-13-03 08:52 AM by Skittles
ooh that song gives me goosebumps.
yeah, yeah I know the name of the song. :)
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Sat Sep-13-03 10:06 AM
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I've loved John Denver since childhood. First love = Rocky Mt. High. 2nd love = Country roads.
Then there's this one; I thought I'd add it since it isn't as well known; he wrote it for a relative (uncle? cousin?) who died as a young man:
Had an uncle named matthew Was his father’s only boy Born just south of colby, kansas Was his mother’s pride and joy
Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on Love was just the way to live and die Gold was just a windy kansas wheatfield Blue, just a kansas summer sky
All the stories that he told me Back when I was just a lad All the memories that he gave me All the good times that he had
Growin’ up a kansas farmboy Life was mostly havin’ fun Ridin’ on his daddy’s shoulders Behind a view beneath the sun
Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on Love was just the way to live and die Gold was just a windy kansas wheatfield Blue is just a kansas summer sky
Well, I guess there were some hard times And I’m told some years were lean They had a storm in forty-seven A twister came and stripped them clean
He lost the farm and lost his family He lost the wheat and lost his home But he found a family bible Faith as solid as a stone
Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on Love was just the way to live and die Gold was just a windy kansas wheatfield Blue, just a kansas summer sky
So he came to live at our house And he came to work the land He came to ease my daddy’s burden And he came to be my friend
So, I wrote this down for matthew And it’s for him the song is sung Ridin’ on his daddy’s shoulders Behind a mule beneath the sun
Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on Love was just the way to live and die Gold was just a windy kansas wheatfield Blue, just a kansas summer sky
Yes, and joy was just the thing that he was raised on Love was just the way to live and die Gold was just a windy kansas wheatfield Blue, just a kansas summer sky
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Sat Sep-13-03 10:43 AM
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26. Matthew was his uncle... |
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and yes, that was a very good song...
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Sat Sep-13-03 10:20 AM
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John Denver wrote songs up until his death. "For You" is a wonderful and touching love song. I had a chance to meet him in the late 80's and he was very kind. I am a huge fan of his and there is no truth to the cocaine use. He had trouble with alcohol and depression. Not cocaine. His death was a great loss for us all. After the Exxon Valdez accident, he sang the truth in one of his songs "Raven's Child"
Excerpt from "Raven's Child"
The oil king sits on his arrogant throne away and above and apart lawyers have warned him he mustn't speak and greed has made silent what once was a heart
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Sat Sep-13-03 10:49 AM
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27. Denver was a humanitarian, ecologist, environmentalist... |
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before any of these things were considered "cool."
I remember reading about how hurt he was that he was not asked to sing on the recording for "we are the world," since he had been doing humanitarian work re: to hunger for many years. Guess, Hollywood (like many of us) are pretty fickle... You're either in or "out" and by that time Denver just wasn't "cool."
While I was also guilty of stepping away when he became so commercial, I do think that his talent and contributions to so many of the ideals we all share has been underestimated.
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Sat Sep-13-03 11:03 AM
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The same year he died, Jacques Cousteau, George Burns, Princess Diana and Mother Theresa died too. It was a tough year. Since I am a huge fan of John Denver's, I often wonder what kind of songs he would have written about the troubles of today. What a loss.
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Sun Sep-14-03 05:47 AM
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39. He already wrote something about today's troubles Rhymes & Reasons |
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'Though the cities start to crumble, and the towers fall around us the sun is slowly fading and it's colder than the sea'
Yikes!
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Sat Sep-13-03 11:05 AM
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That is such a great song, about Jacques Cousteau's voyages.
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Sat Sep-13-03 05:56 PM
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37. that is my favorite too |
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I also loved "Grandma's Feather Bed".
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Sat Sep-13-03 12:30 PM
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31. I admit I'm a little ashamed of it, but I do like John Denver |
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Sat Sep-13-03 04:38 PM
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34. I've always loved him. |
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And was so sorry to lose him off the coast of my state. No shame here!
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Sat Sep-13-03 12:33 PM
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32. The Eagle and the Hawk.. |
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Great song... made me want to leave New England and explore the great western expanse.
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BEAUTIFUL...I picture the ocean whenever I hear it. :-)
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