CONFESS!!! You really dug "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks

[LynneSin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_Fdly3rX8

I thought that was the greatest song every created!

Goodbye, Michelle, my little one,
You gave me love and helped me find the sun,
And every time that I was down
You would always come around
And get my feet back on the ground;
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air,
Whiff of flowers ev'rywhere,
I wish that we could both be there!

[carlyhippy]

1. It was originally supposed to be recorded by the Beach Boys

but they decided against it, so Terry Jacks sang it himself.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. Actually the Beach Boys did record it

...but I don't blame for not releasing it. Hardly a shining moment for them.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzjIra9pheU


Now on the other hand, Nirvana's version is pure genius, because they obviously weren't taking it seriously.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO4BF67pvsc

[carlyhippy]

31. ACK!!! Even Carl's beautiful voice couldn't save that one

yikes
C.

[texanwitch]

2. Hell no.

I would kill the radio when that stupid song came on.

[gmoney]

3. wasn't it a Jacques Brel knockoff?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhvoYYIdnQ

[NJmaverick]

4. I prefer Blink 182's version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2FmsWSjQ4

[Sebastian Doyle]

40. Except that's not Blink 182

It's Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. They're a punk cover band. Not the first time something was mislabeled on YouTube.

Here's another one of their great covers....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpb0XB-gT_U

..you might recognize it from a recent Micro$oft Bing ad.

[NJmaverick]

49. I have an MP3 from 2000 that listed the artist as Blink 182

so this is an old error, it's even in the Wikipedia entry for the song.

[Sebastian Doyle]

50. Napster & WinMX were horrible for mislabeled downloads.

Hell, there's even a few YouTube clips out there that credit the following performance to The Beatles.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzbjEXBcIYU

The Beatles weren't even a band when that song was recorded in 1973, and none of them ever joined the Stones (unless you count Billy Preston)

[NJmaverick]

51. Now what makes you think I would use something like Napster?

O8)

[Sebastian Doyle]

52. How else would you get an MP3 in 2000?

None of the "legal" services existed yet. Hell, I downloaded lots of stuff myself. Amazingly enough, I did it all on a dial up connection. Of course I didn't bother with anything I could actually buy in a record store, because MP3 files are never equal in sound quality, whether you pay for them or not.

Lars Ulrich and Rahm's brother Ari might judge you for downloading, but I never would.

[susanr516]

5. Arrgghh!

I hated it.

[gbate]

6. Goodbye Papa, please pray for me. I was the black sheep of the family.

[Burma Jones]

7. No, not when I was a kid and not now.........

I play it to my kids when I want them to stop bickering with each other in the car......

[LynneSin]

8. In some states that's a form of Child Abuse you know

Just saying!

[gratuitous]

9. Nah, too busy listening to Muskrat Love

Ah, the Captain and Tennille. Where are they now?

Ninth Circle of Dante's Inferno methinks.

[texanwitch]

14. Muskrat Love, cute little song.

Muskrat Susie and Muskrat Sam

I can hear that song now.

Nothing like a love song about two muskrats having sex.

[Skittles]

19. SCHEDULING TEXANWITCH FOR AN ASS-KICKING

WAXING ON ABOUT MUSKRAT SEX AGAIN

ALSO WHERE IS THAT FUCKING FALL SEASON, TW? I WILL KICK YOUR ASS AGAIN.

[texanwitch]

20. It is fall here.

It is cool 92, beats the hell out of 102.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKw8j7GLSdw

THIS IS A CUTE SONG ABOUT MUSKRAT SEX.

[texanwitch]

22. This is a great song.

This if for the humans here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSWxgMlsOyU

[texanwitch]

23. The follow up song.

Don't say the 70's didn't have great music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3AsjTjmKWk

[kentauros]

24. What do you want Fall for?

I love the heat! :D
(no, really, I do love the heat)

[texanwitch]

25. You leave me no choice.

:spank: :kick:

:pals:

[kentauros]

27. That just makes me want to go

[Skittles]

28. you Houston fuckers all need your humid asses kicked

yes INDEED :hi:

[kentauros]

33. No humid asses here

but there are some humid horses:




:hi:

[Skittles]

36. awwwwwwwwww

purty horses

gorgeous picture! :thumbsup:

[kentauros]

39. Thanks!

:)

They live on the power right-of-way behind this apartment.

[LynneSin]

55. Wow you're so busy you have to schedule ass-kickings?

What happened to random acts of kicking ass?

[betharina]

10. born in 1975.

for some reason it is on my ipod. gottal love the one hit wonders!

[RobinA]

11. Absolutely Loved It

Used to listen to the radio just waiting for it to come one, which was about twice an hour in those days. I must say, it hasn't worn well...

[LynneSin]

12. OMG ME TOO!!

I'd wait by the radio in hopes of hearing that cheesy song.

[fishnfla]

13. No but its been bugging me lately:

who would leave a cake out in the rain?

and howcome she wont have that recipe again?

[kentauros]

26. And how could you expect to have the recipe again

whether you left the cake in the rain or not? It's not like she's the Fat Lady of Limbourg and has a sense of taste enabling her to distinguish with her tongue the subtleties a spectrograph would miss. :P

[texanwitch]

34. She didn't write down the recipe.

She can always use a cake mix.

[BuelahWitch]

15. I did, but I was only 11 years old

I didn't know any better!

[applegrove]

48. I loved it too. I think it was my first fav song ever. And my taste has not improvved.

[Fire Walk With Me]

16. Shut up.

:cry:

[elocs]

18. Actually, I didn't mind it. It seemed to fit the times. n/t

[kentauros]

21. I didn't even know who wrote it until your post

:P

I didn't really get into listening to popular music until the early 70s. Then it was Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, Kraftwerk's Autobahn, Blue Oyster Cult and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

How about the staying power of "Lucky Man" ? :)

[jobycom]

53. It was "translated" by Rod McKuen, sung by Terry Jacks.

It was originally written and recorded in French by Jacques Brel as "Le Moribund." Brel's was a funny song that teased his best friend and told him to look after his wife whom he had been cheating with anyway. Rod McKuen rewrote it without the humor. McKuen and Jacks did that to another Brel song, "Ne me Qitte Pas," which they called "If you go away."

[Ikonoklast]

29. CONFESS!!! You really dug "Raisons out of my Bum" by Harry Sacks

"Skyyyyrockets in flight.....Afternoon delight! Ahhhhhhh, afternoon delight!"

Take that for that shitty earworm!

[texanwitch]

32. Another song about sex.

This song will stay with you.

[texanwitch]

30. I don't know what the song is about.

I turned 13 and all I got was crappy music for the next 3 years.

Don't forget the song Sugar, Sugar.

[kentauros]

37. Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn

fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf der Autobahn

Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal

die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl!

:D

[texanwitch]

42. Another great song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEUWtdV7hsM

[Skittles]

35. it's certainly not the worst insipid song

that would be AFTERNOON DELIGHT :puke:

[texanwitch]

38. That song is about human sex.

In the aftenoon.

I hope under a tree to avoid a bad sunburn.

[kentauros]

41. Although I like the imagery in "Midnight at the Oasis"

it's not a favorite tune.


Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Shadows paintin' our faces
Traces of romance in our heads
Heaven's holdin' a half-moon
Shinin' just for us
Let's slip off to a sand dune, real soon
And kick up a little dust
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, till the evenin' ends
Till the evenin' ends
You don't have to answer
There's no need to speak
I'll be your belly dancer, prancer
And you can be my sheik

I know your Daddy's a sultan
A nomad known to all
With fifty girls to attend him, they all send him
Jump at his beck and call
But you won't need no harem, honey
When I'm by your side
And you won't need no camel, no no
When I take you for a ride
Come on, Cactus is our friend
He'll point out the way
Come on, till the evenin' ends
Till the evenin' ends
Midnight at the oasis
Send your camel to bed
Got shadows paintin' our faces
And traces of romance in our heads

[texanwitch]

43. I like this song.

The songs were not so innocent.

[kentauros]

44. I liked it way back when.

and I do like the lyrics, so there's that ;)

This is kinda catchy:
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/DP/2007/03/089_Dave_Frishberg_-_The_Ballad_of_Ralph_Nader.mp3
(mp3 link)

:P

[pokerfan]

56. Another "innocent" song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknAdVvNM

I got a brand new pair of roller skates
You got a brand new key
I think that we should get together and try them out you see

[texanwitch]

45. Don't forget the Andrew Sister's Rum and Coca-Cola.

JUst listen to it.

This came out during WWII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWY4_GyLufI

[texanwitch]

46. This song I really hate, with a passion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-OrVQaqkg0

[Iggo]

47. Yes. But I was only little. (n/t)

[jobycom]

54. When I was ten my best friend used to sing that song to me. Then, you guessed it....

he died.

We used to both sing it. His father managed the Flamingo Motel in Biloxi, Mississippi (which amazingly survived Camille and Katrina). We used to sing that song while playing in the swimming pool.

His father was studying mortuary science at a trade school while doing this, and I lost track of Sidney for a couple of months as they moved back to Bay St. Louis. Then one night Sidney was walking home in the Kiln, hometown of Brett Faver, btw, and was hit by a car driven by a relative of his. He was walking facing the traffic, and the car went to pass another car, and hit Sidney, killing him instantly.

His father had just taken a job managing a new funeral parlor. His first funeral was his son's. I swear to god, you can't make that up.

I loved that song until that day. I still can cry if I hear it without expecting it.

[Tabasco_Dave]

57. I remember the schoolyard parody

"we had joy we had fun we had seasons in the sun but a cop came along and shot me in the buns"

[RFKHumphreyObama]

58. Thanks for the link

I have now bookmarked it:hi: