marvin Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Ira I love Bread and "It Don't Matter..", but I had a total mental block on your lyric. Ok who's next? If no volunteers, how about the lyric that I've got at the bottom of my posts?Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sterling Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Either B.B. King's The Thrill is Gone or John Mellencamp's Jack and DianePhil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Nope and nope.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Ummmm....Mama Cass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Allright,..."After The Thrill Is Gone", Eagles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Yes.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Here's a pop classic (imo) if ever there was one:"If things are the same then explain why your kiss is so cold,And that mist in your eyes feels like rain on the fire in my soul."Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Think this is right..if it is I'm not sure how I remember it as the song made no real impression on me: "Smoke From A Distant Fire", Sanford Townsend..or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Here you go:"I want to hear the pealing bellsOf distant chruches singBut most of all please free meFrom this aching metal ringAnd open out this cage towards the sun" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 James you're right, the song is "Smoke From A Distant Fire." From beginning to end, it is a pop masterpiece. Incredible musicanship, biting lyrics, it's got it all.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Ok Marvin, looks like we have trivia in common, and anyone else out there. Here's one..."Just to let you know, I'm gonna be home soon. Kinda awkward and afraid, time has changed your point of view". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 I'm stuck on James' and Bill C's lyrics. Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Skyline Pigeon, Elton.The others an Alice Cooper tune I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 raspberrywine you are correct on the Alice Cooper Tune....I'm restricting my lyrics to Top 40 charted. It's too hard to try and guess an obscure track off an album (for me anyway). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldblue Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Thought I'd bring in a few lines from songs that have fascinated me or driven me half-crazy in the past and the present:"...when you're old enough to repay, but young enough to sell.""My life is brilliant. My love is pure. I saw an angel, of that I'm sure.""Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule."Guess away. There are stories that go with each of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill C Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldblue Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 In answer to the first question mark: "...when you're old enough to repay, but young enough to sell." is from "Tell Me Why" by Neil Young. For years I wondered what that meant, until I read an Neil Young interview in which he revealed that he didn't know either. (By that time, it was not one of his favorite compositions.) Still, it's a song that sounds pretty good.Any takers on the other 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 RWine is correct-a-mundo!I consider the original version of "Skyline Pigeon" (from Empty Sky with the stunning harpsichord) to be Elton John and Bernie Taupin's best song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Its a gem. I love that early Elton; "Take me to the Pilot" etc etc. Relatedly, I always thought Eric was as good as Elton or Billy Joel in a melodic sense, and arrangements, but those Elton and Joel brought into account a tremendous amount of diversity in terms of the lyrics. An incredible number of subjects, themes, etc. Taupin was brilliant. I always thought Eric needed to spread it out a bit lyrically. Consider more themes, issues, feelings. I hope when the Raspberries record again, he spreads it out a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted December 14, 2005 Author Share Posted December 14, 2005 Very nice lyric. No idea who James Blunt is.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMMY TUNES Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Q. NAME THAT TUNE. A. TOMMY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldblue Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Kathy - Congratulations on detecting #2. I agree with you on James Blunt's song. Now that it's got airplay on Adult Contemp radio, I suspect a lot of people will be like me shortly....can't get the song out of my head. I especially like the "false start" at the beginning. It's amazing how the line "My life is brilliant" can encompass so much. That song, and the album "Back to Bedlam" is one of the little gems of 2005. And no less of a critic than Elton John ranked "You're Beautiful" up there with "Your Song" as a potential future standard.Now....how about them jewels and binoculars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachie Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 "We all have a face that we hide away forever" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScentLady Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 "We all have a face that we hide away forever" The Stranger - Billy Joel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Allen Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 Ernest Borgnine (a face that SHOULD have been hid away forever...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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