what song is that from

OK Here's one for you old timer's like me.... You young whippersnappers will probably never get this one. Trying to keep this thread alive, here goes...

Apollo taught me to rhyme
Orpheus taught me to play
Andromeda cast down her sign
And Vega lights my way

Hint: I'm listening to him on Vinyl as I type this...

Melmac

melmac wrote:

damn all I can hear is crackle, could you turn the volume up a bit?

You need a new stylus for your cartridge (sigh... story of my life....)

melmac wrote:


HUH?????

bigpaulie426 wrote:

Seriously, do I need to explain the joke????

Anyone?

ROFLMAO, dont panic melmac I got it.

nice one.

I used to have one of those cool portable record players where you stuck the record in sidewards and you could carry it like a chetto blaster.

Damn thing nearly ruined every record I have, lmao, wonderful thing metho, cleans up everything.

sir_darkstar wrote:

Thanks, SD, I remember seeing those ghetto-blaster record players in the Sears catalog when I was a
k i d. Never had one, though.

My first record player was a hand-me-down from some unknown relative, and I think it might have actually had vacuum tubes in it (maybe called "valves" to you guys down under, not sure.) For sure,
the euro guys called them valves.... Anyway I still have fond memories of vinyl records and my grade school favorite recording artist, who is dead now by way of an experimental airplane crash...

So, after a couple of stiff Vodkas and all this reminiscing, I'll try to remember the topic.... Oh yea, "What song is that from?"

A few posts above, I gave some lyrics. Any of you "old timers" remember who it is?

Melmac

Maaan, when I was a k.i.d, I got a white transistor radio, and I was in heaven! I couldn't believe that listening to music on the radio was actually free! Oh, man, summer nights with a lil shitty transistor radio...a happy lil gnome was I!

Hey, S_D, did you really have one of those portable record players?! Damn, I bet you were the coolest in the neighborhood back then (maybe still...?), and I mean that most sincere. Fuckin' records...! I must have bought three copies of every ELP record.

Sorry, Melmac, I haven't the foggiest...

sir_darkstar wrote:

Now that was funny, Sir_D.

Happy Easter, Bitches!

It is, in fact, a "Good Friday" when I see the mighty Grimblus Supera Omnus pokin' his furry lil' face in this music thread. I do miss his gift o' the gab -- definitely one of the things that brings the ol' Rambler back to FP. And all you other guys too, dammit, I hope everyone is well. Okay, enough strokin'.

Funny you guys talking about turntables and styluses and all that. Just yesterday I was talking in Darkstar's place about how I wore down my stylus down to a little nubbin listening to Black Sabbath's double album "We Sold Our Soul for Rock and Roll". And when you're 13 years old that was guaranteed to attract negative parental attention.

Melmac, your verse was John Denver, and I believe the song is called "Spirit"? Its that song that starts out '2 spirits joined and a soul was born". RIP John. His ashes were scattered in the mountains near Aspen (Colorado), very few more beautiful places around -- see attached pictures of the "Maroon Bells", 2 twin mountains nearby -- and one of my favorite hiking spots in all of Colorado (which is actually saying quite a bit, since the entire western half of the state is ferkin' incredible).





I saw that Mr. Crazy Chicken aka Plucky Pullet posted a set a while ago, a good set in fact, so I'm going to snag a few of those. Not that I don't enjoy the talk about turntables, but hey, the conversation inevitably leads back to 8-tracks and all that other newfangled technology you lucky people had when you were young. Why, when I was a chiild we had to make do with rocks ... rocks you hit against other rocks to make certain noises ...


2. Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell, though more famously done by Judy Collins. And hey, there was also that cover by Hole. Good one Melmac.

3. Runaway - Del Shannon. Nineteen - Sixty - One? Two? Oldie. Sad story, this guy. Killed himself when he got older. RIP amigo.

4. Do you think I'm sexy - Rod Stewart. SHOULD have killed himself a long time ago. Oh, I'm just kidding ...

5. Dreamer - Supertramp. From their underrated Crime of the Century album.

6. Cum on feel the noise - Slade. Only reason I know this is that I looked up the band and read a lot when our friend the Sladebear first arrived here in FP. More famously covered by Quiet Riot, of course.

7. Three Little Birds - Bob Marley. (yahh mon)(RM takes long drag)(ohhh yeaaahh).

11. Cannonball - Breeders


Good ones Mr. Squalid Squab. Thanks for lettin' me play.

Returnin'Man

Bump. Because I was told to.

crazy_chicken wrote:

Hey there Mr. Wacky Winger, not sure if you're still around ... if you are, want to post the answers? I got some there, and Melmac got one too I believe. Or should I just go ahead and post a new set?

Thanks CC.

RM

ramblin'man wrote:

I`m eager to play, just not very good at it :s

ramblin'man wrote:

I'm still here, hiking homo sapiens. Not as often as I used to be here, but still around, working on my "new" celb thread.

Here are the answers:

1. The lemon pipers - Green tambourine
2. Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
3. Del Shannon - Runaway
4. Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?
5. Supertramp - Dreamer
6. Slade - Cum on feel the noize
7. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Three Little Birds
8. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky
9. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
10. Kristin Hersh (and Mike Stipe) - Your ghost
11. The Breeders - Cannonball
12. Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack

Not a bad score for the ramblin' dude!! Looking forward to your set.

well i guess i missed the last set

greetings peps we meet again

thought i'd drop by and lower the tone of the neighbourhood

robin hood 1 wrote:
Oh crap there goes the neighborhood. Excuse me ... neighbourhood. Quick everyone, put away the Jimmy Cliff, Sex Pistols, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and No Doubt.

Well meinen damnen and hairen let's see about reviving this here thread. Will be curious to see how many of the old crowd shows up. Would be cool if older know-most-everything Brits like Cassandrova and BackfootBob did us the honour of gracing us with their presence (I have a couple tracks here especially for you two), not to mention a certain awesome Gnome, a certain imposing font-of-musical-knowledge former marine, and a certain retired Aussie senior moderator. And of course Mr. Insane-in-the-BirdBrain.

In fact, maybe we should encourage more participation by limiting the number of answers per post? I won't mention any names (Crazy_Chicken), but certain people like to respond and get all the easy ones blah blah blah. Yes, I'm guilty of this too.

So how about no more than 2 answers per post per 24 hours? Sound reasonable? If we don't get other people we can go back to the usual way.

Here's a set I just schlepped together. If you know me, you'll know there'll be a "theme", which will soon become evident. Several easy ones, a couple stumpers, you know the drill.


1.
You see her confidence is tragic
But her intuition magic
And the shape of her body - unusual


2.
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?


3.
Now Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers
And they've been known to pick a song or two, yes they do
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I'm feeling blue
Now how about you?


4.
Staring at the stars above
Wonder what are we made of
Some folks say that they know right away
So you look on a cloud for a lullaby


5.
This lady she asked me, If I would be her man
You know that I told her, I'd do what I can
To keep her looking pretty
Buy her dresses that shine
While the rest of them dudes were making their bread
Buddy, beg your pardon, I was losing mine!


6.
Stopped into a church, I passed along the way
Well, I got down on my knees
And I pretend to pray
You know the preacher likes the cold
He knows I'm gonna stay.


7.
Fire on the Mountain, run, boys, run.
Devil's in the House of the Risin' Sun.
Chicken in the breadpan picking out dough,
Granny does your dog bite, "No, chi.ld, no."


8.
She ain't the kind to turn
At the drop of her name
Well all the things she does
They turn you on just the same
And I love her,
God knows I love her.


9.
I've seen all the movie stars
In their fancy cars and their limousines
Been high in the Rockies under the evergreens
But I know what I'm needing
And I don't want to waste more time


10.
I was raised a farmgirl
I'm too far from home, all alone on the road
Trying to figure out who I am now the the stardust has turned to sand
And the sand has turned to stone on the starmaking machine.


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Schleppin'Man

p.s. there will be no mention of anything Yankees-Red Sox in this thread!

Ok, you imperial walker.....


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