what song is that from

Joni Mitchell - free man in paris

Will post it here with answers so far, so that no one has to page back.


NEW SET

All artists/bands are Canadian.

And here's a special WSITF first -- the "Extra Credit" quote below is worth TWO points if you're Canadian, or THREE points if you're not! Wow! Imagine! Extra points! Woohoo!


1. Possession - Sarah McLachlan (BillyEllis). Dude, I'm a HUGE SM fan, sell-out or non-sell-out. If she hadn't married her drummer back in the late 90s, I would have tried to be a groupie just to get close and have a shot. Anyone who can sing like that is my kinda gal ... and RM digs his chick-rock, yes he does.



2. Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot (1/2 to AKAbob, 1/2 to Abraxas). Bob had it first, but Braxy gets half for being Canadian.



3.
All the pain I thought I knew
All the thoughts lead back to you
Back to what was never said
Back and forth inside my head



4. Free Man in Paris - Joni Mitchell (Sir_Darkstar). Sorry AKAbob, that ol' crafty veteran Darkie-Dark swooped in and stole it from you. Reckon he's back until he builds his post total back to 5000.



5.
Drove downtown in the rain, nine-thirty on a Tuesday night
Just to check out the late-night record shop
Call it impulsive, call it compulsive, call it insane
But when I'm surrounded I just can't stop


6.
And I don't know how I survived those days
Before I held your hand
Well I never thought that I would be the one
To admit that the moon and the sun
Shine so much more brighter when
Seen through two pairs of eyes than
When seen through just one


7.
Suddenly, ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car, shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase


8. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive (AKAbob). Awesome snag, amigo.



9.
Sometimes the best map will not guide you
You can't see what's round the bend
Sometimes the road leads through dark places
Sometimes the darkness is your friend


10. Life is a Highway - Tom Cochrane (Gnaughty Billy). Good one. And no, you don't suck, and I bet you'll smack your head when you see some of these others. Incidentally, I'm 42, so I was a teenager when MTV first started ... oh the memories. Van Halen videos. ZZTop and those fuzzy twirling guitars. Phil Collins. Etc etc.



11. Extra Credit:
Went back to bed this morning
And as I'm pulling down the blind
Yeah, the sky was dull and hypothetical
And falling one cloud at a time

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Banff-Yearnin'Man

p.s. where the heck is that pot-smokin' surfin' guy, out orderin' pizza??

p.p.s. will be back with hints if needed tomorrow. I expect a few more to be gone though!

3. Avril Lavigne - Take me away
6. Cowboy junkies - Pale sun crescent moon
7. Rush - Red Barchetta

5 - Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson

9 - Bruce Cockburn - Pacing The Cage

I`m impressed, SD. And since Ramblin`Man made a set of Canadian songs, why dont you do a set of Aussie musicians some day? Perhaps you already did and I couldnt find it in the mass of replies to this long-running thread.

Im sure i did do one once Abraxas but no idea how long ago.

ill skulk into the dungeon and do one up

if thats ok with his holiness RM

ramblin'man wrote:

I guess I'm still angry at SM. I'm from the Cobain school of thought in that I would 99% of the time rather see a woman perform, or a band fronted by a woman. Personally I am bored by cock rock and the rednecks in the crowd. I like my lyrics to MEAN something beyond thinly veiled references to the sexual prowess of the frighteningly effeminate lead singer (I grew up in the 80's myself).

SM started out empowering women, but I was so disappointed when I saw her video for one of the singles off Surfacing where suddenly she was all wet and scantily clothed. I tuned her out then and I don't think I have listened to any of her albums since then, which is sad because I really dug her style. It was one thing when Madonna stooped to using sex to sell her music. She was always a bit of a tart to begin with. But SM stood for something, for art and music that didn't need blatantly sexual imagery in the videos to be successful. It was like a kick in the gut for me to see someone whose work I respected go that route, and I guess I haven't gotten over it yet.

And good old Phil I-performed-at-both-Live-Aid-concerts Collins! How about the Genesis video for "Land of Confusion"? None of the crap videos the talentless pretty faces of today are making can hold a candle to puppets!

It really eats at me that I have the CDs of the albums that most of these songs are from and still draw a total blank when given a clip of the lyrics. Considering that if I heard ten seconds of the music of most any of those songs I could almost instantly name the song and band and year that it was down it bothers me all the more now. But then I remind myself that for all the technical or artistic brilliance that I may have put a handful of letters for a game of Scrabble in front of me and I'm equally lost; it's just the way it is.

Years ago I saw Sarah McL. just before she became a big name open for Blue Rodeo. Although her and her band had that weariness of having been on the road too long her performance had that air to it of someone stepping up to the next level.

Blue Rodeo had a great Spinal Tap moment just as they started into their first song of the night when Greg Keelor's guitar strap broke and the neck swung up and nearly gave him a knockout blow to the forehead. But they didn't break stride with the song as a roadie somehow managed to fix the strap as they continued playing.

otiscleotus wrote:

I solved the BTO song in a heartbeat. I came back in later, looked at the BTO lyrics, and thought of a completely different song. The lyrics from "Devil Woman" is almost the same cadence for reading prose, but a completely different musical sound. I read the Joni Mitchell prose much faster the first time around. It came out more like a Weird Al polka.

otiscleotus wrote:
It is a little disheartening, isn't it? Father Time is a mean sonofabitch.

Anyway, for shits and giggles, I have a slight variation on WSITF - call it the WSITF Jumble for lack of a better name. I'm sure we all remember the days before the internet was as useful for immediately looking up information as it is now. And I'm sure we all remember a few mysterious lines from songs from that era where, try as we might, no one could figure out WTF the lyrics to that line were supposed to be, and everyone came up with their own 'translations.'

So here is one that I remember from college. This is the best that 4 of us brainstorming together drunk could come up with:

"I love you till the fortune candle on your cake"

Can you identify the artist and song?

billyellis wrote:

Heh. Knew that one right away, as I love that group and listen to that album (Four) quite a lot.

Blues Traveler - Run Around

That would be a great thread, Mr. Ellis. However, you'd probably get more participation in a music forum, like Darkstar's. Here, I think it would just be you, me, and maybe a few others like that pot-smokin' surfer dude.

I will close down this set tomorrow. Still a couple things to be had ... the name of the Cowboy Junkies song is incorrect (#6). Also, the "Extra Credit" song is still up for grabs, though its a toughie. Here are some more verses from that:

I left your house this morning
About a quarter after nine
Coulda been the Willie Nelson
Coulda been the wine

That night in Toronto
With its checkerboard floors
Riding on horseback
And keeping order restored

'Til the men they couldn't hang
Stepped to the mic and sang
And their voices rang
With that Aryan twang

The band is one of the more famous from and in Canada, formed in the mid-80s in Ontario. Awesome awesome band, especially live, that really should have hit it bigger elsewhere.


Sir Esteemed and Venerable Darkstar wrote:

Hey now SD, what the hell is THAT shit about? I'm just keeping this thread warm until you decide to once again start posting more ... I'm not buying that "retirement" crap any longer. Really, do what you want, its your sandbox, the rest of us are just playing in it.

Otis Cleotus, why do I get the feeling that you are NOT really from Micronesia? I'm totally jealous that you got to see SM before she was famous, that is veddy veddy cool. Thanks for hangin' out even if you have trouble remembering lyrics, no worries. Hell, its not everybody's thing either -- Gnome gknows more about music than practically anyone I've ever met -- hell he's probably forgotten more than I'll ever gknow -- but he's gnever been too good at this stupid trivial game. Keep tryin' though, you never know what might click. And thanks for sharing the Sarah stories. You too Billy. And by the way BE I saw Phil at Live Aid in Philly in 1985. It was quite a big deal then, but yeah, now it seems rather trivial to think he played at both parts of the concert. Reckon things were different then.

AKAbob, I don't think any of us would put a lyric containing the song title as the test ... but it can be a distraction when the words point to a different song title, like with Devil Woman. Cliff Richard, yikes! But ... weird Al polka? Huh? Got me by the balls on that one.

RM

the bonus song: I cant recall the name of that last one, but I think it is called Bob Cajun, named for an old Acadian settlement of the same name that now is a camping/cottage area for Ontarians. The group is Tragically Hip.

ramblin'man wrote:
Damn. I wondered whether anyone would ever get that one. I would start a thread if I could think of some more of these, but try as I might, I can't. I know there are a few lurking just beyond the grasp of my memory, but I can't quite remember them. My apologies if WSITFJumble was out of place here.

ramblin'man wrote:
First off, if you went to Live Aid in '85, then you are older than I am. Ha ha ha.

Second, I meant no disrespect to PC. I think what he did was very honorable. I am more surprised (or maybe not) that no other pampered rock celebrities made the same effort in the name of such a great cause. I just meant that 20 years later, that may end up being what PC is best remembered for, since his music has not aged all to well. The biggest spike of interest in his music in the last decade was probably when Eminem referenced "In The Air Tonight" in one of his singles a few years back...

billyellis wrote:

Nahhh, no worries. This is as good a place as any for "misheard lyrics". I think if you search, you'll find lots and lots of that kind of thing, including entire sites devoted to it. I can think of a few songs off the top of my head which have "famously misheard" lyrics ... Mannfred Mann's Earth Band famous cover of "Blinded by the Light" (wrapped up like a douche?!?!) ... Pearl Jam's "Even Flow" (something about a porcupine?!?!) ... Elton John's "Benny and the Jets" (electric boobs? A mohair suit???) ... etc etc ad nauseum.

Hey Billy, you're a Nirvana fan. Listen to All Apologies. Choking on the ashes of a runaway???

Oh, and I got your Blues Traveler because I am basically a freak. And it just clicked right away, didn't even have to think about it, as I knew the song really well and reading what you wrote, yadda yadda.

billyellis wrote:

Well I would say something clever like "I was 3 years old!". But alas, I was a 19-yr-old, there with all my old high school friends (we had all graduated over a year before, so it seemed a good place for a post-freshmen-year-of-college reunion). There were about 100 million of us there on that old cement stadium, packed in yet spread out in the July heat (felt like mebbe 110 degrees because of the danged concrete) on towels and blankets and such. Along with bushels of Mother's Finest!

A person could have sold a bag of chips for like $20.

Bizarre day, as most of my friends and I were there for like 18 hours, plus drive time and parking blah blah, and stayed for the whole shebang which started around 8am. And thank gawd for the big screens, because we were nowhere near the GI-normous stage! Lots of memories, good and bad. And strange. For example, 23 years later, seeing Led Zep perform (with Phil on drums) seems like it should have been more significant than it actually was at the time, if that makes sense. Black Sabbath was wayyyy too early in the day, like, mid-morning? No no no. My own personal favorite was Neil Young though, doing Needle and the Damage Done, Sugar Mountain, Powderfinger, and Helpless. Then again I will also never forget the whinging of the idjits who came without sunscreen and/or hats. Oopsie! Hello, its outdoors in mid-JULY...

Oh yeah. And there was something about a benefit.

What Phil did was cool, but I never cared for his solo work very much. Now Genesis before 1983 ish, wellll, that's another matter.

Digressin'Man

Now Genesis before 1983 ish, wellll, that's another matter.

Selling England By The Pound. With a lot of bands and artists that have had their BIG selling album it is usually the album that comes before that is often times the finer piece of work and sets the stage so to speak for the big seller. And just as often the album that came after the big seller has frequently been pretty lacking if not outright awful.