Is "Sweet Caroline" An Anomaly In That...

Everybody screams something about "get laid get fucked"

ANd I'll try to stop captializing the second letter of every sentence sometime later.

Er, 'round these parts, people sing the horn part in "Sweet Caroline"'s chorus, i.e.

Sweet Caroline
~BA, BA-DAAAAA
Good times nehh-ver felt so
etc
etc

I guess I just have no experience with either of the two examples being used in this thread.

OTM!

so this is commonly accepted and understood across the US?

The UVa fight song has a well-publicized and well-accepted example, too. It goes "something something where all are something and gay [not gay!]." Homophobia ingrained in your school's fight song = teh awesome.

I mean...Jewish...

then no one ever did.

Never heard the "so good" thing but definitely "Ba ba-daaaa" in Sweet Caroline.

I always sing "excuse me while I kiss this guy" when I'm listening to Hendrix but that's just a me thing, probably.

Ohio represented,

GREAT post!

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Wastin away again in Margaraitaville (yes I am yes I am)
Searching for my lost shaker of salt
Some people claim that there's a woman to blame (there always is)
but I know....

At Penn State (and probably many other places), the "ba! baa! baa!" following "SWEET CAROLINE!" is replaced etc...

What do you mean "At Penn State"? I don't get it. YOU ALL HAVE WEIRD SOCIAL EXPERIENCES I'VE NEVER HAD. Never in my life have I been in a situation where there were a large number of people who would have had occasion to SING ALONG to a Neil Diamond song. WTF?

A ROCK WHERE WE RESPECT THE DIAMOND AND REMAIN SILENT DURING PERFORMANCES OF HIS WORKS.

I think the ideas expressed in this thread should be addressed in a pretentious Stylus Magazine article entitled "The Rocky Horroring Of Pop Music"

There's a new sensation (sweeping the nation)
A fabulous creation (it's time for celebration)
A dancable solution (the next wave of evolution)
to teenage revolution (so good, so good, so good)

to teenage revolution (re-volve, re-volve, re-volve)

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The way I've heard this done in PA, NYC, and DE:

"Wasting away again in Margaritaville" (Margaritaville, fuckin' Margaritaville)
"Searchin' for my lost shaker of salt" (Where the hell's my shaker of salt?!)

And I've been hearing the "Mony Mony" add-ons since college but I never knew what exactly people were singing.

"Hank, why do you drink? (TO GET DRUNK!)
Hank, why do you roll smoke? (TO GET STONED!)
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote? (TO GET LAID!)"

I will sue you.

am I ever gonna see your face again? (NO WAY GET FUCKED FUCK OFF)

http://s39.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2F8OSVGHECHA132L2EV9I4AYN9

1. do the authors/peformers know?
2. do they care?
3. have any ever stated, "don't do that shit to my song."

"There is" WHAT!
"A house" WHERE!
"In new orleans" WHAT'S IT CALLED!
"They call the rising sun" ...
.....
"And God" WHAT!
"I know" WHO'S A PRAT?
"I'm one"

Neil Diamond ACTIVELY PROMOTES the "so good, so good" amendments in his live show. (Although when I saw him, the "ba ba baaaa" became "WOH WOH WOH".) Sportingly, he also performs the song twice in succession.

they just discussed. this on I Love the 80s 3-D. It still doesn't make sense.

-- haitch (big.jesus.trash.ca...), October 15th, 2005.
classic, good call
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i have always wondered how that Mony Mony thing came to be.
-- Kim (grimstitc...), October 15th, 2005.

it was from a building with a sign called " mony"

OK, I was watching the big hockey game the other day and finally experienced that "Sweet Caroline" audience-singalong thing for the first time when it was played over the PA during a stoppage in play. (Red Wings fans also love to shout out "...SOUTH DETROIT!" in unison when the PA plays "Don't Stop Believin'", which is apparently done late in the third period of every game at the Joe.)

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Shit. Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CtTXvxSiQ

The song belongs to Boston. And the Yankees suck. More here: http://www.bostonspastime.com/sweetcaroline.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUA_H_UV9uI

the other day i was singing along to this song while shelving & i turned around to pick up a loaf of bread just as it broke into the chorus & i had direct face-to-face eye contact w/ this woman who was approaching pushing a carriage, singing along too, in a meek & respectable way, i was totally into it even pumped my fists to the horn punches. she was smiling at me in the best & sweetest way afterwards, as if we had shared some important life moment together. man, definitely one of the best songs ever right

i think the trick is, like, the slow upward crawl of the chord progressions towards the chorus. there's one more than i always expect

I hate that Boston uses a Neil Diamond song, they sound like idiots singing that. Then again it's not the catchiest Neil Diamond song, is it?

<quote>the other day i was singing along to this song while shelving & i turned around to pick up a loaf of bread just as it broke into the chorus & i had direct face-to-face eye contact w/ this woman who was approaching pushing a carriage, singing along too, in a meek & respectable way, i was totally into it even pumped my fists to the horn punches. she was smiling at me in the best & sweetest way afterwards, as if we had shared some important life moment together. man, definitely one of the best songs ever right

― flopson</quote>
The question is, were you both doing the "so good so good so good" part?

And great point re the upward chord progression, def. know what you mean.

Never heard or heard of the "so good" thing until tonight btw (same goes for Rudolph).

"pass the salt, pass the motherfucking salt"

^I felt like I was in another world 1st time this happened ot me...

Roy "Chubby" Brown I think it was.
― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:26 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes, it was. he is a cunt (although he'd probably take that as a compliment).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:36 (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He would, as that is his punchline to a "you are what you eat" joke.