And for said Monkees song alone, a legend.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 January 2008 09:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
heaven needed someone to turn the music into gold.
(I'm never using that construct again, btw)
― Mark G, Monday, 21 January 2008 09:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
Very sad news. "Gold" in particular deserved to be a much bigger hit in the UK; good enough to have been on Tusk.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 21 January 2008 11:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
the album Gold is on, Bombs Away Dream Babies, is one of the great lost late 70s LA cowboy-pop LPs.
rip
― m coleman, Monday, 21 January 2008 12:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
I can't be surprised at any member of the Kingston Trio getting an R.I.P. thread, but it's still sad.
Except for David Guard (who's the only one to have died prematurely, relatively speaking, of cancer in 1988), the rest were in that documentary DVD that came out a year or two ago, and none of them look like they had long to live. :(
― Mackro Mackro, Monday, 21 January 2008 16:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
oh man i just got california bloodlines for christmas. it's a really good album. r.i.p.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 21 January 2008 17:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Runaway Train" is a terrific song; I'm thinking of the Rosanne Cash version, which is a stunning performance by all parties involved, but the lyrics are exquisite: "long-distance phone calls / a voice on the line / electrical miles / that soften the time". Did he write this for her? "that soften the time" just kills me; as a reply to "electrical miles", all sharp & distant, & yet they soften.
Evidently Cash's version was #1 on the country charts for 14 weeks!
― Euler, Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, that was Cash's peak: what, four or five consecutive #1's?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
I always loved the song "Dreamers on the Rise," which is used throughout "Hot Dog: The Movie." The male lead sings a version to seduce a female hitchhiker he is sharing a motel room with. It is a deeply strange clash; this haunting and sad country-folk song in the middle of this mid-80s Shannon Tweed boob-o-rama.
― She Got the Shakes, Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow i always thought daydream believer was a neil diamond song
― goole, Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
That's their other "Believer" song. But I can't throw stones, I make that same mistake sometimes.
― Poldark City (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 September 2010 00:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 6 July 2012 17:44 (10 months ago) Permalink
"Gold" is the perfect summer sunset music: it goes with the vapor rising from the asphalt
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 July 2012 17:47 (10 months ago) Permalink
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 15 September 2012 14:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
Drove through torrential Kansas downpour en route to meet the woman I love in Oklahoma City, you better believe I was thinking of this song. Found a copy of CA Bloodlines at an OKC thrift shop, too. Didn't realize Stewart was in the Kingston Trio.
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 15 September 2012 15:19 (8 months ago) Permalink