― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 04:04 (8 years ago) Permalink
i like 'operator' 'new yorks not my home' 'photographs and memories' and 'time in a bottle' but i dont really like any of the blues inflected stuff
― trashthumb, Thursday, 25 October 2007 07:52 (5 years ago) Permalink
New account, Geir?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm just me, trashthumb! How y'all doing!?
― trashthumb, Thursday, 25 October 2007 08:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
Well, "Time In a Bottle" is a beautiful song. Other than that I've only heard "Bad Boy Leroy Brown", which I like less.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 25 October 2007 09:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" I mean.
Operator is really great, and as mentioned above, dude totally looks like the genetic mashup clone of the Marx Brothers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8XctJKo
― gershy, Saturday, 8 December 2007 05:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
He was featured as a "character" on the U.S. "Life on Mars" last week. I'd already been thinking of "Operator" for weeks. Dude still rules.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Thing I'd been thinking of, actually: Elvis Sings Croce. And not Costello.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
Never happened, by the way.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 13 November 2008 09:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone ...
― ich habe eine Schwarzzauberfrau (Eisbaer), Monday, 4 April 2011 07:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Well a hush fell over the pool roomWhen Jim he come boppin' off the streetAnd when the cuttin' was doneThe only part that wasn't bloody was the soles of the big man's feetAnd he was cut in 'bout a hundred placesAnd he was shot in a couple moreAnd you better believe they sung a different kind of storyWhen big Jim hit the floor"
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 05:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
"I only wish my words could just convince myself that it just wasn't real. But that's not the way it feels."
This kills me every time. "Operator" is so great.
― Mule, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
The first time I heard "Operator", after hearing the last verse ("let's forget about this call/there's no one there I really wanted to talk to/so thank you for your time/you've been so much more than kind/you can keep the dime"), I was expecting the song to be about Jim crushing out on the telephone operator and just placing random calls so he'd get a chance to talk to her. I was expecting the lyric on the last run-through of the chorus to become "let's forget all that, and give me your number ... so I can call just to tell you I'm fine". Great missed opportunity for a great lyrical twist IMO, but even as it is, I always love old songs that involve telephones for their inherent quaintness. I'm too young to remember when you had to talk to a switchboard operator before you could make a phone call.... (although these things always come around full circle - now we place calls by talking to Siri)
The one that always melts me is "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song". I've tried to do same at least once in my life.
Un-hip, yes, but still classic.
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Friday, 9 March 2012 14:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's got a tattoo on his arm that say "baby"he's got another one that just say "hey"
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 March 2012 16:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Kinda fun and of course sad to read through the site dedicated to his recording and performing partner Maury Muehleisen, who also died in the crash:
http://www.maurymuehleisen.com/main.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda loving this album cover
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been a singer from a young age, so I respond to Jim Croce. He's a great singer, great performer. Stuff like "Time in a Bottle" is overplayed maybe that deters people.
Enjoying less popular cuts like "Lover's Cross".
Still I hope that you can findAnother who can take what I could notHe'll have to be a super guyOr maybe a super god'Cause I never was much of a martyr beforeAnd I ain't bout to start nothin' newAnd baby, I can't hang upon no lover's cross for you
This is probably very good.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 13:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
Not mentioned in this thread - the great "I Got a Name". Terrific road song.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 15:25 (11 months ago) Permalink
Classic, even if "I Got a Name" had been the only thing he ever recorded.― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:01 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Soccer mom, hopeless and lost, in utter despair (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
pretty badly underrated I think, probably due to radio ubiquity - his songs just feel like they were always there instead of things a guy had to think up & write. McCombs/Peterson otm in re: "I Got A Name," that song stands with giants
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:04 (11 months ago) Permalink
mccombs/peterson/pgwp I mean. the axis of Name
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:05 (11 months ago) Permalink
He's just one of those artists whom people don't spend a lot of time on, but great voice, personality, excellent guitar.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:26 (11 months ago) Permalink