Is anyone other than me puzzled by the very first image in this thread? Is that Peggy Lee? I don't get it. Sorry if this has already been answered.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
(Way off-topic, but that reminds me of my friend's 6-year-old getting freaked out by the concept of "Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future."
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry if this has already been answered.
nah I have no idea what the joke is either
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 March 2012 23:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
always thought that 80s 'julio' was kinda corny, part of that whole 'look at the celebs we rounded up for this!' video trend that runs from i guess 'ghostbusters' (still the best imo) to 'liberian girl', eg to an extent -
― balls, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
True...but it's not just a celebrity--it's Mickey Mantle! And he's playing stickball in the streets of New York.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
true! i think i'd rather just hear the damn song or failing that go the ghostbusters route and have various castmembers of taxi pop up to sing when the title pops up in the chorus
― balls, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's always been a dream of mine to play stickball with Marilu Henner, but enough about my bilious private life.
― clemenza, Monday, 19 March 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's just now clicking for me that I was completely insane not to have "Crazy Love, Vol. II" anywhere on my ballot. Damn!
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
#30 SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE1966/1968 (single)168 points/7 votes/1 #1 vote
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
i will just say: i don't really get this song
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
and if "peace like a river" doesn't make this poll i choose to blame "scarborough fair" voters
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
#29 HOMEWARD BOUND1966170 points/8 votes/0 #1 votes
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
now we're talking. my #10, though i owed it better.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
gah, that was re: "scarborough fair"!
you move too fast, lamp...
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
#29 BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME1990176 points/7 votes/0 #1 votes
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
― horseshoe, Monday, March 19, 2012 9:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
and how how how could you say such a thing? one of the most effortlessly beautiful songs i've ever heard.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
TOO LOW
xp i really think it's because my parents are immigrants
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i myself voted "born at the right time" too low; so effortlessly beautiful
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
too many people on the bus from the airporttoo many holes in the earththe planet groans every time it registers another birth
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
holes in the crust of the earth, excuse me
while the results of this poll are racing by in a heedless blur, i'd like to say that "homeward bound" is yet another wonderful song that i didn't vote for. glad that others saw fit to rectify my helpless error.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
#27 AMERICAN TUNE1973189 points/9 votes/0 #1 votes
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
"american tune" is nice; i didn't vote for it; apparently it was used in a commercial for barack obama?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^morbz bair
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
bait. what is wrong with me
"scarborough fair" is a song that kids in middle school would always make a big deal of and i would be like, i literally have no idea what is happening right now.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
i assumed it was a song their parents loved; maybe i am wrong
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know art garfunkel's voice is a beautiful instrument and all but also, maybe he is a robot?
I like Scarborough/Canticle, it's nice
And maybe Lamp only has a small window of time to provide us results? I dunno that it's really fair to give him too much heat for how the results roll out. Hard work being pollmaster iirc.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
just a few things:
- i only have an hour or so tonight before i have to go to bed to post stuff and this week is shaping up to be p busy. its obv not the ideal roll-out schedule but its what ive got.
- the #1 vote for scarb fair is by far the most perplexing of the 33
ok so actually only two things
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lamp you're a hero
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
OTM
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
#25 A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER1966217 points/10 votes/1 #1 vote
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn people be lovin all this garfunkel
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
#25 THE COOL, COOL RIVER1990 219 points/9 votes/0 #1 votes
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
cool cool river was my #2. it has never not made me cry, any of the one million times i've listened to it.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
#24 PEACE LIKE A RIVER1972225 points/8 votes/1 #1 vote
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
paul simon songs that are about rivers/sonically reproduce the constant movement of a river are a-okay by me
xp okay i am dead. "peace like a river" was my #1.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn people be lovin all this rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are not 23 songs better than "peace like a river" ON THIS EARTH
damn horseshoe be lovin all this rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
if by "people" you mean paul simon
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol xp
no really there is something smart plax said in one of the paul simes thread about the structure of "peace like a river" and i think it applies to "cool cool river" too i will try to find it
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
"peace like a river" is the best song, though, just fyi
lol morbz bair
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
#23 I KNOW WHAT I KNOW1986 236 points/13 votes/0 #1 votes
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think for somebody that started out with like straight acoustic guitar and voice songwriting, he has spent a lot of recording time like *loosening* up the structures of his songs, from his first solo album on you get the sense of him moving in different directions (the lush jazziness and disco flourishes on h+b, the jam band vibe on one trick pony) that open out the rigid structures of his songs (his s/t is so good because he does this more successfully inside the songs themselves than ever again, peace like a river is the best example of what i mean but i don't know if i'm explaining this in any intelligible way at all)
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:24 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
both those songs flow, like rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:12 (1 year ago) Permalink