"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 (twelve years ago) link
i assumed it was a song their parents loved; maybe i am wrong
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Lamp you're a hero
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
OTM
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/26AHazy.jpg#25 A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER1966217 points/10 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZdlhUDEJo
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
damn people be lovin all this garfunkel
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/25TheCool.jpg#25 THE COOL, COOL RIVER1990 219 points/9 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQzaS4CnL8
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/24PeaceLike.jpg#24 PEACE LIKE A RIVER1972225 points/8 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAmPfEMI16g
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:06 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
damn people be lovin all this rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
if by "people" you mean paul simon
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
"peace like a river" is the best song, though, just fyi
lol morbz bair
http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/bair.jpg
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/23IKnow.jpg#23 I KNOW WHAT I KNOW1986 236 points/13 votes/0 #1 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w3CBdLfGqw
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
both those songs flow, like rivers
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
peace like a river! i am obsessed with that song!
― horseshoe, Sunday, August 7, 2011 1:25 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
they do flow! otm!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
'peace like a river' is a song i vastly underrated before i started working on this poll. it ended up really high on my ballot and i just find it incredibly moving, i think the way it shifts perspective multiple times throughout the song, going from sitting 'starry-eyed' in the midst of history to having nowhere to go but 'back to bed'. the obvious child does something kinda similar i think but in a more schematic way the false endings and shift in tempo lack the ambiguity and resignation that 'peace like a river' has, the way it sort of sputters into the second half of the song. it really is a deeply beautiful song, one of his best i think.
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
<3
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
"starry" is a word i always vibe to; it's in "take me to the mardi gras" too
in a way i think "peace like a river" is of a piece with simon's 60s political activist leanings but it's so humble and just beautiful about it. i just love it.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/22Slip.jpg#22 SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY1977247 points/11 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_H-LY4Jb2M
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
These results are really interesting so far
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago) link
you can beat us with wiresyou can beat us with chainsyou can run out your roles but you know you can't outrun the history train
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't vote for "slip slidin' away" but i love it; i think aero's hatred of it in the I'm sorry, but Paul Simon is so overrated thread affected me somewhat.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee366/lamp11/21ReneGeorgette.jpg#21 RENE & GEORGETTE MAGRITTE WITH THEIR DOG AFTER THE WAR1983249 points/12 votes/1 #1 votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfBDDbE7lcQ
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
I love slip slidin away, it is another big nostalgia song for me that's hard to consider objectively.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't vote for "peace like a river", which i now regret. "the cool, cool river" is nice, but just that, imo. "peace like a river" is amazing, and i only slight it cuz i didn't grow up with it. silly me.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:21 (twelve years ago) link
and plax so, so otm about the "loosening up from within" (paraphrased) as it applies to "peace like a river". it's like a S&G song left to grow wild, so loose and lazy, in a weird way reminiscent of african blues a la ali farka toure in the guitar arrangement.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
― horseshoe, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:15 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what makes it for me is how the activist thing serves the narrative rather than being the thing the song is abt, like its abt the people not w/e beliefs theyre into, not really into message songs tho, I think it captures the good solidarity qualities of some olde timey protest songs w/o the polemic aspects, voted #11, tho honestly I couldve totally been intending to go for the other river song, I'm not the best w/titles, it's a good one 4 sure
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
yes, that is nicely put though i also like polemics tbf
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
anyway you're on the good list bc you voted for it
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:25 (twelve years ago) link
listening to "rene and georgette magritte" right now. i have never been more otm than when i voted for this, "apres la guerre" and all.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's a good song. i can never get enough of him cataloguing the doo-wop groups. didn't vote for it, though. this accursed poll :(
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny cuz it's so the opposite of the opened out approach of "peace like a river" - tight and precise, but no less beautiful for that
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
just to recap the first half:
#40 FAKIN' IT#39 THE LATE GREAT JOHNNY ACE#38 THE 59th STREET BRIDGE SONG (FEELIN' GROOVY)#37 AT THE ZOO #36 KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED
#35 MY LITTLE TOWN#34 TRAIN IN THE DISTANCE#33 STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS#32 SO LONG, FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT #31 GUMBOOTS
#30 SCARBOROUGH FAIR/CANTICLE#29 HOMEWARD BOUND#28 BORN AT THE RIGHT TIME#27 AMERICAN TUNE#26 A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER
#25 THE COOL, COOL RIVER#24 PEACE LIKE A RIVER#23 I KNOW WHAT I KNOW#22 SLIP SLIDIN' AWAY#21 RENE & GEORGETTE MAGRITTE WITH THEIR DOG AFTER THE WAR
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:29 (twelve years ago) link
psyched to make a playlist of all the winners when it's done, tho I'm sure I'll get kind pissed and impatient wading through the s&g
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago) link
also thank you so much for doing this, lamp, and sorry for grousing abt the rollout speed. i get excited and want to conversate with others about!
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh np i mean id like to do a more leisurely reveal too esp when im not exhausted and prone to fuck up the numbering, oh well, lyfe
see u all tomorrow morning
― Lamp, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
thank you again for doing this, Lamp! these images have been fantastic. guys, "born at the right time" is not really about ronald reagan, right? o_O
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link