It's not totally devastating like "Louisiana," but I always loved the bit from "burn on":
the Lord can make you tumblethe Lord can make you turnthe Lord can make you overflow...but the Lord can't make you burn
― clotpoll, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:33 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
cosign tatted on my chest
― and what, Sunday, 1 March 2009 05:43 (fifteen years ago) link
is there any version of "when she loved me" sung by randy newman
― and what, Sunday, 1 March 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like the hard-rockish version of "Baltimore" on Nils Lofgren's Nils LP from 1979 (which I never heard until this month).
― xhuxk, Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm drunk right now babybut i've got to beor i never could tell youwhat you meant to me
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
you know, you know how it is with me babyyou know, i just can't stand myselfand it takes a whole lot of medicinefor me to pretend that i'm somebody else
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
marie is maybe a top 100 song by *anyone* *ever*
― Dominique, Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
"but I love you/and I loved you the first time I saw you" is newman at his most merciless, marie is completely beyond criticism
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 14 July 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Everyone otm basically
― JoeStork, Friday, 24 February 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
Marie is a thing of unfathomable beauty. Good Old Boys/Sail Away are masterpieces.
I love the dichotomy of GOB's two side closers "Guilty" & "Rollin'", they feel like inverted versions of one another. "Rollin'" really captures the feeling of sitting in the sun on a lovely day off with a gentle breeze and a nice drink, the kind of day that is so nice that even when you close your eyes, the deep red of your eyelids and the warmth of the sun is intoxicating. Effortlessly floating off to heaven.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 24 February 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
the song that the trees sing when the wind blowsyou're a flower, you're a river, you're a rainbow
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Friday, 24 February 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I can't listen to Marie too often unless I'm ready to stare into space for a while.
― JoeStork, Friday, 24 February 2017 22:14 (seven years ago) link
the police can't stop me!
― Ludo, Monday, 21 May 2018 15:55 (five years ago) link
(from posting in this technically 'wrong' thread)
― Ludo, Monday, 21 May 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
Ugh, I wish I'd read this thread before assembling this list.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
There's hundreds of Randy Newman covers, lots of good ones too.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link