inasmuch as current generations can understand why paul revere had to ride a horse, i'm pretty sure future generations will be able to figure out what a telephone wire was.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Is my irony detector broken?
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
i'm having a bad typing day.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure this guy is working on telephone lines if you read the lyrics.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 21:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
She's left him, and he can't move on.
(Though I must confess that the first time I heard the song I probably thought it meant lineman as in football player, which would be quite different.)
― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link
And I need you more than want you and I want you for all timeAnd the Wichita lineman is still on the line
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Technically this is not correct - snow is not a problem for telephone (or power) lines - it's freezing rain that causes them to break.
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
- Dave Nicosia, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service Binghamton
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
Yes, I did. Hi, Polyphonic!
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't tend to follow GW Bush's rhetorical methods if I can help it.
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link
the other important thing to remember about "wichita lineman" was that it was intended to be a sequel to "by the time i get to phoenix."
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 20 January 2005 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm not, Amateur(ist) — it's crap. And believe me: I wanted to like that record more than you can possibly imagine. Or maybe you can.
Reunion is good, if you can get past the lyrics - they are a bit clumsy, but i think the melodies are glorious.
― debden, Thursday, 20 January 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― $V£N! (blueski), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadrock, Meshach and Abednego (Dada), Friday, 8 April 2005 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
I like Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb, too.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link
yes. it is the essence of music itself.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I think that F6-9 is right for "Wichita," by the way--I've always played it in F major.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9x_1Ri3XxE&feature=related
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Worthy of note: It still pains Jimmy Webb to this day that he "falsely" rhymed time with line.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Heard him confess this on Fresh Air.
― libcrypt, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Jimmy Webb is a grumpy old man.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Sunday, 30 March 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I just want to say the comment section in that Glen Campbell youtube link above is the greatest thing I have ever read in my entire life.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 30 March 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link