― fact checking cuz (fcc), 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Friday, 5 August 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 August 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb, too.
― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
yes. it is the essence of music itself.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:05 (nineteen 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
One of my favourite songs ever
'And I need you more than want you and I want you for all time'
The Urge Overkill version is worth a listen. MASSIVE open, alt- tuned chords.I just love the last eight bars. It finishes on one of those lovely suspended chords. If anybody knows the chord, please let me know!
The original is the best though. What a voice!
― Fer Ark, Sunday, 30 March 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
the reunion album is v. good
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 12 December 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Somebody on my Facebook just shared a video of this song, seeing fit to add the caption "Bitches love a lineman!" to the post.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 29 June 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
Really dumb but very touching misinterpretation of the song by its best interpreter at the end of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6J99mWFqMU&feature=related
― Three Word Username, Friday, 29 June 2012 07:00 (twelve years ago) link