whatever it was, elton john was on something similar, though elton seems to have taken a slightly smaller dose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJIGYerpLg
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
for some reason, harry's delivery reminds me of another harry - nilsson.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 14 July 2010 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
He has one of those voices that is completely forgettable, imo, like this weird generic/bad mix of Cat Stevens and Glen Yarborough and whatever a guy who is into hot carls sounds like.
― Noise Pictorial Works Juvenile Fiction (Abbott), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sorry, it's spelled Glenn Yarbrough.
Hmm, a google reveals that a hot carl is also slightly different than the contents of his poem "Baptism."
― Noise Pictorial Works Juvenile Fiction (Abbott), Wednesday, 14 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry everyone, please ignore me.
Okay for real Harry Chapin of all people has a poem about how his first sexual experience was a girl shitting on his chest when he was 17. It's called "Baptism," from his collection "Looking and Seeing."
― Abbott, Monday, November 12, 2007 9:42 PM (7 years ago)
Baptismal
I used to thinkthat girls never wentto the bathroom,and that by someincredibly intricate phenomena no waste came from their magically forbidden orifices. Then at sixteen my first lovea seventeen year oldgum chewing angel,with deadly accuracy,shat on me.
(https://books.google.com/books?ei=P4DiVIm9DIjBggTf0YDQAg&id=zx5XAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=baptismal
― i ain't marchant anymore (unregistered), Monday, 16 February 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Shit's In The Cradle
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 February 2015 00:12 (nine years ago) link
Another man might have been angry. Another man might have been hurt.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 February 2015 00:28 (nine years ago) link
One of the big Canadian banks, Toronto Dominion, has a commercial running that uses a not particularly good "Cat's in the Cradle" cover: fathers and sons, getting older side by side, invest in the future, etc. Either they don't know what the song's about, or they're assuming no one watching knows what it's about.
― clemenza, Friday, 9 June 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
No redeemable features.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
The Sniper is truly insane. It's also undeniably musically impressive. Why is this not better known?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKpblxejWE
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 23 November 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
"deadly accuracy" in that poem is really bothering me.
― JoeStork, Friday, 23 November 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Dave Marsh:
I’ve had very intense friendships with people whose music I can’t stand. I mean, I was very close to Harry Chapin. And Harry and I just agreed that we didn’t agree about the quality of his music. And I miss him. He was a really good friend. It was funny, there was a record store about a block from my house, and I went down there to get something one day, this was in the summertime, and one of the clerks who knew me said, “Oh well, did you hear that Harry Chapin just died in a car accident out on Long Island? I’m sure that’s a great day in rock criticism for you,” or something. Totally legitimate thing for him to say. And I literally ran out of the store to go home and find out, could this be true?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 November 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link