One thing I know for sure, it's not "Motorcycle Irene" by Moby Grape.
― holger sharkey (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 July 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Funny, I just loaned this book to a friend a few weeks ago in advance of a podcast he did with Goldstein (quite good, as it turned out; Goldstein has some amazing stories, like the Velvet Underground playing his wedding after-party in exchange for--long-gone, I think--liner notes he wrote for the first album). As I flipped through the book before the loan, I started thinking that back then, with no internet, Goldstein probably had to sit down and transcribe all the lyrics by hand.
I was wrong. When I glanced at the intro, he got most of them from sheet music courtesy of the record labels.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
In answer to the question...I'm not very good at detaching lyrics from the song itself. My favourite songs here are "Substitute," "Desolation Row" (but not "Sad-Eyed Lady"), "Eight Miles High," "Norwegian Wood," "Darling, Be Home Soon," "Feelin' Groovy," and, from the omissions, "Almost Grown." So one of those. I think "Norwegian Wood" is very poetic.
― clemenza, Sunday, 12 July 2015 00:12 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 13 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Think the topic got more replies than votes.
― austinato (Austin), Monday, 13 July 2015 00:15 (eight years ago) link
Today's rock partisan - plugged into a stereophonic nirvana - is more likely to arch his eyebrows than his pelvis. He may casually remark, with a gleam in his hookah, "I empathize with it. It has truth and beauty. Besides, my kids say it's psychedelic."
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Tuesday, 14 March 2017 03:38 (seven years ago) link