but: there are plural "good old boys" - so, some sat down and ordered well whiskey and some specifically asked for rye.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 21 November 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
lol this guy
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FE5B0WDX0Acy1zZ?format=jpg&name=small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Were "good ol' boys" really listening to (and mourning) Buddy Holly in 1959? To me the phrase connotes grown men, not the teenagers who almost certainly made up the rock 'n' roll audience at the time?
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
at high school we had a prizegiving ceremony for the kids who were best in each subject and one year they announced the awards were being given out by Don McLean, and me and my one other pal who knew the name as Mr American Pie got really confused, because we had had minor local celebs come give out the awards in years previous but Don McLean was surely far too famous to come to a town fifteen miles out of Glasgow?
It turned out Don McLean was Donald McLean, former high school alumni who lived locally to be in his 90s, not Actual Don McLean.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
I love that we're seriously discussing the fictional drink orders of fictional 1959 individuals
because, like, a song implies a universe in which its events are taking place
levees are usally at least a little bit wet btw
― popcornoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
that line always makes me think of the masterful couplet "when you're driving in your chevy and your pants are gettin heavy"
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
WRONG DUDE
― andrew m., Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
shockingly old when a 2 year old post taught me about well drinks
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
This song deserves to be in the Library of Stank Shit
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
The only thing worse than it is Madonna's version
― Cool Im An Situation (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link
A lot of "American Pie" hate on this thread, but I'll post here anyway. I just published a book on McLean's song--and on 1972's pop music in general--with Kindle Direct (which has gotten progressively worse from an author's standpoint since taking over Createspace--I mean in terms of paying, not the quality of the books). It's also, in an epilogue, about the book itself: it started with a publisher but ran into trouble because of McLean's personal issues (about which I knew nothing when I started the book 15 months ago).
I'll put the American Amazon link here:
https://www.amazon.com/Happy-While-American-Awkward-Confusing/dp/B0C2SCKY79/ref=sr_1_1?crid=H4AZCP49K0ZC&keywords=phil+dellio&qid=1683151857&sprefix=phil+dellio%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-1
I'm with J.D.'s post earlier in the thread when it comes to the song.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 22:13 (ten months ago) link
Scott Woods, Chuck Eddy, and I did a Zoom about the "American Pie" book (above) a couple of weeks ago; Chuck wrote the foreword for the book.
I write a bit in the book about "American Pie"'s relationship to Classic Rock stations, such as it is/was, a topic that's come up in the last couple of days on a different thread (in general, not connected to "American Pie").
part 1 - youtube.com/watch?v=TN8n-JMMbyQ&tpart 2 - youtube.com/watch?v=Q-xZcmz54C0part 3 - youtube.com/watch?v=AGJlsqJ0Yk4
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 June 2023 01:29 (nine months ago) link