Led Zep’s Kashmir holds this title by a landslide.
^ Both of you! Got to your room! Now!
And then we have the follow-on smash hit, The Rectum of Ella Fitzgerald.
Ugh
Since we’re all about fighting ignorance here on the Dope, ‘solemn’ and ‘monotonous’ aren’t synonyms, you know.
I can’t find Si Kahn’s “Memorial” online, alas, because it’s a song that illuminates the gulf between the two concepts very well. The fact that “Edmund Fitzgerald” is a dirge and is also boring as shit, is a fault of the song, not an essential characteristic of a dirge.
FWIW, a week ago, I was giving the eulogy for my father at his memorial service. So you don’t need to fake-apologize for harshing my buzz, and you’re 'splaining to the wrong person about death. Just saying.
I don’t forget the Fitzgerald, because I love the song, but also because it happened right when I was on a history kick about Great Lakes shipwrecks (I was 12 at the time). So whenever I think of Great Lakes shipwrecks, I DON’T think of the Fitzgerald, or the Carl Bradley - I think of the Eastland Disaster (which TECHNICALLY was a river accident - deadliest in Great Lakes history. 844 dead on a beautiful day while the ship was tied to the dock), or the Big Blow of 1913 (which killed more than 250 people, destroyed 19 ships, and stranded 19 others).
Look for the books of Dwight Boyer, such as True Tales of the Great Lakes (which includes the Eastland and the Big Blow), and Ships and Men of the Great Lakes (which includes the Fitzgerald and the Daniel J Morrell [a ship that broke in half, and then the rear half rammed the front half. The two halves were found 5 miles apart]).
Especially since they are both wrong; “Neanderthal Man” by Hotlegs/10cc is far and away the winner.
Getting back to my post #27 I got my Google back on:
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/05/us/photos-in-book-on-shipwreck-upset-families-of-the-victims.htmlI was wrong on the date; it was 1994. A little creepy and I’m curious if it tells us anything about the ethics of diving modern wrecks.
Does any one know
where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes
to hours?
10 November is coming again. I just heard the song again tonight on the radio. A sad, haunting and lovely song.
Huh. This song just came up on shuffle while I was gaming - made a comment in mapchat about how great a song it was. Funny how this thread popped up again.
Having grown up around the Great Lakes and just recently returned to my old stomping grounds, it is sometimes hard to explain to “flat-landers” just how dangerous these waters can get at times.
** God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen**
Nm
The names of the 29 are listed here The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. The youngest was 20 and the oldest 63.
Name - Age - Occupation On Board - Hometown
Michael E. Armagost - 37 - Third Mate - Iron River, Wisconsin
Frederick J. Beetcher - 56 - Porter - Superior, Wisconsin
Thomas D. Bentsen - 23 - Oiler - St. Joseph, Michigan
Edward F. Bindon - 47 - First Assistant Engineer - Fairport Harbor, Ohio
Thomas D. Borgeson - 41 - Maintenance Man - Duluth, Minnesota
Oliver J. Champeau - 41 - Third Assistant Engineer - Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
Nolan S. Church - 55 - Porter - Silver Bay, Minnesota
Ransom E. Cundy - 53 - Watchman Superior, Wisconsin
Thomas E. Edwards - 50 - Second Assistant Engineer - Oregon, Ohio
Russell G. Haskell - 40 - Second Assistant Engineer - Millbury, Ohio
George J. Holl - 60 - Chief Engineer - Cabot, Pennsylvania
Bruce L. Hudson - 22 - Deck Hand - North Olmsted Ohio
Allen G. Kalmon - 43 - Second Cook - Washburn, Wisconsin
Gordon F. MacLellan - 30 - Wiper - Clearwater, Florida
Joseph W. Mazes - 59 - Special Maintenance Man - Ashland, Wisconsin
John H. McCarthy - 62 - First Mate - Bay Village, Ohio
Ernest M. McSorley - 63 - Captain - Toledo, Ohio
Eugene W. O’Brien - 50 - Wheelsman - Toledo, Ohio
Karl A. Peckol - 20 - Watchman - Ashtabula, Ohio
John J. Poviach - 59 - Wheelsman - Bradenton, Florida
James A. Pratt - 44 - Second Mate - Lakewood, Ohio
Robert C. Rafferty - 62 - Steward - Toledo, Ohio
Paul M. Riippa - 22 - Deck Hand - Ashtabula, Ohio
John D. Simmons - 63 - Wheelsman - Ashland, Wisconsin
William J. Spengler - 59 - Watchman - Toledo, Ohio
Mark A. Thomas - 21 - Deck Hand - Richmond Heights, Ohio
Ralph G. Walton - 58 - Oiler - Fremont, Ohio
David E. Weiss - 22 - Cadet - Agoura, California
Blaine H. Wilhelm - 52 - Oiler - Moquah, Wisconsin
12 days ago it was the first anniversary of the loss of El Faro with 33 souls, working my city’s route. Can’t help but have some of those lyrics resonate for that case too…