I wasn’t actually quoting the line, just explaining that she’s seen some things she ain’t sposed to see (with our without apostrophe). Whatever, she sounds like Blythe Danner ironically speaking ebonics.
This too. And she talks in the song while explaining this. You know what? I am getting on the where’s the pukey smiley bandwagon for this one.
I didn’t realize this song fell into this category. I kinda like it.
I may have to fire up the ol’ TRS80 & download some of the gems in this thread.
I like quite a lot of what’s been discussed here. But my music tastes aren’t so much eclectic as all-encompassing. Well, maybe not ALL encompassing: there are one or two Carpenter’s songs that just make me reach for the dial. 
No one has mentioned that sap sucker of all sappy songs: Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro. I have it on a vinyl 45, and still play it from time to time… Some of these songs just aren’t as emotionally satisfying coming off an mp3 list as when you crank up the old Victrola. 
Oh, and any Muppet song list that doesn’t have “Put Down the Duckie!” on it is seriously deficient!
I used to do the same thing (in the same era) to record my favorite TV theme songs. I’d hold that big brick of a recorder up to the television so that I could enjoy at my leisure the songs from:
The Dukes of Hazzard
The A Team
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Fall Guy
and others.
This would approximate what I would have said. I like many of these songs and I don’t mind who knows it.
Those two really aren’t bad songs (REM, incidentally, did a good cover of “Wichita Lineman”). The problem was they were both overplayed and badly covered too many times during the late 60’s and early 70’s. As a result, people got sick of them and they got banished to the “Oldies from Hell” category.
And I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: listening to “I’ve Never Been to Me” is like being forced to read Danielle Steele at gunpoint.
I know- hey, who turned on 1974 in here?
I love David Bromberg, and love this Mr. Bojangles verion. It’s actually pretty much the only version I enjoy these days.
Ah, Tin Soldier. Our horrible music teacher made us learn it in fourth grade, and it was therefore the subject of my first ever song parody. From my fourth-grade self. Ahem:
No applause please. Unfortunately I can’t hear the song without those lyrics superimposed.
Gentle on my Mind is good ear candy, but Wichita Lineman flatly is one of the greatest Pop songs of the 20th century.
I’ve always been a sap, so I loved He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother until I got one of those flexible records from the Army that interspersed recruiting messages with it. In 1972 I found it, er, unpersuasive :rolleyes:, and wondered how much the Hollies had been paid.
Woa, what did a music critic do to you? I’m sure someone, somewhere will feel that way, but I bet you’d be hard-pressed to find an actual music critic that held those views.
And I must say, you are totally wrong about VU. White Light/White Heat is one of the most influential albums released in the last several decades, at least on a certain lineage of music. While this was largely due to John Cale’s influence, the loud, raw, unhinged anthems of debauchery and depravity on that album directly influenced punk, hardcore, emo, and grunge (in that order). Put in another way, that album helped to create rock music of the last 40 years. Like it or not, it’s the truth.
Now, One Tin Soldier is arguably a good song, perhaps an influential song, but it is still definitely a pop song, atleast the Coven version you are talking about. I mean, it was recorded for a Warren Brothers movie and was the most requested song in '71 and '73. So, with a combination of a) being a pop song, b) being over-exposed, and c) not being terribly influential (what genres of music did it help create?), and you can sort of see why it’s overlooked from a critical perspective of music, especially compared to a band like VU.
Am I being “sheep like”, pretentious, humorless, terrible, whatever? Perhaps. But some things are true regardless of your taste for them.
Cottleston Pie? The Winnie-[del]the[/del]-ther-Pooh Hum? That’s the one Pooh was humming to himself while Rabbit was trying to hold a meeting on Solving the Problem of Tigger, wasn’t it?
A fly can’t bird,
but a bird can fly
That one? I loved that Hum. I didn’t even know it had been set to music.
And the Muppets covered it?
So much cool stuff happened while I wasn’t paying attention. Is there a link to it? I have to hear it.
SIS??? Is that you??? :eek:
I adored Donny Osmond when I was a kid, and still enjoy some of their music. Just last year they had a 2 hour concert inb PBS and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I was lucky enough to see Shaun Cassidy in concert in 1978. Yeah, he fueled some wild fantasies for me, too…
I still can’t get over the fact that Eres Tu was a hit in the States. That song was one of the things I most remember from my childhood. In it, the singer compares her beloved to the water from her fountain and the fire in her hearth or something like that. The only Mocedades song I liked more was called Adios, Amor, and I remember I always cried when it ended because I didn’t want it to end.
Oh God, does that mean Nixon’s president again?
Among Sesame Street songs, I don’t think I saw “Telephone Rock” (live version) mentioned here, or Lefty “the Salesman” (wink wink)'s “O” song.
This thread sure is taking me back to high school days. Seems like, in the early 70s, FM radio had come on the scene, supplying a venue for the “serious” stuff that had burgeoned over the previous several years, leaving AM free to focus on froth… but some really cool froth. I liked both the FM and the AM stuff… so I will now confess my affection for some (mostly) really silly tunes from early 70s AM radio:
“Ma Belle Amie” by the Tee Set
“How Do You Do” by Mouth & MacNeal
“Gimme Dat Ding” by the Pipkins
“Neanderthal Man” by Hotlegs
“Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)” by Leo Sayer
“Ride Captain Ride” by Blues Image
“Gimme Gimme Good Lovin’” by Crazy Elephant
‘Dancin’ In the Moonlight" by King Harvest
“Go Back” by Crabby Appleton
I’m (almost) embarassed t admit that I owned “The Muppet Movie” soundtrack on 8-track. In my first car. An Opel 1900. [blushes]