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Speaking of Guthrie...

Alice's Restaurant!

that's where they serve the pills... you, know,where they make small or big or don't do nothing at all......

or am I thinking of 'White Rabbit' by Jefferson Airplane?

Disney Girls - Art Garfunkel

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 283090)

OK,First.
Willie Dixon is so fucking roots he's like a giant bag of mushrooms. LedZepp, while totally soul sacrifice is pretty much refined to the point of pharmecutical grade psilocybin.

Willie Dixon's version has like bits of bark and berries and strange random effluvia. Zepp's is like 20 coats of paint, sanded to 320 between each coat and then given three clear coats.
Willie dixon's is earthy and raw like leaping from a tree branch onto the back of a gazelle and slitting its throat with a bonehandled flint knife, while Led zepp's version is like zeroing in on the gazelle from 600 yards with a 10x Unertl telescopic sight mounted on your M40A3.

Willie Dixon's version is like being so horny you just pull over on the jersey turnpike in rush hour and do it right there by the side of the road Led Zepp's version has intertwining candles and is such a freaky scene.

Some one stop me.
All right and B) is this is a fucked up thread. How twisted to try to make me think of a best song ever written. I'm freaking out about that one.

And 3) i'm feeling a bit tardish but I don't really grok the whole field of 64 paradigm. I mean I get teh I ching and the 64 hexagrams and all that, but I'm kind of lost with the whole tennis analogy.

Help?

this is your brain on drugs, mkay?

how about we do this with your new field of 64 technology, Ute?

It could be, give me another 24 hrs

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 642557)

this is your brain on drugs, mkay?

Ahh, the good old days. I can be pretty funny when I drink.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 282824)

What a beautiful song.

can't STAND this song!

what's a "song"? and what is "written?" Are you talking, a written down song with words? (Greensleeves would not count, because the tune is "traditional"). Instrumental symphony?

"Yesterday" by Lennon/McCartney is what cropped up for me.

By 'song' I think he means "a hearty soup, best eaten with a fork" and by 'written' I think he means "to steer a large ship that is used for transporting cargo internationally."

Or he's just being clever, and 'song' means 'song' and 'written' means 'written'. *shrugs*

Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen.

Or, Desolation Row by Bob Dylan.

"Happy Birthday to You" is the perfect song. It's easy to learn and remember. The message is clear. No hidden meanings and it's STILL making money for the decendants of the composer/lyricist.

Faster Than Light, Neil Finn
Holy Smoke, Split Enz
Say It With Flowers, Carter USM

And although I would never class it as the best song ever written, I've been singing This Kiss by Faith Hill for a week now. I used to have it as my ringtone back when I thought I was in love. It's lost none of its appeal - my bro downloaded it to my MP3 player for my 11 hour coach trip, and I still kept rewinding to hear it!

FTR, my favourite U2 song (they have been nominated a couple of times in this thread) is Angel of Harlem. And although I love the Queen, Don't Stop Me Now can't be beat IMO. And that was even before Shaun of the Dead.

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs (Post 642840)

... No hidden meanings...

You've never played it backwards :devil:

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Originally Posted by wolf (Post 283412)

I really can't believe that we missed

(the glorious) Ninth Symphony - Beethoven
And, also the Fifth.

And the Third, while we're on the topic of musical, deaf, 18th-19th century Germans. Was wondering when somebody would mention the fourth of the Ninth. It is, after all, a song.

Among many favorites, perhaps my favoritest favorite hymn would be "I Am The Bread Of Life." It sounds like the fourth movement of the symphony I want to write the other three movements of. I hear cellos and tympanis in the verses, brass in the choruses. And I want it done at my funeral.

I prefer Seven of Nine...

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Originally Posted by Crimson Ghost (Post 643475)

I prefer Seven of Nine...

How about pieces of eight? ;-)