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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: Replies to all of you..... here!
Date: Monday, May 28, 2012
Time: 11:57:22 AM
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manny wrote:
Trampled underfoot is probably also a fetish song too
I had planned to point out in the poll post that many car songs are really just horny guys being too sexual and using the car as a metaphor to describe their feeling for woman. But then again, I think we all know that. I was half thinking of not including the Stones "Start me Up" in Part 2 of this poll since it's really totally only about a woman, and not about cars. But as somebody once pointed out to me, it's the best example of a metaphor on this subject matter than any other song, and he was right. The song may not really be about cars, yet there is so much that could apply to cars in it, too. So it will be listed in next week's poll choices.
Pretty Beat Up wrote:
Lots of great songs with cars in them but Panama, 409, Pink Cadillac are actually about a cars where as Detroit Rock City is about lovin' speed.
I don't claim to know a lot about KISS, but I do know that the song "Detroit Rock City" was written about a fan of theirs that was killed in his car while either driving to or from a KISS concert, so that means it's in part about a car.
Human Riff stated:
No Deep Purple Highway Star? Now that's a car song Ronnie!!!
It's already on the list for next week, in Part 2!
Holy crap Keno. I honestly think this thread made me realize how much work you do in running this place. I assembled a gas grill recently and the directions were 3 pages shorter than your post!
It does take time - to put the polls together - but - writing the thread is nothing at all! Since I'm a writer, it all comes to me in seconds.... I've had people ask me about the regular newspaper column I write for every issue of the local paper, and after 10 years of writing it, how do I come up with new ideas. Until I was asked that, I never even though of it, because again, it's an automatic thing, sometimes it takes a bit more effort than other times, but it's no big deal to write overall, either.
I will note that I do cheat a bit to save time on the poll post each week. Placing code for the links would take time, but I save the poll thread from the week before in a Word doc, and that saves a lot of time. I just copy and paste the code and have to only update a bit of that info for the new link, like changing the poll number from "1065" to "1069", and that's it!.... Then there are other shorts cuts I use, too.... But the fact the post is written on Sunday night is the other key. If there is one night of the week where I got free time, it's Sunday night. Still, it takes me about 30 minutes to copy, paste, and write out the poll post, longer than a normal post, sure, but I enjoy writing it, so no big deal.
DA noted:
George Harrison sure wrote some great songs! My pick was "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", but I could easily have gone for "Taxman" or "Think For Yourself" or "For You Blue". George also wrote a couple of duds. Is there anyone out there who thinks of "Within You Without You" as a great song?
Me! Yet it wasn't the song I voted for, either. But I just love sitars and other Indian instruments, and I very much dig that very cool song. I'm surprised you, the GH fan, doesn't. But I'll agree he did write some duds in the late '60s... The only poor song on the White Album was his "Long, Long, Long", as it is really a boring, boring, boring song! Yet some people dig it never-less, I bet.
3rd poll... I'm waiting until a little later to play that Christmas song, which I may have heard before but don't remember.
I can't believe it's gotten 6 votes already, to me it's one of their poorer songs ever recorded. Lennon even noted they were just messing around in the studio one slow day and it wasn't meant to ever be released. But how many times can you repeat the same lyrics over and over again in a song and it's still a good song? I think ELO's "Strange Magic" is the only song that does that and is still a good song, IMO, anyway.
I'm not overly impressed with any of the other entries. Nanker Phelge apparently had the upper hand over the Beatles (collectively) when it came to song writing, Ronnie.
Yeah, the Stones clearly were better at that, in part because the Stones were a deeper band, personal wise. Maybe Lennon and McCartney combined were better than Jagger/Richards, but once past that, the Stones held the edge.
Too bad after the mid '60s the Glimmers would not allow Nanker Phelge to still get credit, even if the band still was writing music together. It isn't like they just stopped writing in that matter, they never did, other than for a time in the '70s when Keith had his H problem and wasn't around at all for many of the songs that were mainly just MJ and MT writing alone.
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