the almost best song ever/the almost philosofical message behind that

[pillory]

Who'll stop the rain_quess who

[Sundog]

Naw, Creedence dude, not that bunch of Canadian posers.

[Silicon]

Oh thank god!

For a minute I thought you were going to say "The Christmas Shoes"!

[Dancing David]

Stairway to Heaven or Bat Out of Hell, then there is all the stuff that Pink Floyd wrote.

[arcticpenguin]

Originally posted by Sundog
Naw, Creedence dude, not that bunch of Canadian posers.
You spelled "hosers" wrong.

Take off, eh?

[Hexxenhammer]

I'd have to go with "Louie Louie". The lyrics are just as indecipherable as most of pillory's posts.

[Upchurch]

Imagine?

[Yahweh]

Jumpin' Jack Flash is another of those songs with a cryptic message behind it... but its one of the worst songs ever written making the search for the message excruciating...

[jj]

Either "American Woman" or "Fortunate Son", for me, I think, with the 3-song set designed for high-school reunions, those being:

Jack and Diane
Glory Days
We Gotta Get Out of this Place

:p

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by Yahweh
Jumpin' Jack Flash is another of those songs with a cryptic message behind it... but its one of the worst songs ever written making the search for the message excruciating...

I think you mean Sympathy for the Devil.

But if you want to get into Maudlin, what's it all about stuff, go for Leanord Cohen every time.

Suzanne
Tonight Will be Fine
Winter Lady
Sisters of Mercy
Bird on the Wire
Story of Isaac
A Bunch of Lonesome Heroes
The Partisan
Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
The Butcher
You Know Who I Am
Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On

[justsaygnosis]

Originally posted by Hexxenhammer
I'd have to go with "Louie Louie". The lyrics are just as indecipherable as most of pillory's posts.



"Louie Louie, me gotta go.
Louie Louie, me gotta go.
A fine little girl, she wait for me.
Me catch the ship across the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone.
I never think I'll make it home.
Louie Louie, me gotta go .
Three nights and days we sailed the sea.
Me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there.
I smell the rose in her hair.
Louie Louie, me gotta go.
Me see Jamaican moon above.
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again.
Louie Louie, me gotta go."



(By Richard Berry. Copyright 1957-1963 by Limax Music Inc.)

[Checkmite]

Originally posted by Upchurch
Imagine?

I'm so sick of that song anymore, I literally must change the radio station when it plays.

[elliotfc]

Where Angels Play by the Stone Roses is not only the best song ever, but is quite mysterious to boot. Very pretty song but I'm convinced it's about suicide. My fave line "take a look around there's something happening/all the colours fade". Swoon.

-Elliot

[c4ts]

Originally posted by pillory
Who'll stop the rain_quess who

Philosophists!

Whoops, that word's an S&S-er.

[jimmygun]

"Vincent" Don Maclean

[joyrex]

Moloko - Time Is Now
:D

[Jon_in_london]

The Cheeky Girls!!!

[Checkmite]

Photographs and Memories - Jim Croce

[Tricky]

As a philosopher songwriter, Jackson Browne has everybody beat. From the questioning of life-after death in For A Dancer (http://www.yimpan.com/Songsite/Lyric/index.asp?sid=2972) to the wonder at the way different people see God in For Everyman (http://www.jrp-graphics.com/jb/fe.html) to the weariness of every-day existence in The Pretender (http://www.jrp-graphics.com/jb/tp.html) to musing on the post-apocalyptic world in Before the Deluge (http://www.tonyfernandez.com/ASF/JacksonBrowne/BeforetheDeluge.htm).

Nobody else comes close.
(Okay, Cohen is good too, as is Joni Mitchell, but both of them seem more personal than general in their philosophical songs.)

[Hexxenhammer]

Originally posted by justsaygnosis




"Louie Louie, me gotta go.
Louie Louie, me gotta go.
A fine little girl, she wait for me.
Me catch the ship across the sea.
I sailed the ship all alone.
I never think I'll make it home.
Louie Louie, me gotta go .
Three nights and days we sailed the sea.
Me think of girl constantly.
On the ship, I dream she there.
I smell the rose in her hair.
Louie Louie, me gotta go.
Me see Jamaican moon above.
It won't be long me see me love.
Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again.
Louie Louie, me gotta go."



(By Richard Berry. Copyright 1957-1963 by Limax Music Inc.)

Truly words to live by.

[Agnostic]

1. Imagine.
2. Piggies (Have you seen the little piggies crawling in the dirt...)

[Sundog]

Originally posted by Tricky
As a philosopher songwriter, Jackson Browne has everybody beat. From the questioning of life-after death in For A Dancer (http://www.yimpan.com/Songsite/Lyric/index.asp?sid=2972) to the wonder at the way different people see God in For Everyman (http://www.jrp-graphics.com/jb/fe.html) to the weariness of every-day existence in The Pretender (http://www.jrp-graphics.com/jb/tp.html) to musing on the post-apocalyptic world in Before the Deluge (http://www.tonyfernandez.com/ASF/JacksonBrowne/BeforetheDeluge.htm).

Nobody else comes close.


Did he ever write one called "Sometimes You Just Have To Hit Her"?

:D :p

[Nucular]

Visions of Johanna - Bob DylanThe ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face

Rats - Syd BarrettRats, rats, laid out flat/We don't need you, we act like that/And if you think you're unloved then we know about that/Rats, rats, yes yes yes/laid out flat

Hey a_unique_person you forgot One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong by Leonard CohenAnd then I took the dust/Of a long sleepless night/And I put it in your little shoe

Those songs affect me so much I almost can't listen to them.

[baldrick]

1. Always look at the bright side of life (Life of Brian)

2. Queen - One Vision

3. Savage Garden - Affirmation

==

Imagine is a very good song, although a tad depressing :(

[Jesse2]

"If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know"

From Wayward Son, by Kansas