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[dave37] 27/11/2003 18:53

neo, leave him alone, he's in love...........:-)

[neo anderson] 27/11/2003 12:58

hallow

It is called 'Somewhere Down The Crazy River'....I downloaded it for a listen, it's schmoozy, soft, slightly different and quite cool.

[contract note] 27/11/2003 10:14

eight miles high prefer the husk a du version .

[hallow] 27/11/2003 05:19

Best Songs

Somewhere Down the Lazy River - Robbie Robertson

I spent a summer driving around rural France with my girlfriend,
(who later became my wife) listening to this album and especially this track.

Whenever I hear it I still think of being in a 2 man tent with her in the beautiful village of Sare 20 miles south of Biarritz, and the rest is history, and she's still my wife.

[niggle] 26/11/2003 22:18

Ah so it was women who voted that song to the top of the Q chart I was wondering how it made it up there. Its not even the best song by U2 :O)

[ashtongray] 26/11/2003 19:43

Or possibly you missed the vocal bit and what you are hearing is a (very) extended coda...

[m.t.glass] 26/11/2003 16:29

Neo - as songs go, that one's got a bloody long intro. Seems to end before the words start ;-o

[megryan] 25/11/2003 19:12

"One" by U2..sums up eloquently the tension in a relationship between lovers.

Meg

[neo anderson] 25/11/2003 18:46

I like a lot of contemporary music but #1 on the Anderson Hit Parade would be:

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21 In C Major AKA 'The Viennese Waltz'

[dave37] 25/11/2003 18:41

I do like 'sunny side of the street' by tommy dorsey and the sentimentalists.

[martinc] 25/11/2003 10:22

"best song for ever" covers an awful lot of songs, from opera, 18th century ditties... Reminds me of Richard Thompson, who of his recent tour & mail-order/web only CD said:

The idea for this project came from Playboy Magazine - I was asked by submit a list, in late 1999, of the ten greatest songs of the Millenium. Hah! I thought, hypocrites - they don't mean millennium, they mean twenty years - I'll call their bluff and do a real thousand-year selection. My list was similar to the choices here on this CD, starting in about 1068, and winding slowly up to 2001. That they failed to print my list among others submitted by rock's luminaries, is but a slight wound - it gave me the idea for this show, which has been performed occasionally, and will hopefully receive a few more airings. [...]. I am unqualified to sing 98% of the material here, but me having a go could be considered part of the fun. Also, trying to render an Arthur Sullivan orchestration with acoustic guitar and snare drum is pretty desperate stuff, but may, at a stretch, be thought "charming." ...

[samg99] 25/11/2003 10:16

BigBusiness (post 21) - John Lennon was definitely a fan of ELO. He praised "Showdown" on a radio show in New York, describing ELO as "Son of Beatles". He also said in the Playboy Interviews, in 1980:
"I mean, ELO is son of 'I am the Walrus'. If somebody wants 'I am the Walrus' music, they just have to buy ELO records".
Best album of all time has to be ELO's "Out of the Blue", 17 tracks, all excellent, including "Mr Blue Sky", "Sweet Talking Woman", "Wild West Hero" and "Turn to Stone". Jeff Lynne is a bloody genius!

[m.t.glass] 25/11/2003 01:20

Dave - I kept a video of the "Once More With Felix" progs (1967/68) in which Julie Felix brought over L.Cohen and introduced him to the British public for the first time, sat on a stool and singing 'Sisters Of Mercy' on one show and 'The Stranger' on another. Got most albums (but not the croaky/gasping last one now his voice has gone).

[dave37] 24/11/2003 21:03

funny, the 'who's side are you on' album was one of my favourites years ago, dont know if it was called 'matt bianco', or 'who's side are you on?'

half a minute............love it love it...used to play along with my sax

some other favourite tracks are

Zimbabwe-bob marley (saw him in concert for the 'uprising'tour-my first concert

love of my life-queen from queen live at wembley 86(i think)

heroes-david bowie--from live aid 1985 (remember clare hurst?)

is this love(that I'm feeling)-whitesnake (had a crush on sally wilkinson)

famous blue raincoat-leonard cohen (got into him around 1984-not literally of course)

[oldolie] 24/11/2003 20:54

Jacko-`Sneakin in the back door`

[smellberg] 24/11/2003 20:48

James Brown, & Frank are the songs I want played at my funeral....
That's put a dampener on it

[dave37] 24/11/2003 20:43

hmmmmmmm, need more reasons guys and gals a song has to mean something to you.

dave

[bigbusiness] 24/11/2003 20:19

Two more:-

Bjork - Joga
Matt Bianco - sneaking out the backdoor

[leeshindig] 24/11/2003 20:14

the specials - ghost town

[k mon] 24/11/2003 20:10

One of the best to evoke the Angst of Youth.

- Teenage Kicks - by the Undertones

(one of the best guitar riffs ever)

[oldolie] 24/11/2003 19:33

Leaning on a lamp-post- George Formby

l;ol

[gausie] 24/11/2003 19:26

Drip fed Fred - Ian Dury and Madness

[doolittle] 24/11/2003 18:55

'without you' by Nilsson

made me cry then and makes me cry now

there I go again again