Your Song of the Day

[cuseattle]

(sorry if a repeat)

 

[althea]

Their bicentennial album. Filled with the grifters who made us who we are today.

Care to explain what you mean in both of those sentences?

 

[Symphony Steve]

Care to explain what you mean in both of those sentences?

It came out in the bicentennial year of 1976. It features, among others, a phony 'holy man', a down-on-his-luck LSD pusher, a sniper who crosses his bookkeeper dad, a thief, and others. Including a bickering married couple breaking apart due to adultery, who know only one way to keep their loud arguments to themselves ("Turn up the Eagles, the neigbors are listening"). And the title cut is viewed by me, but not just me, on what the US had become: "See the glory...of the Royal Scam".

I don't agree with all the analysis in this article (for example, 'The Fez' explicity says "I wanna be your Holy man"), but it's worth reading:

Crime is the unusual concept behind Steely Dan's The Royal Scam - Song of Fire

 

[althea]

It came out in the bicentennial year of 1976. It features, among others, a phony 'holy man', a down-on-his-luck LSD pusher, a sniper who crosses his bookkeeper dad, a thief, and others. Including a bickering married couple breaking apart due to adultery, who know only one way to keep their loud arguments to themselves ("Turn up the Eagles, the neigbors are listening"). And the title cut is viewed by me, but not just me, on what the US had become: "See the glory...of the Royal Scam".

I don't agree with all the analysis in this article (for example, 'The Fez' explicity says "I wanna be your Holy man"), but it's worth reading:

Crime is the unusual concept behind Steely Dan's The Royal Scam - Song of Fire

Thx. I knew they wrote many songs with strange subjects eg. Owsley Stanley, I thought you were referring to the musicians being grifters.
In general, I think people put too much stock into the meaning of songs. IMO - many big songs are thoughtful and insightful, and many are just words. Typically the later are created by producers, and not songwriters.

 

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[althea]

 

[br801]

Imagine turning on the Jonathan Winters Show in 1967 and seeing this...

 

[tee1222]

 

[tee1222]

 

[tee1222]

Best Pearl Jam for last. And are these the first Pearl Jam songs on this thread?
Who am I? Where are we?

 

[tee1222]

Great song

 

[br801]

 

[tee1222]

Those are my hometown boys and my hometown beach! Just talking with my buddy last night and we said we both went to the beach. When I asked him where, I thought I already knew. Yes indeed, Rockaway beach.

 

[althea]

 

[tee1222]

 

[cuseattle]

A bunch Marthas and Julias my age because of these songs.

Julia (Remastered 2009)

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[tee1222]

A bunch Marthas and Julias my age because of these songs.

 

[br801]

 

[tee1222]

She thinks she's the passionate one.

 

[tee1222]

 

[tee1222]

All three are from Paul's Boutique.

 

[br801]

 

[br801]

New EC...

 

[tee1222]

Alex: This is one of the best ‘hair metal’ racing songs of all time.
Sean Connery: What is Kickstart my Heart, Alex?
Alex: Yes, Sean Connery. You are now up to negative $12,500. And, please - leave my mother out of it.

 

[tee1222]

Alex: Final jeopardy question. This song is the most frequently played song at adult bars.
Sean Connery: