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Topic: Songs that tell a story? :)Posted By: Angry McPisseron
Subject: Songs that tell a story? :)
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:21am
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which tells the story of an iron ore freighter ship that went down in a major November storm in the early-1970s.
Replies: Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 9:14am
Really Nasha? Don't all songs try to tell a story?
Some are just more haunting and chilling than others.
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:20am
Isn't there a 'Donathan's Song' around here, somewhere? Think it was 'banana music', of some sort or maybe something about bad things that happen when you wear your jockey shorts backwards...
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 12:58pm
^ What are you going on about, thang?! Nobody said 'Nasha'...is it your 'time of month', or are you just 'feelin' 'da bitch', today? "...mebee baby, 'dis be yo' 'sto'ey song?"
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:21pm
^oh. Well, o.k. then.
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: Angry McPisseron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:37pm
Cummon, everybody please give Nasha a break here...she may not in fact be Donathan; we don't want to alienate a perfectly good commercial hater from the only place we have online to vent our h8red of those little 30- and 60-second pieces of H-E-Double-Bendy-Straws that are played back during our shows now.
We now return to our regularly-scheduled programming, already in progress.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:40pm
Nasha wrote:
Look, I am not f-cking Donathan, so stop it.
Hey, nobody ever claimed you were f-cking him!!!
Did they?...
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:41pm
Nasha wrote:
Look, I am not f-cking Donathan, so stop it.
Be sure to use protection if you do!!
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:44pm
Jimbo wrote:
Nasha wrote:
Look, I am not f-cking Donathan, so stop it.
Hey, nobody ever claimed you were f-cking him!!!
Did they?...
...no - and that is concerning. We must be 'mentally-warping' a perfectly good member. Strange how we enable the innocent to jump to perfectly unreasonable conclusions. We're just a bunch of sick bitches. Is there a song that tells a story about that?
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 1:53pm
PaWolf wrote:
We're just a bunch of sick bitches. Is there a song that tells a story about that?
If there is, Thor probably knows about it.
Sounds the kind of musical genre he'd be familiar with...
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 3:29pm
I thought this thread's title rang a bell. In fact, my first assumption when I saw it was that it actually was Ken's thread getting bumped, but lo and behold it wasn't
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 3:52pm
Is nasha f*cking Ken, too?
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 4:07pm
Madawee wrote:
Is nasha f*cking Ken, too?
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 4:33pm
Angry McPisseron wrote:
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which tells the story of an iron ore freighter ship that went down in a major November storm in the early-1970s.
And Angry, today is the 39th Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald going down.
(November 10, 1975).
RIP
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 4:34pm
And another thing, Angry - when did you go back to being Angry? Did the submarine sink?
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 4:40pm
This one tells a very touching love story:
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 6:58pm
Nasha wrote:
Look, I don't know who Ken and Donathan are,so stop pputting those posters names in my threads...
Most new members don't go around posting bold new threads like 'f-ck argentine' or 'songs that' or 'random laughs' or 'you fiends' ??
The similarities are not hard to see, People have given you good advice, you don't have to be some show pony going for the next 100 page thread.
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 7:08pm
I thought this thread's title rang a bell. In fact, my first assumption when I saw it was that it actually was Ken's thread getting bumped, but lo and behold it wasn't
Thanks for digging that old jewel up.
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 7:50pm
Madawee wrote:
Is nasha f*cking Ken, too?
I'm 2 F'KING INCHES from cranking up an "Old People Suck..." thread. Why? 'cause I'm thinkin' Ang got promised a special, wet XMAS present while the rest of us are yapping about our dear ol'uncle, Al Z Heimer.
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 8:01pm
Madawee wrote:
Is nasha f*cking Ken, too?
I can't believe Ms Mad even said that.
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 8:25pm
Jimbo wrote:
Nasha wrote:
Look, I am not f-cking Donathan, so stop it.
Hey, nobody ever claimed you were f-cking him!!!
Did they?...
I was just playing along.
I'll be good now.
I'll go to confession on Saturday. I think.
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 8:31pm
Only teasing Maddy, we all ahve our naughty side.
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 9:23pm
Madawee wrote:
Jimbo wrote:
Nasha wrote:
Look, I am not f-cking Donathan, so stop it.
Hey, nobody ever claimed you were f-cking him!!!
Did they?...
I was just playing along.
I'll be good now.
I'll go to confession on Saturday. I think.
If I were to ever go to confession, it'd take so long to get through it all the priest would die of old age before I got done. And that's only if he didn't die from shock first.
Wait, my son. You did WHAT?? .... *thud* "Yes well it was a really wild night already, and then we started drinking shots of .... Father? Hello?"
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 9:36pm
insanity213 wrote:
Madawee wrote:
Jimbo wrote:
Nasha wrote:
Look, I am not f-cking Donathan, so stop it.
Hey, nobody ever claimed you were f-cking him!!!
Did they?...
I was just playing along.
I'll be good now.
I'll go to confession on Saturday. I think.
If I were to ever go to confession, it'd take so long to get through it all the priest would die of old age before I got done. And that's only if he didn't die from shock first.
Wait, my son. You did WHAT?? .... *thud* "Yes well it was a really wild night already, and then we started drinking shots of .... Father? Hello?"
If I so much as dipped my finger in the holy water on my way into Church, my skin would probably start smoking.
And yeah, I'd have to do my confession in sessions. But as soon as I begin muttering "Bless Me Father" I'd already be ex-communicated!
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 10:15pm
^ Mine would have to go..."Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been 552 weeks since my last confession..."
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37pm
Here. Let me do it for you.
Nasha wrote:
I am not Donathan! Not Donathan! Not Donathan! Do I have to post this in Neon colors to get the message across?
Nope. Didn't work. You're still Donathan.
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 11:35am
^OOooooo! You say 'Stop It' SO forcefully!
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 3:12pm
Thor wrote:
Here. Let me do it for you.
Nasha wrote:
I am not Donathan! Not Donathan! Not Donathan! Do I have to post this in Neon colors to get the message across?
Nope. Didn't work. You're still Donathan.
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: sgtrock21
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 4:48pm
Madawee wrote:
And another thing, Angry - when did you go back to being Angry? Did the submarine sink?
I'm sorry to be such a nitpicker but submarines are designed to sink.
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Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 5:00pm
sgtrock21 wrote:
Madawee wrote:
And another thing, Angry - when did you go back to being Angry? Did the submarine sink?
I'm sorry to be such a nitpicker but submarines are designed to sink.
Nitpick away! I was just referring to his old-new name "Tampon Submarine"
thanks for setting me straight!
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 5:01pm
sgtrock21 wrote:
I'm sorry to be such a nitpicker but submarines are designed to sink.
But not permenantly...
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 5:19pm
U-571 was on AMC earlier, Maybe the tampon was to plug a leak in the submarine.
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 6:48pm
^^ I read that and immediately pictured a snippet from Sam Neill at the end of In the Mouth of Madness, delivered almost word for word
Go to 27 seconds and have a look see:
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 7:26pm
^ You have an incredible knowledge/memory of scenes from movies.
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 7:27pm
I actually kinda like the subject of this thread. Kinda broad, maybe, but I've lamented before how songs don't seem to really tell actual stories anymore.
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 7:38pm
There is still some good music being made out there.
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 7:40pm
Thor wrote:
I actually kinda like the subject of this thread.
Kinda broad, maybe, but I've lamented before how songs don't seem to
really tell actual stories anymore.
^^ One thing about the epic saga that's Donathan and Co. is that there have been a few good threads among the more egregious ones. Case in point - the Random Things thread. Look how long that one's gone on and still ticking strong.
Of course for every good one there are 3 or 4 about Stinky farts or Boss crushes
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 7:46pm
^ And Brazilian wax jobs.
I guess when the cocktail of drugs gets messed up, old donathang has no idea WHO the heck he/she is.
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: insanity213
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 8:01pm
Madawee wrote:
^ And Brazilian wax jobs.
I guess when the cocktail of drugs gets messed up, old donathang has no idea WHO the heck he/she is.
Hence the birth of the next batch of Donathangs.
Speaking of - With a little tweaking, the lyrics to the Brady Bunch theme tell the story quite nicely
Here's the story of a crazy lady Who was making up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
With haunting, chilling curls.
Here's the story, of a man named Donathan,
Who was busy making up three boys of his own,
They were four men, with Twix complexions,
Yet they were all alone.
Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
And they knew it was much more than a hunch,
That this group must somehow be the same person.
That's the way they all became the Donathan Bunch.
------------- "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:41pm
We know who you are...
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: msmadz
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:45pm
insanity213 wrote:
Madawee wrote:
^ And Brazilian wax jobs.
I guess when the cocktail of drugs gets messed up, old donathang has no idea WHO the heck he/she is.
Hence the birth of the next batch of Donathangs.
Speaking of - With a little tweaking, the lyrics to the Brady Bunch theme tell the story quite nicely
Here's the story of a crazy lady Who was making up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
With haunting, chilling curls.
Here's the story, of a man named Donathan,
Who was busy making up three boys of his own,
They were four men, with Twix complexions,
Yet they were all alone.
Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
And they knew it was much more than a hunch,
That this group must somehow be the same person.
That's the way they all became the Donathan Bunch.
DYING HERE....
"they were 4 men with Twix complexions..."
That will be the only lyrics going through my mind from this point on.
------------- The artist formerly known as Madawee
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 11 Nov 2014 at 9:59pm
You guys are killin me how many egos are out there?
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2014 at 2:55am
Now that Bryan or Sandra or whoever started this thread is gone, we can get to the matter at hand:
Angry McPisseron wrote:
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which tells the story of an iron ore freighter ship that went down in a major November storm in the early-1970s.
Songs that told stories of the sea were popular there for awhile. My favorites:
Sloop John B by the Beach Boys
A Salty Dog by Procol Harum
Ride, Captain, Ride by the Blues Image
I'm Your Captain by Grand Funk
Brandy by Looking Glass
Posted By: sgtrock21
Date Posted: 16 Nov 2014 at 5:25am
"Ballad of the Yarmouth Castle" about a cruise ship that burned is even more intense than The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It is on the Sunday concert album. Thor; your songs of the sea are good ones and I remember all of them. I will add Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
------------- EEEEts All so REEEdEEEculous
Posted By: PaWolf
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2014 at 1:15am
Angry McPisseron wrote:
Gordon Lightfoot's, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", which tells the story of an iron ore freighter ship that went down in a major November storm in the early-1970s.
That song, not to speak of the real story itself, has always been way too long and just too damned depressing...so, here's the musician who actually 'fixed' the song.
------------- X <sig.nature> "What we do for ourselves dies with us, What we do for others is and remains immortal." - Albert Pike
Posted By: Angry McPisseron
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2014 at 1:20am