Sweet Caroline car ad

I could live without hearing that song for a long, long time. Seriously it's overplayed!

It ran twice during a single commercial break on last night's football game. 

GOD I hate this one! Off-key singing and yelling at that! Fk off.

Glad I am not the only one.

Thor wrote: Diamond wrote this song about Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 at the time.  Kinda pervy.  Maybe he told her Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon, plied her with some Cracklin' Rosie, gave her his Longfellow Serenade, and broke her Cherry, Cherry.  He was just tired of being a Solitary Man.

Urban legend.

Neil Diamond reveals story behind 'Sweet Caroline' (link) It was a great story. For years the lore has been that Neil Diamond's 1969 song "Sweet Caroline" was an ode to the then young daughter of late president John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline. On Monday, the singer revealed the truth behind the hit. "I was writing a song in Memphis, Tennessee, for a session. I needed a three-syllable name," Diamond said during an appearance on "Today." "The song was about my wife at the time — her name was Marsha — and I couldn't get a 'Marsha' rhyme."

I dunno.

You read the lyrics and it sounds like he's writing about someone he's intimately familiar and has a history with.

Like a wife.

He probably told the Kennedy story because it sounded more interesting than because he needed a three syllable name.

The truth is, a lot of songs get written that way. Merely the practical need to fit a word into a space that either rhymes or has the correct number of syllables.

Takes some of the panache away.

Thor wrote: True.  Maybe You're So Vain is really about no one in particular.  That'd be funny.

I think that one is actually about who she's always said it was.

McCartney says the working title to Yesterday was "Scrambled Eggs".

I had never heard that. I always assumed it was about Beatty.

But it wouldn't surprise me if it was about a composite character consisting of more than one person.

Dylan did that in songs like Positively 4th Street.

I guess it's tough to write a good song about one person without having to take some liberties. Like I was saying earlier, often it just comes down to what you can make rhyme and how many syllables you need.

I HATE this song with a passion..I always thought Neil was a faux hippie schlockmeister and to hear it embraced by a set of sports stupes and then THIS AD...that idiotic add-on from the 'fans' is just torture.

This reminds me of that stupid ad from a couple years ago about another asshat driving around and blaring Billy Idol's version of "Mony Mony."  BLAAAAAAH! 

Sweet car-o-mine!!

... with the semi hauling BBQ sauce.