Playlist 20

[stoutfellow]

Umm... let's just say that I re-e-eally like this particular playlist.

• White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane. Just... weird.


• So Far Away, Carole King. Another song about loneliness; she's good at that.


• Someday We'll Be Together, the Supremes. My introduction to Motown was a double-LP album of the Supremes belonging to one of my sisters, and I still love their stuff.


• You Can't Hurry Love, the Supremes. A real favorite; also, one of the few songs that I like that also has a good remake, by Phil Collins.


• Who Will You Run To, Heart. This belongs to the subgenre of songs that includes "That'll Be The Day", "You Need Me", and "Love Will Bring You Back". Kind of arrogant, they are, but a lot of them are good listening.


• Paradise, America. Yet another soft-and-beautiful from this group.


• MTA, the Kingston Trio. This is the original version, written in the heat of a Boston mayoral campaign. "Citizens, hear me out!" (I still wonder why Charlie's wife never threw him a nickel instead of a sandwich.)


• We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Joe Cocker. Powerful and gritty.


• You Could Have Been With Me, Sheena Easton. This (or else "When He Shines") is my favorite of her songs. She had/has such a beautiful voice; it's a shame that she so rarely sang songs worthy of it.


• Tomorrow Is A Long Long Time, the Kingston Trio. This song reminds me of a short anonymous poem from the sixteenth century¹; I find the poem, and the song as well, simply haunting.


• Homeward Bound, Simon and Garfunkel


• Mr. Bojangles, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The verse about his dog always brings tears to my eyes.


• Sometimes In Winter, Blood, Sweat and Tears. A quiet song of contentment, of a kind that appeals to me.


• Still In Saigon, the Charlie Daniels Band. How many pop songs about Delayed Stress Syndrome are there?


• Letting Go, Suzy Bogguss. A tearjerker about a young girl and her mother, as the former departs for college. "It's never easy, letting go..."


• Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler. Just a powerful snapshot of an emotional state - bewildering, frightening, but ardently desired.


• I Wouldn't Beg For Water, Sheena Easton. Not the most beautiful thing she ever sang, but the most wrenching, as a deep-set self-image confronts emotional reality.


• Sister Golden Hair, America. I don't want to sound like a broken record...


• We've Got Tonight, Sheena Easton and Kenny Rogers. The original song was a solo, but it makes a beautiful duet. Kenny gravels out the first verse and Sheena bursts into the second, high and anguished; just gorgeous.


• Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Chicago. I like a lot of Chicago's work, but it's the joyously optimistic stuff - like this one - that appeals to me the most.

1. "O Western wind, when wilt thou blow / That the small rain down can rain? / Christ, that my love were in my arms / And I in my bed again!"

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[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

We've Got Tonight, Sheena Easton and Kenny Rogers.
I also like this version.


I still wonder why Charlie's wife never threw him a nickel instead of a sandwich.
Well, she had to put in a dime to get into the Scollay Sq. station - and that was all that their transportation budget allowed.

yeah, I wondered that, too.

[filkferengi]

Reminds me of my spouse's take on Christmas. "The child, the child, shivers in the cold / Let us bring him silver and gold." My spouse always wonders: Why don't they bring him a blanket?

:)