| Thanks AndyJ, Giselle69, Proclivities and others for your comments on this song. They definitely increase my openness to it. And that's what this forum is all about, right? And THANKS to Bill and Rebecca for RP! |
| why don't we retire this one and look for some other songs from this album. we need some new blood in the playlist. |
JazboApr 05, 2013 - 09:56 | I like this song... |
| I guess the next song will be one of the Beach Boys just to do them right. |
| Sweet_Virginia wrote: Sorry, just can't let go of the fact that it's a lesser Sloop John B.. They must have heard it the night before writing the song. Have to mark it down. I completely agree. |
| Thanks for putting some lyrics in the song info. Great idea. |
| Not many songs are unlike any others and this is quite nice in its own right (not damning by faint praise) quite nice. |
mrgusFeb 15, 2013 - 07:22 | Sweet_Virginia wrote: Sorry, just can't let go of the fact that it's a lesser Sloop John B.. They must have heard it the night before writing the song. Have to mark it down. Funny, I just clicked in to ask if anyone else was getting strong "Sloop John B" vibes. got my answer |
| Sorry, just can't let go of the fact that it's a lesser Sloop John B.. They must have heard it the night before writing the song. Have to mark it down. |
| A lovely melody that evokes a lot of pleasant images and emotions. One of my favorite RP songs. Unlike some other, good tunes, I might not ever get tired of this one. |
| AndyJ wrote: Only the young believe there is a place called "home" they can return to. Everything changes and there is no going back. You're always here or there or you stay home. Home becomes something you carry with you and re-create whetrever you go. richlister wrote: |
metodNov 19, 2012 - 09:38 | Beautiful...just beautiful. If you like this song...you'll love the whole album. At some point I had this on replay in the car for a long time.... |
AndyJOct 20, 2012 - 10:59 | Sandberg is worth reading for everyone... What he wrote so long ago seems appropriate to so much of today. I'm one who has always taken the "one less traveled". Giselle62 wrote: |
AndyJOct 20, 2012 - 10:57 | Only the young believe there is a place called "home" they can return to. Everything changes and there is no going back. You're always here or there or you stay home. Home becomes something you carry with you and re-create whetrever you go. richlister wrote: All together now... "I want to go home..." |
| All together now... "I want to go home..." |
| Giselle62 wrote: Thanks for that. It often seems that many of the "music critics" who post in these threads apparently fail to acknowledge that any music even existed before the 1960s. There is a strange delusion that everything musical can only be traced back as far as Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Doors, Pink Floyd, etc., and that traditional chord progressions, which have existed for centuries, were miraculously "invented" a less than 50 years ago. If the only tool one has is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. |
|  so love this song, so love Band of Horses! X X |
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| Sloop John B is probably an old Jamaican song. |
| I think they are channeling REO Speedwagon |