Band of Horses
On My Way Back Home
Infinite Arms
(2010)

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Apr 05, 2013 - 10:03
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!


stf9
Apr 05, 2013 - 09:57
why don't we retire this one and look for some other songs from this album. we need some new blood in the playlist.


Jazbo
Apr 05, 2013 - 09:56
I like this song...


justin4kick
Mar 26, 2013 - 06:58
I guess the next song will be one of the Beach Boys just to do them right.


aspicer
Mar 26, 2013 - 06:57
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.


softjeans
Mar 04, 2013 - 22:25
Thanks for putting some lyrics in the song info. Great idea.

TerryS
Mar 04, 2013 - 22:24
Not many songs are unlike any others and this is quite nice in its own right (not damning by faint praise) quite nice.


mrgus
Feb 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


Sweet_Virginia
Feb 15, 2013 - 07:20
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.


kingart
Feb 04, 2013 - 14:26
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.


richlister
Nov 26, 2012 - 03:32
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:
metod
Nov 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....


AndyJ
Oct 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:
It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, " The John B. Sails ," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927).





AndyJ
Oct 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..."





richlister
Oct 19, 2012 - 01:08
All together now... "I want to go home..."


Proclivities
Sep 24, 2012 - 07:10
Giselle62 wrote:
It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, " The John B. Sails ," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927).

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.


Mari
Jul 16, 2012 - 13:41
{#Music} so love this song, so love Band of Horses!

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Giselle62
Jun 16, 2012 - 10:04
It was originally a traditional West Indies folk song, " The John B. Sails ," taken from a collection by Carl Sandburg (1927).


Giselle62
Jun 16, 2012 - 10:03
Sloop John B is probably an old Jamaican song.


SheRidesABeemer
Apr 22, 2012 - 11:07
I think they are channeling REO Speedwagon {#Sick}


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