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Ozark Mountain Daredevils — If You Wanna Get To Heaven
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railroadwail
(Deep in Penn's Woods)
Posted: Aug 19, 2012 - 08:40
 
Harmonica players smile when hearing this one.  I know I am.

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 22:15
 
no

finsterboy
(Brooklyn)
Posted: May 16, 2012 - 13:47
 
Or if you want to get to heaven, you could just be a sheep. Sorry goats.

Onthebus
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 15:13
 
Wow, nice to hear this oldie but goodie. Saw them way back in day. Always a fun time!

coloradojohn
(Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe)
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 20:20
 
Yup, we were singing this in class and got ourselves a stern scolding from cranky old Mr. Bench in Earth Science in 8th Grade — and we knew the refrain was true, regardless!  Good stuff then, and still sounds fun as ever!

olesonb
(Westminster, CO)
Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 11:27
 
 

HELL YES!!! I luv new & eclectic music, that's why I listen to RP, but damn it's nice to return to my teenage years. Thanks Bill!



Huey
(Netherlands)
Posted: Jul 05, 2011 - 11:24
 
 Cynaera wrote:
Ozark Mountain Daredevils was OMD before Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark was OMD. And I still love their music... I can remember listening to them while helping my co-worker swamp out, paint, and move into her first apartment (which probably should have been condemned, but the price was right) - we were up from at least eight P.M. to after three A.M. with the stereo playing, and our music of choice was Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

Good times...{#Bounce}
 
I remember them from wayyyyyy back when Cyn.  Really good times. I've still got them on vinyl somewhere. 7.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 03, 2011 - 19:55
 
 lexica wrote:
Not high art, but fun to bop around the living room to. {#Dancingbanana}
 
More like art to get high to...  And yep, definitely a bop-around-the-living-room song! {#Bananajumprope}

Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Apr 11, 2011 - 21:46
 
 Stingray wrote:
"minus 1"
 
Sorry...you really had to be there to get this...


amoreena
(west whatnot)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 14:35
 
Roll the spliff up and the windows down......ah, high school!

jools
(Brighton UK)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 09:27
 
Oh yeah - rockin' good stuff! And great rock sentiment!

xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: Mar 11, 2011 - 09:26
 
 lexica wrote:
Not high art, but fun to bop around the living room to. {#Dancingbanana}
 
How true.  Just plan fun.


peter_james_bond
(West Of The Burg)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 19:19
 
If you want to get to heaven, head for paradise....Radio Paradise that is.

lexica
(Oakland, CA)
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 18:25
 
Not high art, but fun to bop around the living room to. {#Dancingbanana}

Foot
Posted: Jan 07, 2011 - 18:23
 
Cheap midwestern pop circa 1975.  I was there (in Ohio) and didn't get it.  Still don't.

Templar13
(Silver Spring, MD)
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 13:02
 
Great Harmonica!!!{#Dancingbanana}

Stingray
(EUROPE)
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 13:00
 
"minus 1"

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Sep 24, 2010 - 12:10
 
Ozark Mountain Daredevils was OMD before Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark was OMD. And I still love their music... I can remember listening to them while helping my co-worker swamp out, paint, and move into her first apartment (which probably should have been condemned, but the price was right) - we were up from at least eight P.M. to after three A.M. with the stereo playing, and our music of choice was Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

Good times...{#Bounce}

Jeff09
(Gainesville, Florida)
Posted: Aug 01, 2010 - 20:13
 
If you wanna get to heaven, got to raise a little hell!

These guys were fun...an earlier, slightly less sarcastic version of Southern Culture on the Skids.

rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 12:55
 
 mystercy wrote:
Yee Haww! Classic red-neck justification to do whatever you damned well please. Where's my Bible, guns and brains? 
 
There is overwhelming scriptual support for the concept expressed in this song ("the first shall be last, the last shall be first", the prodigal son, etc..), it's not a "hillbilly" notion.   


socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 12:49
 
 Stefen wrote:
Happy music.
 
Yeah, makes me happy when it's done playing and I can turn the volume back up...


Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 12:47
 
At the opening note I know this is going to be fun.

jules44
(Sunny North Carolina)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 12:47
 
Love these guys...outstanding album!{#Bananajam}

isayhoomhom
(Bethel, CT)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 12:47
 
 muse_Kidd wrote:
more redneck forgetable nonsense.
 
But you like the Jayhawks...

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 20:36
 
This was the first song I ever heard from OMD, and then I heard "Jackie Blue," and after that, I invested in several of their albums. "You Know Like I Know," "It's How You Think," "Watermill," "Colorado Song"....  There's a vast library of really good music from these guys.  Love 'em.

muse_Kidd
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 20:32
 
more redneck forgetable nonsense.

Jim__Sheila
(St. Paul, MN)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 20:31
 
never liked this song in the seventies, like it even less now...

jkhandy
(Near the ocean (in my mind))
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 20:31
 
some people here have way too much time on their hands, and are way too much in their heads.  it's a wonder they can enjoy music at all.

Patricula
(Ohio)
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 10:34
 
I love OMD!

Oh wait... wrong OMD.
They just weren't the same when Paul Humphreys left anyway....

jersey_birdman
Posted: Apr 28, 2010 - 10:31
 
An interesting band...  they have a live album that is out of print, It's Alive...  Great stuff on that one... 

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 06:08
 
vandal wrote:

In now way did my jab even imply that bucolic peoples from geographically dispersed locations within the United States exhibit properties with uniform values along all vectors. That is a gross overstatement.

More dicto simpliciter: My point was that you capriciously aggregated the mode of the "If You Wanna Get to Heaven" commenter sophistication and neatly characterized it as an attribute of urbanites. Nothing more.

Personally, IMHO, I don't have any concerns regarding the tendencies of human beings toward making "expert" assumptions based upon cursory examination - that particular vein of observation, also known as the "first impression" is a visceral reaction and could be considered instinctual rather than intellectual.

As a person who has traveled extensively both inside/outside the US, I have observed that the peculiar attitude you describe as coming from " insular tower dwellers" can be found in all cultures and settings, both urban and rural.

{#Meditate}

Say what?
Okay, works for me.


vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Apr 01, 2010 - 14:52
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
I was commenting on the total body of comments, not yours in particular. I never referenced the term hillbilly, as most of the derisive comments were directed at rural southerners in general. If you maintain that the rural culture of the mountain Northwest is identical to that of the southern US, I won't argue with you - but I might suggest some field research to verify your position. As a South Louisiana native, all of the Ozarks were viewed as "way up north" from our sea level perspective - but the northern diagonal of Arkansas and southern Missouri (where the previous generation of my family originated) hold the overwhelming portion of the Ozark geography and culture.

Does it sit well with you when people who exhibit no ground level knowledge of the place you're from assume they have the skinny on what makes your culture tick, and consider themselves somehow better equipped to exist in the world? Intelligence is often contextual. If you find yourself stranded in the Kalahari, does a PHD in contemporary literature make you smarter than the Bushman who knows how to find water in an arid landscape? Like a lot of folks, I've lived and worked in most of the major regions of the US, city and country (including the northern Rockies). There is a marked difference between the attitude of people with some travel and experience under their feet and insular tower dwellers who assume nothing good can come from beyond the concrete canyons. Yes, urbanites - seriously.

 
In now way did my jab even imply that bucolic peoples from geographically dispersed locations within the United States exhibit properties with uniform values along all vectors.  That is a gross overstatement.

More dicto simpliciter:  My point was that you capriciously aggregated the mode of the "If You Wanna Get to Heaven" commenter sophistication and neatly characterized it as an attribute of urbanites.  Nothing more. 

Personally, IMHO, I don't have any concerns regarding the tendencies of human beings toward making "expert" assumptions based upon cursory examination - that particular vein of observation, also known as the "first impression" is a visceral reaction and could be considered instinctual rather than intellectual. 

As a person who has traveled extensively both inside/outside the US, I have observed that the peculiar attitude you describe as coming from " insular tower dwellers" can be found in all cultures and settings, both urban and rural. 

{#Meditate}


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 26, 2010 - 06:36
 
vandal wrote:

". . . urbanites?' Seriously?

I was born in the hills of Idaho pal, and I think I'm qualified to discuss hillbilly customs. You don't have to come from the South to be a hillbilly. In fact, if I check my "urban" atlas, I can see that the Ozarks actually pass through both Oklahoma and Kansas, neither of which is considered to be in the South.

Y'all be careful with yer hasty generalizations. . . now pass me that there jug. . .

I was commenting on the total body of comments, not yours in particular. I never referenced the term hillbilly, as most of the derisive comments were directed at rural southerners in general. If you maintain that the rural culture of the mountain Northwest is identical to that of the southern US, I won't argue with you - but I might suggest some field research to verify your position. As a South Louisiana native, all of the Ozarks were viewed as "way up north" from our sea level perspective - but the northern diagonal of Arkansas and southern Missouri (where the previous generation of my family originated) hold the overwhelming portion of the Ozark geography and culture.

Does it sit well with you when people who exhibit no ground level knowledge of the place you're from assume they have the skinny on what makes your culture tick, and consider themselves somehow better equipped to exist in the world? Intelligence is often contextual. If you find yourself stranded in the Kalahari, does a PHD in contemporary literature make you smarter than the Bushman who knows how to find water in an arid landscape? Like a lot of folks, I've lived and worked in most of the major regions of the US, city and country (including the northern Rockies). There is a marked difference between the attitude of people with some travel and experience under their feet and insular tower dwellers who assume nothing good can come from beyond the concrete canyons. Yes, urbanites - seriously.


vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Mar 22, 2010 - 23:36
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
Amazing that urbanites who would never commit the intellectual faux pas of ridiculing African or Indonesian cultural differences suddenly assume an anthropologist's depth when commenting on the customs, motivations and traditions of the rural South. It makes somebody sound dumb and shallow, but not in the way you intend.

 
". . . urbanites?'   Seriously? 

I was born in the hills of Idaho pal, and I think I'm qualified to discuss hillbilly customs.  You don't have to come from the South to be a hillbilly.  In fact, if I check my "urban" atlas, I can see that the Ozarks actually pass through both Oklahoma and Kansas, neither of which is considered to be in the South. 

Y'all be careful with yer hasty generalizations. . . now pass me that there jug. . .


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 12:20
 
Amazing that urbanites who would never commit the intellectual faux pas of ridiculing African or Indonesian cultural differences suddenly assume an anthropologist's depth when commenting on the customs, motivations and traditions of the rural South. It makes somebody sound dumb and shallow, but not in the way you intend.


George_Tirebiter
(Phoenix)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 12:13
 
FIrst heard this when southern rock was an early rage - Skynrd's first album was out, Allman's were in heavy rotation on AOR, Barefoot Jerry, OMD, Marshall Tucker, and who can forget the triple leads on High Tides and Green Grass Forever?  Drove my wife nuts!    Good times!

vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 12:12
 

always reminds me of the Bugs Bunny "Hillbilly Hare" episode with the two hillbillies square dancing and yanking each other's beards. . .


Grammarcop
(Hey, I can see Canada from here!)
Posted: Feb 24, 2010 - 05:45
 
If Heaven is a tepid place, they are so already there. This is an anthem totally without conviction. 


mystercy
(Sacramento)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 11:25
 
Yee Haww! Classic red-neck justification to do whatever you damned well please. Where's my Bible, guns and brains? 

GeneP59
(State: OfConfusion, Taxachusettes)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 11:23
 
It's just a plain fun song.
{#Whistle}  {#Twisted}

dewhead
(Big Orange Country)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 11:23
 
Love, love, love, love this song! Always have, always will!

RadioDoc
(Chicagoland)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 11:23
 
Too bad the other OMD track in the library (Black Sky) is languishing without airplay for over seven years...

Stefen
(West Hollywood, CA)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 11:22
 
According to Wikipedia it was released as a single in 1974.

sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 11:21
 
Great song man!!{#Bananajam}

keller1
(In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby)
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 09:07
 
The most fun I've ever had playing a tune is this one.  Air guitars all around.

Pyro
Posted: Dec 23, 2009 - 08:51
 
Ahhh, the memories.  Love how he bends the harp notes so perfectly.

n4ku
(Lex Vegas)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 16:10
 
 figi wrote:
Brings me back ... "Wanna git to heaven - you gotta raise a little hell!"
 
Hi, neighbor.


figi
(Lexington, KY)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 12:47
 
Brings me back ... "Wanna git to heaven - you gotta raise a little hell!"

Flipmode
(Spartanburg, SC)
Posted: Oct 21, 2009 - 12:46
 
 Misterfixit wrote:
God Bless Bandytown
 
And God Bless Jesco White !

Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: Aug 19, 2009 - 11:21
 
God Bless Bandytown