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What song will you NEVER get sick of?; You can list more than one.
Topic Started: Nov 12 2004, 02:37 PM (679 Views)
Dr. Noah
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For me, it's Led Zepplin's When the Levee Breaks. The powerful blues beat, intermittant strong guitar solos, the whole feel of the song begs to be heard again and again. My personal favorite Zepplin piece.
That, and Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. It was the piece played as my wife walked down the aisle. Hearing it always brings that image back. *sigh*
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Free Bird by Lynard Skynard - Dunno why i like it but every time i hear it i turn it up! Also helps that it is on the new GTA game!
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Dr. Noah
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Perhaps too is the fact that someone says "Turn it up" on the recording before the song starts. *Subliminal message*

Question about that song though: Why does he say bad things about Neil Young?
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No idea, but the song is just damned good. Maybe Fes can help with your question, being the music expert he is! :lol:
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Dr. Noah
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Sorry I was wrong about the line saying "turn it up" that's on "Sweet Home Alabama"
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I was going to say, i didn't remember that!
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Dr. Noah
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In Sweet Home Alabama, Skynard says "I hope Neil Young will remember, the southern man don't need him anyhow." Did Neil Young say something about the South?

Also, Skynard says, "Watergate does not bother me, does your concionce bother you?" What does that mean? The president hiring someone to break and enter into his opponents headquarters and steal things don't bother him? Is he saying he has no conciounce?
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I have absolutly no idea. I'll ask my brother when i see him, he knows a fair bit about Skynard.
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Nov 12 2004, 11:47 AM
Question about that song though: Why does he say bad things about Neil Young?

The reference to Neil Young is in regards to a song he wrote called "Southern Man". "Sweet Home Alabama" was pretty much a direct response to Young's indictment of the south and racism.
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Dr. Noah
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Thanks Swidden, is there a specific line you could quote? Just curious, I wasn't aware of that.
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"Lyrics to Sweet Home Alabama"
 
Big wheels keep on turning
Carry me home to see my kin
Singing songs about the southland
I miss alabamy once again
And I think it’s a sin, yes

Well I heard mister young sing about her
Well, I heard ole neil put her down
Well, I hope neil young will remember
A southern man don’t need him around anyhow

Sweet home alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home alabama
Lord, I’m coming home to you

In birmingham they love the governor
Now we all did what we could do
Now watergate does not bother me
Does your conscience bother you?
Tell the truth

Sweet home alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home alabama
Lord, I’m coming home to you
Here I come alabama

Now muscle shoals has got the swampers
And they’ve been known to pick a song or two
Lord they get me off so much
They pick me up when I’m feeling blue
Now how about you?

Sweet home alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home alabama
Lord, I’m coming home to you

Sweet home alabama
Oh sweet home baby
Where the skies are so blue
And the governor’s true
Sweet home alabama
Lordy
Lord, I’m coming home to you
Yea, yea montgomery’s got the answer


"Lyrics to Neil Young's 'Southern Man'"
 
Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks.
Southern man when will you pay them back?
I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking
How long? how long?

Southern man better keep your head
Don’t forget what your good book said
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern man

Lily belle, your hair is golden brown
I’ve seen your black man comin’ round
Swear by God I’m gonna cut him down!
I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking
How long? how long?
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Dr. Noah
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Thanks Swidden. Very enlightening.

I go to the Bridge School Benefit concert every year put on by Neil Young and his wife who runs the school for handicapped kids. Honestly, I am not a big fan of his music, the voice is a bit too whiney for me, but I like the guy personally. Southern Man was probably written though during the terrorism of the KKK during the 60s I imagine.
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I knew about the Southern Man reference, but I don't know what Watergate had to do with George Wallace (I beleive) from Alabama (in Birmingham they love the guvna).

They make the Southern Man reference obvious in the song the way they sing it to sound like the Neil Young song.

Perhaps they are just unrelated references in the same verse.
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Hoss
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I believe Dire Straights referenced Chicago in Sultans of Swing when they said "he don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band, it ain't what he calls rock and roll". I never knew the story behind that either, though I love the guitar solo in that song.
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How about a Voyager Movie
Huey Lewis, the Heart of Rock n Roll!!!! B}
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