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Subject: Rickpicking From: Bert Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:11 PM Hi, I was going to call this thread "nitpicking" but seeing as Rick started it all with his "Confessions of an Authenticity Nurd!" thread, I thought a play on words would be fun. It's a thread about mistakes in songs. So if you thought this was another flame from GUTLESS GUEST, or a tribute to Rick's playing abilities, then you're an "April Fool". _________________________________________ Mistakes in songs - those that transcend poetic license. Here's the first one: The song is Endless Sleep which you Fifties Fogeys will remember goes... Night was black, rain falling down Looked for my baby, nowhere around, Traced her footsteps down to the shore... OH COME ON - Even if you walk right behind someone on a dark night when the rain is falling down you can't trace their footsteps, they get washed away immediately. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Allan C. Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:14 PM It ain't necessarily so, Bert. T should be able to set you straight about that. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: John Hardly Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:17 PM The most popular flawed lyric was pointed out by Dave Barry. The M.M.Murphy song "Wildfire" . A "killing frost" kills vegetation, not horses. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:34 PM I think this is too deep for me. I'm still trying to figure out what a whiter shade of pale is....or why some asshole would leave a cake out in the rain. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Clinton Hammond Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:44 PM Spaw... Ya took the words right out of my mouth! LOL!! |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Peter T. Date: 01 Apr 01 - 03:58 PM "Wise men say, only fools rush in." No. Wise men say that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. That doesn't mean they are the only ones who rush in. "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one." Completely contradictory. How can two be as bad as one, and one still gets to be the loneliest number? "For red is the colour that my baby wore, and what's more, it's true, yes it is, it's true." It can't be "more": it is either a true statement or it isn't. Either that or it is redundant. Possibly could be a logical statement, which is then given existence, i.e. mapped onto the world and affirmed. If so, then it should be: There is a dress, coloured red, belonging to my baby, that she wore on occasion X, and it is an instantiated statement. "The Rockies may tumble, Gibraltar may crumble, they're only made of clay, but, our love is here to stay." Actually, the Rockies are mostly, and Gibraltar completely, made of granitic rock, not clay. yours, Peter T.
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Rick Fielding Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:09 PM Even though I'm sick as a friggin' dog, hackin' and sneezin' and whinin' I simply KNOW that folks who: ..get no kick from cocaine...start revolutions in Spain...play so much golf that they're "under par"...and have the kind of acting training that "Metro-Goldwyn want's them to Star" are simply TOO BUSY to fall in love. No wonder "He can't get started...."! Hey guy, give up some of your hobbies! Maybe then she'll take you seriously! Rick (sniffle sniffle, chitty bang bang) |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Matt_R Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:11 PM Rick...you're whole post sounded like a hip-hop song! Can I 311-ize it? |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Peter T. Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:13 PM "There's a kind of hush, all over the world tonight." Half the world is in daylight, dope. yours, Peter T.
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: kendall Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:13 PM If you Call All Hands to man the capstain, who is going to steer? who is unfurling the sails? And, why would anyone say Adieu to a Spanish maiden? |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: gnu Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:43 PM Peter T. asked about... "One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Two can be as bad as one, it's the loneliest number since the number one." Completely contradictory. How can two be as bad as one, and one still gets to be the loneliest number? Certainly a screwed up individual. Perhaps he was in a relationship with my ex. I was never as lonely as I was when I was with her, or as confused. Two is definitely definitely worse than one. Wait.... how much are we to ? gnu |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Ebbie Date: 01 Apr 01 - 04:54 PM Well, Bert, I did think 'Rickpicking' had something to do with his musical abilities, so I'll go ahead and suggest that we should have a thread- maybe a Permathread?- of CDs and tapes that are out by various 'Catters. Or is it OK to pm someone and ask for information regarding purchase? I still think it would be nice to keep a running account of what's out and what's coming. Ebbie
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: wysiwyg Date: 01 Apr 01 - 07:24 PM Rick's out (with a cold), so as for the rest of that statement, Ebbie.... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Clifton53 Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:36 AM I'm walkin' on sunshine. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Ebbie Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:39 AM Yes, I read that. Hope he's up and at 'em soon. Thanks, Susan. Eb |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: GUEST,Midchuck upstairs Date: 02 Apr 01 - 07:41 AM Unfortunately, my favorite example comes from one of my all-time favorite songs. "...I'd fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails." Rock salt, maybe - but sure as hell, one or two of those nails will get crosswise in the bore, and there's pieces of you and the shotgun all over the scenery, while the person being shot at stands there wondering what all the noise is about. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Willie-O Date: 02 Apr 01 - 07:49 AM It's not a song, but I once read an anecdote in a local newspaper column by a lady who was waxing nostalgic about watching the sun set on the Atlantic Ocean during her visit to the New Jersey Shore... Willie-O |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:01 AM Purple haze all in my brain Lately things don't seem the same Actin' funny, don't know why 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy B. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Grab Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:05 AM Bert, plenty of muddy paths around where you could do that. It'd have to be raining _seriously_ hard to wash away a footprint in any sort of reasonable time. I nominate Matty Groves - "Lord Arlen's not at home, He is out to the far corn fields, bringing the yearlings home." So what are the animals doing in the corn-fields then? Graham. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: gnu Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:26 AM 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy... I thought it was... 'Scuse me while I kiss THE SKY gnu |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 02 Apr 01 - 08:43 AM It is!!! You're very quick this morning, gnu. B ;) |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Peter T. Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:07 AM "When this old world starts a getting me down, And people are just too much for me to meet, I get away from the bustling crowd, And go up where the air is fresh and sweet, Up on the roof. Very doubtful: updrafts in cities bring ground level pollution to rooftops, which are also collectors of heavy metal dust, and other pollutants from exhaust fans. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:35 AM Yeah, it's a bit harder to wash a way a footprint as opposed to a footstep. You don't see footsteps, you hear them. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Wolfgang Date: 02 Apr 01 - 09:42 AM click for the old thread Factual errors in lyrics. I especially like the one pointed out by Snuffy there: Twas on Good Friday morning, all in the month of May. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: GUEST,Matt_R Date: 02 Apr 01 - 10:27 AM Woo! Purple Haze! My college's song! |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 02 Apr 01 - 10:32 AM As far as the 'Good Friday Morning, all in the month of May" is concerned, Wolfgang, the song could have been written about an event that was witnessed by an Orthodox Christian in 1888. B. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Ebbie Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:02 PM This phenomenom is not confined to songs. In James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Series he has his hero divert a running stream from its bed in order to determine from footprints in the mud which direction a fleeing enemy had taken. Anyone try that? Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 02 Apr 01 - 01:06 PM Ahhh, but in what year did Good Friday fall on St. Steven's (Boxing) Day? B. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: GUEST,Crazy Eddie Date: 03 Apr 01 - 01:30 AM Brendy, I don't remember the year, but I believe it was at the Mallow Races. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 03 Apr 01 - 03:48 AM I had the web page yesterday with the answer, and all, but I've been trying to relocate for a while, now, and I have come up with everything else but the answer. But Mallow it was. Well spotted. B. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Wolfgang Date: 03 Apr 01 - 03:59 AM Brendy, the line is from 'Lonely Banna strand', hardly an event witnessed by an Orthodox in 1888. Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:04 AM Ceann amháin eile: A couple of years ago, Mark, a mate of mine and a gifted fiddle player, and I were booked to play on the overnight ferry from Stockholm in Sweden, to Helsinki in Finland. This Swedish chick comes up to me, at some stage during the 2nd set and asks me (in that lovely Swedish accent): Well, the first word of this 'song' was enough to tell me that this girl was on the wrong track, altogether. Curiousity got the better of me, and I asked her to lilt me a line or two of it. B. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: Brendy Date: 03 Apr 01 - 04:06 AM No, you're probably right, Wolfgang. Just doing a bit of 'rickpicking' B. |
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Subject: RE: Rickpicking From: mkebenn Date: 03 Apr 01 - 07:32 AM I thought Lord Arlen's men were "Bringin' the early corn", makes more sense for a corn field, anyway. Mike |
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