Lyr Add: New Orleans Is Sinking (Tragically Hip)

Subject: Lyr Add: NEW ORLEANS IS SINKING (Tragically Hip)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 03 Sep 05 - 08:06 AM

I have just received the following in an email. I assume you can get a sound file, but the URL looks incomplete.
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        New Orleans is Sinking (listen)

2005-09-03 09:12
http://media.putfile.com/09---New-Orleans-Is-Sinking

Bourbon blues on the street, loose and complete
Under skies all smokey blue-green
I can't forsake a dixie dead-shake
So we danced the sidewalk clean

My memory is muddy, what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim

Colonel Tom, What's wrong? What's going on?
You can't tie yourself up for a deal
He said, Hey north you're south shut your big mouth,
You gotta do what you feel is real

Ain't got no picture postcards, ain't got no souvenirs
My baby, she don't know me when I'm thinking bout those years

Pale as a light bulb hanging on a wire
Sucking up to someone just to stoke the fire
Picking out the highlights of the scenery
Saw a little cloud that looked a little like me

I had my hands in the river
My feet back up on the banks
Looked up to the lord above
And said, Hey man thanks

Sometimes I feel so good, I gotta scream
She said Gordie baby I know exactly what you mean
She said, she said, I swear to god she said...

My memory is muddy what's this river that I'm in?
New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: New Orleans is Sinking
From: *daylia*
Date: 03 Sep 05 - 08:17 AM

From yesterday's Globe and Mail:

A Radio Casualty

The Tragically Hip's stomping bar-room hit New Orleans is Sinking has become a casualty of hurricane Katrina as radio stations drop the song from their play lists largely due to its title.

Vancouver's 99.3 the Fox and sister classic rock station Rock 101, also in Vancouver, are among those that have pulled the song out of deference for hurricane victims.

"Any time there's this sort of loss of life and this many families affected - regardless of the political ramifications - it's out of respect, if anything" said the Fox's program and music director, who goes by the name Dunner. He added that this is the first time that his station has pulled a song in this way. The song was dropped from the play list around noon on Wednesday.

Members of the Tragically Hip could not be reached for comment yesterday."

Subject: RE: LYR ADD: New Orleans is Sinking
From: *daylia*
Date: 03 Sep 05 - 08:18 AM

Oops that needed a </b> - sorry

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: New Orleans Is Sinking (Tragically Hip)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 05:13 PM

The URL that Foolstroupe posted works OK. Click: http://media.putfile.com/09---New-Orleans-Is-Sinking. The song plays automatically when you go to that page.

Can't say I especially like it, but it might make an interesting footnote to the history of pop music.

Looks like the song came out in 1989, and appears on several albums, so pulling it from playlists now probably won't do the band any harm. They'll probably benefit from the publicity.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: New Orleans Is Sinking (Tragically Hi
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Sep 05 - 09:03 PM

I kind of like it. For any others who do, it is copyable.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: New Orleans Is Sinking (Tragically Hip)
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 05 Sep 05 - 02:28 AM

Looking at the amended title, I am bemused at the unintended irony now.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: New Orleans Is Sinking (Tragically Hip)
From: GUEST,Hipster
Date: 06 Sep 05 - 10:03 PM

The Tragically Hip definitely wont be hurt by losing airplay on this classic tune...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: New Orleans Is Sinking (Tragically Hip)
From: GUEST,JBG
Date: 07 Sep 05 - 03:12 PM

I despise political correctness in almost any form. I could understand withdrawing the song from airplay in markets immediately affected (not that Tragically Hip gets much airplay in New Orleans, Houston or Dallas) but not everywhere.

Does anyone remember a time when small and few words did the job of describing a situation or person accurately?

Words like "idiot", "moron", "imbecile", or "lunatic"? Simple English words, that were used popularly and were part of legislation. The words had commonly understood meaning.

Words like "mentally retarded" or "manic-depressive" were not verboten.

Airlines and police forces could develop psychological and personal profiles of actual or likely criminals, so that little old Jewish ladies from Pump Hill or Thornhill weren't being strip-searched at airports. Pedophiles were often harassed by police, so they kept their sexual urges and offensive conduct to themselves.

Now the age of "liberation", "awareness" and "love" are upon us, little abated since the days of hippydome. We use indecipherable, "non-judgmental" terms like "intellectually challenged", or "emotionally challenged" or worse yet, use bureaucratize to describe people. Thus, even figuring out what someone's real problem is, and addressing it, is hard. We are forced to endure endless, sterile debates about whether homosexuality is pathological or normal behavior. Some suggests that if a gay person wants to go "straight", a psychiatrist should refuse to "treat" the person for "gayness" notwithstanding the loss of opportunities that a gay person suffers. He will never have biological children. His parents will never have grandchildren. There are victims here.

Heaven forfend, we can't "profile", since that would be "stereotyping" and "degrading" a person because of their origin. We have to pretend that the Bronfmans of Montreal are as likely to blow up a synagogue or a transit conveyance as Abdul or Mohamed. This has real and deadly consequences as police resources are squandered searching harmless people, and ordinary people are badly inconvenienced in their daily life by pointless searches and checkpoints. this undermines public support for real measures that do improve security.

And pedophiles now get a free pass since homosexual people are "entitled" to their "pride" and "dignity". The possibility of my 9 1/2 year old or 8 year old being diddled by some strange man strikes me as more serious that the "pride" or "dignity" of the gay community.

Harper loses an election for Canadian PM in part because he honestly states the obvious, that the Liberals have not been aggressive about kiddie porn. Something has to give.

Subject: What relevance has this - eh Joeclones?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Sep 05 - 05:47 AM

What relevance has this - eh Joeclones?