What is a good song and why?

Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 12:18 PM

I think that, most of the time, "perfect" in a rhyme should mean unobtrusive.

The odd thing is, meter, getting it to scan, makes far more difference to whether a song or a poem will run easily, but so often people will focus their attention on rhyme.

Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 02:36 PM

Frank,

I've heard that it took Quinn The Eskimo 6 months to sing "Night And Day"!!   ;-)

Brucie,
Pictures 1 and 2 are good because of all the dead lurking below the surface of each of them. Picture #3 is good in the same way that "LONELY ARE THE BRAVE" was a great movie; you know what is coming. Once again, it is death.

Art

Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 12:22 PM

A good song is a song that sounds good

Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
From: kendall
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 02:57 PM

Mary Garvey, you may be basically a tune lover, but you have written some damn fine lyrics too! CANNERY SHED, for one, I used to work in a sardine cannery so that one appeals to me. THE BOATS OF PETER'S RIVER, and ASTORIA BAR. Good stuff. Of course, being an old salt myself, I would have to like them.

Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
From: mg
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 12:04 AM

Thanks...you know the tune writer I love is Priscilla Herdman...when she puts her tunes to other people's words.

mg

Subject: RE: What is a good song and why?
From: kendall
Date: 24 Feb 05 - 04:50 PM

I love to hear Priscilla sing.