Waysider, that was awesome! I never saw that. Nice find.
I could write a short essay about that song but I'll keep it to one quick anectodte...
In the four or five times I've seen SD since they started touring again in 1995 they've shown a marked aversion for their more pop-oriented songs such as "Dirty Work" and "Reeling". The couple of times they performed Reelin they played jazzed-up arrangements, which I hated.
SD, to my consternation, never play the same arrangements of their songs live as they do on record. And the touring guitarist -- whoever it might be -- rarely, if ever, quotes lines from the original solos heard on the record (which, to me, have already become part of the song, part of the hook. In fact, many solos on SD songs, whether they be guitar, horn, or keyboard solos are often composed. I heard that Phil Wood's amazing sax solo on Doctor Wu was written and handed to him by Becker & Fagen, though I don't know if that's true.)
Anyway, I saw them last summer. This time it was "Internet Request Night" so the entire set was comprised of fan favorites -- no solo stuff, no new stuff, nothing past Aja. They did all hits: Dirty Work, Rikki, Peg, Josie, etc. And...(drum roll)...they did a note-for-note rendition of Reelin in the Years. Same solo, same everything. Totally awesome!
I know it must have killed them to have to sit and play all of those songs the way they did. But, hey, that's why they get paid.
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bulwinkl
It was played on album oriented stations so that counts. I remember it I just can't think of the song right now
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Don't know the title but then I never did like the stones to much. unless it was covered by Flying Burrito brothers also which would make it dead flowers but I think that's another song.
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Once beneath the stars, the universe was ours. Love was all we knew, and all I knew was you. I wonder where you are, I wonder if you think about me Once upon a time, IN YOUR WILDEST DREAMS. It mig
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That's another one I can kind of hear in my head, but not enough to get the title.
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soul searcher
Is it by the Hollies?
Air That I Breathe? (was that the Hollies?)
I'm just guessing.
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The world is a bad place
A bad place, a terrible place to live
Oh, but I don't wanna die
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United We Stand?
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waysider
All my sorrows, sad tomorrows
Take me back to my own home
All my crying, feel I'm dying, dying
Take me back to my own home
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Reflections of My Life?
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It only took three tries!
"Your everlasting summer you can see it fading fast"
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Reelin' in the Years.....Steely Dan
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But the years went by and the rock just died
Suzie went and left us for some foreign guy
Long nights crying by the record machine
dreaming of my Chevy and my old blue jeans
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bulwinkl
And she was singing
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
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Waysider, that was awesome! I never saw that. Nice find.
I could write a short essay about that song but I'll keep it to one quick anectodte...
In the four or five times I've seen SD since they started touring again in 1995 they've shown a marked aversion for their more pop-oriented songs such as "Dirty Work" and "Reeling". The couple of times they performed Reelin they played jazzed-up arrangements, which I hated.
SD, to my consternation, never play the same arrangements of their songs live as they do on record. And the touring guitarist -- whoever it might be -- rarely, if ever, quotes lines from the original solos heard on the record (which, to me, have already become part of the song, part of the hook. In fact, many solos on SD songs, whether they be guitar, horn, or keyboard solos are often composed. I heard that Phil Wood's amazing sax solo on Doctor Wu was written and handed to him by Becker & Fagen, though I don't know if that's true.)
Anyway, I saw them last summer. This time it was "Internet Request Night" so the entire set was comprised of fan favorites -- no solo stuff, no new stuff, nothing past Aja. They did all hits: Dirty Work, Rikki, Peg, Josie, etc. And...(drum roll)...they did a note-for-note rendition of Reelin in the Years. Same solo, same everything. Totally awesome!
I know it must have killed them to have to sit and play all of those songs the way they did. But, hey, that's why they get paid.
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Sorry B., that's not it.
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"I know it must have killed them to have to sit and play all of those songs the way they did. But, hey, that's why they get paid."
Exactly!
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Crocodile Rock
"Since you're gone I've been lost without a trace"
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bulwinkl
musta been a brain fart or something on my behalf.
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"I dream at night I can only see your face"
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I sense that nobody's getting it, so:
Since you've gone I've been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around but it's you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I have two more clues before I give it away.
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Look, if nobody's gonna get this...
The words above are the bridge of the song, not either of the verses or chorus.
Does that help?
There's one more line in the bridge.
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waysider
stumped
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Human without the bean
Easy. Every Breathe You Take ~The Police~
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Damn, I stumped Waysider?
Good work, Human.
As much as this song used to be played on the radio, it still gives me chills 26 years later.
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bulwinkl
not too bad for a song about a stalker
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WordWolf
It's your turn, H w/o t b.
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Human without the bean
Pistol shots ring out in a barroom night
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