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keesan
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response 98 of 141:
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Dec 14 22:23 UTC 1999 |
Songs about sleeping, hibernation, dreaming (Jeannie), waking?
This is a good day for going back to bed. Or resoling my boots.
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dbratman
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response 99 of 141:
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Dec 15 21:54 UTC 1999 |
95% of all the songs about being sick that I've ever heard are settings
for some 1940s or '50s Broadway revue of Ogden Nash poems. Ogden Nash
wrote more poems about being sick than one might easily realize.
Favorite songs about sleeping: "I'm So Tired" and "I'm Only Sleeping",
both by the Beatles.
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gnat
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response 100 of 141:
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Dec 16 01:32 UTC 1999 |
"Asleep and Dreaming" by the Magnetic Fields.
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otaking
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response 101 of 141:
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Dec 16 18:13 UTC 1999 |
Oh, how about Robbie William's "Millenium" for a Y2K song?
As for dreaming songs, there's "Dream a Little Dream" by someone who's name
I forget. "Keep on Dreaming" by Lisa Marie Experience.
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gnat
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response 102 of 141:
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Dec 17 02:40 UTC 1999 |
Gosh, how could I forget "Daydream Believer"??
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bruin
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response 103 of 141:
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Dec 17 02:40 UTC 1999 |
RE #101 The version of "Dream A Little Dream" I remember most was the first
solo release from the late "Mama Cass" Elliott, shortly after the Mamas & the
Papas disbanded in 1967 or 1968.
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hematite
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response 104 of 141:
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Dec 17 16:41 UTC 1999 |
How about 'What a day for a day dream'? (by...someone. I know Vince
Gill and Kermit sang it together on a muppets album!)
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mcnally
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response 105 of 141:
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Dec 17 17:15 UTC 1999 |
Lovin' Spoonful, maybe?
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orinoco
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response 106 of 141:
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Dec 18 00:24 UTC 1999 |
"Dream" songs are a lot easier than "sleep" songs.
Didn't Phil Collins do some sort of asleep-at-the-wheel thing? I've got vague
memories of a song where he runs over a pedestrian and drones on about how
guilty he feels. I think it was him, anyway.
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mcnally
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response 107 of 141:
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Dec 18 03:13 UTC 1999 |
If he wants to feel guilty about something, why can't he pick "Su-Su-Sudio"?
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keesan
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response 108 of 141:
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Dec 20 21:07 UTC 1999 |
Might there be any songs about money (making, spending, finding, burning...)?
Or other forms of wealth. (Cattle, cacao beans.) Going broke, making a
million, losing one's job, going bankrupt, etc.
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gnat
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response 109 of 141:
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Dec 20 21:28 UTC 1999 |
Perhaps due to being perpetually short of it, XTC do a lot of songs
about money, e.g. "Paper and Iron," "Earn Enough for Us," "Love on a
Farmboy's Wages," and probably others that I'm forgetting.
The Kinks do some songs about being unemployed. "Situation Vacant"
is the only one that comes immediately to mind.
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bruin
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response 110 of 141:
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Dec 20 22:58 UTC 1999 |
And there was Motown's very first hit record, "Money (That's What I Want)."
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mcnally
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response 111 of 141:
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Dec 20 23:44 UTC 1999 |
dealing with other forms of wealth, at least in a tongue-in-cheek way..
"My love is the Queen of the Savages,
she don't know the modern world and its ravages..
instead of money she's got yams and cabbages.
She lives in a dome. I don't think I'll ever go home."
("Queen of the Savages", yet another Magnetic Fields gem from "69 Love Songs")
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lumen
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response 112 of 141:
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Dec 23 21:05 UTC 1999 |
resp:98 Doesn't anyone remember that fabulous tune Billy Joel composed
after hearing it in his sleep? It was a hit-- can't remember the name,
but it was on his 'River of Dreams' album. It sounds very dreamlike to
me..
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keesan
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response 113 of 141:
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Dec 23 21:25 UTC 1999 |
Any songs about dreaming about money?
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orinoco
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response 114 of 141:
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Dec 23 23:07 UTC 1999 |
Re#112: If I'm thinking of the same song you are, I think it's called "River
of Dreams." The one with the verse that starts "In the middle of the night,
I went walking in my sleep..."?
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lumen
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response 115 of 141:
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Dec 24 00:33 UTC 1999 |
Ok, then it *was* as I figured-- the album bears the name of that song.
btw, I remember it being "I go walking.."
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orinoco
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response 116 of 141:
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Dec 24 19:12 UTC 1999 |
Whatever. I haven't heard it in years.
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keesan
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response 117 of 141:
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Dec 29 20:48 UTC 1999 |
At the library I was reading song titles and spotted one CD with songs about
fried eggs, greasy chicken, and cholesterol. Are there many songs about foods
which are considered unhealthy?
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goose
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response 118 of 141:
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Dec 30 01:47 UTC 1999 |
I think you just answered that. :-)
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krj
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response 119 of 141:
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Dec 30 05:51 UTC 1999 |
The Irish-American band Open House had a rather silly song about
an Irish farmer, his pig and his cow, cholesterol and exercise...
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tpryan
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response 120 of 141:
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Dec 31 00:19 UTC 1999 |
Do you want Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Monty Phyton, Spam, Spam
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Spam and Spam for listening?
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dbratman
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response 121 of 141:
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Jan 3 18:43 UTC 2000 |
Songs about foods which are considered unhealthy -- there are those
Chenille Sisters songs about chocolate and butter.
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orinoco
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response 122 of 141:
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Jan 4 19:45 UTC 2000 |
Ooh, good.
This isn't an unhealthy food, but I feel compelled to mention Poignant
Plecostomus's "Potatoes: The Ultimate Whatever," since it's one of my all-time
favorite titles.
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