The proper term is "hit on", CeeGee.

No,

Back on topic for just a moment...

Sixers, that's awesome that you were able to travel across the line. One of my favorite books is 'Back to the Front' by Stephen O'Shea.

And CG... Martha...

Foggy Dew is very nice. I like that one a lot as well.

And one of my favorite songs is "Back to the Front" by Metallica.

"The walking away song" from the Incredible Hulk (original)

Country Death Song

by

The Violent Femmes

Any song from the "Party Monster" soundtrack.

Awww. That is not nice.

We are not "nice" people.

The Saddest Music in the World directed by Hoser extraordinaire Guy Maddin, wherein Isabella Rossellini plays a legless beer baron during the prohibition. She announces a contest to find the "saddest music in the world" on the premise that sad music makes people want to drink more. Hijinks ensue.

Watch it and enhance your miserable drunken lives, you sots!!

Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue.Hijinks ensue. Nordrundfunk die schlassenmachina wir kunten unterschreiben. Ooki no chinpo... Watasi!! Mi huevos est grande!!

Doo...Itashimashite

Zevon "Don't Let Us Get Sick"
Cash "Hurt"
Buckley "Hallelujah"



I agree that "Amazing Grace" on the pipes is probably the saddest of songs ever:
I have been in public safety for 20 years and have buried 6 friends and coworkers to that. Due to Scottish ancestry, we buried my father to that. Every year there is a memorial at a firefighters' field day for fallen brothers and sisters and I weep like a child every time. My luck is such that on my only visit to the WTC site, the transit police were having a memorial with...you guessed it...

I wasn't that impressed with The Saddest Music in the World when I saw it in the theater. I found it rather boring. Maybe I need to give it another chance and rent it on DVD. Could be that it's a FUCKING HOSER FLICK. Yes, that could be the problem. Although, I am a huge Kids In The Hall fan, so...

Highland Cathedral?

...

Damn this is a long thread. I don't want to read all of it. So forgive me if this is redundant....


??????


Can I guess?


And maybe there's a god above
But all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody
Who outdrew ya


?????

Hallelujah

I've heard there was a secret chord
that David played, and it pleased the Lord
but you don't really care for music, do you?
it goes like this
the fourth, the fifth
the minor fall, the major lift
the baffled king composing Hallelujah

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
you saw her bathing on the roof
her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
she tied you
to a kitchen chair
she broke your throne, she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Baby, I've been here before
I know this room,
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch,
but love is not a victory march
it's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah!

There was a time you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you,
and the holy dove was moving, too,
and every breath we drew was Hallelujah!

Now maybe there's a God above,
but all I ever learned from love
is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.
And it's no complaint you hear tonight,
and it's not some pilgrim who's seen the light—
it's a cold and it's a lonely Hallelujah!

You say I took the Name in vain
I don't even know the Name
but if I did, well really, what's it to you?
there's a blaze of light
in every word
it doesn't matter which you heard
the holy or the broken Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
and even though
it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Although I love Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley's version is the bestest.

sweet baby jesus that song kills me

And I disagree. Nobody sings that song like Leonard.

I love to hear my songs
by anyone else but me.
My critical faculties go into suspension.
I don't wonder 'Do I like it?' -
I LOVE IT!!!


- Leonard Cohen

Best Buckley cover of Hallelujah: Mystery White Boy -live '95-'96

yeah, i'm going with leonard.

but, does anybody have the mp3 of buckley doing it?

i'll have to listen to it again.

I don't care for the extremely 80's-sounding arrangement on Leonard's studio version of Hallelujah. John Cale's version is pretty cool too, which is what Jeff Buckley based his version on.

Buckley, definitely.
And no, Lammie, wrong line.
Although someone once told me that line reminded them of me.

Damn! That's the one that gets me.




I saw a clip of Cohen doing that song live on Danish television. I wept for four days.

You think I'm kidding, but I'm not.

i had the same reaction when they cancelled Golden Girls.

Several songs on Grace have drawn a tear from my eye many a time. The world lost a great talent when he died.

He was a nice person as well. I met him on the street once in NYC, around 1996. I told him I liked his album, he told me he liked my hair (same hairdo I have now). He was dead in less than a year.

The moral of the story: don't compliment me on my hair if you value your life.

you ARE gay, aren't you?

Depends on which is his favorite.

And yeah, he was supposed to be a pretty great guy. My friend Parker was drumming for him on the tour during which he drowned and was there when it happened. He was devastated. It was very tragic.

But I hate it when people say that things like that are tragedies. People live their lives, they do something with them or they do not, and they die. And that's it. There is no mystery or secret or magic.

Am I too much of an existentialist?

No, what you say is true. I just wish I got to see him play live just once...

yes, but shirtboy used the word cockade in this thread and none of us made fun of him.

i am so depressed.

He always puts a at the end of a post if he thinks he's being funny.
So I just skipped right over that post.

Much like I skip right over most of his posts.

Cockade? Is that when you steep your wenis in water with some sugar and then put it in the fridge to chill?

Maybe more fate then tragedy. His death was just too much like his father's. He tried to avoid being like his father and failed.

Tim was great as well. My favorite of his is Happy/Sad.

well, i must've missed it the first time as well.

but this time his Cockade really stuck out.

Maybe he was excited by that helicopter thread.

Desperado.

Oh xit, I'm sorry.
Were you serious?

Corpus Christi Carol - Buckley

alrighty.

after listening to both versions of hallelujah again...

if leonard sang over the buckley backing,


THAT would be the best version.

That would be rad.