^Nice one! I like a little pink floyd now and again.
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^Nice one! I like a little pink floyd now and again.
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'Work for it, Bitch! Now get to work..''
"Holding you I held everything
For a moment wasn't I a king
But if I'd only known how the king would fall
Hey who's to say you know I might have changed it all"...
.... the epitome of classic country. It is beautifully written...
This song really hits home for me....
The thing that brings me to that set of lines in particular is that i lost my partner 11 years ago in a Road traffic accident....
Life is rough....but you just have to take the ups with the downs and you'll make it through....
Last edited by KEVIN2008; 03-02-2014 at 12:15 AM.
This is a true gem of the period, In fact, having heard it many times, still, it always seems welcome to my ears. Great message, great tune, great delivery, great arrangement, what more is there to say?
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Our current happy beachnik type that suits both YOU and the gals with or without their bikinis!!! >>>:
Oe Hoo...Oe Hoe....
"Peter Buck said that the "Oddfellows" were a social organisation, "just like the Mooses or the Shiners", with lodges all over Athens.
He also explained that the song was about the old winos who lived near Michael Stipe. They drank all day and slept in their cars, so the band called them the "Motor Club". Buck remebered that one of them really was known as Pee Wee. The name Oddfellows is used ironically to suggest that this assortmnet of drunks were like a fraternal society.
Stipe himself said the song was a debunking of the "Southern folk" myths he had written for "Fables of the Reconstruction" (e.g. Wendell Gee, Old Man Kensey). In other words, the quaint eccentrics of his earlier songs turn out to be nothing more than sad old drunks."
The above quote comes from the comments on this page...
R.E.M. - Oddfellows Local 151 Lyrics | SongMeanings
They had an album by this guy on my flight back from Aussie, so I've been searching around. A finer version of "Amazing Grace" you will not hear on a guitar. If that link doesn't start on cue, go to 03:00.
In the words of MC GQ
"absolutely T for tremendous"
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