bhelm
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Post by bhelm on Jun 22, 2008 23:18:47 GMT -5
it seems like he would. i hear alot of that stuff in his songs. are their any interviews of Paul mentioning him??? i hear a resemblence between croce's "roller derby queen" and the mats song "bad worker."
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cford
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Post by cford on Jun 23, 2008 9:43:44 GMT -5
it seems like he would. i hear alot of that stuff in his songs. are their any interviews of Paul mentioning him??? i hear a resemblence between croce's "roller derby queen" and the mats song "bad worker." It's hard to know if Jim Croce is really on Paul's radar since I don't think he has ever covered a Croce song.. Although you might also make a case that Croce's great song "Operator" could have been a precursor to "Answering Machine.".. (another sad love song about miscommunication over the telephone)... Croce was definately a talented guy with a commercial ear.. Of course, subtract several points for having written "Bad Bad Leroy Brown." CF |
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Post by karenripington on Jun 23, 2008 21:32:34 GMT -5
I'm guessing that yes he does.
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Post by A Regular on Jun 24, 2008 15:33:36 GMT -5
If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that Id like to do
Is to save every day
Till eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you
I'm hoping he doesn't.
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KeithD
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Post by KeithD on Jun 25, 2008 16:03:12 GMT -5
umm, A Regular, I think that's Gordon Lightfoot. Although I lose street cred by knowing that...
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Post by scoOter on Jun 25, 2008 17:02:53 GMT -5
who the fuck is jim corce?
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Post by A Regular on Jun 25, 2008 18:14:40 GMT -5
umm, A Regular, I think that's Gordon Lightfoot. Although I lose street cred by knowing that... street cred restored. (and I liked the comments section where someone suggests that Jewel should cover the song) |
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Post by GtrPlyr on Jun 25, 2008 23:35:53 GMT -5
I've always thought that Jim Croce had some good songs. Gordon Lightfoot too for that matter. Screw street cred I say.
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Post by toml on Jun 26, 2008 7:50:57 GMT -5
I know I have seen a couple times where Paul has mentioned the Gordon Lightfoot song “If You Could Read My Mind”. Not usually a folk fan, but that song as it was recorded is one of the better (and maybe saddest) songs ever. Similar theme, but not sound, to Paul’s “Boring Enormous”
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cford
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Post by cford on Jun 26, 2008 10:21:17 GMT -5
I know I have seen a couple times where Paul has mentioned the Gordon Lightfoot song “If You Could Read My Mind”. Not usually a folk fan, but that song as it was recorded is one of the better (and maybe saddest) songs ever. Similar theme, but not sound, to Paul’s “Boring Enormous” Paul has been known to cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." CF |
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Post by Cathy on Jun 28, 2008 14:14:26 GMT -5
My guess it that Paul must have liked Jim Croce. I remember growing up and hearing "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" & "You don't mess around with Jim" and loving them; both are still great songs. Jim Croce was similar to Paul - he seemed down to earth, was a real singer/songwriter and didn't care for the music business. I saw a documentary about Jim Croce years ago and I think his record company or agent ripped him off. He died in a plane crash after a concert, which is really sad. He probably would have become huge if he had lived. I heard the song "Time in a bottle" was written for his son when he was born. Too bad the radio had to play the song to death, which caused most people to hate it. I remember liking that song too when I first heard it.
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Post by KeithD on Jun 29, 2008 20:09:32 GMT -5
oh yeah, Gordon Lightfoot was "if you could read my mind..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3DFUU0Ythe seventies were such a blur - summer Sundays in the back of a sht-brown Ford Granada, no air conditioning, bumper-to-bumper traffic, my Dad chain smoking with the radio going... |
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Post by A Regular on Jul 11, 2008 16:56:06 GMT -5
who the fuck is jim corce? He's got a name He's got a name.... |
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