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thavoice

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Dec 13, 2012 12:44 PM
Gotta agree with november rain.

Piano man is amazing as well.

SInce it is christmas, how about Fairytale of New York by the pogues....ha!


SUmmer WIn by SInatra has some great flowing lyrics I think.

Hurt..by NIN even though I think it better suits JC.
Dec 13, 2012 12:44pm
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Dec 13, 2012 12:47 PM
gut;1341856 wrote:Well, the perfect country & western song is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
+1
Dec 13, 2012 12:47pm
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Dec 13, 2012 12:51 PM
Stairway to Heaven, with Imagine a very close second.
Dec 13, 2012 12:51pm
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Dec 13, 2012 12:55 PM
Raw Dawgin' it;1341672 wrote:I nominate this master piece!

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God, that was so bad on so many levels.
Dec 13, 2012 12:55pm
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Tiernan

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Dec 13, 2012 1:33 PM
gut;1341856 wrote:Well, the perfect country & western song is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include a broken heart?
Dec 13, 2012 1:33pm
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GoChiefs

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Dec 13, 2012 1:35 PM
Tiernan;1341925 wrote:Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include a broken heart?

His mom was run over by a fucking train. You dont think that broke his heart??
Dec 13, 2012 1:35pm
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Dec 13, 2012 1:35 PM
Tiernan;1341925 wrote:Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include an achy, breaky heart?
fify
Dec 13, 2012 1:35pm
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gut

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Dec 13, 2012 1:40 PM
Tiernan;1341925 wrote:Drinking, Mama, trucks and trains...but shouldn't the perfect C&W song also include a broken heart?
Ummmm, that song basically is about a broken heart
Dec 13, 2012 1:40pm
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gut

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Dec 13, 2012 1:41 PM
GoChiefs;1341926 wrote:His mom was run over by a ****ing train. You dont think that broke his heart??
technically it was a damned old train
Dec 13, 2012 1:41pm
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Tiernan

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Dec 13, 2012 2:19 PM
Touche' - I retract my original objection your Honor,,,
Dec 13, 2012 2:19pm
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Dec 13, 2012 2:22 PM
gut;1341856 wrote:Well, the perfect country & western song is "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
This was my first thought.
Dec 13, 2012 2:22pm
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Dec 13, 2012 4:36 PM
We Built This City

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Walk Like an Egyptian
Dec 13, 2012 4:36pm
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said_aouita

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Dec 13, 2012 6:29 PM
Too bad he lived it.
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Dec 13, 2012 6:29pm
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Scarlet_Buckeye

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Dec 13, 2012 6:35 PM
Stairway to Heaven ?
Dec 13, 2012 6:35pm
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Riderfan

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Dec 13, 2012 6:40 PM
Maybe I'm Amazed
Dec 13, 2012 6:40pm
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cat_lover

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Dec 13, 2012 6:55 PM
He stopped loving her today- George Jones
Not exactly an uplifting song but it stops me in my tracks every time I hear it.
Dec 13, 2012 6:55pm
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Dec 13, 2012 7:00 PM
Fishing in the dark, nitty gritty dirt band was always one that I loved to hear.
Dec 13, 2012 7:00pm
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Dec 13, 2012 7:27 PM
Stairway to Heaven
Wish You Were Here
Simple Man
Dear Mama - 2Pac
Dec 13, 2012 7:27pm
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Dec 13, 2012 8:21 PM
Fake Plastic Trees is a beautifully written song. Thom Yorke takes a completely random assortment of words -- "Her green plastic watering can, for her fake Chinese rubber plant" -- and stabs you in the heart with them. It's one of those amazingly emotionally-moving songs that, depending on the mood you are in, can be about something entirely different each time you listen to it.

Yorke wrote it after spending a night walking alone in an area of East London called Canary Wharf, which is populated with a lot of artificial plants. Said Yorke, "Fake Plastic Trees was the product of a joke that wasn't really a joke; a very lonely, drunken evening and, well, a breakdown of sorts." It is said that the Radiohead lead man broke down in tears the first time the band ever performed it.

Epic song.
Dec 13, 2012 8:21pm
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Dec 13, 2012 8:24 PM
As for rap songs, Dear Mama and Juicy are certainly near the top. Great call, Trueblue. Those two masterpieces are as good as it gets.
Dec 13, 2012 8:24pm
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Dec 13, 2012 10:50 PM
Fantastic call CC. I love that song. Syd def deserved that tribute.
Dec 13, 2012 10:50pm
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Dec 13, 2012 11:07 PM
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their <nobr>blood</nobr> has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of <nobr>flight</nobr>, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Dec 13, 2012 11:07pm
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Dec 13, 2012 11:13 PM
Speedofsand;1342441 wrote:Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their <nobr>blood</nobr> has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of <nobr>flight</nobr>, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Dumb.
Dec 13, 2012 11:13pm
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Trueblue23

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Dec 13, 2012 11:13 PM
I bet Toby Keith loves that damn song.
Dec 13, 2012 11:13pm
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Ghmothwdwhso

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Dec 13, 2012 11:18 PM
/Positively 4th Street

Thread over........maybe..Do you take me for such a fool?
Dec 13, 2012 11:18pm