Ritchie Valens - Oh Donna
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Ritchie Valens - Oh Donna
Woolly Bully-Sam The Sham & Pharaohs.
Harper Valley P.T.A.
Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys Traffic
Can't Find My Way Home Blind Faith
B B King Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2011
B B King has been put into a hospice center so lets hope he can pull thru. He is almost 90, a great life he has had and more to come.
Hard Driving Man J. Giles Band
Stealing Uriah Heep
The Wizard Uriah Heep
Best Friend
The American Breed - Bend Me, Shape Me
We Five- You Were On My Mind
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight - Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn
For Your Love The Yardbirds
Dio, "All the Fools Sailed Away"
This song has a certain special place in my heart. See, there was this censorship advocate in the 1980s and '90s, Bob Larson, who wrote scare books for parents about how evil heavy metal was. But he had this habit of deliberately misrepresenting the songs he picked out for scorn. Like "Misery Loves Company" by Anthrax. He spins a cultish horror story about how the band is calling teenagers to murder their families, ignoring entirely (a) the band's history of making songs out of novels and comic books, (b) the band's history of doing so for Stephen King stories specifically, and (c) the liner notes attributing the song to Mr. King's Misery. It's the weirdest thing.
But "All the Fools Sailed Away"?
Personally, I think it's pretty clear what the song is about:
Somehow, Larson construed this song about not believing every hopeful promise you're told to accept as a pied-piper attempt to steal your children, and he did it by tactically omitting lyrics in order to represent the song as advocating the damned inflicting pain and sin unto the young.
The thing is, without that sleight, I doubt the song would be so important to me today. In the end, Larson did exactly what the song warns. No wonder he didn't like it.
And, you know, for various reasons, the song has been earworming me today, so now I share it with you.
This song has a certain special place in my heart. See, there was this censorship advocate in the 1980s and '90s, Bob Larson, who wrote scare books for parents about how evil heavy metal was. But he had this habit of deliberately misrepresenting the songs he picked out for scorn. Like "Misery Loves Company" by Anthrax. He spins a cultish horror story about how the band is calling teenagers to murder their families, ignoring entirely (a) the band's history of making songs out of novels and comic books, (b) the band's history of doing so for Stephen King stories specifically, and (c) the liner notes attributing the song to Mr. King's Misery. It's the weirdest thing.
But "All the Fools Sailed Away"?
Personally, I think it's pretty clear what the song is about:
There's perfect harmony in the rising and the falling of the sea. And as we sail along, I never fail to be astounded by the things we'll do for promises and a song.
We are the innocent; we are the damned. We were caught in the middle of the madness, hunted by the lion and the lamb.
We bring you fantasy; we bring you pain. It's your one great chance for a miracle, or we will disappear, never to be seen again.
And all the fools sailed away.
We bring you beautiful; we teach you sin. We can give you a piece of the Universe, or we will disappear, never to return again.
And all the fools sailed away. They sailed away.
And as we drift along, I never fail to be astounded by the things we'll do for promises and a song.
We are the innocent; we cut, we bleed. We're your one great chance for a miracle, and a miracle is something you need.
They'll take your diamonds, and then give you steel. You'll be caught in the middle of the madness, just lost like them, part of all the pain they feel.
And all the fools sailed away. Leaving nothing, nothing more to say; all the fools sailed away.
They say you're beautiful, and they'll always let you in. But doors are never open to the child without a trace of sin. Sail away.
We are the innocent; we are the damned. We were caught in the middle of the madness, hunted by the lion and the lamb.
We bring you fantasy; we bring you pain. It's your one great chance for a miracle, or we will disappear, never to be seen again.
And all the fools sailed away.
We bring you beautiful; we teach you sin. We can give you a piece of the Universe, or we will disappear, never to return again.
And all the fools sailed away. They sailed away.
And as we drift along, I never fail to be astounded by the things we'll do for promises and a song.
We are the innocent; we cut, we bleed. We're your one great chance for a miracle, and a miracle is something you need.
They'll take your diamonds, and then give you steel. You'll be caught in the middle of the madness, just lost like them, part of all the pain they feel.
And all the fools sailed away. Leaving nothing, nothing more to say; all the fools sailed away.
They say you're beautiful, and they'll always let you in. But doors are never open to the child without a trace of sin. Sail away.
Somehow, Larson construed this song about not believing every hopeful promise you're told to accept as a pied-piper attempt to steal your children, and he did it by tactically omitting lyrics in order to represent the song as advocating the damned inflicting pain and sin unto the young.
The thing is, without that sleight, I doubt the song would be so important to me today. In the end, Larson did exactly what the song warns. No wonder he didn't like it.
And, you know, for various reasons, the song has been earworming me today, so now I share it with you.