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- From: geoffm@netcom.com (Geoff Miller)
- Subject: Re: Nonsensical songs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.065412.29998@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan20.230954.25860@igor.tamri.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:54:12 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.230954.25860@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com
- (Don Baldwin) writes:
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- >Recently, Gillian was going through some of her old records(*) and happened
- >across the Don McLain (?) album containing "American Pie".
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- It's "Maclean," pronounced "McCleen." I have the <gasp> 45 around
- someplace, along with "I Think I Love You" by the Partridge Family,
- "Signs" by the Five man Electrical Band, and a host of various small
- records with green apples on the labels.
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- >She put on Vincent, the song about the late, looney Vincent van Gogh.
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- Is that who that song's about? I could never figure that out. But then,
- I don't know much about art, although I know what I like. Unable to
- think of a real-life person the lyrics seemed to fit, I finally decided
- it was about some fictitious character known only to Maclean. Of course,
- I'd never even heard of Buddy Holly until I read somewhere that American Pie
- was supposed to be about his death.
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- I always liked that NatLamp cover with a parody of Van Gogh's self portrait,
- in which the artist is depicted with a bandage around his head and his
- ear in his hand with a banana in it.
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- Peeve: Callous irreverence.
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- >Peeve: Songs that sound nice but don't make any sense.
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- Peeve: People who sing popular songs and get the lyrics wrong.
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- Another Peeve: People who sing while wearing a Walkman.
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- Yet a Third Peeve: People who wear Walkmen into bookstores with the volume
- cranked up enough to annoy those around them.
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- !Peeve: They'll probably go deaf at an early age.
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- Geoff
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