<p>Beside yourself if radios gonna stay.
Reason: it could polish up the grey.
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isnt country at all</p>
<p>Raving station, beside yourself</p>
<p>Keep me out of country in the word
Deal the porch is leading us absurd.
Push that, push that, push that to the hull
That this isnt nothing at all.</p>
<p>Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe</p>
<p>Beside defying media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that before all
That this isnt fortunate at all</p>
<p>Raving station, beside yourself
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe, radio.</p>
<p>Decide yourself, calling all of the medias too fast
“To this day I am still unsure what he is saying on “Radio Free Europe” and it is going on 25 years…”</p>
<p>Even if you read the words I’m baffled.</p>
<p>Keep me out of country in the word
Disappoint is into us absurd</p>
<p>Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio free europe</p>
<p>Like The Smiths, I was always more attracted to REM for the music than the lyrics or vocals. To be fair, Stipe’s writing and vocals both got cleaner and more direct.</p>
<p>Was not even close on the lyrics. Like a whole song of Hendrix singing “scuse me while I kiss this guy.”</p>
<p>If you want to talk about GREAT songwriters with less than perfect voices, no discussion can be complete without talking about Tom Waits. What an amazing songwriter!</p>
<p>We have a little debate about music versus lyrics at our house. I think my son wonders how I can love REM without always getting what they’re saying but it is the music that moves me. It reminds me of when my husband was asked what kind of music he listens to and he said, REM and anyone who sounds like them. We have a lot of jingly guitar albums around here. My son, on the other hand, has an uncanny ability to decipher lyrics and to find meaning in them. It was thanks to him I discovered “doused in mud, soaked in bleach” and “shake these zipper blues” – I don’t even remember what I thought they were saying.</p>
<p>“Bobby Sherman…ooohhh you made my night! He made “Watching Scottie Grow” seem profound.”</p>
<p>May have been mentioned already, but I thought Bobby Goldsboro sang Watching Scottie Grow. Anywho, I loved “Honey” which I think he sang too. :)</p>
<p>yeah…you are right and I was corrected a page or so ago by eagle-eyed CC’ers who also had clock radios in the 60s. This was going to be a “Where have all the (flowers) Bobby’s Gone?” long time passing post. But before I could look up Bobby Goldboro and finish my post, CC froze in my computer in every browser. </p>
<p>Bobby Sherman was forgettable compared to crooner Bobby Goldboro, and and no one was as cool as the even earlier Bobby Darrin. Was there ever a better single to sink a quarter in the jukebox for than that hugely original sound of sultry Bobbie Gentry’s:</p>
<p>"And Mama said it was a shame about Billie Joe anyhow
Seems like nothin’ ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge</p>
<p>And now Billie Joe McAllister’s jumped off the Tallahatchee Bridge"</p>
<p>and my favorite Bobby of all was of course the one named Zimmerman.</p>
<p>Wow…forgot about Bobbie Gentry. I am currently taking a peek on YouTube and doing searches on some of these artist. I just listened to Bobby Goldsboro, and since you brought it up, Bobbie Gentry, lol. That Ode to Billie Joe, I remember watching the movie that was adapted from the song.</p>
<p>One more thing…what about James Taylor’s, “Used To Be Her Town” I loved that song. Also loved the Pina Colada Song. At this rate I won’t be getting any sleep tonight thinking about those smooth, relaxing, make you think songs.</p>
<p>I think my mum plotted to get me into her music…she was playing the Moody Blues to me all my life until I caved in and started listening to them (and I freak out fans in their usual age group at concerts by singing along to everything). Can also blame her for Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan and, to an extent, Billy Joel, plus my dad for CCR. They’re always delighted to tell people that I don’t listen to pop/rock albums made after 1991!</p>
<p>Big Queen fan, though I didn’t get that from my parents.</p>
<p>My husband and I always sang James Taylor songs to our daughters when they were colicky infants. Now, nineteen years later, our older daughter is dying to go to the upcoming JT concert in NYC. She has even begged us to fly up to go with her! </p>
<p>Both of our daughters’ favorite music, though, has to be that from Broadway musical soundtracks. They know every lyric to a wide variety of both old and new musicals. In fact, my older daughter’s internship this semester has been with the NYC Broadway Musical Theatre Festival, and she has been in heaven!</p>