[Meliboeus]

Cynic - Traced In Air

 

[krmathis]

"Smooth Operator" - Sade

 

[Fido2]

 

[DefectiveAudioComponent]

 

[Hi-Finthen]

The Best of Arlo Guthrie [IMPORT]

Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
Original Release Date: 1977
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Import
Label: Warner Bros

1. Alice's Restaurant Massacree
2. Gabriel's Mother's Hiway Ballad #16 Blues
3. Cooper's Lament
4. Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song - Arlo Guthrie,
5. Coming into Los Angeles
6. Last Train
7. City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie, Goodman, Steve [1]
8. Darkest Hour
9. Last to Leave

Lyrics to City of New Orleans
as written by Steve Goodman :

/ Perhaps a train & trip as a metaphor for another kind of trip -
Life... Its destination then concluded (?) - Do remember to whistle blow

…

(Trains are traditionally named for their city of service.)

Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail
15 cars & 15 restless riders
Three conductors, 25 sacks of mail

All along the southbound odyssey the train pulls out of Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms & fields
Passin' graves that have no name, freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of rusted automobiles

Good mornin' America, how are you?
Don't you know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car
Penny a point, ain't no one keepin' score
Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
And feel the wheels rumblin' neath the floor

And the sons of Pullman porters & the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpets made of steel
Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is - all they feel

Good mornin' America, how are you?
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.

Night time on the City of New Orleans
Changin' cars in Memphis, Tennessee
Halfway home, we'll be there by mornin'
Thru the Mississippi darkness rollin' down to the sea

But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream
And the steel rail still ain't heard the news
The conductor sings his songs again
"The passengers will please refrain:
This train got the disappearin' railroad blues "

Good night America, how are you?
Say don't you know me? I'm your native son!
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done.


---------------------------------------------------------------------------=>
/ Perhaps a train trip as a metaphor for another kind of trip -
(Life (?) - Now remember to whistle blow

…

Grateful Dead

In The Dark

Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
Original Release Date: July 10, 1987
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Arista
In Studio

Track List:
1. Touch of Grey
2. Hell in a Bucket - Grateful Dead, Barlow, John
3. When Push Comes to Shove
4. West L.A. Fadeaway
5. Tons of Steel - Grateful Dead, Mydland, Brent
6. Throwing Stones - Grateful Dead, Weir, Bob
7. Black Muddy River

Tons of Steel Lyrics:
Songwriters: Richard Brent Mydland, ;
Music: Brent Mydland

I know these rails we're on like I know my lady's smile
Re-see a dozen dreams in every passing mile
Can't begin to count the trips
That she and I have made
But I wish I had a dollar
For each time we both been down this grade

Chorus:
Nine hundred thousand tons of steel
Made to roll
Her brakes don't work and this grade's so steep
Her engine's sure to blow
Nine hundred thousand tons of steel
Out of control
She's more a roller-coaster than the train I used to know

It's one hell of an understatement to say she can get mean
She's temperamental, more a bitch than a machine
She wasn't built to travel at
The speed a rumour flies
These wheels are bound to jump the tracks
Before they burn the ties

[chorus]

Murphy's sure outdone himself to pick this stretch of track
I can only hope my luck is riding in the back
Well I have prayed to God
This ain't the day we meet
I've done about everything
But try dragging my feet

[chorus]

Oo, oo, I wanna go down slow
Oo, oo, oo, oo, oo
Nine hundred thousand tons of steel
Out of control
She's more a roller coaster than the train I used to know

~

~

 

[DLeeWebb]

"Desire" - U2

 

[s1rrah]

[size=large]Artist: M. Ward
Album: Post-War[/size]

...

...

I just recently started listening to this dude, though I'd seen him about two years ago when he accompanied Bright Eyes on Austin City Limits.

Ever since that Austin C.L. show, he's been banging around my brain ... his dusky, rough and relaxed vocal style is hugely attractive.

Very very good songwriter:

She said "If love
Is a posion cup
Then drink it up"

"Cos a sip
Or a spoonful won't do
Won't do nothing for you
Except mess you up"

- from "Poison Cup"

...

[size=large]Also ...[/size]

Here's Bright Eyes and M. Ward doing a devastatingly good version of the Bright Eyes song, "Smoke Without Fire" :

...

[size=large]Bright Eyes and M.Ward[/size]

...

 

[terriblepaulz]

right now: Mastodon - Remission
before right now: Ali Farka Toure - Savane

 

[holdendebeans]

The Who - Quadrophenia

 

[Oggranak]

"Time" by Dead Soul Tribe

 

[MoreCowbell]

One of my favorite things about this site is scrolling thru the last few pages of this thread for some ideas on what to throw on the ol' box. So, thanks to Fido2:

Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Cockadoodledon't. great cd.

 

[Quaddy]

van halen - jump

 

[BloodSugar00]

Buckethead- Population Override

 

[Joelby]

Wagon Christ - Musipal

 

[whaleyboy]

Prince - "Lotusflow3r"