Tell me, doctor, is it serious?

Erudite · 30 Jul 2010, 12:59

I currently have Bobby Gentry's Ode To Billy Joe and Willie Nelson's You Were Always On My Mind playing on repeat in my head.

I remember them from the radio when I was wee - is it possible I've been a closet Country & Western fan all these years?

Am I redeemed or doubly damned by the fact that I'm also hearing Donovan's Mellow Yellow?

30 Jul 2010, 13:09

both.

take 2 of glen campbell's 'wichita lineman' and go lie down in a dark room.

Erudite · 30 Jul 2010, 13:13

weebleswobble · 30 Jul 2010, 13:46

You obviously have rhinestones you need vitamin B6, some apples and a daily application of Paint Your Wagon

Maisey · 30 Jul 2010, 13:50

Tell me, doctor, is it serious?

Probably fatal.

Sita · 30 Jul 2010, 13:57

Erudite wrote:I currently have Bobby Gentry's Ode To Billy Joe and Willie Nelson's You Were Always On My Mind playing on repeat in my head.

I remember them from the radio when I was wee - is it possible I've been a closet Country & Western fan all these years?

Am I redeemed or doubly damned by the fact that I'm also hearing Donovan's Mellow Yellow?

You probably have a fever coming and should do as Herr Administrator says

But the artsy Ode To Billy Joe video, with her neon green dress and big 60s hair, is cool!

Erudite · 30 Jul 2010, 17:55

Sita wrote:
You probably have a fever coming and should do as Herr Administrator says

In that case I have become comfortably numb!

damagedone · 30 Jul 2010, 18:19

There is a pill for everything

EvilBastard · 30 Jul 2010, 18:43

In less enlightened times you would be burned at the stake, possibly hanged, drawn and quartered as well. Or a course of leeches.

However, medicine has progressed to the point at which such heroic measures are no longer indicated. Indeed, musical homeopathy may prove to be the most effective treatment in this case when used in a holistic regime:

Breakfast:
1 glass orange juice
1 cup muesli with skimmed milk
Charlie Daniels, Million Mile Reflections

Lunch:
1 pint Guinness
Ham, cheese, and pickle sandwich on wholegrain bread, Colmans Mustard, lettuce, tomato, and no more than 2 pickled onions
Johnny Cash, At Folsom Prison

Dinner:
Poached salmon, green beans, boiled potatoes, with hollandaise sauce
2 glasses dry white wine
Dolly Parton, Jolene

Late snack:
1 slice chocolate cake (icing optional)
1 glass scotch
Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis

You'll be back on your feet in no time.

James Blast · 30 Jul 2010, 21:11

"I was sitting in a breakfast room in Allantown, Pennsylvania. Four o'clock in the morning. Got up too early, it was a terrible mistake. And I'm sitting there, face-to-face with a 55 cent glass of orange juice. And I said to myself - This is the life!"

FVZ - 200 Hundred Years Old from Bongo Fury

and shouldn't it be hung, not hanged Bastard?

Sita · 30 Jul 2010, 21:57

James Blast wrote:"I was sitting in a breakfast room in Allantown, Pennsylvania. Four o'clock in the morning. Got up too early, it was a terrible mistake. And I'm sitting there, face-to-face with a 55 cent glass of orange juice. And I said to myself - This is the life!"

FVZ - 200 Hundred Years Old from Bongo Fury

and shouldn't it be hung, not hanged Bastard?

I don't know but my guess is that hung would be if you hung up the phone or a towel or yourself, and hanged, if you hung someone else in a lethal way.

Anyway, @ Evil Bastard + Erudite + all, Dolly Parton is a great songwriter and she has many great songs. But "Islands in the Stream" is as terrible as You Were Always On My Mind. In fact you should go and listen to it now Erudite. It could overwrite the Donovan and Nelson tracks (unless you enjoy them of course

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James Blast · 30 Jul 2010, 22:16

what about the glass of orange juice?

30 Jul 2010, 22:17

I'm sure a million people have already said this, but have you tried holding your breath & drinking a glass of water back to front?

James Blast · 30 Jul 2010, 22:21

"It's love back to front and both sides"

Like I sa-a-ayed

sultan2075 · 30 Jul 2010, 22:30

Y'all* would be shocked--shocked, I say--at how good drunken translations of TSOM songs into bluegrass style/instrumentation can sound. Especially the FALAA stuff. It works fantastically with acoustics, dobros and banjos. And booze.

*This is the first, last, and only time I will ever use this particular term. Ever.

30 Jul 2010, 22:35

James Blast wrote:"It's love back to front and both sides"

Like I sa-a-ayed

Are you posting this everywhere until it makes sense?

James Blast · 30 Jul 2010, 22:46

Because You're Young, David Bowie from "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" I honestly thought it was well known

EvilBastard · 31 Jul 2010, 00:57

James Blast wrote:and shouldn't it be hung, not hanged Bastard?

No, it shouldn't. As the late and lamented judge Sir Edward "Executioner's Friend" Cookham QC remarked while passing sentence on a convicted flasher, "While we have heard evidence that the prisoner at the bar was "bloody well hung", it is verdict of this court that he should be bloody well hanged."

Meat is hung, people are hanged - "hanged by the neck until dead," etc.

Garbageman · 31 Jul 2010, 04:57

There are only so many times your dog gets shot and your wife leaves you.

Sita · 31 Jul 2010, 13:08

sultan2075 - I'm not sure what bluegrass is, but if it's something like the Lambchop version of this Corrosion, that's awesome!

So when you get drunk, you get your country instruments out and play FALAA songs? Next time, please invite me over

psichonaut · 31 Jul 2010, 14:05

could it be a bit contagious?

i'm whistling "you were always on my mind" now

Sita · 31 Jul 2010, 19:14

Sorry to hear that. Happened to me yesterday too and I blame it on this thread. Actually I caught myself whisteling it aloud when I was doing the dishes. Help! I thought very hard of Islands in the Stream, and then it went away

Dolly's+Kenny's is a terrible song but better than ... that other one ... if I type the name I'll probably be hearing it again.
Thanks Erudite

sultan2075 · 01 Aug 2010, 02:58

Sita wrote:sultan2075 - I'm not sure what bluegrass is, but if it's something like the Lambchop version of this Corrosion, that's awesome!
So when you get drunk, you get your country instruments out and play FALAA songs? Next time, please invite me over

Close to Lambchop--it tends to be much faster. Lots of acoustic guitars, banjos, mandolins, dobros, etc. It has roots in the Appalachian mountains of the United States (so it has deeper roots in England/Ireland/Scotland I'd guess), and bluegrass players can usually play circles around anybody else. As one commentator put it, "the bluegrass that's not loving Mama, Jesus, or the mountains is plotting to get drunk, murder its own kids, shoot the dog, and then burn the family Bible."

There's been something of a resurgence in bluegrass in the US in the last few years. As punk-rock became commodified, a lot of punks started playing other styles of music, including bluegrass. And, in the US at least, the best country-and-western music (as well as related styles) today is pretty much done by old punks (see the Supersuckers, Hank Williams III and Corb Lund & the Hurtin' Albertans, for example).

Some examples of the style:
The Del Mcroury Band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWca9aIKqnA
Steve Earle, live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jngBrzeu-4U
the Pine Box Boys (gimmicky, but still pretty good): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cj2EzmyRmw

edit: it's unconscionable of me not to also mention Slim Cessna's Autoclub, who don't fit easily into any particular genre-labels, but are one of the greatest bands I've ever heard. Simply amazing, and probably something a lot of HL posters would like.

Francis · 01 Aug 2010, 22:24

Just be grateful your Pa didn't name you Sue.

Or Francis.

TallicA_dude · 02 Aug 2010, 09:11

or Delmar! pretty common here!lol