|
Author
|
Topic: Favorite Lightfoot Song & Why? II
|
Gmeredith
unregistered
|
posted June 24, 2002 19:40
 
quote:
Originally posted by Florian:
What is your favorite Lightfoot Song & Why?(topic originated by Wes Steele)
[This message has been edited by Florian (edited February 26, 2000).]
IP: Logged |
Traded Off
Member
|
posted June 24, 2002 19:51
 
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Florian:
[B]What is your favorite Lightfoot Song & Why?There is ONLY one Lightfoot song -- CRT (Canadian Railway Trilogy), though his naval tragedy -- NO NOT EDMUND FITZGERALD! -- Yarmouth Castle is a close second. Now, why... CRT is like K2 and Everest...because it is there. There is no other folk song that is so complete, complex and simple...all at the same time. I have been blessed to hear it live three different times and still shiver at the rememberance. This song IS Lightfoot...all that follow the man should know that. Yarmouth Castle...I do not understand why he does not do this in concert, it is fantastic! Like Fitzgerald is based in fact, but is a much better, though realistically sadder, tale. This should be his number two song. Number three...well I only have eight suggestions! "Remember my unsettled ways.." and peace to all.
------------------
IP: Logged |
wissel
Member
|
posted July 11, 2002 09:31
Most days I feel like I want to be a Ring Neck Loon. That's my favorite song by GL. I have a Martin D18GL guitar and I often play it along while listening to the cd and looking on the wall at my GL signature on a painting entitled "Every Man Knew"... City life is what I see
City life is the life for me
Ring neck loon away off shore
How could anybody ask for more Larry IP: Logged |
guitarman
unregistered
|
posted July 13, 2002 00:14
My favorite is the theme from the 1982 Bruce Dern film "Harry Tracey, Desperado." The melody plays throughout the film and Gordon Lightfoot sings it at the end.I just don't know the name of it. If anyone does, please post it.IP: Logged |
Steve W.
unregistered
|
posted August 04, 2002 22:51
I know this one has been overdone, but it has some very significant meaning in my life. "If You Could Read My Mind" was the song I was strumming and singing late one night on a park bench on the campus of a southern college 25 years ago. A girl I had been flirting with was walking by and she stopped and listened. A week later she went out with me. In June we celebrated 21 years of marriage and we have three children.It might seem strange that a song about breaking up and a broken love relationship could muster up thoughts of romance in the mind of a young girl, but hey.....whatever works! IP: Logged |
brannon
Member
|
posted August 07, 2002 19:47
I like so many of them GL is one of my favorite singer/songwriters. I love 70's period of music. Anyway, some of the songs I like are Rainy Day People, Sundown, CareFree Highway, WOTEFG, and If You Could Read MY Mind.....IP: Logged |
AdamB
unregistered
|
posted August 08, 2002 12:00
My top dog is "Christian Island." Being a sailor since my early days, this song takes me to places for which only Gord, Jimmy Buffett and David Crosby know the course!IP: Logged |
AdamB
unregistered
|
posted August 08, 2002 12:01
Although ...
for awhile, when I was going through the mechanics of getting divorced, "High & Dry" took over the number one slot. It's easy to hear why.  IP: Logged |
moondust1
Member
|
posted August 10, 2002 15:41
greetings all you wonderful people,
for you must be wonderful people with music
like this in your lives!
I have just today, this very day, discovered the music of gordon lightfoot.
A tv show over here, ( in the uk) use 'if you could read my mind'in their soundtrack, and the show was on last night and I had just 2 lines in my head all last night and this morning, and I didn't have a clue who sung it or what it was called.
but I just love it.
So, this morning I was on a mission, went to the record shop, and after singing a few lines to the assistant, he recognised the song, and bless him, told me who it was.
I had to trail about a few shops to find someone who stocked his albums, but eventually managed to get a greatest hits cd.
In fact as I am writing this, I am sat with, the headphones on cranked as loud as they can go, listening to track 7 on repeat!!
I just love it!
At 30 years of age, I wish I had discovered this music years ago.
I just wanted to tell someone how thrilled I am to have it in my life now, and who better
to share that with than visitors to this site!
fare well allIP: Logged |
Brian 57
Member
|
posted August 11, 2002 22:45
moondust1,Welcome!! You have experienced what we all have experienced at one time or another. For me, it was the first time I heard "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". You have found the tip of a very deep iceberg. I encourage you to explore as much Lightfoot music as possible. This is a great site to learn all things Lightfoot from some very knowledgeable ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your gracious words about us, and I can see by your interest in Lightfoot, and especially your kind demeanor that you are just like us, and indeed became one of us the second you posted your comments. Hope to hear more from you. Brian IP: Logged |
nicole_brabon
unregistered
|
posted September 09, 2002 16:48
my favirite gordon lightfoot song is the werk of the edmund fitzgerald.it is my favirite song because my grandfather died on the edmund fitzerald.the song means alot ot my family especialy my mom and her 7 brothers and sisters and my grandmother.IP: Logged |
Brian 57
Member
|
posted September 09, 2002 18:59
welcome,NicoleThanks to Gordon Lightfoot we all know what a brave man your grandfather was. He must have known what the lake was capable of, and went anyway. Right now, Mr. Lightfoot is in the hospital after emergency abdominal surgery. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, and everytime we hear that song-- with yours. IP: Logged |
MISSMOOHERSELF
Member
|
posted September 10, 2002 12:44
I have so many GL favorites its hard to list just one. That's like asking which M&Ms color do you like best? They're ALL good. But if a shotgun is put to my head to answer with JUST ONE, I'll go with the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Everything that's best about GL is in this gripping, dramatic, wonderful, imaginative song. IP: Logged |
violet Blue Horse
Member
|
posted September 11, 2002 01:13
These days it would be "Now and Then". I understand that song so thoroughly right at the moment. Particularly the line about gentle longing to be free. I don't think I could have understood it until now; what it's like to be in a relationship like that with someone.Here among my thoughts of you I find a gentle longing to be free
There must be a way out of this crazy game we play out to the end
------------------
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. --R.W. Emerson IP: Logged |
Krillian
unregistered
|
posted September 12, 2002 22:01
Alberta Bound!! Does anyone know where I can find a copy of it!!!IP: Logged |
Sonrock5050
unregistered
|
posted September 17, 2002 00:02
"If you could read my mind", an ubelieveable song done with precision and from the soul. One of my five all-time favorite songs. I can listen to it over and over again.IP: Logged |
AuburnAnnie
unregistered
|
posted October 01, 2002 11:30
Favorite song varies practically by the moment. Recently heard "I'll Tag Along" done live for a WFUV radio show a few years back. That's my pick of the morning.IP: Logged |
joveski
Member
|
posted October 01, 2002 17:41
for me at the moment:Two Crazy Kids
Auctioneer
A Passing Ship
Magnificent Outpouring IP: Logged |
PJ
unregistered
|
posted October 03, 2002 09:24
MY favorite Lightfoot song is I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO CARE off the SUMMERTIME DREAM LP.
It is my favorite because my ex-boyfriend and I used to play the album all the time and the sond mirrors our lives. IP: Logged |
Patty
unregistered
|
posted October 03, 2002 12:25
My Lightfoot favorites are a little unusual. Endless Wire is a wonderful song to sing, and to play with its weird words and minor chords. "I a'int, got nothin' but time......"
Lightfoots most lyrical song I suggest is "Your Love's Return". He evidently was trying to write a song in Stephen Foster's style and this ranks right up there with Beautiful Dreamer as a gorgeous song, wordwise and notewise.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has always struck me as some Celtic tune I heard somewhere but forgot, and the words about the witch of November are unforgettable. I used to be a disc jockey and when my boyfriend would visit me at the station I'd put on Edmund and walk the guy to the door, knowing I'd have 5 and a half minutes to kiss him goodbye before my record ran out.
Thanks Gordon for the extra long make out time.
Regards, Pat Flannagan, Sorrento, FloridaIP: Logged |
paddletothesea
Member
|
posted October 03, 2002 15:49
quote:
Originally posted by BILLW:
Watchman,
Congratulations on being the 300th posting to this thread.
My favorite has long been "Second Cup of Coffee" or actually the ENTIRE Don Quixote album which I have always thought of as one LONG song. (that's my story and I'm stickin' to it)Bill
I was just listening to an old interview with Gordon and he mentions how the guy who started "Second Cup of Coffee" coffee shops in Canada got the idea from Gordons song of the same name.
IP: Logged |
paddletothesea
Member
|
posted October 03, 2002 15:51
quote:
Originally posted by guitarman:
My favorite is the theme from the 1982 Bruce Dern film "Harry Tracey, Desperado." The melody plays throughout the film and Gordon Lightfoot sings it at the end.I just don't know the name of it. If anyone does, please post it.
I dont know the name of it but Gordon did not write that song. It says in the movie credit who the song was by however.
IP: Logged |
paddletothesea
Member
|
posted October 03, 2002 15:55
quote:
Originally posted by Brian 57:
moondust1,Welcome!! You have experienced what we all have experienced at one time or another. For me, it was the first time I heard "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". You have found the tip of a very deep iceberg. I encourage you to explore as much Lightfoot music as possible. This is a great site to learn all things Lightfoot from some very knowledgeable ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your gracious words about us, and I can see by your interest in Lightfoot, and especially your kind demeanor that you are just like us, and indeed became one of us the second you posted your comments. Hope to hear more from you. Brian
I agree with you on the "wreck". I experienced that storm in Michigan. Thought the roof was going to blow off the house, so I know what it must have been like. I also have part of an empty lifeboat seat from the Fitz. A chilling reminder that there were no survivors.IP: Logged |
BGS
unregistered
|
posted October 03, 2002 21:53
"If you could read my mind" has to one of my favorite songs of all time. I can't put my finger on exactly why. I do however remeber distinctly sitting in a movie theatre which was probably 25 years ago and heard that song. I was 7 to 10 years old at that point and that song just blew me away. I have never forgotten it. IP: Logged |
jaybyrd
Member
|
posted October 09, 2002 12:43
I asked this question in another forum because I wanted to know if others felt it as difficult to choose as I did. Most just couldn't choose.
IYCRMM or Sundown.IP: Logged |
jesse
unregistered
|
posted October 15, 2002 06:50
did anyone mention Race Among the Ruins i didnt read all of the postings but thats the favorite song for me IP: Logged |
klbergst
unregistered
|
posted October 25, 2002 19:42
I have so many favorites but reading through the other posts I have decided to mention "Lesson in Love" because this is one that I first heard with my dad and something about the memory of him telling me the story behind it...what a great song. Another favorite has always been "I'm Not Supposed To Care". What beautiful lyrics that perfectly describe a love that is forever, even if it should have ended. Always one of the greats. Then again, which of his songs aren't one of the greats? I grew up listening to Gord and I'm only 18 now. I'm off at college and one of the things I miss most is sitting in our lower level listening to my dad's old Lightfoot albums on our record player. It'll always be a great memory. Oh and can't forget "Poor Little Allison"...I was almost named after her but wasn't. When I have a girl I have already decided to carry on the love of Gord and name her Allison. Thanks for posting such a great topic about such a GREAT singer/songwriter/performer! Peace -KatIP: Logged |
Mari
unregistered
|
posted October 28, 2002 14:50
I'm an English gal who is a big GL fan. Fave songs being: 'Wreck', 'I'm not supposed to care' in fact loads of them! I have 'Gord's Gold 1 & 2 with all his hits that get played constantly. Would love to see him live but don't suppose he comes over here!IP: Logged |
Glenn
unregistered
|
posted November 01, 2002 01:12
Well, I must say after listening to GL for 30 years, everything prior to and including Endless Wire is awesome.
I had the priveledge last year of sitting 4 rows up from him at a Blue Jays baseball game, and I must say the game took on a new meaning.
Summertime Dream, In the Early Morning Rain, and Alberta Bound stand out, but not by much from so many others.
I was living in Montreal when I bought my first GL album Don Quixote when I was 16. I have now lived in Alberta for 27 years.
GL is an outstanding, and wonderful musician that is unequalled. His music is timeless, and has such depth and meaning. I sing your songs while driving as enthusiastically now as I did 25 years ago.
Thanks Gord, you have given so many so much for so long.
IP: Logged |
john
unregistered
|
posted November 05, 2002 21:46
there are so many of his songs I like,but "steel rail blues" was the first one I heard and it got me hooked on Gord in 68'.I was listening to a local program called "folk bag" and I have been hooked ever since.IP: Logged |
pacnad
unregistered
|
posted November 06, 2002 15:38
Of course, my banal answer is IYCRMM, if only because that song is my favorite song overall. I don't know why it is (I think it is like the Tao, if my favorite can be explained it isn't really my favorite). But a less banal list:
Talking In Your Sleep - very true and humane. Miguel - My wife tells me it made her mother cry, but she always had to hear it. Don Quixote - I love the cadence of that song, and the blaze of tangled hooves at the end. Rainy Day People - Its just so true. Race Among the Ruins - Only a Canadian can rhyme "ruins" with "soon!" Summer Side of Life - That song makes ME cry, but I always have to hear it! My wife and I saw Gord at the Westbury Music Fair three years ago, and it was a highlight in my life. He's saved my life so many times over the years, it was wonderful to give him back some through my applause. IP: Logged |
JOAN
unregistered
|
posted November 06, 2002 21:18
I LOVED YOUR BEAUTIFUL WHAT A GREAT SONG IN 1976 I WANTED IT FOR MY WEDDING SONG GORDON IS A GREAT SONG WRITER SINGER GUTARIST!!!!!!BRING BACK GORDON IP: Logged |
Paul Zervas
unregistered
|
posted November 12, 2002 22:32
Favourite G.L song? It simply has to be "beautiful" ,As a singer/songwtiter myself I know that to write a song like this would be a true miracle, The melody just laps over those almost magical chord progressions. the man's a genius!
IP: Logged |
john
unregistered
|
posted November 22, 2002 04:11
It seems many who post, list their favorite as the song they identify as making them a fan of GL. That's why I'm listing "Cherokee Bend" from the "Cold on the Shoulder" album. It's a great story song and I first heard it when I would listen to my older brother's 8-track tape on his stereo (now that's dating this story.) It was around 1976 and I have loved GL's music ever since. I think my favorite part of the song is when he describes the mother dying and the son burying her in the snow before going back to the white man's town. As we all know, however you can't have just one favorite GL song. That's what makes him so amazing. Best wishes to GL on his recovery. John from Olathe, KSIP: Logged |
jg005@aol
unregistered
|
posted November 23, 2002 19:40
Hi YallMy favorit one is Nous Vivons Ensemble because it is melodically beautiful and universal. With love to Gordon. I feel like he is my buddy although I have not met him. But I have seen him in concerts and enjoy his albums, tapes and CDs. From John your buddy from Mesapotemia. IP: Logged |
jaja
unregistered
|
posted November 23, 2002 22:23
Miguel. From the Summer Side of Life. Great to drive down the highway listening to it........IP: Logged |
jg005@aol.com
unregistered
|
posted November 25, 2002 18:13
[QUOTE]Originally posted by PALancia:
[B]I've loved Gordon since a kid in the 70's. I read your Gordon Lightfoot's (GL) favorate song article and appreciate your disclaimer of one favorate. I feel like you in that there are so many great ones that it would be doubtfull to justify the best one. I am also interested in the Syria Mosque concert you mentioned here. Please let me know what the concert hall is all about. The name is very intersting to me. I have seen Gl in concerts in 1980 and in 2002 and missed others that were sold out. He does not come to Florida as much as he came to the Northern places. Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. John IP: Logged |
Steve H
unregistered
|
posted November 26, 2002 00:27
This is a new found site for me. I am a huge Lightfoot fan having been to as many concerts as I could and owning most albums made plus songbooks. I don't think anybody mentioned Did she mention my name, it has always been a favorite of mine. I hope that Gord comes out west again soon. By the way a nother favorite is A song for a winters night. Great site; greetings from Victoria.IP: Logged |
Oma
Member
|
posted November 26, 2002 10:08
Song for a Winter's Night would have to be my all time favorite, but I must add that I really love Seven Island Suite and The Watchman's Gone, too! I LOVE the strings in the background.IP: Logged |
JHaller829
unregistered
|
posted November 28, 2002 11:56
quote:
Originally posted by Florian:
What is your favorite Lightfoot Song & Why?(topic originated by Wes Steele)
[This message has been edited by Florian (edited February 26, 2000).]
IP: Logged |
LAM3346E
Member
|
posted November 29, 2002 16:02
First let me start by saying how grateful I am for discovering this bulletin board.Gord has had just a huge impact on my life for about the last 30 years. His music has been a continuing theme throughout my husband's and my marriage...a road map. It would be impossible to list all of the favorites here. There isn't one that I don't
like. The favorites change from day to day and week to week. Just a few are "Pussywillow Cattails", "Early Morning Rain", "Canadian
Railroad Triology", IYCRMM, "Alberta Bound",
"Sundown", "Song for A Winter's Night", "Don
Quixote","Yarmouth Castle", "I'm Not Supposed
to Care"......just a beginning. And, then
there is the "Edmund Fitzgerald". Having grown up three blocks from Lake superior and
having seen the "Fitz", made this song even more haunting. Just have to say, that there is no other like Gord. He truly is a craftsman, musician,
writer, singer, instrumentalist, but his ability to incorporate all of these things into one entity is unsurpassed. Gord, be well. May you gain strength everyday. "May the light of love surround you tonight."
-G.L. IP: Logged |
john.ride@btopenworld.com
unregistered
|
posted December 04, 2002 20:51
Guess my favourite ‘ll be his last-un!
‘Cos all ‘is udders were great;
Undercarriage:
Under-cover:
But NEVER !
Under-rate!
So I’ve sed it on dis’ web-site;
Stars’ll never come back
‘ome.
It’s just a neophytes religion;
Just a fisherman’s
‘ome. If you pin me down some miners shaft,
If you tie me to some doin’s;
It’s gotta-be- the story of LIfe
Yeah!
THAT RACE-AMONG-THE RUINS! Gunnight’ n’ Gord’ Bless! IP: Logged |
Sharaberrie
Member
|
posted December 06, 2002 14:37
My favorite Gordon Lightfoot song is Summer Side of Life if I have to pick one. All his songs are great. I enjoy Summer side because it matches a time in my life that I had experience. The other up on the top of the list song is Carefree Highway. I am always slipping away on the carefree highway to get away from my sweet shattered problems of life. I can think of the good time like he does in this song. To be satisfied with my life like he says...is living....Love ya Gordy! Can't wait to see you in Halifax NS!!! Get well soon! I still have your tickets for the postponed concert!
Love Sharon IP: Logged |
leojbramble
Member
|
posted December 08, 2002 12:50
I grew up in New York in the 70's, and as a kid listening to the radio, I always heard and loved 'Read My Mind', 'Carefree Highway', 'Sundown' and 'Wreck', but never had any real sense of the breadth of GF's material beyond those huge hits until very recently, when I picked up 'Gord's Gold'; I see now that I have a LOT of catching up to do. I'm surprised how infrequently 'Canadian Railroad Trilogy' has been mentioned. To me, that song is a MASTERPIECE in the true sense of the word. The historical theme, the narrative expressed from multiple perspectives, the distinct but integrated melodic themes. Enough to make any aspiring songwriter feel overwhelmed with simultaneous feelings of inspiration and inadequacy. IP: Logged |
Sharaberrie
Member
|
posted December 08, 2002 19:24
I agree! Great point!
I love Gords Gold. That is such a great cd.
Railroad Trilogy is definitely a masterpiece and you are right point it out to us. I love that song and often felt that although it was written about the western half of Canada that it is a great song for all of us (I am in Atlantic Canada)
Nice to meet you by the way!
SharonIP: Logged |
christine in michigan
unregistered
|
posted December 16, 2002 11:56
My favorite songs right now are:1. Dream Street Rose
2. Beautiful
3. Romance
4. Blackberry Wine
5. Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald These are in no particular order  IP: Logged |
bellerim
unregistered
|
posted December 16, 2002 15:11
That questions brings out of me a different answer each day... but I gotta give Carefree Highway the credit to have brought me to that great songwriter. Did she mention my name, I'm not supposed to care, It's worth beliving... All were my favorites at one point...IP: Logged |
Clover
unregistered
|
posted December 20, 2002 01:59
Wow, so tough, but fun to think about. I could just transcribe the playlist from the mixed cassette that's been in my car forever:--Ten Degrees and Getting Colder (which I always rewind at least once) --Marie Christine--another cool ship song --Sit Down Young Stranger--makes me cry. So good. --For Lovin' Me --Walls --Affair on Eighth Avenue --Rainbow Trout--definitely a finalist --Dream Street Rose--another favorite --Magnificent Outpouring --Spanish Moss --Morning Glory What's the Story? --Don Quixote --Go My Way --Song for a Winter's Night . . . OK, I'm going to go play it now. IP: Logged |
Michael Jeans
unregistered
|
posted December 31, 2002 03:34
It would be impossible for me to choose a favorite Lightfoot song, they are all excellent. I will say that Gordon has been a huge inspiration in my music and I wish he could go on forever. If you see this Gordon, I hope you recover well from your recent illness.IP: Logged |
dc
unregistered
|
posted December 31, 2002 12:23
I love Gordon's work my favorites are summer side of life and triangle as well as pretty much everything gord has recorded. My selections speak to his vast range.IP: Logged |
