Actually, the best songs may sometimes get the skip button due to my fear of getting what you call "burnt out" on the song. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif You can only listen to a song so often or hum it in your head for so long and one day its not going to sound good. I've had that happen already and you can go months without listening to that song and it still won't sound good. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif

It's true a song can get on your nerves after awhile or just that you get bored with it. 1 song I wish would go away is "Bad Boys by Inner Circle. Otherwise known as the theme from COPS. Hey FOX? Cancel the show,I'll avoid the re-runs and not listen to my copy of the hit single for about 20+ years,okay? Enough already! The song's 14 or 15 years old! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif ...or at the very least,get a new theme! It's been the B! Catch ya on the flipside of Sundown! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/cool.gif

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'Keepin On Yearnin' and 'Canary Yellow Canoe' are beginning to grow on me.
I hate to say it but I too do not like 'Beautiful' that much. Its not the lyrics or anything, but thats just not my type of tune.
Also, I don't like the lyrics in 'A Message To The Wind'.

Ode To Big Blue is great, The Song The Minstrels Sang has a get-up-and-go feel (I feel like frolicking when I hear it), Bitter Green is awesome, Someone To Believe In rocks (I feel like exercising when I hear it), Beautiful is a classic...how can anyone say these are least favorites? The least favorites are the ones you can't even think of unless you look at the album covers...but, yeah, That canary thing sucks! It's not

Better a,"Canary Yellow Canoe" than a,"Ring Neck Loon". It may be a subtle (if not accidental) re-working of,Roll Over Beethoven but it works. I don't out-right hate,"Ring Neck Loon" but it's one of those songs that eventually grows on you or it doesn't. It's O.K.,just not fantastic. Later! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

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"beautiful" and "rainy day people" usually get me up to move the needle over...they're nice songs but they seem to just drone on...these two are too boring to hear as many times as I listen to Gord's albums!

quote:Originally posted by Brian Drescher:
Ode To Big Blue is great, The Song The Minstrels Sang has a get-up-and-go feel (I feel like frolicking when I hear it), Bitter Green is awesome, Someone To Believe In rocks (I feel like exercising when I hear it), Beautiful is a classic...how can anyone say these are least favorites? The least favorites are the ones you can't even think of unless you look at the album covers...but, yeah, That canary thing sucks! It's not

Listening to 'Someone To Believe In' also makes me feel like exercising when I hear it! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif
Oh yeah, my problem with 'Beautiful' is that its boring to hear.(Higgy78's problem)

http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif I just found another song I don't like. 'Something Very Special'. I can't stand to listen to it because the entire time that annoying guitar sound is playing.

Daylight Katy. Come on! I think this may have been a low point for Gord. He sounds like he either just woke up, has been recording all day and it's 3am or he's seriously barbed out. What boggles my mind is how it made it on a Greatest Hits comp. I'm still new to much of Gord's stuff and so far, I haven't skipped past any songs, but that one made me raise my eyebrows and wince. Canary Yellow Canoe is cool just because it's so different from his usual stuff. I half thought it was in jest when I first heard it.

Let's be frank, the guy is a genius and undoubtedly one of the best songwriters ever, but nobody is perfect and nobody hits the mark every time. He was prolific and under contract and that combo always lends itself to a few uninspired tunes. It's the songs that aren't Sundown are Wreck or IYCRMM or Seven Island Suite or Carefree Highway that help make those songs so special.

Cheers, everybody! Let's celebrate what we like about Gord!

Big Blue,

First of all congratulations on "kicking the bum out" to paraphrase Lightfoot. But I think Daylight Katy is a great tune, especially played loud. So go figure.

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
Big Blue,

First of all congratulations on "kicking the bum out" to paraphrase Lightfoot. But I think Daylight Katy is a great tune, especially played loud. So go figure.

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif


I'll try it louder then. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

I agree.

'Keepin On Yearnin' is also different from his usual work. If your feeling down in the dumps, you should listen to that song.

Big Blue,

Now that's LOUD, I heard it here in Maryland!
Seriously, you may never care for it but play it every once in a blue moon and one day it may strike you as "better". There are songs of his that I just didn't warm up to at first but repitition helps, you may here nuances and things you missed the first time. Have fun.
Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

quote:Originally posted by BILLW:
Big Blue,

Now that's LOUD, I heard it here in Maryland!
Seriously, you may never care for it but play it every once in a blue moon and one day it may strike you as "better". There are songs of his that I just didn't warm up to at first but repitition helps, you may here nuances and things you missed the first time. Have fun.
Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

'Pussywillows Cattails' and 'Boss Man' are 2 of those songs.

What's this???!! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/mad.gif Making fun of,"Rainy Day People" and "Beautiful"? Knocking the song Gord wrote for one of his daughters?? "Daylight Katy" ? http://www.corfid.com/ubb/confused.gif How could you?? That's it!! It's 8-tracks at 10 paces at dawn!! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/eek.gif (Slap! Slap!) You have tarnished Gords' good name sir! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/tongue.gif You are both tone deaf! AAArgh!

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Okay, I gave Daylight Katy another chance and now I can't get it out of my head. I like it. I think I must have been in a funky mood the first time I heard it. But I have to say, it's missing one thing: it needs crunchy fortune cookie percussion. Try eating a fortune cookie and crunching to the beat during the chorus and you'll see what I mean.

I don't know how to say this but I don't like Early Morning Rain or Nous Vivons Ensemble. I can see why everyone else would like these tunes, but they're just not my type.

I thought Daylight Katy could have used more strings and brass. As for Nous Vivons Ensamble (I always get the spelling wrong,oh well.) Everytime I listen to it,I think of all the times I've been in love and how much I loved those I felt that way for,then my heart kind of melts all over again for those ladies. (For awhile anyway.) Truthfully speaking,with all the home recording I've been doing,it's getting to where I don't have a least favorite anymore! Even "Someone to Believe In" is finally starting to grow on me. Least favorite? Not anymore! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Later! http://www.corfid.com/ubb/cool.gif

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I like Nous Vivons Ensemble because he cared enough to write about the Quebec problem - and keeping Canada together.
I don't care for Canary Yellow Canoe but love that he mentions so many rivers that he travelled on in his canoe...I wish him peaceful waters...
char

quote:Originally posted by n:
I don't know how to say this but I don't like Early Morning Rain or Nous Vivons Ensemble. I can see why everyone else would like these tunes, but they're just not my type.



WHAT! Jump over my Granny, you cannot be serious.

quote:Originally posted by brink:
I have never really cared for Don Quixote, this is a very scary topic, bound to get the ire up in somebody.

Oh! I loved that song and the whole album. It got me through one rough summer--when I was very young of course. It's amazing how we all differ...keeps life interesting.

Black Day in July, is a song that I find totally irritating! I love every other song that I have heard by GL. Im sure I have not heard all his songs. One day I am going to make a point of acquiring the ones I dont have...for now they are buried treasure, waiting to be opened.

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I like 'For Lovin' Me/Did She Mention My Name' on Gords Gold and dislike it to. I like the way it sounds, but I don't see why he combined those two because it makes it seem more chauvinistic than ever. In the song he leaves one woman and is now asking after another from the past. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/confused.gif (Still a good song though,)

I like the pairing of these two songs. In the first, the person in the song is arrogant and sexist, totally unlikeable. In the sencond, he's humbled, perhaps by experience, perhaps by time and distance. It takes the edge off the first song, and leaves the listener with the feeling that the fellow in the song has learned a little lesson about life. I also like the comparative subtlety of the second song. Just asking simple innocent questions, but the listener can tell there's so much more beneath the surface.

quote:Originally posted by Old Dan:
I like the pairing of these two songs. In the first, the person in the song is arrogant and sexist, totally unlikeable. In the sencond, he's humbled, perhaps by experience, perhaps by time and distance. It takes the edge off the first song, and leaves the listener with the feeling that the fellow in the song has learned a little lesson about life. I also like the comparative subtlety of the second song. Just asking simple innocent questions, but the listener can tell there's so much more beneath the surface.


Do you mean to say that the guy is asking after the same girl during the 2nd half of the song? I never would've figured that. So THATS why he paired these two. And I thought he had left his old girl and was asking after one that he hadn't loved yet but would like to love so he could just leave her to.

Do you know – I’ve always had a totally different take on these songs, especially the first. IMHO, I think he adores her but is frightened to fully commit (sound familiar, Girls?). He’s vunerable but puts up a wall of bravado to prevent being hurt.

Now, if you want sexist. What about Stationmaster!!

“The well’s run dry up yonder,
There’s another down the line.”

REALLY!!!!! (LOL).

Pretty much anything with too much of a 'country sound' to it.
GL's songwriting ability is too good for that...:)

I wasn't going to say this but might as well now that I've gotten to know this forum better. A few years ago my wife and youngest daughter perished in a car accident and I tried playing Welcome To Try to help get over my woes. BIG MISTAKE!!! Now it is my least favorite song of all time. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/frown.gif Luckily thats in the past now. http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

Some of the older United Artists recordings were tough to get through, but they're like wine, they get better with age. However there are two later GL songs that I usually skip over; they're "Bells of the Evening" on COTS, and "Ring them bells" on WFY. Gord, please stop singing about bells, ha ha!

Ring Them Bells is a great Dylan tune and Gord more than did it justice in his version! But I also always liked Bells of the Evening...so there you go, to each his own!

quote:Originally posted by 97-5 busdriver:
What is your least favorite Gordon footLight soong?
I grew up in the late 70's to early 80's listening to heavy metal and new wave.I never liked country or folk{back then I never heard of it} during the late 80's early 90's New York had a new radio station format called "Echos...(and still do}It was such a unique sampling of all types of instrumental music especially acoustic guitar. So, one very late night after hanging out with friends I put on the Echo station and heard this melody that I truly was head strung over. The DJ never mentioned who wrote or sang it. It took me a while to find out ....which is another whole story in itself of course .Now, almost 15 years later, I have watched Gordie perform live 3 times at the Westbury music fair on long island. So, what does that tell you? It tells me that I was probably in my teen years just following what other teens were listening to at the time. So I guess my taste now in music is like a fine and mature wine that got better with age( have a taste for classic rock during kareoke nite after a couple of Jd's). The only song or songs in Gordies career that i don't like is anything that sounds too country! Sure, John Denver might be an exception but I still think till the day I die is that every man whatever background he posesses wishes he was a country boy, sometime or another.

Have I been here long enough (2 days) to voice an opinion on a debate? I think this is a legitimate question and people who love ALL of GL's music probably can't say that they love all songs equally. The question is not, "Do you hate any of GL's songs?" but "Which is your least favorite?" It can still be loved, just not quite as much as the others.

"Restless" fits the description for me. I don't dislike it, just don't like it as much.

Yep, two days is plenty long enough to say whatever you care to. Rap on !

Bill http://www.corfid.com/ubb/smile.gif

LEAVES OF GRASS

I love Gord's songs but this one is a little out of the ordinary!

funny how nobody said the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald http://www.corfid.com/ubb/wink.gif

quote:Originally posted by Floorian:
... My least favorite? It's a 3-way tie between Shadows, Circle Of Steel, and End Of All Time.

As the African Americans in my school would say, "You a lie". Quit trolling. There are plenty of other sites to troll on. They already think I'm you, so leave! go back to the dumps where you belong!
YOUR NOT WELCOME HERE.

I'm sure someone has mentioned 'May I'. It's really the only song I seriously consider skipping. It's terribly annoying.

I really love A Lesson In Love. "Songs of the season/Apples of the sun/There is no rhyme or reason/Just a time for each and every one"

I think that's beautiful and anything but trite. Neither the sentiment nor the articulation are stock lyrics.

Listen to the radio and the "I can't live without your love" lyrics and tell me he's not a true poet.

What a tool...why don't you ask whats your least favorite Gordon Lightfoot guitar or shirt he's worn on tour?

Being a huge Gord fan, there is only one song I truly do NOT like--The Auctioneer. I love Canary Yellow Canoe, though!

My two least favorites are In My Fashion and Canadian Railroad Trilogy.

The "slide rule" rap in In My Fashion is very... hokey.

Jeff