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geodeticman.5 · 02-08-2009, 06:37 AM

OK HERE ARE TEN NEW CLUES, POSTED @ 3:45am.,Sun.,FEB 5th, 2009 !

FAST GAME-PLAY BLAH-BLAH SKIPPER; READ THE NEXT SENTENCE, AND THEN SKIP TO "SKIP BLAH BLAH" IN YELLOW.
NEXT SENTENCE: All the songs are AMONG his most famous, in relative terms safest objective measure is commercial $ and airplay, and ALL songs clues are in .....word,word.... format - clue word, comma, clue word, all mid-verse.Now skip blah blah if you wish. The blah blah is however about the songs. You'll only have to pick from at MOST 15 songs in your head for all these, given the time period. If you want the time period and other helpful hints - READ THE BLAH-BLAH ....lol... HAVE FUN !

CLIFF-NOTES VERSION: (HALFWAY BETWEEN SKIP BLAH-BLAH AND READING ALL THE BLAH BLAH).......LOL - DO THIS: READ AT LEAST THE BOLD WHITE WORDS, AND PREFERABLY THE ITALICIZED'

2ND, AND MORE SIGNIFICANT NARROWING OF SONGS TO CONSIDER, AND UNIFORM CLUE FORMAT The frst, was in the last set - as an after-thought, I found some of the most surprising words from verse in his songs, and called it 'The "THESE ARE WORDS IN HIS SONGS ?" -LIST. 2ND LIST NOW - you only have to pick from a dozen or so songs ! But here's the catch - the clues are more vague, not intentionally, but what was intentional was pre-determining the clue format, and then finding the best clues I could for you. THEY ARE ALL OUT OF HIS 12 OR SO MOST ...SUCCESSFUL SONGS (NOT 'BEST'), BIGGEST COMMERCIALLY -AND DAMN GOOD SONGS FOR THAT MATTER. They could be called by K-Tel (Gord Fordbid) "The 1 CD WITH JUST 10 HITS ? CAUSE WE'RE CHEAP, AND ARE GOING TO ISSUE A "Ten of his Greatest hits - Volume II" CD.....lol

Because there will be some mis-communiication in this first (2nd, really) attempt at a theme of a different sort; be it my poor wording, or a mis-heard or mis-understood individual reading of my words, lets not focus on that in the end, if you focus on one thing focus on this: They are ten OF his biggest songs. Not THE ten, and you'll be fine.Note to all: This list of ten is the second in a short series thus far of very mild twists on regular lists. I hesitate to call them 'Theme' lists, because they are not like: one list is sailing or boat songs, the next maybe love ballads,etc. This is much simpler, but easy to convey w/o ambiguity. All clues this time are in ....word,word .... format, and note the comma is in every clue. They all appear that way in lightfoot.ca, so for the die-hard 'listen in your head' only purists, you may wish to add the resource of looking in Wayne's world lyrics.
HERE IS A MAJOR, RE-ASSURING MAIN CLUE TRUE OF ALL.

Every single song is one of his most famous songs, on either Cashbox/Billboard terms, or the couple songs from UA period, which I do not know the airplay time they got, but we would 'likely' all agree they are major, major Lightfoot songs. I'll further help you by saying that every single song was recorded on album sessions from '69 - '83. 3 of the songs came from the UA period, and were re-recorded IN GG1 UA re-dux sessions, to make the statement still true, of re-recorded dates range. In fact, 8 of the 10 songs are in GG1. Of those 8, 5 are 'as-is' (2nd LP for us turntable oldsters), and the other 3 from GG1 were LP disc1 re-recordings of major UA period songs. So, with 8 in GG1, of the remaining two, 1 is one his most famousof all time songs, the other got significant airplay but was not a $/smash hit maybe 4 years later 'or so'.

I am not representing my selection as being 'The quintessential ten songs of Gordon Lightfoot' at all. But its damn close in commercial terms - airplay on the radio terms. A couple of his BIG songs from UA time either didn't fit in "10" clue, or the ....word,word.... did not work for that song. Simply the 'facts' I stated about them are true in objective terms. Its safe to say they were all major songs for him, I would maintain safely. Not all of his 'major' songs or career-defining quintessential songs would either fit in a list of 10, nor do all the songs we would likely narrow down to his 10 most 'famous' or 'big' songs lend themselves to this clue format.

In fact, it was hard among his "Quintessential, fans want to hear them songs every setlist" songs to find cases of this clue format. I do guarantee, per Lightfoot.ca, all song clues are correctly in word,word format, and will be found that way. It actually maybe the easiest, or the hardest list we've done. My money is on easiest. Just remember "hmmm his HUGE songs" But lets face it, no song after '76 was a huge song, at least in the U.S. . I know he gets more airplay for each album out in Canada, from what I've seen. But only ONE song is after '76, anyway. Not a big concern. If you guys like this when done. Please feel free to say - 'Hey a, lets do a set of ten clues that are 'so on and so forth' , like mayne next ten we do either same old format, OR... we try - every song in the next ten pertained CLEARLY to failed love or relationship in the end.

We can't get to subjective by definition. Objective differentiation of the songs could be really fun. Also, like: next set should be :Every song has geographic place names, or features, i.e. rivers in the lyrics. Or every song in the next list will have booze prominent in some way". It does have to be objective enough for differring subjective opinions to be able to hang there hat on something OBJECTIVE up front. This could be fun. OR.... you may throw the baby, and the bathwater out, and ME..lol... all 3, to catch the baby !- 3rd millenia political correctness on that old saw. The most important hint, is this....yes.....yes...gather around close....lol... HAVE FUN ! Rather than worrying or scratching at how well what I said fits the clues/songs at the end, just remember they are (in relative terms - key concept.....eg airplay) BIG SONGS. Enjoy !

SKIP BLAH BLAH

All songs are in the 'main 20 albums'

================================================

==============="SPECIAL SERIES CLUES" ================
THE "TEN OF GORD'S TOP HITS" LIST

Q346 .... again,either .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q347 .... away,slip .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q348 .... tight,how .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q349 .... lonely,all .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q350 .... living,a .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q351 .... heat,that .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q352 .... roar,see .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q353 .... again,where .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q354 .... feet,you .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

Q355 .... go,it .... - REMAINS UNANSWERED

================================================== ========
All songs written by: Gordon Lightfoot .

HAVE FUN !

02-08-2009, 06:37 AM	#936
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: GL Lyrics fan(atics) fun quizzers and more ! OK HERE ARE TEN NEW CLUES, POSTED @ 3:45am.,Sun.,FEB 5th, 2009 ! FAST GAME-PLAY BLAH-BLAH SKIPPER; READ THE NEXT SENTENCE, AND THEN SKIP TO "SKIP BLAH BLAH" IN YELLOW. NEXT SENTENCE: All the songs are AMONG his most famous, in relative terms safest objective measure is commercial $ and airplay, and ALL songs clues are in .....word,word.... format - clue word, comma, clue word, all mid-verse.Now skip blah blah if you wish. The blah blah is however about the songs. You'll only have to pick from at MOST 15 songs in your head for all these, given the time period. If you want the time period and other helpful hints - READ THE BLAH-BLAH ....lol... HAVE FUN ! CLIFF-NOTES VERSION: (HALFWAY BETWEEN SKIP BLAH-BLAH AND READING ALL THE BLAH BLAH).......LOL - DO THIS: READ AT LEAST THE BOLD WHITE WORDS, AND PREFERABLY THE ITALICIZED' 2ND, AND MORE SIGNIFICANT NARROWING OF SONGS TO CONSIDER, AND UNIFORM CLUE FORMAT The frst, was in the last set - as an after-thought, I found some of the most surprising words from verse in his songs, and called it 'The "THESE ARE WORDS IN HIS SONGS ?" -LIST. 2ND LIST NOW - you only have to pick from a dozen or so songs ! But here's the catch - the clues are more vague, not intentionally, but what was intentional was pre-determining the clue format, and then finding the best clues I could for you. THEY ARE ALL OUT OF HIS 12 OR SO MOST ...SUCCESSFUL SONGS (NOT 'BEST'), BIGGEST COMMERCIALLY -AND DAMN GOOD SONGS FOR THAT MATTER. They could be called by K-Tel (Gord Fordbid) "The 1 CD WITH JUST 10 HITS ? CAUSE WE'RE CHEAP, AND ARE GOING TO ISSUE A "Ten of his Greatest hits - Volume II" CD.....lol Because there will be some mis-communiication in this first (2nd, really) attempt at a theme of a different sort; be it my poor wording, or a mis-heard or mis-understood individual reading of my words, lets not focus on that in the end, if you focus on *one thing* focus on this: They are ten OF his biggest songs. Not THE ten, and you'll be fine.Note to all: This list of ten is the second in a short series thus far of very mild twists on regular lists. I hesitate to call them 'Theme' lists, because they are not like: one list is sailing or boat songs, the next maybe love ballads,etc. This is much simpler, but easy to convey w/o ambiguity. All clues this time are in ....word,word .... format, and note the comma is in every clue. They all appear that way in lightfoot.ca, so for the die-hard 'listen in your head' only purists, you may wish to add the resource of looking in Wayne's world lyrics. HERE IS A MAJOR, RE-ASSURING MAIN CLUE TRUE OF ALL. Every single song is one of his most famous songs, on either Cashbox/Billboard terms, or the couple songs from UA period, which I do not know the airplay time they got, but we would 'likely' all agree they are major, major Lightfoot songs. I'll further help you by saying that every single song was recorded on album sessions from '69 - '83. 3 of the songs came from the UA period, and were re-recorded IN GG1 UA re-dux sessions, to make the statement still true, of re-recorded dates range. In fact, 8 of the 10 songs are in GG1. Of those 8, 5 are 'as-is' (2nd LP for us turntable oldsters), and the other 3 from GG1 were LP disc1 re-recordings of major UA period songs. So, with 8 in GG1, of the remaining two, 1 is one his most famousof all time songs, the other got significant airplay but was not a $/smash hit maybe 4 years later 'or so'. I am not representing my selection as being 'The quintessential ten songs of Gordon Lightfoot' at all. But its damn close in commercial terms - airplay on the radio terms. A couple of his BIG songs from UA time either didn't fit in "10" clue, or the ....word,word.... did not work for that song. Simply the 'facts' I stated about them are true in objective terms. Its safe to say they were all major songs for him, I would maintain safely. Not all of his 'major' songs or career-defining quintessential songs would either fit in a list of 10, nor do all the songs we would likely narrow down to his 10 most 'famous' or 'big' songs lend themselves to this clue format. In fact, it was hard among his "Quintessential, fans want to hear them songs every setlist" songs to find cases of this clue format. I do guarantee, per Lightfoot.ca, all song clues are correctly in word,word format, and will be found that way. It actually maybe the easiest, or the hardest list we've done. My money is on easiest. Just remember "hmmm his HUGE songs" But lets face it, no song after '76 was a huge song, at least in the U.S. . I know he gets more airplay for each album out in Canada, from what I've seen. But only ONE song is after '76, anyway. Not a big concern. If you guys like this when done. Please feel free to say - 'Hey a, lets do a set of ten clues that are 'so on and so forth' , like mayne next ten we do either same old format, OR... we try - every song in the next ten pertained CLEARLY to failed love or relationship in the end. We can't get to subjective by definition. Objective differentiation of the songs could be really fun. Also, like: next set should be :Every song has geographic place names, or features, i.e. rivers in the lyrics. Or every song in the next list will have booze prominent in some way". It does have to be objective enough for differring subjective opinions to be able to hang there hat on something OBJECTIVE up front. This could be fun. OR.... you may throw the baby, and the bathwater out, and ME..lol... all 3, to catch the baby !- 3rd millenia political correctness on that old saw. The most important hint, is this....yes.....yes...gather around close....lol... HAVE FUN ! Rather than worrying or scratching at how well what I said fits the clues/songs at the end, just remember they are (in relative terms - key concept.....eg airplay) BIG SONGS. Enjoy ! SKIP BLAH BLAH All songs are in the 'main 20 albums' ================================================ ==============="SPECIAL SERIES CLUES" ================ THE "TEN OF GORD'S TOP HITS" LIST Q346 .... again,either .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q347 .... away,slip .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q348 .... tight,how .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q349 .... lonely,all .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q350 .... living,a .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q351 .... heat,that .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q352 .... roar,see .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q353 .... again,where .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q354 .... feet,you .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* Q355 .... go,it .... - *REMAINS UNANSWERED* ================================================== ======== All songs written by: Gordon Lightfoot . HAVE FUN ! __________________ ~geo Steve . :"I will leave my footprints there to lie beneath the snow" ~gl Quote to ponder: "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." ~ Henrik Ibsen Last edited by geodeticman.5; 02-08-2009 at 07:05 AM.