Favorite Lightfoot Song & Why? II

I like Old Dans Records. It has that country tune to it. I also like Alberta Bound.

I like Old Dans Records. It has that country tune to it. I also like Alberta Bound.

My favorite is The Edmund Fitzgarald. I have it downloaded on my computer somewhere.
I'm not what one would consider a true Lightfoot fan but I have the United Artists collection and the Endless Wire album.
My 2nd favorite is the Circle Is Small. I like both recordings very much, and I can't decide which I like better.

My favorite is The Edmund Fitzgarald. I have it downloaded on my computer somewhere.
I'm not what one would consider a true Lightfoot fan but I have the United Artists collection and the Endless Wire album.
My 2nd favorite is the Circle Is Small. I like both recordings very much, and I can't decide which I like better.

[Borderstone]

My new favorite is Rainbow Trout,even though I've had C.O.T.S. for 10 years now. I guess the CD I checked out of the library made it come to life again! Also,"Does Your Mother Know?" Kinda early 70s,Neil Diamond-like. Yes,that's a compliment! : Later!

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[Auburn Annie]

quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
My new favorite is Rainbow Trout,even though I've had C.O.T.S. for 10 years now. I guess the CD I checked out of the library made it come to life again! Also,"Does Your Mother Know?" Kinda early 70s,Neil Diamond-like. Yes,that's a compliment! : Later!

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Actually "Does Your Mother Know" always sounded a bit like Glenn Yarborough (sp?) to me.

[Auburn Annie]

quote:Originally posted by Borderstone:
My new favorite is Rainbow Trout,even though I've had C.O.T.S. for 10 years now. I guess the CD I checked out of the library made it come to life again! Also,"Does Your Mother Know?" Kinda early 70s,Neil Diamond-like. Yes,that's a compliment! : Later!

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Actually "Does Your Mother Know" always sounded a bit like Glenn Yarborough (sp?) to me.

Shadows. Got it on right now. Man that is a great, sad, beautiful song. Like many of Gord's songs it's very well written and I think it's one of the best he's ever written. He has such an eloquence to his lyrics, of a kind I haven't found anywhere else. Like Pussywillows, Cat-Tails. His words are sensual and sexy and even when speaking of infidelity (Sundown and Circle is Small come to mind) he is never disrespectful or sleazy. Notice how he sings, 'slips around' instead of 'sleeps around' in Circle is Small. Sleeps is sleazy, plus it's not true because she's only sleeping with one other guy, but you can tell that he's angry in the song and maybe wants to imply that she's a no-good tramp, but he's also pleading that she stop, and lamenting that she won't and even if she were to, things would never be the same. Shadows and Circle is Small seem connected to me. They are kind of a before and after of the painful situation he must have endured. Speaking as someone who's been there, I strongly identify with these songs. Anyway, it changes from day to day, hour to hour. All the Lovely Ladies is quickly becoming a favorite, as is Seven Island Suite, a masterful work. Just got Songbook and I'm all about Gord right now. Original and perennial favorite, a forgotten song off If Could Read My Mind, called Saturday Clothes.

Shadows. Got it on right now. Man that is a great, sad, beautiful song. Like many of Gord's songs it's very well written and I think it's one of the best he's ever written. He has such an eloquence to his lyrics, of a kind I haven't found anywhere else. Like Pussywillows, Cat-Tails. His words are sensual and sexy and even when speaking of infidelity (Sundown and Circle is Small come to mind) he is never disrespectful or sleazy. Notice how he sings, 'slips around' instead of 'sleeps around' in Circle is Small. Sleeps is sleazy, plus it's not true because she's only sleeping with one other guy, but you can tell that he's angry in the song and maybe wants to imply that she's a no-good tramp, but he's also pleading that she stop, and lamenting that she won't and even if she were to, things would never be the same. Shadows and Circle is Small seem connected to me. They are kind of a before and after of the painful situation he must have endured. Speaking as someone who's been there, I strongly identify with these songs. Anyway, it changes from day to day, hour to hour. All the Lovely Ladies is quickly becoming a favorite, as is Seven Island Suite, a masterful work. Just got Songbook and I'm all about Gord right now. Original and perennial favorite, a forgotten song off If Could Read My Mind, called Saturday Clothes.

[Borderstone]

Brandon,I know the song Saturday Clothes. In fact message poster DMD3 and I were discussing that very thing on another thread. Excellent and clever writing! Later!

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Borderstone - AZ's answer to GL! (but what was the question?)

My girlfriend's favorite now is, The Last Time I Saw Her Face. She says it starts off sounding like Sounds of Silence, and she always starts singing, Hello darkness my old friend. Does anybody else hear that?

I just picked up Shadows and I think it's really a fantastic album. I especially like All I'm After and In My Fashion. And Thank You For the Promises. Well, the whole album is great and I play the title track over and over again. When my girl and I drive, Shadows and Last Time I Saw... are pretty much the only songs we listen to. No matter how long the drive.

Borderstone, thanks for replying. You know there were so many songs included from Read My Mind on Songbook, I was just disappointed that Saturday Clothes wasn't one of them.

By the way, Affair on 8th Ave. is my new favorite because it just came on.

My girlfriend's favorite now is, The Last Time I Saw Her Face. She says it starts off sounding like Sounds of Silence, and she always starts singing, Hello darkness my old friend. Does anybody else hear that?

I just picked up Shadows and I think it's really a fantastic album. I especially like All I'm After and In My Fashion. And Thank You For the Promises. Well, the whole album is great and I play the title track over and over again. When my girl and I drive, Shadows and Last Time I Saw... are pretty much the only songs we listen to. No matter how long the drive.

Borderstone, thanks for replying. You know there were so many songs included from Read My Mind on Songbook, I was just disappointed that Saturday Clothes wasn't one of them.

By the way, Affair on 8th Ave. is my new favorite because it just came on.

[TheCromulentChipster]

Lazy Mornin' has become my new favorite! Took time to make town and stock a pint or two of the most delicious brew. Keepin' up with the Joneses, hope no one telephones us.

I just love the, well, lazy feel of the song. I just feel like kicking back with the most delicious brew and listening to Gord all day long. I probably need professional help.

[Big Blue]

Lazy Mornin' has become my new favorite! Took time to make town and stock a pint or two of the most delicious brew. Keepin' up with the Joneses, hope no one telephones us.

I just love the, well, lazy feel of the song. I just feel like kicking back with the most delicious brew and listening to Gord all day long. I probably need professional help.

You just might need pro. help if your really interested in what you said you were on you profile. Not Gordon Lightfoot but the other thing.

You just might need pro. help if your really interested in what you said you were on you profile. Not Gordon Lightfoot but the other thing.

I am surprised about not seeing Canadian Railroad trilogy. This would be my favorite.Very visual and emotionally provocative. Janet

I am surprised about not seeing Canadian Railroad trilogy. This would be my favorite.Very visual and emotionally provocative. Janet

I'm sure it's been mentioned. This topic has a lot of posts. You probably didn't go thru them all.
(I think I've seen it somewhere but it's been awhile.

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I'm sure it's been mentioned. This topic has a lot of posts. You probably didn't go thru them all.
(I think I've seen it somewhere but it's been awhile.

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[Starbuck]

I just referenced one of my favorites in an essay on economics, I posted to Dennis Kucinch. It reminded me to look up Gordon's site & that's how I got here, from where I am in France.

The math lesson in the first few lines of "Too Late For Prayin' " still applies. I am a Cannabis scholar working for proper revaluation.

I sing to my cats and my herb garden everyday, for joy and healng. Gordon is my favorite one to try and keep up with. Man! what pipes, brother! Obviously coming from a great heart, a real life, a masterful artist.

Thanks Gordon & fans for much love and healing energy, reflecting back to y'all from ev'rywhere all th'time.

PvH
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
with links to other sites of photographic beauty and possible interest

Get in touch if you're ever headed this way!

[projectpeace]

I just referenced one of my favorites in an essay on economics, I posted to Dennis Kucinch. It reminded me to look up Gordon's site & that's how I got here, from where I am in France.

The math lesson in the first few lines of "Too Late For Prayin' " still applies. I am a Cannabis scholar working for proper revaluation.

I sing to my cats and my herb garden everyday, for joy and healng. Gordon is my favorite one to try and keep up with. Man! what pipes, brother! Obviously coming from a great heart, a real life, a masterful artist.

Thanks Gordon & fans for much love and healing energy, reflecting back to y'all from ev'rywhere all th'time.

PvH
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
with links to other sites of photographic beauty and possible interest

Get in touch if you're ever headed this way!

[Starbuck]

Don Quixote is a song I've sung walkin' down the road feelin' blue between activist gigs. "See the children of the Earth who wait to find a table there."

When I got invited to France, I was asked to buy my favorite CDs to fill the house with MY music. Gord's Gold, Sundown were all they had in stock, so my collection is incomplete.

There's advantages to everything, I guess, and what it means is that I have leaned all the words really well, which makes singing out loud fun and envigorating. I recommend it as a healing therapy for people to free themselves from inhibitions and promote deeper breathing.

If people are intrested in other healing techniques, self-empowering philosophies, guided meditations, etc. they are welcome to write me for info.

Thought for the day:

"We are all perfect in our imperfections."

for peace, health, enlightenment

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Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing
Conscious Economics
http://
www.webspawner.com/
users/projectpeace/

http://
formalcomplaint.blogspot.c
om/

[projectpeace]

Don Quixote is a song I've sung walkin' down the road feelin' blue between activist gigs. "See the children of the Earth who wait to find a table there."

When I got invited to France, I was asked to buy my favorite CDs to fill the house with MY music. Gord's Gold, Sundown were all they had in stock, so my collection is incomplete.

There's advantages to everything, I guess, and what it means is that I have leaned all the words really well, which makes singing out loud fun and envigorating. I recommend it as a healing therapy for people to free themselves from inhibitions and promote deeper breathing.

If people are intrested in other healing techniques, self-empowering philosophies, guided meditations, etc. they are welcome to write me for info.

Thought for the day:

"We are all perfect in our imperfections."

for peace, health, enlightenment

------------------
Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing
Conscious Economics
http://
www.webspawner.com/
users/projectpeace/

http://
formalcomplaint.blogspot.c
om/

My favorite is Someone To Believe In. Had it been released 5 or 6 years earlier, it would've accurately described my life as a teenager going through love and breaking up and trying to find someone else.
My 2nd fav. is Boss Man. That's just about what my real boss is like. Listening to it keeps me from getting discouraged whenever he has been bi+ching about something. Of course, unlike in the song, I am well paid, but still not paid enough to be fussed at like I am.(My co-workers would agree with me).