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Posted on Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 11:46:08 PM EST
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Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead. One more time song:

What's your favorite song about time? This is an open thread, all topics welcome. [videos were deleted by you tube]

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    Set your clocks back? (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by Radiowalla on Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 11:59:50 PM EST
    That would be interesting.  Or are you celebrating an early April Fool's Day?

    just checking (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 12:05:56 AM EST
    to see if anyone's paying attention (not really, I messed it up, it's fixed now.)

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    Favorite song about time: (5.00 / 1) (#4)
    by Radiowalla on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 12:01:51 AM EST
    "If you've got the money, honey, I've got the time."

    Does anybody really know (5.00 / 0) (#15)
    by weltec2 on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 05:10:50 AM EST
    what time it is?

    Chicago

    Favorite Time Songs (5.00 / 1) (#18)
    by john horse on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 08:17:16 AM EST
    Summertime
    The Circle Game
    September Song
    Time In a Bottle

    Louis Armstrong (none / 0) (#1)
    by andgarden on Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 11:55:37 PM EST
    "We Have All the Time in the World"/

    Die Winterreise (none / 0) (#2)
    by squeaky on Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 11:59:21 PM EST
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

    Can't do better than that. (none / 0) (#7)
    by oculus on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 12:52:55 AM EST
    Quite exquisite.

    Note:  Fischer-Dieskau was in the cast of the Otello recording played on KUSC FM this morning.  

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    Favorite song about time? (none / 0) (#6)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 12:30:36 AM EST
    Easy.  

    Time

    Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
    You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
    Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
    Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.

    Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
    You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
    And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
    No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.

    So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
    Racing around to come up behind you again.
    The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
    Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

    Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
    Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
    Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
    The time is gone, the song is over,
    Thought I'd something more to say.



    A great song, MileHi (none / 0) (#13)
    by cymro on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 03:21:29 AM EST
    That would be my second choice (see my post below).

    Thanks to the amazing synchonicity of Dark Side of the Rainbow, I can no longer listen to that song (or even read the lyrics) without picturing in my mind Dorothy running (cycling) away from home and meeting Professor Marvel.

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    That should have read ... (none / 0) (#14)
    by cymro on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 05:00:49 AM EST
    "... the wicked witch arriving (cycling) and Dorothy running away ..."

    If you doubt this phenomenon, watch the movie and the music synchonized. So many precisely matching song/scene transitions and lyric/action coincidences cannot possibly be accidental, IMO. Whatever the band members may claim, someone produced DSOM as a soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz.

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    Thanks cymro. (none / 0) (#19)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 12:52:07 PM EST
    Even after 36 years, Gilmour's guitar solo in the middle of Time still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand-up.  I've always related quite closely with the lyrics as well.  

    DSOTM was unfortunately the beginning of the end of Pink Floyd per Waters.

    As far as the whole DSOTR thing, its no more strange than Syd showing up in the studio unannounced and unrecognized as they were recording their tribute to him, Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

    Richard Wright spoke about the session, saying: "One thing that really stands out in my mind, that I'll never forget; I was going in to the "Shine On" sessions. I went in the studio and I saw this guy sitting at the back of the studio, he was only as far away as you are from me. And I didn't recognise him. I said, 'Who's that guy behind you?' 'That's Syd.' And I just cracked up, I couldn't believe it... he had shaven all his hair off... I mean, his eyebrows, everything... he was jumping up and down brushing his teeth, it was awful. And, uh, I was in, I mean Roger was in tears, I think I was; we were both in tears. It was very shocking... seven years of no contact and then to walk in while we're actually doing that particular track. I don't know - coincidence, karma, fate, who knows? But it was very, very, very powerful"

    DSOTR--coincidence, karma, fate?  That's up to each of us to decide.  It could well be that a young Roger Waters saw something while watching the Wizard of Oz that stuck with him subconsciencely.  It sure scared the crap out of me as a kid.

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    "Time after Time" (none / 0) (#8)
    by oculus on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 02:03:52 AM EST
    Placido Domingo:  Time after Time

    P.S.  Yeah.  I did it.  Watch out Talk Left!!!

    Get on your feet! (none / 0) (#9)
    by Steve M on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 02:16:41 AM EST
    Edwin Starr

    great choice! (none / 0) (#10)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 02:44:46 AM EST
    If it wasn't 1 am  (or 2 am, depending on when I count my clock as turning ahead) I would be on my feet. Thanks!

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    Nice. Wiki says Starr was a soul singer. (none / 0) (#11)
    by oculus on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 03:03:20 AM EST
    Query:  does "Time" fit that label?  Nice sax solo.

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    Time Waits For No One (none / 0) (#12)
    by cymro on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 03:05:18 AM EST
    A classic Stones track from their 1974 album It's Only Rock 'n Roll. Rarely played live, probably because Ronnie Wood just can't play lead like Mick Taylor did.

    The full track plays on this YouTube montage of static shots only. Play this first!

    Another YouTube montage has much more interesting video, but stupidly fades out the last 2 minutes of the song, which ruins it musically for me.

    Time (none / 0) (#16)
    by Mikeb302000 on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 07:34:55 AM EST
    David Bowie from Aladdin Sane

    Too many to choose! (none / 0) (#17)
    by jbindc on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 07:50:36 AM EST
    In the Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett


    "As Time Goes By"     (from Casablanca)


    "Rock Around the Clock"     by Bill Haley & the Comets

    "Time to Say Goodbye" by Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman

    "If You Got the Money, Honey, I've Got the Time"

    "Turn, Turn, Turn" by the Byrds


    "It's 5:00 Somewhere"     by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett

    so many (none / 0) (#20)
    by lovely on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 04:40:41 PM EST
    Time Pink Floyd


    Red Worms Worm Bin

    Steve Miller Band (none / 0) (#21)
    by awaxler on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 05:36:05 PM EST
    time keeps on slippin' slippin' slippin' into the future...

    --Adam
    Lakewood Ranch Real Estate

    oops...what was I thinking (none / 0) (#22)
    by awaxler on Sun Mar 08, 2009 at 05:38:15 PM EST
    ok...Steve Miller is not my favorite...Alan Jackson & Jimmy Buffet definitely..."It's 5:00 Somewhere"

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