From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #21 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, January 17 2002 Volume 04 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] "Green" songs ["Brian Williamson" ] [RS] wedding songs [jim colbert ] [RS] wait a sec...wedding song correx [jim colbert ] Re: [RS] "Green" songs [Vanessa Christina Wills ] [RS] Re: wedding songs [Lee Wessman ] Re: [RS] "Green" songs [Elwestrand ] [RS] green songs [jim colbert ] [RS] green songs ["alan.teather" ] Re: [RS] "Green" songs [eric ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:26:47 -0500 From: "Brian Williamson" Subject: [RS] "Green" songs I have a question I would like to pose to the group. At a party last night a friend asked how many songs we could come up with that had a "Green" theme. Not the color green, but songs with environmental lyrics. Songs about treating the land and our environment well. We were pretty stumped for a long list. Someone mentioned "Calypso" by John Denver as it was written from an environmentally aware vantage point. Anybody got any ideas? brian. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:40:32 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] wedding songs sTo all list members, > I proposed to my girlfriend a couple of weeks ago and she said yes! > We are currently entangled in wedding preparations for May. I've started > thinking about the music we will have played during the ceremony and our > first dance. It occurred to me that I have access to lots of people with > great musical taste through this list. Therefore, I would like to use you > all and know your suggestions for wedding songs and creative ways to > incorporate music into our wedding. Thanks for you help, > > Bill > Bill, Bill, Bill... Congratulations! Um... hate to sound like I'm jumping on the bandwagon, but me too. I think two of you knew that. (And hence why you haven't heard back from me off list!) We're shooting for very end of April, and one of the things we talked about was burning a CD of some of our favorite love songs to put in the baskets Cynthia (who promises to tip no cows) is going to fix up for the tables...we're shooting for a cross between a barbecue, an open mic night and a carnival for the reception. Small and intimate. Let's just say "traditional" isn't going to be a word people are going to use to describe it. I was hoping for midget wrestlers, but have been flat out told "no." Two thoughts come to mind immediately: Ring on my hand by Darryl Purpose... a beautiful song I first heard rg sneak into a set full of death, destruction, floods and forest fires. The Joy of Living by Bobby Watt. from memory, this might be an Andy M. Stewart song, or maybe he or silly wizard performed it or something- seems to me there is some tie in thought it's lost somewhere in my head. (So, do they do the chicken dance at receptions were y'all live, or is that a PA thing?) jim colbert ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:41:45 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] wait a sec...wedding song correx Hey, wait a sec- I think the song by Bobby Watt I'm thinking of is Heart of Your Home...Heart of the Home... do ya think my boss would mind if I went home for an hour or so to verify that? he he he J ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:28:43 -0500 From: Vanessa Christina Wills Subject: Re: [RS] "Green" songs "Big Blue" by Gordon Lightfoot (song about whaling, sort of) Brian Williamson wrote: >I have a question I would like to pose to the group. At a party last night a >friend asked how many songs we could come up with that had a "Green" theme. >Not the color green, but songs with environmental lyrics. Songs about >treating the land and our environment well. We were pretty stumped for a long >list. Someone mentioned "Calypso" by John Denver as it was written from an >environmentally aware vantage point. Anybody got any ideas? > >brian. > - -- Niles: I used to think they [the back-row hooligans] were mean. Now, I know they were just acting out of frustration. Frasier: So, when Billy Kriedle tried to stuff you into your locker after math class, he wasn't mad at you. He was mad at Pythagoras!" Niles: Mmm. Which is ironic, because a simple volume equation would have shown him I couldn't fit. Frasier: Ah. -"Frasier" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:01:13 -0500 From: Vanessa Christina Wills Subject: Re: [RS] "Green" songs I mean "Ode to Big Blue" Vanessa Christina Wills wrote: > "Big Blue" by Gordon Lightfoot (song about whaling, sort of) > > Brian Williamson wrote: > >> I have a question I would like to pose to the group. At a party last >> night a >> friend asked how many songs we could come up with that had a "Green" >> theme. >> Not the color green, but songs with environmental lyrics. Songs about >> treating the land and our environment well. We were pretty stumped >> for a long >> list. Someone mentioned "Calypso" by John Denver as it was written >> from an >> environmentally aware vantage point. Anybody got any ideas? >> >> brian. >> > - -- Niles: I used to think they [the back-row hooligans] were mean. Now, I know they were just acting out of frustration. Frasier: So, when Billy Kriedle tried to stuff you into your locker after math class, he wasn't mad at you. He was mad at Pythagoras!" Niles: Mmm. Which is ironic, because a simple volume equation would have shown him I couldn't fit. Frasier: Ah. -"Frasier" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:16:02 -0800 From: Lee Wessman Subject: [RS] Re: wedding songs First, congratulations Bill Chmelir, and thank you for thinking of us. What a great question: the best songs for a wedding. One song I've always thought would be wonderful for a wedding is "True Companion" by Marc Cohn on his first record. (The record with "Walking in Memphis.") It is as romantic, hopeful, sweet and loving a song as I've ever heard -- and it has a great musical hook. - -lee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:24:18 -0500 From: Elwestrand Subject: Re: [RS] "Green" songs > I have a question I would like to pose to the group. At a party last > night a > friend asked how many songs we could come up with that had a "Green" > theme. Well the obvious on to everyone here should be, "Fall on Me!" There is a song called "The Last Leviathan" but I can't remember by who. Anyone? My favorite "green" song is The Dream Academy's, "Forest Fire." One of those perfect songs with extraordinary lyrics and beautiful music (of course every DA song has beautiful music)- it's about the destruction of the worlds rainforests: "the black cloud rising in the sky up into the atmosphere is bringing down a different kind of weather to the one we knew last year and though it's taking so long to do something about it they chip away at it bit by bit you won't believe anything that's grown up for so long could be cut down this quick and now that there's nothing left just a hole above our heads letting the sunshine in that's how the end begins with a forest fire" Hurts to listen to really. There must be a Sting song I am not thinking of either. There was also a compilation in the eighties that was all about the environment. All I remember about it was a scary duet between my teenage true love - Simon LeBon - and - Madonna! E Who might also throw in a vote for: "It's not easy being green." ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:50:07 -0500 From: jim colbert Subject: [RS] green songs depending how your definition of green songs... The Wounded Whale, by Archie Fisher (anyone else here like archie fisher? definately understated and low key, but some sheer moments of brilliance imho) Black waters, by Jean Ritchie (good version by jim ringer, btw.) You could sort of include Paradise by John Prine. Didn't malina "what have they done to the rain?" reynolds do a bunch of "green songs" in the 60's? Um, thinking back to art school and the no nukes soundtrack, Power by John Hall. Probably other stuff on there I can't recall. Hmm, what about the sun is burning by paul simon, I can't quite recall the lyrics though. Might be off track there. And what about Pete Seeger...with all his work to clean up the Hudson you'd think he'd lay claim to something, but I'm really not that familiar with his stuff beyond the obvious. jpc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:03:48 -0000 From: "alan.teather" Subject: [RS] green songs How about The last Blue Whale In The Ocean, Fly with the lightning tonight both by Tom Pacheco, or "Got to kill the monkey" by Walter Trout or just about anything by Midnight oil as they are an environmental orientated Group but especially "My Country" Alan Who do you know who would like some extra income for Christmas and beyond? Have them email me for details. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:24:59 -0800 From: eric Subject: Re: [RS] "Green" songs Greg Brown's "Poet Game" and "Two Little Feet" come to mind, though the first only has a few lines on the theme: "i watched my country turn into a coast-to-coast strip mall/ and i cried out with a song/ if we can do all that in thirty years please oh, tell me why/ why does good change take so long?" the latter is an ode to Alaska and it's largely unspoiled environment. - - eric >I have a question I would like to pose to the group. At a party last night a >friend asked how many songs we could come up with that had a "Green" theme. >Not the color green, but songs with environmental lyrics. Songs about >treating the land and our environment well. We were pretty stumped for a long >list. Someone mentioned "Calypso" by John Denver as it was written from an >environmentally aware vantage point. Anybody got any ideas? > >brian. ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #21 **********************************