@roadkilled I pretty much had Sweet Lorraine on loop my freshman year of college (2004). Great song.

@skyfire77

@pip-bip Music is not my thing but yellow Viper - Yesssssss

@skyfire77 we're getting old.

@ttyymmnn turns out it was historically almost never used.

I just thought a set of playground chimes that played from B to b seemed very odd indeed. I was trying to come up with a melody that would use them to some kind of hilarious end, like Happy Birthday in Locrian but it’s the wrong range (an octave above scale 5 or Sol)

@vondon302 I used to play drums in a band with a fellow that self described as an old hippie. He was a big Neil Young fan, and we covered "For What It's Worth" at his request. This was late '90s, and I haven't spoken to him in almost 20 years. I'd love to hear his thoughts on this.

@ramblinrover
One of the things he's known for is a picking style influenced by shamisen playing, and a lot of his pieces are riffs on or versions of traditional Japanese pieces.

Here's his album Rashomon:

@williamssw I will always associate this song with SimCopter:

@ttyymmnn I have always loved it myself- the improv nature of it comes from the jazz side, of course. It's sort of an odd mix of jazz and classical, so it's bound to offend lovers of either one, I suspect.
To me, it has a certain, busy, American city of the era feel to it, that really gets me. I was also a Chicago resident and United frequent flyer during the heyday of United's use of it, so that's definitely part of the charm to me. Though I bought a CD of it before I started traveling.

@ramblinrover Friday jams it is

@cb
I was listening to these as they slowly released them. I like both versions. The originals are kind of raw, grungy which does fit the album. It's nice to listen to the cleaned up versions though, just feels more modern.

@just-jeepin For the "not really a Christmas song" list, I'd like to add "my favorite things". The only connection I can find is the reference to brown paper packages, which, no.

But as has been mentioned, nobody listens to the lyrics.

EDIT: Looks like I should've kept reading, @Alfalfa beat me to the arguement.

@cb It's not my choice, it's Karen's. She wanted a white Chrysler LeBaron.

We had a woman at my work that was the embodiment of this song. She was awesome and I really liked working with her. She quit though as she couldn't put up with our bullshit any longer.

@pip-bip Dammit, these folks are going to jeopardize the return to Albert Park!

@skyfire77 man I’ve tried. I was deep into tool when I was in HS, maybe I’ve just outgrown it

@ramblinrover @Skyfire77

@cb that’s such a great song! Tragically Hip always gets an upvote

@cb g'nite mate

@taylor-martin That The Final Countdown one gave me CHILLS