It was my month to pick a theme, and after a few ideas, I ended up with “automobiles”. Granted, that could really be about anything car-related. And it might be because I have a new vehicle on my mind.
And this one is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy obvious. Probably too easy. But so it goes.
Fear Factory’s 1998 cover of Gary Numan’s 1979 “Cars”, which even has Gary Numan singing with the band:
Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It’s the only way to live
In cars
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days
In cars
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please
If I open my door
In cars
Here in my car
I know I’ve started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars
It was my month to pick a theme, and after a few ideas, I ended up with “automobiles”. Granted, that could really be about anything car-related. And it might be because I have a new vehicle on my mind.
If you’ve seen the movie Robots, they use this in it. And it always made my laugh. I wish I could find the video clip from the movie, but we’ll just have to go with this one.
It was my month to pick a theme, and after a few ideas, I ended up with “automobiles”. Granted, that could really be about anything car-related. And it might be because I have a new vehicle on my mind.
And I’m going with a classic. Very classic. Sooooo classic. 1942 classic. And about a Jeep too!
Here is “Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep” by Spike Jones & His City Slickers:
It’s April. As it was Blobby‘s turn to pick the theme, he chose… thoroughfares: Streets, Lanes, Roads, Freeways, Trails. Paths. But no Stairways!
A little secret: There’s one song on the planet that I can hear and want to join in almost every time I hear it. Well, depending on the arrangement. There’s been some real doozies. And if you don’t all hit that first note together in harmony, well, you can just forget it. There’s no recovering.
But back to what I was talking about. And I’ll probably have this song in my head for the next few days after posting this. I don’t know what it is about this song, but it just appeals to me in a way few other songs have. And the fact that I want to sing along every time just adds to that.
I give you one of the most recent arrangements of this song.
Minnesota’s Home Free doing their 2015 a cappella version of “Seven Bridges Road”:
And I really hate that entire “This video contains content from . It is restricted from playing on certain sites. Watch on YouTube.” message that almost EVERY FRAKIN’ VIDEO has these days. Argh!
But seriously. How can you not like that?
I blame my a cappella roots growing up in the Church of Christ. And going to a private Church of Christ school. And being in the chorus. And then going to a Church of Christ university. And again with no instruments in worship. I never really did understand the difference between using physical musical instruments versus using your mouth to reproduce them. But that’s just one of many things I never understood about the church in which I was indoctrinated.
(And if you want something completely different, check out Home Free’s cover of Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass”: https://youtu.be/BuyGVhQFLbs.)
And now for a history lesson!
“Seven Bridges Road” was originally written and sung by Steve Young in 1969. Something about the original feels very “Gordon Lightfoot” to me for some reason, I’m not sure what though:
In 1973, the song was rearranged by Ian Matthews, and will sound very familiar to a certain version that most people know:
The Eagles were using it as a warm up song, and did it live in 1980, which is what most people know:
Dolly did a great even more bluegrass cover in 2001:
(And check out Home Free’s cover of Dolly’s “9 to 5”: https://youtu.be/9xxv_Fizvsw. Seriously, you’d think I’m promoting them or something…)
And I’m a sucker for a barbershop quartet. Here’s Forefront’s version:
And for any of you Supernatural fans, here’s Jensen Ackles and a few other cast members singing it at VegasCon:
And now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to make harmonies with myself.
It’s April. This month got here speedily. As it was Blobby‘s turn to pick the theme, he chose… thoroughfares: Streets, Lanes, Roads, Freeways, Trails. Paths. But no Stairways!
Today’s selection is probably too easy of one, and it was the first one that my mind when Blobby picked the theme. So I rejected it for that reason. But the song played on the radio at the studio tonight, so I took that as a sign that maybe I should use it. I’m really bad at interpreting signs.
I bought this CD shortly after it was released. I’m not exactly sure why I did, but I did. There’s a lot of good stuff on the album, but the song that got the most (if not only) radio play where I was was this one.
I think the song is catchy, and it has been covered by different artists in different genres. And one even made it to the Cars movie soundtrack.
From his 1991 album Mad Mad World, I give you Tom Cochrane’s “Life Is A Highway”.
Life’s like a road that you travel on
When there’s one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
There’s a world outside every darkened door
Where blues won’t haunt you anymore
Where the brave are free and lovers soar
Come ride with me to the distant shore
We won’t hesitate break down the garden gate
There’s not much time left today
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I want to drive it all night long
Through all these cities and all these towns
It’s in my blood and it’s all around
I love you now like I loved you then
This is the road and these are the hands
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights
The Khyber pass to Vancouver’s lights
Knock me down get back up again
You’re in my blood I’m not a lonely man
There’s no load I can’t hold
Road so rough this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ’em we’re survivors
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I want to drive it all night long
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I want to drive it all night long
There was a distance between you and I
A misunderstanding once but now
We look it in the eye
There ain’t no load I can’t hold
Road so rough this I know
I’ll be there when the light comes in
Just tell ’em we’re survivors
Life is a highway
I want to ride it all night long
If you’re going my way
I want to drive it all night long
