I don’t often argue about stuff, but sometime I do.
Okay, I do that a lot, actually. That’s not the point.
One surprising argument I got into was over the Supertramp song “Goodbye Stranger.”
I liked the Breakfast In America album. I can still listen to it today. In fact, I might just do that. But, back when the album was out, I got into an argument with someone in the dorm at college about it. He said it promoted Satanism. I said it didn’t.
His argument was the lyrics “the Devil is my savior.” My argument was that the line went “You can … say the Devil is my savior, but I don’t pay no heed.” I won the argument, but he might never have realized it. Such is life at college.
Anyway, what’s on your mind? Got something to share? It’s Saturday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
“Goodbye Stranger”
Now, that song, I always just tune out. When the guy starts singing falsetto, it’s bad enough, but when he doubles down on it and goes higher in pitch, it makes me want to snap a pencil.
Also, being Oppo, I want to see Weird Al make a Vegas parody video using the line:
Goodbye Stranger
It’s been nice
Hope you find your
Pair of dice
“I don’t often argue about stuff, but sometime I do.
Okay, I do that a lot, actually.”
No you don’t.
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I’m sorry; have you paid for the whole five minutes?
I watched that routine today! Bacon to you!
When I was in high school I would occasionally drive a girl home and she noticed the Breakfast In America cassette in my car and said she used to listen to it when her parents played it “years before and could I play it now”. I gladly played it as it was in my regular rotation. I started thinking “oh yeah… this is leading somewhere!”
It didn’t.
Charles Gounod, French composer, was born exactly two-hundred years ago today, in Paris. You probably think that you haven’t heard any of his music, but, if you’re more than about fifty years old, you have, and here it is (the part that you’ll recognize starts at about the forty-five-second mark, so stick with it; it’s worth it):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pOXhAF7L0I
I had Breakfast In America on 8-Track and wore it out. It helped me through a rough period in my life. That and Ozzy’s first two solo albums.