30 Day Music Challenge...

[shadowkat]

Which various people are doing...I've been following beergoodfoamy's but snagged it from wendahl, because she listed all the questions.

Day 1: A song you like with a color in the title - (emphasis on like, there's a lot I don't or can't remember).

My favorite would be...

Watch on YouTube

Although a close second is "Goodbye Yellowbrick Road".

There's a reason I never really do these things, or just do them all at once. I'm absent-minded. I'm liable to forget or skip a day.

Comments

[cjlasky7]

Welcome to the show!

My selection: "Big Yellow Taxi"

Let's start off with Joni:

https://youtu.be/94bdMSCdw20

[shadowkat]

Oh that's the "Gay Paradise but they Put up a Parking Lot" song - that's how I know it - and I call it the Parking Lot song in my head. I think it's because Big Yellow Taxi doesn't feature heavily in the song lyrics, so I can't remember it. Same problem with Take Five - I know the song, just not the title. The Big Yellow Taxi doesn't come into play until the second or third verse. And it's not repeated. In fact in many renditions, that line isn't even sung..."Big Yellow Taxie" took away my old man" is barely heard.

What I remember from the song is "Oh, you don't know what you have until it's gone, they had a gay paradise and put up a parking lot.." that's it.

By the way I'm seeing a pattern emerging with your choices here - are you deliberately picking songs that the title doesn't feature at all in the lyrics and as a result isn't memorable and innocuous? Because if so, clever. Those would be hard to come up with.

The color song that she did that I remember is Blue - which I've mixed feelings about. (The color does feature heavily in the song.)

I used to own all her albums on tape. Also, had many on CD. Now, I listen on my phone.
(CD player, record player, and cassette players are long gone, along with most of the collection.)