[klaatumail] Re: Amusing story ...
- From: "Jens C. Lindblad" <jens.lindblad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: klaatumail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 11:28:08 +0200
The Universe works in mysterious ways...
Jens
> ... if to no one else but myself but I figure I would share it here anyway!
>
> LOL ;)
>
> When it comes to music my mother pretty much likes (for the most part) what I
> like and vice versa (I'd say about an 70-80% same taste/like ratio).
>
> Anywho, with Mothers Day on Sunday I figured I would burn a few things she
> likes ala a compilation. Then I realized a lot of songs she liked were long
> so I did a CD of full length versions of songs. The CD ended up looking like
> this:
>
> Papa Was A Rolling Stone - Temptations(lp version at 11:49)
> Living for the City - Stevie Wonder (lp version at 7:26)
> Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmarelda (14:19 version)
> American Pie - Don Mclean (8:36)
> 30,000 Pounds of Bannana's - Harry Chapin (LIVE @ 10.09)
> Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues (7:41)
> Freebird (yes my mom loves that song, funny seeing her rock to that song at
> 71 years of age) - 9:08
> Her Majesty (0:28)
>
> Now for those eagle eyes, yes Her Majesty is there as the joke. The thought
> to end the disc with that popped into my head, HOWEVER, about half my CD's
> were stolen last year (including my Abby Road CD) and I have not been able to
> replace my floyd, beatles and Al Stewarts fully yet (shoot, I have to goto
> ebay for Al) - but I digress. Then I remember, Holy crap, they did not get
> my ARTIFACTS CD's from the Beatles, so I went and used THAT version.
>
> The irony? It is the version with the missing last chord, so in effect, the
> longest version of a short song to end a CD full of huge tracks seemed funny
> to me. Hence my funny story/observation. Feel free to laugh, shake your
> head or just tell me to lay off the coffee.
>
> Alex
>
> PS
>
> Hey Ron B! Found my cassettes, and the moon martin tape you sent to me
> years ago, need to pop it in and see if time was kind to it!
>
>
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