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Date Posted: 13:46:18 04/03/00 Mon
Author: bcpcfan
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 208.130.25.251
Subject: Nashville Sneakers
Getting back to what we do best. I've wondered about the lyrics of Nashville Sneakers - my first impression was a slam against country music, but I'm basically dumb about getting most hidden meanings, so I wouldn't doubt I'm off the mark.
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Wasswerwolf, 14:06:07 04/03/00 Mon [1] (pensacola219.dwave.org/208.198.3.219)
> Getting back to what we do best. I've wondered about
> the lyrics of Nashville Sneakers - my first impression
> was a slam against country music, but I'm basically
> dumb about getting most hidden meanings, so I wouldn't
> doubt I'm off the mark.
Speaking of hidden meanings check out eeggs.com
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Roast Beef, 14:45:39 04/03/00 Mon [1] (cma.cma-oh.org/198.30.149.2)
Personally I don't usually dig too deep into hidden meanings. I find myself most interested in HOW the words are sung as opposed to what those actual words are. I just love melody. Everyone has got "something to say" but how many people can sing those lyrics in a meaningful, melodic, passionate, and interesting manner? Not many. I know that I like the way Burton sang "One by one those sneakers they will fade dear, left out in the sun to dry...". Just listen to "I Will Play A Rhapsody" with it's memorable phrasing and intonation. Right up there with Frank and Ella. Pure pop beauty. I used to be ashamed of not paying very close attention to what the writer was saying. I still blush a bit at admitting this fact, but just in the same way one person enjoys Dickens and another likes Agatha Christie, subjective reaction to what we like and don't like should never be the basis for personal assumptions of character and intelligence. HAGD
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Tales, 16:06:42 04/03/00 Mon [1] (mail.spartan.ab.ca/139.142.1.42)
One school of thought I found particularly was that of Brian Eno, who said that for some of his songs, he used his voice as an instrument and just picked words that 'fit' the music, be it the syllables, vowels, inflections... much like one would use different tones or picking techniques with a guitar. So some of his lyrics are quite nonsensical as a result. Michael Stipe made a similar comment about some of the earlier REM albums, in which the vocal was buried in the mix. He said this was deliberate; that the voice was just another instrument and the lyrics weren't as important as the music.
On the other hands, sometimes the complete opposite is true and the lyrics are everything. The same can be said for musical styles. I wrote some lyrics once and once I had them down, I realized it HAD to be a country song or it wouldn't work. And this, at a time in my life when I loathed country music. Go figure!
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Roast Beef, 16:28:29 04/03/00 Mon [1] (cma.cma-oh.org/198.30.149.2)
It's been said that Sarah Vaughan used her voice as another instrument in the band. What a range that woman had.
I also disliked country music until my wife started listening to the Top 40 country countdown on Sunday mornings a few years back. Now I find myself on the radio with an alt.country show and I love the stuff. Even though this insurgent country is out of the mainstream it still has it's roots in country music.
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Mark Mars, 15:57:16 04/03/00 Mon [1] (gateway3.srp.gov/148.126.100.111)
Don't know the answer, but I don't think Burton dislikes country music seeing as several songs (Guess Who/solo) are country. He may have been slamming the Nashville music industry, not the artists. Or there is no significance at all.
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Roast Beef, 16:30:49 04/03/00 Mon [1] (cma.cma-oh.org/198.30.149.2)
I've always felt Flavours was strongly influenced by country music. Hell, "Seems Like..." actually made it onto the country charts!
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- ltning7, 16:56:35 04/03/00 Mon [1] (1cust45.tnt45.chi5.da.uu.net/63.17.64.45)
> I've always felt Flavours was strongly influenced by
> country music. Hell, "Seems Like..." actually made it
> onto the country charts!
I've always been a country music hater, but I did a stint at a country music radio station in the mid-70's. My now-husband was the evening jock at the time, and he loved the fact that he could actually play a song ("Seems Like...") on his show that I loved. "Timeless Love" is another great song with country flavor.
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- What DOES it all mean? -- Heidi, 18:50:27 04/03/00 Mon [1] (pacfa.evepier.navy.mil/192.245.204.138)
I'm with the previous poster -- some lyrics are just picked because they sound good, and (unfortunately for us lyric-hunter/interpretors)are actually meaningless. Or drug-induced. Why else, "Phoebe said to Don the Baker, can you show me how to bake another bun, Don? And I"m still sittin' with my next door neighbor sayin......."
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- What DOES it all mean? -- Shillelagh, 19:21:51 04/03/00 Mon [1] (raider.arc.ab.ca/128.144.50.106)
Maybe JOHN was Phoebe's husband/boyfriend/spouse/lifepartner?
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- What DOES it all mean? -- Heidi, 23:04:49 04/03/00 Mon [1] (pacfa.evepier.navy.mil/192.245.204.138)
Oooooo.....so was the Guess Who version of 'the night thelights went out in Georgia' REALLY lurking in those lyrics????
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- AW, 16:31:08 04/03/00 Mon [1] (proxy-336.public.rwc.webtv.net/209.240.200.36)
Nashville Sneakers was supposed to be a humorous piece about Brain Christian sneakers. Not about Nashville. Anyway, I might have the person wrong, but it was in JE's book
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Mark Mars, 16:43:30 04/03/00 Mon [1] (gateway3.srp.gov/148.126.100.111)
Boy, I guess we were sniffing down the wrong trail.
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- bcpcfan, 16:50:07 04/03/00 Mon [1] (NoHost/208.130.25.45)
> Boy, I guess we were sniffing down the wrong trail.
See, I told you, I'm completely dumb about these things. I take things too much at face value. Thanks for the info, Deb.
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Re: Nashville Sneakers -- Chevrier, 00:05:25 04/04/00 Tue [1] (proxy1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com/24.64.2.33)
> Getting back to what we do best. I've wondered about
> the lyrics of Nashville Sneakers - my first impression
> was a slam against country music, but I'm basically
> dumb about getting most hidden meanings, so I wouldn't
> doubt I'm off the mark.
I think if BC was going to slam country, he'd do it using the country genre. Instead, we get a feel good jazz number with fun lyrics. Not all songs are meant to be analyzed, and even the world's most reknown poets often would write things just for fun.
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