March 2, 200619 yr ^ Ink, you have some great one-liners lately! Thanks for the information about Ben Folds...I'll have to look into that.
March 3, 200619 yr Three Four! Three Four! Three Four! Three Four! All this energy callin' me, Back where it comes from, Its such a crude attitude, Its back where it belongs. All the little kids growin' up on the skids are goin', Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Jumpin' Jane Jean is moonin' James Dean he's goin' Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks. Momma knows but she dont care, She's got her worries too, Seven kids and a phony affair, And the rent is due. All the little chicks with the crimson lips go Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks She 's livin' in sin with a safety pin goin' Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks. I got some records from World War Two, I Play 'em just like me grandad do, He was a rocker and I am too , Oh, Cleveland Rocks, yeah Cleveland Rocks. Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks. Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks. Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks. Cleveland Rocks, Cleveland Rocks, CLEVELAND ROCKS! OHIO! Can anyone explain this? I mean, I've always thought those lyrics were astonishingly surreal for such a straight-ahead rock tune. I actually really dig the song, but what the f*** do safety pins have to do with a goddamn thing?
March 3, 200619 yr ^ You don't recall the punk rockers going around with safety pins in all their clothing (and piercings as well)?
March 3, 200619 yr No, actually I remember the 5th grade girls doing that. And I probably wouldn't have described them as "living in sin with a safety pin." And is that really what they're trying to evoke, this temporary odd fashion element from one branch of music? Like, "livin' in the Keys, with patches on my knees, goin' Six Toes Rock, Six Toes Rock," trying to evoke Hemmingway...
March 3, 200619 yr One of my favorite pop songs from last summer: Ohio (Come back to Texas) even though it tries to rhyme Cleveland and Leland... by Bowling for Soup
March 3, 200619 yr I'm not a country fan nor am I a Carrie Underwood fan. But I was watching American Idol the other night and she sang her newest single called: "Jesus, Take the Wheel" "Jesus Take The Wheel" She was driving last Friday on her way to Cincinnati On a snow white Christmas Eve Going home to see her Mama and her Daddy with the baby in the backseat Fifty miles to go and she was running low on faith and gasoline It's been a long hard year She had a lot on her mind and she didn't pay attention She was going way to fast Before she knew it she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass She saw both their lives flash before her eyes She didn't even have time to cry She was sooo scared She threw her hands up in the air Jesus take the wheel Take it from my hands Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Jesus take the wheel It was still getting colder when she made it to the shoulder And the car came to a stop She cried when she saw that baby in the backseat sleeping like a rock And for the first time in a long time She bowed her head to pray She said I'm sorry for the way I've been living my life I know I've got to change So from now on tonight Jesus take the wheel Take it from my hands Cause I can't do this on my own I'm letting go So give me one more chance To save me from this road I'm on Oh, Jesus take the wheel Oh, I'm letting go So give me one more chance Save me from this road I'm on From this road I'm on Jesus take the wheel Oh, take it, take it from me Oh, why, oh
March 3, 200619 yr Here's another country song with an Ohio ref, by Tom T Hall: The Rolling Mills of Middletown The rolling mills of Middletown roll on roll on roll on I knew him well old friend of mine from down kentucky way We had some high good times my friend back in our younger days I knew he shouldn't marry any woman quite that wild Then later on I learned that she had been expectin' a child He got his job at making steel and bought himself a home Where the rolling mills of middletown roll on roll on roll on Well there's money in those steel mills boys and he made quite a bit He worked all night she shopped all day bought everything that fit A helper on the bof three thousand degrees at a round His wife was just about that hot in the bars in old middletown Of course he was the last to know oh but listen to my song While the rolling mills of Middletown roll on roll on roll on [ guitar ] One night the foreman on his turn said cool down no 2 And he told my friend to go on home as soon as he was through He stopped into a little bar to have a good cold beer His woman and some dayturn guy were dancing closely there Oh I knew him well and in his mind there must have been a storm While the rolling mills of Middletown roll on roll on roll on They say he never spoke a word he just turned and walked away And no one knows exactly what took place that fateful day Some say they saw him near the tracks at furnace no 1 With heat so hot the hubs of hell would seem just barely warm Well they never saw my friend again did he do something wrong While the rolling mills of Middletown Ohio roll on roll on roll on
March 4, 200619 yr Willie Nelson....(Pancho and Lefty) Livin on the road my friend, is gonna keep you free and clean Now you wear your skin like iron Your breath as hard as kerosene You weren't your momma's only boy, but her favorite one it seems She began to cry when you said goodbye And sank into your dreams Pancho was a bandit boy, his horse was fast as polished steel He wore his gun outside his pants For all the honest world to feel Pancho met his match you know on the deserts down in Mexico Nobody heard his dyin words, ah but that's the way it goes All the Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him slip away, out of kindness I suppose Lefty he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to The dust that Pancho bit down south ended up in Lefty's mouth The day they laid poor Pancho low, Lefty split for (Ohio) Where he got the bread to go, there ain't nobody knows All the Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him slip away out of kindness I suppose The boys tell how old Pancho fell, and Lefty's livin in cheap hotels The desert's quiet, (Cleveland's)cold And so the story ends we're told Pancho needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Lefty too He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old All the Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose A few gray Federales say, they could've had him any day They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose
March 4, 200619 yr No, actually I remember the 5th grade girls doing that. And I probably wouldn't have described them as "living in sin with a safety pin." And is that really what they're trying to evoke, this temporary odd fashion element from one branch of music? Like, "livin' in the Keys, with patches on my knees, goin' Six Toes Rock, Six Toes Rock," trying to evoke Hemmingway... whats surreal or hemingway-esque about it? its a straight ahead description of 1979 when it was written (safety pins were the modern pop fashion of its era). this is no different than like ugg boots and ipods are today ---- and those are or will prob be referenced in a song today i would imagine. if anything, at the time negative reviewers felt the 'cleveland rocks' song was mere pandering for sales by a fading old rocker. a jump the shark move.
March 8, 200619 yr Road Outside Columbus - O.A.R. There's a road outside Columbus, Ohio. Feels like I drove along for years. this Midwest way of ease it surrounds us. I can't deny the rhythm here. And as I pull away from Riverside beside me, That High Street never looked so good. I miss my lady even though she often writes me. She tells me takes of my neighborhood. Surprise, Surprise, I traveled here. Four hundred miles from where I'm known. My friends are here. A couple years I've spent, I found I have a second home. As I'm blazing down my trail to education, There's no bliss in ignorance for me. I stop and stare, a breath of air might slow me down some. But that's just fine with me. Surprise, Surprise, I traveled here. Four hundred miles from where I'm known. My friends are here. A couple years I've spent, I found I have a second home. I never traveled far. Two hundred miles to go. That boulevard will take me home. Surprise, Surprise, I traveled here. Four hundred miles from where I'm known. My friends are here. A couple years I've spent, I found I have a second home. Surprise, Surprise, I traveled here. Four hundred miles from where I'm known. My friends are here. A couple years I've spent, I found I have a second home.
March 12, 200619 yr ^That song reads like a parody of "The House of the Rising Sun" (most notably done by Eric Burden & the Animals)
March 14, 200619 yr I was going to mention Bowling for Soup and OAR but others beat me to it. I love OAR's song, I just wish it went national. The only thing that made it big by them was "Hey Girl". "Jack and Diane" by Bruce Springstine, I think it is him that sings it. Anyway, it's to my understanding that the song was written about a couple from Ohio. I was listening to the radio a couple of years ago when he was a guest on WNCI's Morning Zoo and someone called in saying that they were the child of the couple he wrote about and he confirmed it. Thought that was cool.
March 15, 200619 yr ^ I'm pretty sure Jack & Diane was by John Melencamp. Unless Bruce Springsteen had another song entitled Jack & Diane.
March 15, 200619 yr thanks, like I said, I wasn't sure. But you are right, John Melencamp is who sings it. They are the same in my book.
March 15, 200619 yr Did we actually forget Four Dead in Ohio? Great song, too bad about the subject, however.
April 30, 200718 yr one of my favourite tunes by one of the great American songwriters of the past half-century... Randy Newman... certainly not a pleasant song... it can be rather offensive... so moderate away if necessary... Randy Newman - "Rednecks" Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show With some smart-ass New York Jew And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too Well, he may be a fool but he's our fool If they think they're better than him they're wrong So I went to the park and I took some paper along And that's where I made this song We talk real funny down here We drink too much and we laugh too loud We're too dumb to make it in no Northern town And we're keepin' the niggers down We got no-necked oilmen from Texas And good ol' boys from Tennessee And colleges men from LSU Went in dumb - come out dumb too Hustlin' 'round Atlanta in their alligator shoes Gettin' drunk every weekend at the barbecues And they're keepin' the niggers down CHORUS We're rednecks, rednecks And we don't know our ass from a hole in the ground We're rednecks, we're rednecks And we're keeping the niggers down Now your northern nigger's a Negro You see he's got his dignity Down here we're too ignorant to realize That the North has set the nigger free Yes he's free to be put in a cage In Harlem in New York City And he's free to be put in a cage in the South-Side of Chicago And the West-Side And he's free to be put in a cage in Hough in Cleveland And he's free to be put in a cage in East St. Louis And he's free to be put in a cage in Fillmore in San Francisco And he's free to be put in a cage in Roxbury in Boston They're gatherin' 'em up from miles around Keepin' the niggers down CHORUS
April 30, 200718 yr from the latest Blue Nile record... lovely, delicate tune The Blue Nile - "Because of Toledo" Because of Toledo I got sober and stayed clean The pick ups in the wild prairies The shadows dancing in between Girl leans on the jukebox In a pair of old blue jeans Says I live here but I don't really live anywhere Because of Toledo Tuesday it's raining And I'm pulling on my shoes I guess I quit believing in The early morning news There's a boy orders coffee And he settles down to think How the women that you love sometimes Are the water that you drink Then another faded waitress dressed in pink Cries for Toledo The lipstick and the cocaine traces One face in a thousand faces I stumble through so many places 'Cause of Toledo Yeah Yeah yeah (oh)Yeah Yeah yeah Because of Toledo The highway looks so thin I see another motel sign Think of pulling in Write your name upon the mirror there The only secret that I know But I guess that I'd be only chasing rainbows Back to Toledo I think I'll go
May 2, 200718 yr Wow, didn't know Randy Newman had a song like that. Tool has a song called "Eleven" with a line that goes "Under a dead Ohio sky". Maynard, the singer, is from Ravenna.
July 1, 200717 yr You might have heard T.I's new single out right now where he calls out Cincinnati in his lyrics. I'm guessing it's in response to the shooting incident that followed a performance in Cincinnati after he 'made it rain' (tossing money in the air at a club or somewhere like that) at his performance and some locals took offense to it. Do it like a ball playa, when you see me ballin Stacks tall-ass ball playa from the stage to the air Whether in Miami, Cincinnati or in Riverdale Arizona, California, make it rain anywhere Pullin out that pistol nigga who you think u finna scare? 20 rounds of missles have you pissin in your underwear I tote a pound, 40 cal, so you better tone it down I suggest you adjust the bass, except for when it going down A-town, west side club, you should catch me, Right up at the top where Big Kuntry, Dro & Mac be Jackers lying say they caught me slipping how could that be I'm something like a stalker I be everywhere the strap be The trap be, jumping with that 100 dollar slab If I wanted nigga I could get 100 on the tab Sell em all double down Nigga do the math Think I won't pull up in something With 200 on the dash
November 17, 201014 yr I'd be surprised if this isn't a duplicate thread, but here goes... Songs play a role in forming perceptions. Each state has a song. Some cities have songs written about them. Based on the following two songs, which state would you choose: California or Ohio? California: Ohio: Ohio-Over the Rhine
November 17, 201014 yr Dayton's own, the Ohio Players "O-H-I-O." "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 17, 201014 yr Here, I think this should finish out the thread ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFN9C9PVpg
November 17, 201014 yr REM's "Cuyahoga" R.E.M. - Cuyahoga Randy Newman's "Burn On" - again about the Cuyahoga River and used as the intro to "Major League" Randy Newman - Burn On (Berlin 1994) Springstein's "Youngstown" - sorry for the poor video quality, but I had to post this edition since I WAS THERE! Matter of fact, I believe I was standing under that tree you can see on the far right of this still-frame The Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" - about Akron The Pretenders - My City Was Gone Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony's "Cleveland is the City" Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony's "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" Bone thugs-n-harmony - Thuggish Ruggish Bone Jewel's "Cleveland" Jewel - Cleveland Scott Weiland's (formerly of Stone Temple Pilots) "Missing Cleveland" Of course, we all know the "Heart of Rock'n'Roll is still Cleveland" ;) Yes... there is a notable ommission and that was DEFINITELY INTENTIONAL
November 17, 201014 yr I couldn't find the Randy Newman original, but this is Harry Nilsson's cover of "Dayton, Ohio - 1903"
November 17, 201014 yr This one blew me away...thought I knew all of the Cincinnati songs out there...and uh, the song is actually 3 minutes of club pop candy! I love it. Tila Tequila - Cincinnati
November 17, 201014 yr This is my favorite. Babes in Toyland was basically a love poem to Cincinnati. Favorite quote: "What are these Cincinnati's anyway? Are they Italian cookies?" Babes in Toyland - The Cincinnati Song
November 18, 201014 yr 216 - Hey Hey I just had to put this one Parma State Of Mind - Official Music Video
November 18, 201014 yr "Ohio" (from Wonderful Town) -- Julia Murney & Andrea Burns http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
November 22, 201014 yr Saturday Night in Toledo, Ohio - John Denver John Denver on The John Denver Show, BBC (1973) - Saturday Night In Toledo, Ohio
November 22, 201014 yr Speaking of John Denver, here's a great song that happens to be about West Virginia:
January 25, 201213 yr "Ohio All-Stars" by Hi-Tek ft. Cross, Showtime, Mann & Chipp The Rippa: "Nati Streets" by Hi-Tek ft. Talib Kweli, Slim Thug, Snoop Dogg:
January 25, 201213 yr The video looks like the Backstreet Boys trying to imitate street cred, and he's not as good as Bone Thugs, but it's not a bad track at all and he's got a chance to break loose nationally. Just stay off the tables at the mall, Mr. Baker. :)
January 25, 201213 yr Carlos Jones is a reggae artist who plays live a lot around here. This song, "Apartment Living", is an ode to his younger days when he lived on Coventry Lady Gaga's 'You and I' Cleveland radio edit (the only one I am aware of she made for Ohio)
February 15, 201213 yr never let it be said that Chillicothe (along with numerous other Ohio references) was not mentioned in the score of a major Hollywood musical (4:06)-- Judy Garland-The Harvey Girls http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
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