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powersofanordinary · 01-05-2004, 07:05 PM

Hi, everybody. I've been following these posts for some time now, but haven't written anything. This seemed like a good time to reply. I am 17, and I think it was about three years ago that I became a fanatic. My father bought the Gord's Gold album and told my sister to come hear "Rainy Day People" and "Don Quixote". I had nothing better to be doing, and went with her. I think I was more impressed than my sister, who continues to mock me for liking music that is older than me. The thing I like about Gordon Lightfoot (and really the reason I like music older than me more than current stuff) is that I listen to music for lyrics more than anything else. How can you not love lines like "So over the mountains and over the plains/Into the muskeg and into the rain/Up the St. Lawrence all way to Gaspe/Swinging our hammers and drawing our pay" (The Canadian Railroad Trilogy) or "Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep" (Carefree Highway)? I may have just referenced less popular songs. If that's true, I'm gonna claim it was a stroke of ironic genius.
Backing out of this topic now, ALL HAIL MUSIC FROM BEFORE 1986!!!

01-05-2004, 07:05 PM	#12
powersofanordinary Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Broken Arrow, OK, USA Posts: 8	Hi, everybody. I've been following these posts for some time now, but haven't written anything. This seemed like a good time to reply. I am 17, and I think it was about three years ago that I became a fanatic. My father bought the Gord's Gold album and told my sister to come hear "Rainy Day People" and "Don Quixote". I had nothing better to be doing, and went with her. I think I was more impressed than my sister, who continues to mock me for liking music that is older than me. The thing I like about Gordon Lightfoot (and really the reason I like music older than me more than current stuff) is that I listen to music for lyrics more than anything else. How can you not love lines like "So over the mountains and over the plains/Into the muskeg and into the rain/Up the St. Lawrence all way to Gaspe/Swinging our hammers and drawing our pay" (The Canadian Railroad Trilogy) or "Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep" (Carefree Highway)? I may have just referenced less popular songs. If that's true, I'm gonna claim it was a stroke of ironic genius. Backing out of this topic now, ALL HAIL MUSIC FROM BEFORE 1986!!!