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Journey - 50 Personal Favorites (Part 3 of 3)

Journey's Top 10 Personal Favorites :

10 I'll Be Alright Without You (Raised On Radio)
09 After The Fall (Frontiers)
08 Stone In Love (Escape)
07 Faithfully (Frontiers)
06 Only The Young (Vision Quest Soundtrack)/(Time³)
05 Open Arms (Escape)
04 Ask The Lonely (Two Of A Kind Soundtrack)/(Time³)
03 Who's Crying Now (Escape)
02 Don't Stop Believing (Escape)
01 Escape (Escape)

Recaps :
Part 1 - 50 - 21
Part 2 - 20 - 11

Escape Lyrics:
He's just a young boy out of school
Livin' his world like he wants to
They're makin' laws, but they don't understand
Turns a boy in to a fightin' man
They won't take me
They won't break me
No one could tell him what to do
Had to learn everything the hard way
He's on the street, breakin' all the rules
I'm tellin' you that he's nobody's fool
They won't take me
They won't break me
Now he's leavin', gettin' out from this masquerade
Oh gotta go

I'm finally out in the clear and I'm free
I've got dreams I'm livin' for
I'm movin' on where they'll never find me
Rollin' on to anywhere
I'll break away, yes I'm on my way
Leavin' today, yes I'm on my way
Just when you think you had it all figured out
Runnin' scared can change your mind
I never knew I had so much to give
How hard times can fool ya
Oh I'm okay, I'm alright
Feelin' good out on your own
I'll break away, I'll break away tonight
I've got dreams I'm livin' for
I'll break away
Yes, I'm on my way
I'm leaving', leavin' today
Yes, I'm on my way
This is my escape
Yes, I'm on my way
I'll break away
Yes, I'm on my way

Feature Song : While My Guitar Gently Weeps (more tags)

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Feature Song : While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Original Recording Artist : The Beatles
written by : George Harrison
Year Of Original Release : 1968
chart : Non-Hit for The Beatles
album : The Bealtes (aka The White Album)


Accolades :
The song was ranked #135 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.
The song was also ranked #7 on "Rolling Stone"'s list of the 100 greatest guitar songs of all time.


about the song / songfacts :
Eric Clapton played lead guitar on this song. He and George Harrison were good friends, but
George had to convince him to come to the studio because Clapton was worried the other Beatles wouldn't want him there. Clapton's presence eased the mood in the studio at a tense time for The Beatles. They were at each other's throats during recording of The White Album, but they all relaxed when Clapton showed up.
Harrison often had to fight to get his songs on the albums. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were not interested in this at first, but came around when Harrison brought Clapton to the studio.
According to A Hard Day's Write by Steve Turner, Harrison was reading I Ching, the Chinese book of changes, and decided to write a song about the first words he saw, which were "Gently Weeps."
This was originally recorded as an acoustic ballad with just Harrison on acoustic guitar and Paul McCartney on organ. This version can be found on some bootlegs and on The Beatles Anthology 3.
This was the first song Ringo played on after leaving the band in frustration a few weeks earlier. He returned to find flowers on his drums to welcome him back.
The guitar Clapton used on this was a Les Paul. Later in his career, he switched to a Fender
Stratocaster.
Even though this was not a hit, it is one of the most enduring Beatles songs. It remains popular
on Classic Rock radio.
Clapton became good friends with Lennon, and played with him on some of his solo work. When Harrison threatened to leave The Beatles in 1969, Lennon was ready to replace him with Clapton.

read more : HERE


Alternative versions :
On 14 July 1992, Harrison and Clapton performed a live version in Japan. This live version also
has background vocals.
An acoustic version can be found on the 1996 album Anthology 3, and again on the 2006 soundtrack to the Cirque du Soleil show "Love". This demo version features only Harrison; it includes an additional final verse not included on the Beatles' final version, and the Love album includes a string accompaniment (arranged by George Martin).
Peter Frampton also notably covered this song, adding an extended guitar solo.


Cover Hierarchy (truncated list) :
The Beatles, The Beatles (White Album) (1968) **ORIGINAL RECORDING ARTIST**
George Harrison, The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
The Jeff Healey Band, Hell To Pay (1990)
Rick Wakeman, Tribute, a collection of Beatle covers (1997)
Toto, Through The Looking Glass (2002) / 25th Anniversary: Live in Amsterdam (2003)
Phish, Live Phish Volume 08 [1999, released 2002] / Live Phish Volume 13 [1994, released 2002]
Peter Frampton, Now (2003)
Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton, Concert For George (2003)
Todd Rundgren, Songs From The Material World: A Tribute To George (2003)
Martin Luther McCoy, Across The Universe Soundtrack (2007)

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lyrics :
I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps
I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps
With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

Well...

I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
Look at you all...
Still my guitar gently weeps

Oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh


Audio Clips :
The Beatles, The Beatles (White Album) (1968) **ORIGINAL RECORDING ARTIST**


The Beatles (acoustic version), Anthology 3 (1996) / [Cirque du Soleil show] Love Soundtrack (2006)


Peter Frampton, Now (2003)


Martin Luther McCoy, Across The Universe Soundtrack (2007)


others :
George Harrison, The Concert for Bangladesh (1971)
The Jeff Healey Band, Hell To Pay (1990)
Rick Wakeman, Tribute, a collection of Beatle covers (1997)
Toto, Through The Looking Glass (2002) / 25th Anniversary: Live in Amsterdam (2003)
Phish, Live Phish Volume 08 [recorded 1999, released 2002] / Live Phish Volume 13 [recorded 1994, released 2002]
Paul McCartney & Eric Clapton, Concert For George (2003)
Todd Rundgren, Songs From The Material World: A Tribute To George (2003)



YouTube :
The Beatles (acoustic "Love" version)


George Harrison - The Concert for Bangladesh 1971


"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Montage


On 29 November 2002 Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Eric Clapton performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Concert for George in memory of Harrison, who died a year earlier after a long battle with cancer. This version featured Eric Clapton playing his original solo and also a second.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNBEiyGwGRc [Embedding disabled by request]


In 2004, George Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was played in tribute by fellow inductee Prince, along with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Dhani Harrison


Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney perform George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Queen Golden Jubilee. 3 June 2002 Phil Collins on the drums Ray Cooper on the percussion


George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Elton John and Jeff Lyne @ Second Annual Prince's Trust Award show


Jeff Healey Band (1990)


Steve Lukather [of Toto] (2003)


Peter Frampton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (09/05/2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZXzZghllh4 [Embedding disabled by request]

Feature Song : Can't Find My Way Home (tags)

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Feature Song : Can't Find My Way Home

Title : Can't Find My Way Home
Original Recording Artist : Blind Faith
written by : Steve Winwood
Year Of Original Recording : 1969
chart : Did Not Chart (in US)
album : Blind Faith


about the song / songfacts :
Blind Faith was a Supergroup made up of Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker, and Ric Grech.
Winwood wrote this and sang lead.
Clapton played acoustic guitar on this, which he rarely did. In his previous group, Cream, he played long, intense solos, something he wanted to get away from with Blind Faith.
The album cover was a photo of an 11-year-old girl. She was naked and holding a model spaceship, which caused a lot of controversy. They released an alternate cover with a picture of the band when stores refused to carry the original.
Clapton sometimes plays this at his concerts, with a member of his band singing.
A common misconception is that Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood reunited at the Crossroads Guitar Festival, July 28, 2007. However, the first true live reunion occurred 2 months earlier at an event called Countryside Rocks at Highclere Castle, Hampshire, UK on May 19, 2007. Steve Winwood performed his set and Eric came on later as a guest. Together they played this song as well as "Watch Your Step," "Presence of the Lord," "Crossroads," "Little Queen Of Spades," "Had to Cry Today" and "Gimme Some Lovin'."


Meaning of Song :
According to Steve Winwood in an interview was that the song was written for a dear friend and his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse. He said he wrote it as if it were himself struggling and a inter discussion with himself.
"Come down off your thrown and leave your body alone Somebody must change" = Struggle between physical addiction and spiritual awakening.
"You are the reason I've been waiting here so long" = Again, he has been waiting for himself to return from addiction. The addict is not who he is
"Somebody holds the key" = he does
"I've been up and I just dont have the time and I'm wasted and I can't find my way home" = home is him, A lost aging man wasted on drugs trying to find himself......home


Cover Hierarchy : (truncated list)
Blind Faith, Blind Faith (1969) **ORIGINAL RECORDING ARTIST**
Yvonne Elliman, Yvonne Elliman (1972)
Ellen McIlwaine, Honky Tonk Angel (1972) [you can find a sample on Last FM]
Eric Clapton (live, with Yvonne Elliman), 461 Ocean Boulevard [Deluxe Edition, CD2] 1974
Swans, The Burning World (1989)
House Of Lords, Sahara (1990)
Joe Cocker, Night Calls (1991)
Elkie Brooks, Circles (1995)
Electronic, Twisted Tenderness (2000)
Alsion Krauss, Crossing Jordan Soundtrack (2003)
Widespread Panic, Über Cobra [live album] (2004)
Styx, Big Bang Theory (2005)


lyrics :
Come down off your throne and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting so long.
Somebody holds the key.

But I'm near the end and I just ain't got the time
And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home.

Come down on your own and leave your body alone.
Somebody must change.
You are the reason I've been waiting all these years.
Somebody holds the key.

Chorus

But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
But I can't find my way home.
Still I can't find my way home,
And I ain't done nothing wrong,
But I can't find my way home.


Audio Clips :
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home (Electric Version)


Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home


House Of Lords, Sahara (1990)


others :
Eric Clapton (live, with Yvonne Elliman), 461 Ocean Boulevard [Deluxe Edition, CD2] 1974
Styx, Big Bang Theory (2005)
Alsion Krauss, Crossing Jordan Soundtrack (2003)
Widespread Panic, Über Cobra [live album] (2004)
Bonnie Raitt with John Hammond Jr. & Lowell George (live 1971)
Swans, The Burning World (1989)
Electronic, Twisted Tenderness (2000)



YouTube :
Blind Faith


Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton, Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007


House Of Lords


Elkie Brooks


Yvonne Elliman


Joe Cocker


Styx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eg0koYuWTI (embedding disabled)


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Song : Can't Find My Way Home
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Almost Cut My Hair

title : Almost Cut My Hair
artist : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
year : 1970
chart : Did Not Chart
album : Déjà Vu

about the song:
this song is an album track from CSNY's first album as a band, and the second by the trio configuration of Crosby, Stills, and Nash.
the album Déjà Vu was released in March '70.
"Almost Cut My Hair" features :
David Crosby - lead vocals & electric guitar
Stephen Stills - electric guitar
Graham Nash - organ
Neil Young - electric guitar

songfacts:
David Crosby recorded this track with the last remaining moments of studio time that the band had remaining, and while he was still reeling from the death of Christine Hinton days earlier in a car accident. She had been his girlfriend, and he was obviously still grieving. The pain in his normally smooth voice reflects a cracked and angry quality, belied by the light-hearted directive he makes at the start of the recording. If you listen to it, he starts, then stops, and comments as to the pace and gain of the recording, then the song starts again. According to the story as told by Crosby on the air with Bob Coburn of KLOS in the late 1990s, the recording is the only take that was done.

The opening comment on this song, ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area") was actually edited onto this song and was actually spoken prior to cutting a song called "Horses in the Rainstorm". You can find the original track on the two-CD Anthology, "Carry On"

In this song David Crosby sings "I'll let my freak flag fly" which is a reference to Jimi Henrdix's "If 6 was 9" in which Hendrix sings the same lyrics

about the album:
In 2003, the album was ranked number 147 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The same year, the TV network VH1 named Déjà Vu the 61st greatest album of all time.
The album ranked at #14 for the Top 100 Albums of 1970 and
#217 overall by Rate Your Music.


CNSY - Almost Cut My Hair (Live)


CSNY - Almost Cut My Hair (from Easy Rider)


Cactus Soul - Almost Cut My Hair (a damn good cover of the song)



lyrics:
Almost cut my hair
It happened just the other day
It's gettin kinda long
I coulda said it wasn't in my way
But I didn't and I wonder why
I feel like letting my freak flag fly
Cause I feel like I owe it to someone

Must be because I had the flu' for Christmas
And I'm not feeling up to par
It increases my paranoia
Like looking at my mirror and seeing a police car
But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
Cause I promised myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone

When I finally get myself together
I'm going to get down in that sunny southern weather
And I find a place inside to laugh
Separate the wheat from the chaff
I feel like I owe it to someone

Déjà Vu album version :














Unreleased unedited original version (from the 1991 box set : CSN) :

Melanie - Lay Down (Candle In The Rain)

title : Lay Down (Candle In The Rain)

artist : Melanie

year charted : 1970

chart : #6 Billboard Hot 100

album : Candle In The Rain

about the song:
The inspiration for her signature song "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" apparently arose from the Woodstock audience lighting candles during her set. A gospel-boosted genuine one-off, that combined high drama with Melanie's trademark hippie sincerity, the recording became a hit in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United States in the spring and summer of 1970. The B-side of the single featured Melanie's spoken-word track "Candles in the Rain". "Lay Down" became Melanie's first Top Ten hit in America, peaking at #6 on the Billboard singles chart, and a worldwide success.

checkout the songfacts for "Lay Down (Candle In The Rain)" HERE

This song was not Melanie's biggest hit. Between December of '71 and January '72, her hit "Brand New Key" hit the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.






lyrics:
chorus*
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the
ones who stand and frown
lay down lay down, let it all down
let your white birds smile up at the
ones who stand and frown*

we were so close, there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace

chorus

so raise the candles high cause if you
don't we could stay black against the night
oh raise them higher again and if you
do we could stay dry against the rain

chrous

we were so close there was no room
we bled inside each others wounds
we all had caught the same disease
and we all sang the songs of peace
some came to sing, some came to pray
some came to keep the dark away

so raise the candles high
cause if you don't we could stay
black against the sky
oh oh raise them higher again
and if you do we could stay dry against the rain

chorus

Bob and Doug McKenzie - Take Off

title : Take Off

artist : Bob and Doug McKenzie

year charted : 1982

chart : #16 Billboard Hot 100

album : The Great White North

about the song:

Bob and Doug McKenzie are : Rick Moranis (Bob) & Dave Thomas (Doug)

the song features singing by guest vocalist Geddy Lee of Rush

the song peaked at #16 on The Billboard Hot 100 Singes Chart back in Feb '82, and the album "The Great White North" #8 on The Billboard 200 Album Chart

Assumed/incorrect titles:
• Take Off To The Great White North
• It's A Beauty Way To Go
• Take-Off

lyrics:

(Spoken) This is where the DJ talks. Don't say anything, okay?
(Spoken) Okay, eh?

(Sung) Cooo, loo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coooo!
(Sung) Cooo, loo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coo, coooo!

(Spoken) Okay. Good day. Welcome to our single. I'm Bob McKenzie and
this is my brother Doug.
(Spoken) How's it going, eh?

(Spoken) Beauty, eh?
(Spoken) Yeah, I like that.

(Spoken) Okay. (Okay.)
(Spoken) Okay, everyone. This record was my idea.
(Spoken) Get out!
(Spoken) It was.
(Spoken) You're lying!
(Spoken) He... Hosehead here just sort of rides on my coattails.
(Spoken) Why are you doing this? It was our idea together, eh?
(Spoken) Yeah, okay.
(Spoken) (Yeah, okay.)
(Spoken) We agreed to... to say that, but...
(Spoken) Ah, take off!

CHORUS:

Take off! To the Great White North!
Take off! It's a beauty way to go.
Take off! To the Great White North!

(Spoken) Decent singing, eh?
(Spoken) Yeah.
(Spoken) Yeah, he's good.
(Spoken) Okay, so Good Day. Our topic today is music.
(spoken) That's right like, cause my brother and I are now experts in
the field.
(Spoken) Yeah, right, cause we're a band now. (Yeah, yeah, so...)
(Spoken) And ummm... Well, except for him, I'm a band.
(Spoken) Aww. How can you do that? Making me look bad. You're such a
hosehead.
(Spoken) Yea? Well, take off!

CHORUS

(Guitar solo)

(Spoken) Hey, hosehead.
(Spoken) Yeah, what?
(Spoken) Yeah, listen to this what's coming. You know what it is?
(Spoken) What?
(Spoken) It's a drum solo!
(Spoken) Okay, everyone, like this is me on the drums!
(Spoken) Oh, get out! It is not. You're not...
(Spoken) It is so!
(Spoken) Stop lying, will ya?
(Spoken) Take off, eh!
(Spoken) Aww...

CHORUS x2

Take off!

Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooooo!
Ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooo, ooooo!

(Repeat to end of song)

(Spoken) Beauty, eh?
(Spoken) Like magic, eh? It's coming in.
(Spoken) Well, that's like...
(Spoken) It's like it was sung by angels.
(Spoken) Hey, hosehead.
(Spoken) Yeah, what?
(Spoken) Guess what?
(Spoken) What?
(Spoken) It's over!
(Spoken) Take off! That can't be it!
(Spoken) Well... It is, yeah. Yeah, it is.
(Spoken) Why?
(Spoken) Because, well, hit records are short. Like, they...
(Spoken) No way.
(Spoken) ...yeah, they're not that long.
(Spoken) Okay. So, that's our topic for today. So, Good Day!
(Spoken) Good day!

(Shouted) Ay, you guys!
(Spoken) What?
(Shouted) Take off!

(Spoken) Wait! No!
(Spoken) Hey! Don't go!
(Spoken) No! Come back, eh?
(Spoken) Aww. Look what you did! Everybody's gone because of you! You said...
(Spoken) Come back! I won't let him do it again!
(Spoken) My fault, eh?
(Spoken) Yeah, your fault.
(Spoken) You are such a hoser.
(Spoken) There's no way I'll ever do another record with you Hoser.
(Spoken) Okay, that's fine! I'll do a solo album.
(Spoken) Fine then, you'll be looking for me...
(Spoken) Yeah? I will not.
(Spoken) ...on another label.
(Spoken) Aww. Now everybody's gone.
(Spoken) So?
(Spoken) Good day!
(Spoken) Good day!

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