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Title: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Riddler on November 25, 2010, 09:06:56 AM: i make my family listen to this every t-giving

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DtpdXZi0M&feature=related

(whats the deal w/ youtube embed NOW....anyone?)
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Turd Ferguson on November 25, 2010, 12:23:12 PM: copy the embed, post it here in the youtube button thingy, delete everything before http.............and everything after "fs"

should look like this: everything with the strikethrough should be deleted

~~<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="~~http://www.youtube.com/v/b8DtpdXZi0M?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b8DtpdXZi0M?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Good song

Happy thanksgiving neegro

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/b8DtpdXZi0M?fs[/youtube]
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Riddler on November 25, 2010, 08:12:10 PM: thanks dood
i actually like him better when he was 60's-hippy-cool
he does a great job of ''city of new orleans''
hope u had a good one

edit:
willie & the hiwaymen kicked the shit out of that song
much better version

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/v/_v9v8837O3M?fs[/youtube]
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: mikehz on November 25, 2010, 09:13:56 PM: I'm not sure the song would work these days. After all, Arlo was violating rights by illegally dumping garbage.
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: ChristianAnarchist on November 26, 2010, 07:50:28 AM: Had to comment on this one... I LOVE "Alice's Restaurant". I really like the newer version with the bit about Nixon in it. Makes you wonder. Of course I was in HS when this came out and it brings back memories of the 60's and the war. The street protests. The relative freedom we had then that has become so foreign to us now...
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: alaric89 on November 26, 2010, 04:22:01 PM: Mmmm, Hippie chicks.....
My Dad dug that song. I heard it as a kid but didn't really get it then, understand it now, thanks.
Hope every one had a good Thanksgiving.
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Rillion on November 26, 2010, 11:16:05 PM: Quote from: mikehz on November 25, 2010, 09:13:56 PM
I'm not sure the song would work these days. After all, Arlo was violating rights by illegally dumping garbage.

Yes, but he acknowledged that they did wrong and suggested that being ordered to clean everything up would be appropriate. He doesn't pretend that they didn't do something wrong.
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Riddler on November 26, 2010, 11:48:25 PM: oh, jesus christ already
can't we have a little fun without you fucking people over-analyzing everything?
you fucking ruin the moment
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Rillion on November 27, 2010, 12:13:09 AM: Quote from: Dragline on November 26, 2010, 11:48:25 PM
oh, jesus christ already
can't we have a little fun without you fucking people over-analyzing everything?
you fucking ruin the moment

I've probably been listening to this song longer than you've been alive. Go fuck yourself, preferably in four-part harmony when it comes around on the guitar.
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: alaric89 on November 27, 2010, 05:50:23 AM: I am guessing you two are around the same age. I never could understand why some like to leave their age a mystery then call people on being "young and stupid" or "old and crabby" later.
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: mikehz on November 27, 2010, 09:19:41 AM: Well, I just turned sixty, and so am officially “old.” I was drafted shortly after this song came out. Even though I’d already joined the Air Force, I still had to go down to the induction center and follow those endless lines, which are exactly as Arlo describes. The song had a little more meaning when conscription was breathing down your neck!
Title: Re: Alice's Restaurant....once a year, whether you need it or not
Post by: Riddler on November 27, 2010, 09:51:08 AM: thanks mike.
you, i'll listen to.
unfortunately, rillion is being a blo-bag twat, once again
''i have a degree in <insert-useless-4-yr-collegiate-program<, so i will painfully deconstruct this song for you, and provide you with an unsolicited analysis forthwith, and bloviate about a time & place that i know nothing about & was ,most likely, still shitting yellow when it was written.