Hot Rails to Hoboken

[Ted O. Jackson]

> >>        However, my friends and I used to have a running joke about
> >>"proper rock intonation" as appears in this song.  (Tox, if he still lurks
> >>on this list, may recall it).
> >>        With thunderous riffing behind him, Eric sings:
> >>        "My boat left New Orleans ..." (he builds to the lyrical
> >>climax ...)
> >>        "... IN 1829!!"
> >>
> >>        Woah! we all think.  Rockin'!
> >
> >Oh YEAH ! let's rock...
> >
> >>        Then: Wait? "My boat left New Orleans in 1829?"  What the _hell_
> >>are we doing head-banging to that?  What's going on here?  Why should
> >>we care?  ;)


Right.   But my own favorite moment comes a bit later in the song.
When Al speaks of 'a place where you can see relics of jewels...AND
AMTRAK TRAINS!'  Well my jaw about hit the ground on that one.  And
I've been a BOC/Al fan forever, but he's still able to freak me out,
seemingly at will.  Al realizes that the appeal to us whackos is this
freaked-out, tripped-out stuff a lot more than 'Burnin'
theo
> >Does sound kind of stupid if you take it out of context. You got a point there.
> >
> >>        But still, you've got to admit, that even when you sing something
> >>completely bizarre like that with the appropriate phrasing and with the
> >>appropriate instrumental arrangement it _does_ get the old adrenilin
> >>pumping! :)
> >
> >True enough. In fact, that precise excerpt of the song is probably
> >the part of it I like the most  :-)
> >
> >Thanks for sharing that one with us.
>
> What and would you rather BOC's lyrics consisted of the usual "yeah, yeah
> baby" type? Or perhaps the angry-young-man bit that is so popular these
> days? Lyrics have always been one of BOC's strong points, IMO.. In Imaginos,
> a story is being told.. Part of the story is set in the 1800's.. I don't
> understand your objection to the lyric.
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