Blinded by the light.....:)

funny!



BUT - the original as recorded by the songwriter - Bruce Springsteen - was not "unintelligibly sung"    (sorry - but that's one of my pet peeves - Manfred Mann made the song famous, but they didn't write it - it's a cover!)

I have sung more than my fair share of phonetic lyrics.... right or rong.... it got sung cause the people liked the song.

My personal take on this is that by the time Manfred Mann made the song a hit, none of us kids had a clue what a "deuce" was outside a deck of cards. "Revved up like a deuce" made no sense, so of course we just substituted words we did know, like douche (not that it made any more sense).

as recorded by the songwriter - Bruce Springsteen

did not know that. thanks

craigb


How many here originally thought a calliope was a flying machine?

I thought it was a urinary problem.  

Beagle


funny!



BUT - the original as recorded by the songwriter - Bruce Springsteen - was not "unintelligibly sung"    (sorry - but that's one of my pet peeves - Manfred Mann made the song famous, but they didn't write it - it's a cover!)

It might not have been unintelligbly sung, but even Jon Anderson would be hard pushed to find a meaning out of that lot...

jamesg1213


Never heard Springsteen's original till this thread. Got to hand it to Manfred for hearing all that other stuff in his head.

I actually think that ... "waiter, waiter, there's a fly in my soup" is a much better and more fun song in that album!
 
There!

jamesg1213


Never heard Springsteen's original till this thread. Got to hand it to Manfred for hearing all that other stuff in his head.

Don't get me wrong - I think Manfred Mann's version is a completely different league of superiority than Springsteen's. 

Beagle

jamesg1213


Never heard Springsteen's original till this thread. Got to hand it to Manfred for hearing all that other stuff in his head.

Don't get me wrong - I think Manfred Mann's version is a completely different league of superiority than Springsteen's. 

I kinda agree with that ... this way ... Bruce's version is more rock'n'roll oriented ... while I think that Manfred Mann's version took if off that rock'n'roll stage and made it into a more complete piece with the keyboards, and I think it was easier for most of us to "get" and its "melody" came alive a lot more than Bruce's at the time.
 
But I also would agree that music has changed significantly since then, and it is wider accepted to be able to listen to things without keyboards, as opposed to the seriously oversized keyboard use in too much of the music at the time and place.
 
The funny/weird/strange thing here was a comment that came out of the Melody Maker periodical, that MM always did a song from one of his heroes, and we all know that from his first album he had done a Bob Dylan song in every album ... and that by the time this came out, he was tired of Bob and he was not as creative as he had been before, and he looked to do someone else ... and Bruce became that hero ... for one album anyway! Because in the next album or two or three you found Mike Heron (Singing the Dolphin Through and Ohh Carol) and others.
 

bitflipper

Beagle


sorry - I disagree with that, Shad.  I had heard this song many many times before I ever heard "Blinded by the Light" 

mebee you're just a lot younger than I am! 

I never did figure out what it meant to "have the big slip daddy". I assumed it was sexual. But then, I was 15. Everything was sexual.

Ok, fess up!  Who's using McQ's login???