|   So what the hell does "paving paradise"... | næstep
Aug 15, 2003 8:16 AM | | ...have to do with your girl running out on you? |
| He didn't know what he had until she was gone... | MongooseMan
Aug 15, 2003 9:06 AM | | just like our forest and trails.
We sometimes take them for granted until someone comes along and puts up a mall with a "paved" parking lot.
Whoa!! That was deep. |
| Yeah, but that line is still way out of place... | næstep
Aug 15, 2003 9:09 AM | | ...even though it matches the chorus completely.
A more meaningful tie-in would have been if he heard the gate at the trail head slam shut, then saw a big yellow bulldozer take his sweet single track away.
næstep |
| I like that... | MongooseMan
Aug 15, 2003 9:33 AM | | but they just don't seem like the mountain biking type to me.
Wonder if I can get my hair to do that?
MongooseMan (love the Counting Crows) |
| I dunno, bet he can whip that do into an effective helmet (nm) | næstep
Aug 15, 2003 9:50 AM | | |
| he looks like Sideshow Bob (nm) | laffeaux
Aug 15, 2003 11:40 AM | | |
| That exact thing happened to me just a few months ago. | Sprocketeer
Aug 16, 2003 4:19 AM | | "A more meaningful tie-in would have been if he heard the gate at the trail head slam shut, then saw a big yellow bulldozer take his sweet single track away."
That exact thing happened to me just a few months ago. I even took pictures. I have to say, a girl walking out on me is much easier. It's not like someone's building another, even hotter trail that I'll be riding two weeks later. |
| re: So what the hell does "paving paradise"... | Dwight Moody
Aug 15, 2003 10:06 AM | | I had a neighbor who played that song loudly several times a day.
I like the Counting Crows, but whenever I think about that song, I get kind of edgy and angry feeling.
Anyway, I think it means he was in paradise, didn't notice, paid attention to the wrong things, put his energy into the wrong things and ended up with a parking lot. |
| re: So what the hell does "paving paradise"... | Version
Aug 15, 2003 10:29 AM | | Actually "he" wasn't anywhere. "He" (meaning Adam Duritz from Counting Crows) just sang the song that Joni Mitchel wrote way back in the day.
Joni rocks. |
| and what she said was | laffeaux
Aug 15, 2003 11:43 AM | | Joni says that she wrote the song after flying into Hawaii. She landed at night and checked into her high rise hotel. She woke up the next morning, looked out the window, and saw parking garages and hotels with the ocean in the distance. She then wrote, "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." |
| Hmmm... I'm probably reading too much into this, but... | næstep
Aug 16, 2003 6:42 AM | | ...I hope the song wasn't meant as a "protest". Otherwise, she should also be singing about the thousands of acres of forrest Boeing cut down to construct the factory that built the airplane she flew to Hawaii on, and about the thousands of yards of concrete placed along the Honolulu waterfront so her airplane could land there, and about the miles of asphalt layed so she could be driven to the hotel, and for the people behind the hotel she stayed in, since her highrise hotel that offered the view necessarily obstructed someone elses view of paradise.
But ignore me, I'm probably reading too much into this. :)
næstep |
| joni mitchell song orignally... | logbiter
Aug 15, 2003 10:41 AM | | and as much as I like listening to her albums when I'm feeling a little blue, her lyrics are hard for me to grok.
CCrows are good but I prefer Joni's version much more.
hasta,
Serge |
| Joni's still around... | Ricko
Aug 15, 2003 11:42 AM | | And still recording. My wife had her new one in a couple of days ago. It's always good to see some artists from... when early 70s?...are still around. |
| Hate both versions.... | Fuelish
Aug 15, 2003 5:21 PM | | Like a lot of C Crows, never could stomach Joni M (even way back in my hippy dippy days...LOL)...hate both versions of that song however (if i HAD to choose, I suppose I'd suffer through Joni's, beings that it'll feel that much better when it's finally done - Crows version is just lame, considering some of their other stuff... just my too senseless... |
| Hell yeah, Joni's recording is better! | Sprocketeer
Aug 16, 2003 4:29 AM | | Do you realize who was in that band?! Jaco Pastorius on bass, Pat Methany on guitar whats-his-name (brain laps) on sax--that was one of the best bands in history folks. No doubt about it. |
| paved paradise and put up a Wal-Mart.... | VT Mtbkr
Aug 15, 2003 11:16 AM | | would have been more in entertaining phrase. |
| And I don't have a gun | boyonwheel
Aug 15, 2003 4:07 PM | | It's a good thing too, because I have lost virtually every trail I ever had up here in Humboldt. I lost it to a thing called "Healthy Forests".
Seems these lyrics are still pert to the sitch were in today, if not more so. Like "I went back to Ohio..." How does the rest go.. "and my pretty contraceptives had been paved down the middle. No, not contraceptives. Countryside. Or is that countrycide. Hahaha. That's the word for what's happening to our trails- countrycide! |
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