What is the general consensus concerning the Doobie Brothers Black Water? It was always the top NY CR go to Doobie song, yet it got totally hosed in the poll. Is Black Water a regional thing? I smell a dissertation!
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
when i was a growing up, "black water" was up there with "suite judy blue eyes" as a song i woud impatiently sit through, waiting for the ending, which was the only part i cared about. and i cared a lot. (i might have said this somewhere upthread, actually.) i can't think of any other major hit song from that era that sound anything like it. i don't hear the doobies on la cr radio all that much these days though, and when i do, that's rarely the one they play. and i'm not sure how much i'd care anymore if they did.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 05:07 (nine years ago) link
"Black Water" is close to my heart, but it's hard to distinguish between how much i heard it on the radio and how much my dad played his Doobies best-of
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 05:16 (nine years ago) link
Doobies Jams I still hear (or recently heard) on CR radio*: "China Grove", "Jesus Is Just Alright", "Long Train Runnin'", "Take Me In Your Arms", "Listen To The Music", "Rockin' Down The Highway", "Black Water", "It Keeps You Runnin'", "Taking It To The Streets", "What A Fool Believes"
DEEP CUT ACTION: "Eyes of Silver", "The Captain & Me"
*We used to have to stations here--one a Clear Channel, the other Cox. The former was folded last New Year's, and of the two they were more Doobie-centric, although the remaining station still rides hard for the bigger hits.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 05:46 (nine years ago) link
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
My first exposure to "Black Water" was via an a cappella singalong of the end part in a school bus. I thought it was an 1930s negro spiritual or something.
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Tuesday, 12 August 2014 08:13 (nine years ago) link
ha the last post's talk of "a cappella singalong" made me wonder "pretty mama come and take me by the hand" song, and lo & behold it's the song you're talking about
― Euler, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 09:13 (nine years ago) link
one of the odder moments of classic rock in pop culture: Owen Wilson muttering the lyrics of "Black Water" after crashing his fighter jet in Bosnia (at 1:42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-oT36mWdI
― some dude, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 10:39 (nine years ago) link
Oh, THAT song. ("funky dixieland") Yeah, major CR airplay up here in Canada.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
That shoulda been "(Play Some) Funky Dixieland (Pretty Mama)"
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
Come and Take Me By The Hand
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
^^Their first #1 on the Hot 100!
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
i hate that song so much
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:45 (nine years ago) link
I was keeping my mouth shut because positivity but lol
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
you guys that song suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
and I can't believe I forgot to nom it on most hated but
DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND DIXIELAND COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND PRETTY MAMA SING SOME FUNKY DIXIE LAND PRETTY MAMA COME AND TAKE ME BY THE HAND
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link
The movie looks good though.
― how's life, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link
Oh god I hate that song too.
― The Velvet Fog called me a motherfucker (Sandy), Thursday, 14 August 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
great song
― crüt, Thursday, 14 August 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
heard swingtown in hale & hardy soup today
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 August 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I put 4 doobies songs on my ballot and i hate that song.
― Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red hot, I mean she was (intheblanks), Thursday, 14 August 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
I have a strange story about that song. When I was growing up, the Doobie Brothers were scheduled to put on a concert at my high school. But the tickets went so fast, I couldn't get any. Then this guy named Al gave me some great seats. I don't know how he scored them. Anyway, the one condition was I bring in a tape recorder and record the show. I was a little worried, but Al assured me it was OK.
So I get to the show, and they start playing Black Water. I start dancing around like a madman and wouldn't ya know it, my tape recorder falls out of my shirt, and smashes onto the floor. The Doobie Brothers stopped the music and glared at me furiously. What made it particularly awkward was the fact that I had just interviewed them for my school newspaper, and they said the number one problem they faced was illegal concert bootlegs.
Fortunately, we figured out a way to catch Al Dunbar in a sting operation, and he got a life sentence for illegal bootlegging. So it had a happy ending.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 14 August 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seriously, this song gives me brain damage. it's pretty cool up until the acapella crap, then it's like 'what the fuck just happened, now i have to break a chair or something'
― brimstead, Friday, 15 August 2014 05:13 (nine years ago) link
the unspooled cassette tape that littered highways all those years ago: Doobies Greatest Hits, ejected & chucked out windows at that ecact moment on the exact same song every time
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 August 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
:D
I'm surprised that youtube doesn't turn up more versions of the song by high school choirs.
― how's life, Friday, 15 August 2014 08:26 (nine years ago) link
<i>you guys that song suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 23:02 (2 days ago) Permalink</i>
All that but you left out WANNA DANCE WITH YOUR DADDY ALL NIGHT LONG
― and in his absence, she (Lee626), Friday, 15 August 2014 10:56 (nine years ago) link
Heard yesterday and I believe overlooked during nominations:
CAUSE YOUR EYES HAD A MIST FROM THE SMOKE OF A DISTANT FIRE
No idea what the actual title is but I used to hear it all the time when I was a kid
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:22 (nine years ago) link
I've singing "Funky Dixieland (Pretty Mama)" around the house (bc of this thread dammit) and now my youngest, who's never heard the song except from me these last few days, is singing it too. thanks Pretty Mama
― Euler, Friday, 15 August 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
kornrulez, your doobies anecdote sounds strangely familiar
HEY HEY HEY
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
xxxpost "Smoke From a Distant Fire", Sanford-Townsend Band
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:33 (nine years ago) link
i heard "let my love open the door" on the radio yesterday and it sounded GREAT it started right as i turned on my car and i felt like the sun was shining right on me
the phrase "funky dixieland" remains one of the most repulsive musical collocations i can think of
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
lol otm
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty anal about musical categorizing and therefore don't believe that dixieland can even BE properly funky (didn't even have a bass or drums much of the time!)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
yall are mad, "Black Water" is good
― some dude, Friday, 15 August 2014 13:51 (nine years ago) link
who let this guy in
― SEEMS TO ME (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:52 (nine years ago) link
:)
i blame pretty mama
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 15 August 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
It sounds like a horrible drug party as experienced by the kid of the hosts.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Friday, 15 August 2014 14:01 (nine years ago) link
pretty mother dance with your father
― how's life, Friday, 15 August 2014 14:04 (nine years ago) link
especially when the song is neither funky nor dixieland
thx thread for evoking a hideous earworm, must seek treatment immediately
― Brad C., Friday, 15 August 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
To have smoked grass in 1976, start going, "hey, this song has a nice little groove going," and then get hit with that extended acappella funky dixieland breakdown from out of nowhere must've been alarming.
― pplains, Friday, 15 August 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
How did the Oak Ridge Boys never cover this. They've done Seven Nation Army, for godssakes.
i'm gonna post this here instead of the furgeson thread bc hell yeah
http://i.imgur.com/XuHz8mj.png
― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080), Friday, 15 August 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
oh man that is awesome
― sleeve, Friday, 15 August 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I'm pretty anal about musical categorizing and therefore don't believe that dixieland can even BE properly funky
the term "funky" was used by New Orleans jazz + R&B musicians long before the days of James Brown, and the most definitive funk elements (heavy backbeat + bass, syncopation/Latin rhythms) can be traced back to the early 20th century music of New Orleans
― example (crüt), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:06 (nine years ago) link
― some dude, Friday, August 15, 2014 8:51 AM (1 hour ago)
^^^
Also, way to go Mike McD
― Cindy Operahouse (WilliamC), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Ferguson, MO: B There
― some dude, Friday, 15 August 2014 15:08 (nine years ago) link
Oh it is so refreshing to like someone's music and find out that person is also a good, thoughtful person.
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 August 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
omg xp
― example (crüt), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
The song is characterized by the melodious a cappella section, with lyrics that are perhaps the most well known in the entire song: "I'd like to hear some funky Dixieland/Pretty mama, come and take me by the hand." These lines are also featured in the Train song, "I Got You" (from Save Me San Francisco) on which Simmons received a co-writing credit.
true horror
― example (crüt), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
god they are THE WORST
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 15 August 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
I realize that, but to my ears the post-JB definition of (capital-f) FUNK basically overwhelmed all that came before
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 15 August 2014 16:03 (nine years ago) link