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I was listening to the radio a couple of nights ago, when “The Red Plains” started playing. Hearing this song out of its usual context (on The Way It Is album) made me see it in a new light.
I gained a new appreciation for the imagery and story in this song:
Get up on Sunday morning
Repent for Friday night
Don’t let them tell you it’s gonna be a fair fight
I gave her clothes and a diamond
She loved the things that shine
But one day the gold and the silver get left behindHas anyone else experienced this-hearing one of Bruce’s songs in a different setting and finding new insights? Which songs have you listened to with “new ears?”
Jackie
Jackie wrote:Has anyone else experienced this-hearing one of Bruce’s songs in a different setting and finding new insights? Which songs have you listened to with “new ears?”I’ve found that my participation in the past 2 cover version projects that Si has been so cool as to mastermind (Shadow Hands and Caesar Salad) have been major experiences in listening to songs with “new ears.” The versions of the various songs that people have done were interesting because of the different interpretations and styles that people have offered up. I’m still utterly blown away by the acoustic slide-guitar version of The Way It Is that Cruize Henderson contributed to the Shadow Hands project. I’ve also found that the work I did on Passing Through (from Shadow Hands), Line In The Dust (from Caesar Salad), and now The Chill (from whatever the new one coming up is gonna be called), have been educational experiences not only in the craft of recording a track but in hearing the songs and discovering things about the songs that are easily missed at first hearing. I’m looking forward to Daily Dose Day this year, so that I can hear what other people have found in the music. Good tunes, good people, good cause…. good stuff!
Rich
“We’ve got to get together sooner or later, because the revolutions here.” – “Speedy” Keen
rdiakun wrote:I’ve found that my participation in the past 2 cover version projects that Si has been so cool as to mastermind (Shadow Hands and Caesar Salad) have been major experiences in listening to songs with “new ears.” The versions of the various songs that people have done were interesting because of the different interpretations and styles that people have offered up. I’m still utterly blown away by the acoustic slide-guitar version of The Way It Is that Cruize Henderson contributed to the Shadow Hands project. I’ve also found that the work I did on Passing Through (from Shadow Hands), Line In The Dust (from Caesar Salad), and now The Chill (from whatever the new one coming up is gonna be called), have been educational experiences not only in the craft of recording a track but in hearing the songs and discovering things about the songs that are easily missed at first hearing. I’m looking forward to Daily Dose Day this year, so that I can hear what other people have found in the music. Good tunes, good people, good cause…. good stuff!You bring up a great point, Rich. I was originally thinking of songs performed by Bruce, but the tribute albums are excellent illustrations in finding new ways to appreciate these songs. The examples you cited are great ones; on my personal list I would add:
“Till The Dreaming’s Done” and “Song C” from Shadow Hands
“I Will Walk With You” from Caesar SaladI’m really looking forward to hearing your as well as the other contributions on the next tribute record.
Jackie
I can’t help but bring this up again. 💡 You just have to listen to it yourself and you will listen with “new ears”. Check out daily dose…….you will know what it is!
If these guys are the good ones,
I don’t want know the bad,
You wonder how it happened,
They just picked it up from dad,
Faded ole glory,
Hanging like a rag,
Defenders, defenders of the flag!Anybody else hearing what I hear?
:David Day
Lake Lanier, GAI’m listening to the Dose from Monday and definitely hearing it with new ears. This was never a song that I would spend much time with when listening to the record, but I really like the live performance of it here. Much edgier and kind of “raw” sounding. The way Bruce sings the first verse reminds me of current day performances of Bob Dylan. He does this thing where he sings the line in a low almost monotone pattern and then up-sings the last word of the line. I forget when it was that Bruce got on stage with Dylan, but i know the Dose has been on here before. Makes me wonder if he saw Dylan sometime around that concert. To make it even more convincing, to my ears only maybe, is that the way this song is performed reminds me of “Tangled Up In Blue”.
David and molomolomolo are right,Monday’s dose is wonderful! I admit,I’ve never met a “Defenders Of The Flag I disliked,album,live or video,it’s humorous and thought-provoking at the same time. Very few songwriters can combine those elements successfully.
Jackie
Forget about tomorrow live for today
No guarantee I’ll make it anyway
My special candy taste good now
Every day I die a little, a little anyhowI can’t help but bring that one up again also! 😆 Put it back on! You will listen with “new ears”!
David Day
Lake Lanier, GAQuote:Forget about tomorrow live for today
No guarantee I’ll make it anyway
My special candy taste good now
Every day I die a little, a little anyhowI can’t help but bring that one up again also! Put it back on! You will listen with “new ears”!
I’m still trying to figure what the whole song is about?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Any help?!?!?!
If I’m remembering this correctly, I think someone asked Bruce this very question in his guestbook. I believe “Candy Mountain Run” was a favorite song of the guestbook signer’s child. When the parent asked the little one what the song meant, the child said something like, “I think it’s about a nice man who gives people candy.”
Bruce’s reply to this question/interpretation was something like,” Close enough.” or, “Sounds good to me.” Does anyone else remember this particular guestbook entry?
My interpretation of the song? It’s about the kind of dreams Bruce’s sons might have had as young children. The My special candy taste good now/Every day I die a little, a little anyhow lines give the listener something to ponder amidst all the light-heartedness in the song.
Jackie
I’m probably going to get raked over the coals for this one, but here goes…
From the first time I heard this song (Candy Mountain Run), I saw it as a railing against drugs. Aren’t drugs referred to as “candy”? And that truly makes the line “every day I die a little” fit with the rest of the song.
Anybody else hear it this way? I’m open to suggestions.
Bruce did say on his interview with Howard Stern that he’s never once touched a drug, so it seems plausible to me that he’s talking about drugs. As a new dad i just kind of see it as a really awesome nursery rhyme Bruce came up with. I think there is already one with gumdrops and lemon drops, etc. but Bruce’s is much cooler. There are verses I could make an argument for that he’s talking about drugs, but I don’t see Bruce’s music having too many drug references in them.
I call to the stand Mr. David Day!
molomolomolo wrote:Bruce did say on his interview with Howard Stern that he’s never once touched a drug, so it seems plausible to me that he’s talking about drugs.Is that the same interview where he was turned on to the word, “schmendrick”?
Rich
“I don’t need no drugs to calm me.” – R. Waters
rdiakun wrote:molomolomolo wrote:Bruce did say on his interview with Howard Stern that he’s never once touched a drug, so it seems plausible to me that he’s talking about drugs.Is that the same interview where he was turned on to the word, “schmendrick”?
Rich
“I don’t need no drugs to calm me.” – R. Waters
I don’t remember that exact detail in the interview, Rich. The interview I referenced is his appearance on Sirius. I don’t know if he has been on Stern before that appearance.
molomolomolo wrote:Bruce did say on his interview with Howard Stern that he’s never once touched a drug, so it seems plausible to me that he’s talking about drugs.rdiakun wrote:Is that the same interview where he was turned on to the word, “schmendrick”?.molomolomolo wrote:I don’t remember that exact detail in the interview, Rich. The interview I referenced is his appearance on Sirius. I don’t know if he has been on Stern before that appearance.Yup, that’s the same one. Stern kept trying to get Buce to let loose with some swear words because he was on satellite radio and didn’t have to care about FCC rules. Very funny interview.
– Rich
“Oh, baby, baby, it’s a wild world.” – C. Stevens
molomolomolo wrote:I call to the stand Mr. David Day!babytweety2yo wrote:I’m still trying to figure what the whole song is about?!?!?!?!?!?!?!We’ve discussed this many times before!
I’ll defer to Rich! He’s on top of it! 😆David Day
Lake Lanier, GADavid Day wrote:We’ve discussed this many times before! I’ll defer to Rich! He’s on top of it! 😆Rich, we gosta know! 😆
David Day
Lake Lanier, GADavid Day wrote:We’ve discussed this many times before! I’ll defer to Rich! He’s on top of it! 😆 Rich, we gosta know! 😆It’s one of those elusive songs whose deeper and truer meaning shifts with the sands of time. It seems as though my earlier analysis of this song, while doggone entertaining and almost kinda sorta plausible, may have been slightly off the mark. It is within the realm of possibility that “Candy Mountain Run” is not actually the intended theme song for a XX-rated film about adult actress, Candi Mountains, and her intentions for an all-female track team that only wears g-strings (with the handy little fanny pack so store the excess $1 bills that adoring fans along the route offer forth). That movie was actually made, under the title “Chariots of <censored – small children, animals who only say ‘sausages!‘, or other endangered species may be reading this>” and its’ true theme song, “Theme from ‘Chariots Of <still censored – -same sentence, duh!>'” was released on Decca Dent Records and Tapes and rose to #904 in the Billboard Top 200 charts. It has recently been brought to my attention that a “candy mountain run” is a CIA code phrase for chasing a particular individual who has been targeted (for national security purposes, of course) for termination with extreme prejudice, assuming that the following criteria are met… the target has been located in a mountain hideaway, and, well, that’s pretty much it.
Personally, I like to think of the lyrics of this song as being very literal, somewhat of an homage to those classic McCartney compositions, “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road” and “Hi, Hi, Hi”. Bruce is singing about how he kicked his twins’ butts in a game of “Candyland” and wrote the song as a way of continually running smack on them. It’s so obvious! I can’t believe I missed it the first time around.
– Rich
“Let the bells ring, let the birds sing, let’s all give my substitute a big cheer!
Let the bells ring, let the birds sin, for the man after him waits here.” – P. Tetteroo & H. Van EijckI’m sorry. It seems as though that last post stunned everyone so much that they just stopped posting in the General Chat area. Oops! 😳 I really didn’t mean to grind this forum to a standstill by being so strange. You have my permission to resume your regularly schedule posting, already in progress….
Rich
“Is there anybody out there?” – R. Waters
Hey, I was just willing to defer my public opinion to The Master Who Knows All. Although, secretly, I still stand by my “anti-drug” theory, and I have many, many examples from the song to back it up. I would only defer THAT theory if I heard it from The Man Himself.
MVF wrote:Hey, I was just willing to defer my public opinion to The Master Who Knows All. Although, secretly, I still stand by my “anti-drug” theory, and I have many, many examples from the song to back it up. I would only defer THAT theory if I heard it from The Man Himself.On a request sheet at Bay Days, I’ll ask for “Candy Mountain Run” with a side note along the lines of “Some freak on Si’s site posted that he thought the tune was from a porno movie. What’s it REALLY about?” That might get his attention and coax it out of him
– Rich
MVF wrote:Hey, I like you!Cool! Now I feel like Sally Field getting her first Oscar!
– Rich
“Do you really like me? ‘Cuz I’m the
that you just like those !” – S. Dogg Okay, not to beat a dead horse, but….
I have recently been revisiting “Intersections”, and ran across that version of “Candy Mountain Run”. Does anybody know what the intro song is?? Something about the Children of Zion?? Could this lend to us some insight to the song’s true meaning, or is it just another of Bruce’s red herrings??The artist formerly known as Miss Virginia Former wrote:Okay, not to beat a dead horse, but….
I have recently been revisiting “Intersections”, and ran across that version of “Candy Mountain Run”. Does anybody know what the intro song is?? Something about the Children of Zion?? Could this lend to us some insight to the song’s true meaning, or is it just another of Bruce’s red herrings??The man sure has sent plenty of crimson fish at us over the years! That’s part of what makes the ride so much fun. I’ll have to check out that Candi Mountains’ Run on Intersections and then make up something even stranger, uh, er, tell you what I think it might be.
– Rich
“A girl with a nose ring said to me, she said ‘Where’s the joy in your delivery?’
I said, ‘Maybe there’s not supposed to be any real joy at all here.’” – B.R. Hornsby
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