Saturday, June 22, 2013

Name that tune

We figured it out!  I had a song in my thoughts...well, some lyrics in my head...and I couldn't remember what it was.  I gave Josh these clues:

70's rock
guitar sound
"It's a break up song, not a happy one either."
A man is singing
"You keep tellin me you're a genius, but I haven't seen what you mean" or something like that

He said,  "Coming from you, those lyrics are probably totally wrong.  Is it Sting?"

I said, "If it was Sting, don't you think you would know it?" (Sting's one of his most favorites)

"Yeah, you're probably right.  I remember the music.  How did the tune go?"  like he was talking to a small child who had never heard the concept of a song before.

He encouraged me to SING it!!  Not the best idea.  I don't hear the tune, I hear the words.  He's opposite.  I thought and thought and thought, but couldn't think of one note.  All that kept coming up was a girl thought she was smart.  The guy believed it until...

He began trying to sing the song himself.

"Does it sound like this?"  And he rattles of some bouncy tune.

"NO!"

We went down the list...

Bruce Springsteen?
No!
Billy Joel?
No!
Sting?
No!
Foreigner?
I don't know!
Styx?
Who??

Then he started singing the words, "you say that you're a genuis" to imaginary tunes and, by golly, would you believe that he figured it out!!

"You've been sayin you're a genius since you were 17!"

"YES!!!"

"That's NOT a break up song!  That's Steely Dan!"

"Who??"

And it was.  Steely Dan, Reelin in the Years.

I heard it a few days ago and laughed at this girl convincing this guy that she was a genius.  I imagined that he just believed her until he began thinking for himself...years later.

Sounds about right.

Guess not a lot else stuck.




Josh calls this band a "Musician's Band." Something about complicated time signatures and blah blah blah.

Whatever.

I just call them, "Old 70's group in velvet purple pants."

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