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Archive through April 20, 2005

The TVClubHouse: American Idol/Canadian Idol/Other Talent Shows ARCHIVES: American Idol IV: April 19th Show: Archive through April 20, 2005 users admin

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Kellirippa
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07-10-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
to me Bo sounds interchangeable with David Clayton Thomas from Blood Sweat and Tears...

not that there's anything wrong with it...)

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
McArthur Park is a song about the demise of McArthur park. Someone mentioned in another thread what the park was like now.

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For Tish..... maybe next week's theme will be "Deli"!



Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Can you imagine what the judges would say about Sade? She is special though and has an incredible talent something that they are all lacking. They are just mediocre.

Kristylovesbb
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09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jimmer Okay ... for everyone who says that Carrie did not know what MacArthur Park is all about - what is MacArthur Park all about???

It's about a wino wearing a yellow dress who took a cake she baked to the park. It was hot, cake melted, she was stoned when she baked it and can't remember the recipe.LOL

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lexie, I have had that damn song in my head all day too. No one liked that song when it came out either.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought it was about a a killer hash cake that they just couldnt remember what they put in it. can happen.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
this is what jimmy webb said about his song:
"MacArthur Park is clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but that is what I was trying to get at. I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day. It was written around about the same time as Strawberry Fields, so it probably seems a bigger deal now than it was back then. Still, the lyrics never stopped Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and any number of trash garage bands from doing it - and who else can say that about one of their songs"?



Kellirippa
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07-10-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
MacAurthur Park makes as much sense as America's A Horse with No Name!

Kristylovesbb
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09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
constantine

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love America

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day.



Um... yeah. So was chemically altering your brain cells.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
half, so are ya saying, maybe we have to trip on acid to understand the lyrics? roflmao!!!

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Horse with no name is heroin.

Halfunit
Moderator

09-02-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi - I think there is a good possibility!

Interesting how MacArthur Park and Horse With No Name both mention rain.

Hmmm.....


Escapee
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06-15-2004

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I went through the deseert on a horse with no name, it felt good to be out of the rain. For in the desert you can't remember your name, and there ain't no one for to give you no pain....la la la la la la la la la

I would like to hear Bo sing "Sister Golden Hair." this would give a good idea as to what his vocals are realy like.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida


has them all beat

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
90% of Jim Morrison's lyrics - of course, he was the Lizard King, so what should we expect?

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Uh, how about Bye Bye Miss American Pie, Took the Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry and good ole boys were drinking wiskey and rye - the DAY the MUSIC DIED!

Hehehe... I've heard so many comments on what the heck that song was about too.

And no one really knows the REAL lyrics to "Louie Louie".. "Oh yeah!" Lots of speculation and it just HAS TO BE DIRTY because of the grunting in it! LOL

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
BTW - Bob Seger Band in concert had to be one of the BEST rock concerts I've ever seen. One of... I saw a lot back in the day when going to a concert didn't cost as much as going on a vacation!

Bonzacat
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
'American Idol' Is Fast Shifting Into Idle
By Lisa de Moraes Wednesday, April 20, 2005; Page C07 washingtonpost.com

"American Idol" switched to autopilot last night when the judges finally ran out of things to say.

The contestants were okay, each trying, with varying success, to perform a '70s dance tune. Constantine Maroulis kicked things off with a Bee Gees number that he sang in a white satin jacket and, it appeared, a hint of mascara. Great look.

Carrie Underwood went for the Head Cheerleader on Dress-Up Friday look and sang "MacArthur Park," which she said afterward was "a great song despite the words." She described it as a tune about a cake and "some old guy playing Chinese checkers," adding that she really didn't understand it but picked it because of Donna Summers or something to that effect.

We stopped listening at the "checkers" part because it was too painful.

Scott Savol -- you know, the one who was in the news for the alleged confrontation he had with the mother of his child that led to his arrest, according to news reports -- continued his Anger Tour. This week his song of choice was "Everlasting Love." Yes, Scott, we get the irony. Then he wished his mom a happy birthday.

Anthony Fedorov, who promised to shake his bootay, didn't. Vonzell Solomon picked "I'm Every Woman" but got drowned by All Those Other Women singing backup.

Anwar Robinson, the only contestant who attempted a couple of dance steps during his performance, continued to get lost in the shuffle. And Bo Bice, who added dancing to the growing list of things he can't do, continued working on dragging his microphone stand around the stage, the international sign for "I'm actually a rocker, stuck in a '70s dance tune."

Meanwhile, the judges -- Randy "It Started a Little Pitchy" Jackson, Pixilated Paula Abdul and Simon "I Know Karaoke and You, Sir, Are No Karaoke Singer" Cowell -- continued to sound like broken records, which seems like a pretty bad thing for judges in a, hello, singing competition.

Randy, Paula and Simon clearly have come to think this show is all about them -- big mistake. Last night, they several times began to joke about each other, giving short shrift to the contestant who had just performed, not to mention the viewer at home. At the end of the show, when host Ryan Seacrest asked each of them, based on the performances they'd just seen, which contestant would probably go home this week, Randy said "Simon Cowell," Paula gushed that she loved them all, and Simon said "Ryan Seacrest."

These guys need a new act, and fast.

ARTICLE

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wasn't American Pie inspired or at least about the death of Buddy Holly? Or am I mixing music trivia with music myth, lol.



Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
dang, good songs! i loved sister golden hair, i gotta download that to my itunes. so what we are saying is they were all on drugs when they wrote these songs, and we were all on drugs back in the 70's to undersand these songs? or we never did understand them, and still don't to this day? and only paula understands them, and that's why she dances to them, cuz she's on drugs?

okay, that whole statement sounds like i'm on drugs! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!


Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think you're right Wargod.

I would love to hear Bo sing American Pie!!!


Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, April 20, 2005 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I really really like that review of last night's show. I wish I'd written it myself.