Neil Diamond: feh!

[NightTrain]

As you may know, my workplace plays a godawful Lite Rock station all goddamned day. A little while ago, I was unlucky enough to have heard them play Neil Diamond's "I Am...I Said," whose refrain has to be one of the stupidest ever written! To wit....

I am, I said
to no one there.
But no one replied at all,
not even the chair.

Now let me get this straight: Diamond found it worth noting that the chair didn't reply to him? Do the man's word usually elicit a response from the living-room furniture? Or is Neil Diamond just a hack who couldn't write a good shopping list?

Perhaps I'm being too hard on the man. Maybe I need to turn on my heartlight and get some love on the rocks from Cracklin' Rosie or Sweet Caroline. :puke:

[oneighty]

1. Poetic license.

180

[NightTrain]

4. That license ought to be revoked!

n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies...cuz everyone

know's...

It's Brother Love's show.

I love Neil Diamond. Catchy tunes...good housecleaning stuff. :hi:

[wtmusic]

3. Have you read Dave Barry's book

"The Worst Pop Songs"? He quotes that song and many other chestnuts, like "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro...xcuse me :puke:

It's VERY funny.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Oh come on, not Honey. That song has made me sob since I

was 8. I don't care if it's cheesy...it's a tearjerker. :(

[wtmusic]

14. Oh come on MG

the line about 'she hugged my neck'? Well, to each his/her own... :-)

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Hey, I hug my husband's neck all the time. Somethimes really

tight. ;)

[BigMcLargehuge]

6. Dave Barry actually

and the book is so hilarious it's almost impossible to read it.

[wtmusic]

11. thanks

[NightTrain]

7. No. Never even heard of it!

Sounds like I oughta check it out, though.

[KC21304]

20. The book is a result of a survey Barry did.

With the warning, introduction, survey results and credits, only 94 pages. But it is hilarious.

[KC21304]

13. Do you mean Dave Barry's " Book of Bad Songs" ?

It is a scream. My favorite is: A Horse With No Name. You are in a desert. You got nothin' else to do. NAME THE FREAKEN' HORSE.

This (booklet really) is so funny, I keep it handy just to pick up when I want to laugh out loud.

[Enraged_Ape]

8. Chairs are often mentioned in pop hits of the 60s, 70s, and 80s...

1980s, Billy Jean by Michael Jackson, "But the chair is not my son..."

1970s, I Am I Said by Neil Diamond, "Not one heard at all, not even the chair..."

1960s, Chairs by the Association, "Chairs is the word I use to describe, all the feeling that I have hiding here for you inside..."

I think it's some kind of musical tradition.

[wtmusic]

16. yes

I need some more coffee :silly:

[NightTrain]

17. That's "The *kid* is not my son."

I bought THRILLER on vinyl 20 years ago. It included a lyric sheet.

[Enraged_Ape]

22. Wow, for 20 years, I thought he was saying the chair was not his son

I always wondered what he meant by that, but I would not put it past Michael to try to breed himself with a piece of furniture.

[KC21304]

21. And the Association had another hit with " Cherish "

that said " Cherish is the word that I use to describe " etc.


Sorry it I screwed up your attempt at writing another funny bad songs book.

[Must_B_Free]

9. He sings nice Christmas songs though.

.

[bif]

10. Neil blows!

I totally agree.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Hot & Cold, NightTrain

Some stuff of his i really liked. (Souliman, Brother Love, Cherry Cherry)

Other stuff i loathed. (Forever in Bluejeans! Coming To America! Ack!)

The one you picked is between those, for me. Don't hate it, don't really like it either.
The Professor

[ET Awful]

18. Actually the lyric says. . .

No one HEARD at all, not replied.

Not that a chair can hear, but let's be accurate when discussing cheese master singers :)

[Whitacre D_WI]

19. Anybody who slicks back his sideburns is cool in my book.

Neil rocks!