MLT Club Member David Herrick
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One of my favorite toys as a toddler was a rolling wooden chicken with a pull string. Not very cuddly, but a lot of fun. The feet were attached to the wheels like pedals, so that the chicken appeared to walk as you pulled it along. The rotation of the wheels also somehow powered a realistic clucking sound.
Unfortunately it was very top-heavy, and it tipped over whenever I went around a corner too fast. According to my mom, when that happened I didn’t look back and just continued to drag what appeared to be a dead chicken around the house, bumping and tumbling across the floor.
By the way, Jacki, I had that Fisher Price telephone too. As I recall, the eyes rocked up and down as it rolled along.
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Yeah, Syd! I’m not a big Pink Floyd fan overall, but I love Syd’s nutty stuff. “Effervescing Elephant” is my absolute favorite.
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“That’s Life” has grown on me more than any other MLT original in the short time that I’ve known about their music. I’m especially fond of the “dense” rhyming scheme, where in many places there is more than one pair of rhyming words per couplet. It’s not easy to write like that, so any song that can pull that off really gets my attention.
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This is a very nice atmospheric piece, Jung. I wasn’t familiar with it. I can picture it playing as the end credits roll on a Beach Boys documentary.
Checking Wikipedia, I found that it was released as a single fifty years ago this month. As to authorship, Brian said “It was written by me and Mike and Joe Knott, who was a friend of mine who wasn’t a songwriter but he contributed a couple of lines. But I can’t remember which ones!”
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“Wish You Were Here” sounds like a likely choice to me too. If it were on vinyl, I’d hope for a whimsical B-side like Syd’s “Bike” song.
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Over thirty years ago, and I still have this one memorized:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebBAmwr71CQ
(Welcome, Brett!)
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Yes, that’s what I was referring to, Howard. But I think Lisa has shot that idea down now.
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I guess we just have different tastes in this regard, Howard. You prefer the “live” sound, and I prefer the “overproduced” sound. To me it’s like a candy store for the ears.
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Hi, Michael.
You and I think alike. I said the same thing about “I Call Your Name” in a post titled “Improving on the Beatles”, which is currently on page 6 of the general discussion forum.
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Well, Howard, so much for our pet theory!
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This is one of my favorites among the relatively small number of songs from the 1920’s that I know, despite the fact that I first encountered it (with altered lyrics) in a TV commercial for “Baby Fresh” baby wipes.
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Wouldn’t it be neat if you could just jump in a hole and fall to your vacation destination?
Happy Australia Day, Howard, John, Darryl, et al.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-OOuCvEUH0
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Thanks, John. I’m somewhat of a geography nerd, and I love the topic of antipodes.
Swapping cardinal directions works, but you also have to subtract the longitude from 180. For example, 30 degrees east is antipodal to 150 degrees west.
I’m fond of this anecdote from the Wikipedia article on the subject:
In 2006, Ze Frank challenged viewers of his daily webcast “the show with zefrank” to create an “Earth sandwich” by simultaneously placing two pieces of bread at antipodal points on the Earth’s surface. The challenge was successfully completed by viewers in Spain and New Zealand.
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Hello, John, and welcome to the club!
I live in North Carolina (southeastern U.S.), which is actually just about as close as you can get on land to being directly opposite from Perth on the globe. Not that it’s a competition or anything.
I’ve never been to Australia, but I’ve been fascinated by it since I was in high school. If they ever dig that tunnel through the center of the earth, I’d love to drop in… literally.
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