Caroline, every time. Easy choice.
Sweet Home Alabama really grinds my gears. Neil Young sings about systemic racism in the south and Skynard retorts 'yea some people here are racist ♪ but not all of us are ♪ frig off Neil Young♪ whoa now look at the sky'. Horse shit lyrics, sick composition.
Now Watergate does not bother me, uh-uh
Jesus Christ, my eyes are now open.
Where the skies are so blue (and the governor's true)
I unironically had no idea.
But "Sweet Caroline" is problematic in a different way. From Wikipedia - "Diamond has provided different explanations for the song's origins. In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, who was 11 years old at the time it was released. Diamond sang the song for her at her 50th birthday celebration in 2007. On December 21, 2011, in an interview on CBS's The Early Show, Diamond said that a magazine cover photo of Caroline as a young child on a horse with her parents created an image in his mind, and the rest of the song came together about five years after seeing the picture. However, in 2014, Diamond said the song was about his then-wife Marcia, but he needed a three-syllable name to fit the melody."
He wrote lyrics about touching each other a few years after seeing her in a photo as a young child?
Gross, classic rock /pop are full of gross stories like that.
I'm the opposite. Any time I hear the 'Caroline' I get aliitle frustrated.
'Home Alabama' forever and always.
Child o' mine
Where do we go, where do we go now?
As a white person, I choose "sweet release of death."
DUN DUN DUNNN
Cherry pie
Emotions
You talk about things that nobody cares
Sweet Home Carolina! No, wait...
Emotion
🎶Good times never skies so blue🎵
Sweet, what's mine say?
Duuuuuuuude, what does mine say?
And theeeeeeeen?
Sweet sweet
Gwendoline, anybody?
Ich war geknebelt. Ich konnte nicht mal schreien. Oh, Sweet Sweet Gwendoline!
So good! So good! So good!
How'd you do? I
See you met my
Faithful handyman
He's just a little brought down because
When you knocked
He thought you were the
candy man.
Caroline, every time.
Sweet Home Alabama is just awful
I hate it too, but in it's defense I think it's mostly just over played. That riff is kinda sick.
Lol, when I describe the song to people what I say is almost verbatim: "it sounds like they stumbled upon one really solid guitar riff and were like, fuck it, play that shit for the next 4 minutes! Umm is that gonna be enough for a song? Who gives a shit!"
So yeah, the riff is pretty good
No black people in Alabama or Boston apparently.
I'll be comin home to ba da da!
Sweet Alabama home doesn't sound right, so it's gotta be sweet CAROLINE ^dah dah dah
That's not a hard choice. Have you ever been to Alabama? Nobody wants to be there, not even the natives. Well, at least the ones that aren't inbred.
I actually have driven through. I saw a sign for an apparent mud festival.
Oh no! Whichever way I go, 🎵 country roads, take me home 🎵
Or you could choose the road less traveled.
Put a smile on your face Ten miles wide Looks so good Bring a tear to your eye Sweet cherry pie
