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Favorites & Rarities

  • AMG Review of Favorites & Rarities

    Amg
    Stephen Thomas Erlewine
    All Music Guide

    Spanning two discs and 42 tracks, Favorites & Rarities really is directed toward diehards, not casual fans looking for a thorough overview. Although all his biggest hits are here, they're surrounded by material that will delight only the dedicated, including alternate versions and no less than 18 previously unreleased tracks. This material, while interesting to the converted (there is a question to just how interesting it actually is, though), makes this a rather tedious listen for anybody that's just looking for "American Pie" and "Vincent," plus a couple other tunes in the same vein. Not an unnecessary compilation, since it's filled with rarities, but not definitive, either.

Van Gogh's Bed
about 1 year ago

I am teaching a poem by Jane Flanders called "Van Gogh's Bed," based on the painting "Vincent's Bed in Arles," and I couldn't resist looking up the wonderful song by Don McLean about Van Gogh and "Starry Night," which I have seen in person in New York City. It is amazing to see the famous painting in person; the colors are so incredibly bold, it is as if they are alive. Oh, and here is the po...

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American Pie - The Day The Music Died Feb 3, 1959
over 2 years ago

I've listened to Don McLean's American Pie at least 1000 times in the past 35 years - but never knew the story behind the lyrics. Another mogger posted that Feb 3 , 1959 was "The Day the Music Died" See the video for an interesting history lesson into our musical /political past.

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american pie
over 2 years ago

so basically, this is one of those songs that just gets to me. it kind of explains how i feel about music, like in this line:"A long long time agoI can still rememberHow that music used to make me smileAnd I knew if I had my chanceThat I could make those people danceAnd maybe they'd be happy for a while"a few more of my favorite lines... i can't really explain the way this song makes me feel. ...

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Love. This. Shite.
over 2 years ago

I have a deep, ineffable love for Don McLean. It simply cannot be expressed in words. Perhaps my father went through a weird, desperate period during my childhood, because I swear he played this and other classics during multiple road trips in the old red Suburban (way before those things were tricked out and morphed into the Yukon). Consequently, every time I hear it I think of long, lonely...

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Favorites & Rarities Lyrics & Samples

Title Lyrics Buy
1 Castles in the Air [Mediarts Version] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
2 And I Love You So Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
3 American Pie Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
4 Vincent (Starry Starry Night) Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
5 Babylon Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
6 Empty Chairs Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
7 Dreidel No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
8 If We Try No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
9 Fool's Paradise [Single Version] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
10 Sitting on Top of the World Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
11 La La Love You No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
12 Wonderful Baby No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
13 Crying in the Chapel Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
14 Magdalene Lane [Live] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
15 Crying Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
16 Since I Don't Have You Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
17 Castles in the Air [Millenium Version] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
18 He's Got You Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
19 Superman's Ghost No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
20 You Can't Blame the Train No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
21 Good Old Wagon [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
22 Milkman's Matinee [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
23 Aftermath [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
24 Mother Nature [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
25 Every Day [BBC Version][#] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
26 That's All Right [#] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
27 Profiteering Blues [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
28 Hit Parade of Love [#] Lyrics Buy song from Amazon MP3
29 The Carnival Is Ended [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
30 I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome (Blue and Lonesome Too) [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
31 Nature Boy [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
32 Black Sheep Boy [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
33 Mountains Of Mourne [Live in England][#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
34 And Her Mother Came Too [Live in England][#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
35 Yonkers Girl [Live in England][#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
36 Turkey in the Straw [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
37 Dubuque [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
38 Medley: Sally Ann/Muleskinner Blues/Old Joe Clark [Live at the Bottom] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
39 If We Try No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
40 Perfect Love No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
41 Little Child [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3
42 Gotta Make You Mine [#] No Lyrics Available Buy song from Amazon MP3

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