Salty music

[spinifera]

This may sound a little corny but I’m curious about what type of music everyone listens to.

One of my favorite lines is “as a dreamer of dreams and a travelin’ man I have chalked up many a mile” from Son of a Son of a Sailor (J Buffett). I know… I know… but I think it’s because that’s how I see myself. I’m constantly dreaming about my next adventure and love to travel.

Any other salty tunes out there?

[Phil Layer]

"Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SPONGE BOB SQUARE PANTS!"

:grin:

[Aqua-Holic]

Who Pickled my Herring.....by Englebert Humperdink!

[fish assassin]

"Fall on the deck
and flop like a fish!
Spounge Bob Square Pants!!!"

-assAssin-

[Mark Mc]

It's nice to know I'm not the only one who watches Sponge Bob (because of my daughter...really!!!)

Remember the episode where they are playing on the fishooks dangling from a boat ("I told you, never touch those things" <Mr Crab&gt.

Oh...back to the topic...OK, Taj Mahal "fishing blues" of course.

"betcha goin fishin all-a de time,
baby goin fishin too.
bet your life, your sweet wife
gonna catch more fish than yew,

many fish bites if ya got good bait, oh,
here's a little tip that I gotta relate
big fish bites if ya got good bait
I'm a goin fishin, yes I'm goin fishin
and my baby goin fishin too."

[Ragnar]

Sunshine of Your Love-Cream
Fairies Wear Boots-Black Sabbath
Playing right now...
When the Music's over- The Doors
Helter Skelter-Beatles
Manic Depression-Jimmy Hendrix
Hey Hey My My- Neil Young
Rock-n-Roll goes well with Rockin' and Rollin'.
Ragnar

[Pilar]

Just a few of many favorites
'Little wing', 'Star spangled banner' (makes your scalp tingle when played at '10' on the dial) .. Jimi Hendrix
'Sympathy for the devil', 'Paint it black' .. The Rolling Stones
'Run through the jungle' .. Creedence Clearwater Revival
'Seven bridges road' .. Eagles
'My wild love', 'The end', 'Roadhouse blues' .. The Doors
'The purple lagoon' and 'Lost in a whirpool' .. Frank Zappa and the mothers of invention
'Violin concerto No. 8' composed by Dmitri Shostakovich as played by Emerson string quartet

and of course my favorites
'Flying Dutchman' and 'Die Walkure' composed by Richard Wagner and played by the london Symphony orchestra.

Anything by the Doors or Stones for sure.

Cool topic ...

[Threemuch]

I got a couple three I really like.

Fisherman's blues by the Waterboys
Cold Beverages by G. Love and Special Sauce

And There is the Simpsons episode where homer goes to the "leader" brainwashing camp and sings (to the theme from batman)
nanananananananananana Fishing
nanananananananananana Fishing
Fishing, fishing, fishing

I love the Simpsons. And Homer loves fishing. In "War of the Simpsons" when homer catches General Sherman and then let's him go to save his marriage even though he would have been a hero to "Those Wierdos at the bait shop"

and he was...

Excerpt-
Clerk: Yep, `General Sherman'. They say he's five hundred pounds of bottom-dwelling fury, don't you know. No one knows how old he is, butif you ask me (and most people do), he's hundred years if he's a day.
Customer: And uh no one's ever caught him?
Clerk: Well, one fella came close. Went by the name of Homer. Seven feet tall he was, with arms like tree trunks. His eyes were like steel,cold, hard. Had a shock of hair, red like the fires of Hell.

Sponge bob rocks. "Jellyfishing" is my favorite, with "Rock Bottom" a close second. Buzz buzz. And I don't even have kids.

[spinifera]

Some classics here and a few I need to find.

Pilar - you never cease to amaze me. 'Die Walkure' was one of my favorites from music appreciation class.

It sounds like I’m really missing out on something with Sponge Bob. I might have to check it out even though my son isn’t old enough yet.

[Nalu]

At the ripe ol' age of 22, for no good reason, and not knowing who he was, I purchased a Gordon Lighfoot "best of" album before I stated my drive to Soldotna, AK from Salem, OR. Driving through the Canadian Rockies at the end of April, on my way to run a salt water boat on the Cook Inlet.

And Gordon sang:

Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

That album, The Doors, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, The Dead, Phish....ahhhh, the list just grows and grows.

Caught my first springer of this year with Dave Mathews playing on the boat stereo.

But back to G.L....

She's bin lookin' like a queen in a sailor's dream
And she don't always say what she really means.
Sometimes I think it's a shame
When I get feelin' better when I'm feelin' no pain.

Sundown you better take care
If I find you bin creepin' round my back stairs.
Sometimes I think it's a sin
When I feel like I'm winnin' when I'm losin' again.

[8knots]

One of my favorites from Van Morrison, Into the Mystic, 1970 Moondance Album

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirt fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don't have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when that fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don't have to fear it
I just want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on girl....

[Pilar]

Nalu you should hear 'Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' while looking down on Sault St Marie or out over lake Superior up at International falls.

Superior is an ocean not a lake.

Do we have any other Salty Dog Zappa-tistas?

[Mark Mc]

John, for someone to admit he/she is a big Zappa fan, is letting one big skeleton out of the closet!

[Phil Layer]

8 Knots,

My first boat (22' Uniflite) was named the Mystic after that song.

As Radar would say, "It's a good one."

[Smily]

I like Zappa. Songs like Don't eat that yellow snow, jewish princess, Fox hole, Disco boy crack me up. Right now I have a Baby snakes dvd I'm renting. Only got 1/2 of an hour out of 3 hrs on the DVD last night. Pretty cool stuff.

[8knots]

Zappa...something about going to Montana and Susie Creamcheese....right?

My first trawler was named Avalon Sunset after another Van album.

I am getting ready to go online to buy a new album by Toots Hibbert, the rasta man who coined the term reggae in 1968. New album has duets with Keith Richards, Clapton, Willie Nelson, Ryan Adams, Bonnie Raitt, No Doubt and Bunny Wailer.

I also think Bob Marley goes pretty well with boating and fishing.

[Hawg Caller]

Billy Joel from the cd "storm front" the down easter elexis..."if you work with the rod and the reel, tell my wife I'am trolling atlantis and I still have my hands on the wheel.!

[Mr.Kitch'nPass]

Some of us sailers call her home,Shes big and shes strong and shes mighty.Some of us sailers call her our own.I guess thats the reason why I treat her like a lady.
(Treat her like a lady. Buffet)

Iam only 14 years old and i got to say you guys got a supreme taste of music

I got one by a guy who lives in Newport not sure his name or the name of the song:

Sam read the fish finder like his favorite book and said jeff you got bait on your hook theres a big one down there and its a chinook he guned the troller gave me a look. He said were right on him without missing a beat and yelled dropp your line down to 42 feet and if you dont screw up it wont be long someone in this boats gunna sing fishon. Fishon Fishon. well he surfaced once and swam back down sam said hes just bout 29 pounds i said cut him lose that aint gunna work sam said jeff you stupid jerk. You know they dont bite like this all the time I said sam we here on my dime and I got a bet with my old friend dan I am coming home with a 50 pounder in hand. Fishon fishon i may be crazy for letting him go go i got to think big to collect my doe. Well the boat went silent as we set him free sam just sat there staring at me smoking a burou spitting in the sea i was getting hungry and i had to pee. We were about to give up and go home i felt a tug on my rod like none i known it was amonous like a monster from the deep i said this is the one i believe ill keep.fishon fishon. cant catch a king reeling like a little girl. I was barley hanging on when the fish master cried hes draging the boat taking for a ride . I knw i needed all my streingth right now as the fish yaked my butt from the stern to the bow.
Ibut i didnt let go though my knuckles were white and that aint all I am mounting your fat scaley but on my wall. It took three hours to that that fish we were taking on water barely afloat. when we reched the dock on the crowd gathered round they said we heard ont eh air hw waspulling you down I said dont believe all you hear it aint always true i was playing that king its my job its what i do. Then we hung it from the scale for the whole world to see it wasnt 50 it was F*&#$@% 53.

Thats it. Great song about fishin and its a true story too

Here's a song about the sea and lost love that you Salty Dogs might like.
It's on the "Daylight Again" album by CSN and is one of my favorite songs of all time. I also recommend "Lee Shore" by David Crosby.

SOUTHERN CROSS by Stephen Stills

Got out of town on a boat, going to Southern islands.
Sailing a reach before a following sea.
She was making for the trades on the outside, and the downhill run to Papeete.

Off the wind on this heading lie the Marquesas,
we got eighty feet of the waterline, nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon, I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized why twice you ran away.

Think about how many times I have fallen. Spirits are using me, larger voices calling.
What heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world, looking for that woman-girl who knows love can endure.
And you know it will, and you know it will.

When you see the Southern Cross for the first time,
you understand now why you came this way.
Cause the truth you might be running from is so small.
But it's as big as the promise, the promise of a coming day.
So I'm sailing for tomorrow, my dreams are a dying.
And my love is an anchor tied to you, tied with a silver chain.
I have my ship and all her flags are a flying.
She is all that I have left and music is her name.

Think about how many times I have fallen. Spirits are using me, larger voices calling.
What heaven brought you and me cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world, looking for that woman-girl who knows love can endure.
And you know it will, and you know it will.

So we cheated and we lied and we tested
and we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do.
You will survive being bested.
Somebody fine will come along, make me forget about loving you at the Southern Cross.

[Salty Walty]

There is not much of a reference to fishing but
"Summertime" sung by Janis Joplin. The words and music always femind me of a relaxing day fishing.

[Beefcake]

spinifera- good topic, and you hit on one of my favorite songs. However, the very next line is my favorite: "I've read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles." Unfortunately, my girlfriend's kids usually fish with me, so I have to trade my parrot music for "Yo, yo, yo... I'm Slim Shady, bro!"