Wednesday, September 25, 2013

A HULL OF A GOOD TIME:  With the America's Cup race locked up at 8-8 with the dramatic finale set for this afternoon, you are invited to share with us your favorite sailing songs, or something we should hate about our New Zealand rivals. Or both.  (Of course, our Canadian readers are allowed to remain neutral regarding those kiwi-eating moa killers.)

23 comments:

  1. Christopher Cross! (Who's the only person to win all four top Grammys in a single year.)

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  2. Joseph Finn11:07 AM

    If it wasn't for New Zealand and it's magnificent landscapes, Anna Paquin would never have stolen Winona Ryder's Oscar. That's all I have.

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  3. Adam B.11:35 AM

    If only Bob Newhart had released a single off 'The Button-Down Mind ..."

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  4. Joseph Finn12:04 PM

    Also, the best sailing song is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (which is also an excellent bear from Great Lakes Brewery in Cleveland).

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  5. isaac_spaceman12:07 PM

    I'm inclined to believe that roaring back from a complete shutout was in Ellison's plans all along so that the deciding race would occur during the Oracle OpenWorld conference that has every hotel room in San Francisco and Oakland booked (according to my cab driver last night).


    On songs, I'll go with "Farewell to Nova Scotia," and I will punch Christopher Cross in the face for good measure.

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  6. We stayed at a beach house this summer that had a record player, a stack of 70s and 80s albums, and a panoramic view of the sunset over the water. I think we played the Christopher Cross album about 100 times over 4 days (when we weren't playing Wham - Make it Big or the Go-Go's). Perfection.

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  7. Is a freighter really sailing, though? (And yes, if you had used "seafaring", I would have pointed out it sank in a lake, I'm a jerk that way.)


    Unrelated, isn't it nice to see Sunderland as the bigger Geordie joke team?

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  8. Joseph Finn1:26 PM

    But it's a GREAT lake!


    As for Sunderland....wow, have you ever seen a manager lose a team quite that quickly?

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  9. Genevieve3:12 PM

    "The Grey Funnel Line," sung by Silly Sisters (Maddy Prior and June Tabor). Though I'm also fond of "The Skye Boat Song", from a purely aesthetic viewpoint.

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  10. I'm going with "Beyond the Sea," Bobby Darin.


    Although I've been known to turn the radio up when "Brandy, You're a Fine Girl" comes on the radio...

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  11. La Binsk3:17 PM

    Nooooo! Don't punch out Christopher Cross. I love that song.

    And now I'll offer up another sailing song - Southern Cross by Crosby, Stills, & Nash (hoping nobody's want to punch them out next).

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  12. La Binsk3:19 PM

    P.S.

    Autocorrect sucks.

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  13. Look. even though it's about a terrible voyage, "Sloop John B" has to make the list, right?

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  14. Governor Squid4:36 PM

    I think it's a lot safer to think of it as an inland sea where you're never very far from a lee shore. At least, it is if you're planning to go out there.

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  15. christy in nyc4:37 PM

    Nerd alert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXRWdySrjDc

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  16. isaac_spaceman4:39 PM

    Yacht rock, yuck. That song is musical Prozac.


    On CSN, I am sad to admit that I will not offer to punch them out. For one thing, I had a long period of my life when I loved CSNY, and I still find a lot of that stuff listenable. Southern Cross is probably the second-worst of their greatest hits (behind "Our House"), but I'll forgive a lot for David Crosby's cry-scream-singing in the fade-out of "Ohio."

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  17. You don't f--- with players' condiments.

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  18. isaac_spaceman6:39 PM

    I guess that there is a world where "Sailing" and "Sloop John B" are songs to which people voluntarily listen, and then there also is the world in which I choose to live, and there is a big fat brick wall in between the two of them, I hope.

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  19. bill.6:42 PM

    "Brandy, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
    "What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
    "But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"

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  20. bill.6:43 PM

    I'm in for a buck for the face punching

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  21. Adam C.10:51 PM

    Yes, yes, yes to Split Enz.

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  22. Sophietje10:42 AM

    Agree with this 100%- Ellison is an egomaniac, and this wouldn't surprise me in the least.

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