Comments on: Top Ten Songs About Rivers http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Reggae Fan http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-58449 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:19:56 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-58449 Number one and number five are my favorites. Jimmy Cliff is the man. Number one and number five are my favorites. Jimmy Cliff is the man.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-27579 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:16:17 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-27579 Thanks Joe. Waterloo Sunset's fine, but it doesn't make my top ten. Thanks Joe. Waterloo Sunset’s fine, but it doesn’t make my top ten.

]]> by: Joe http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-27554 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:22:13 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-27554 Hate to be late, but you've missed some very obvious ones: 'Waterloo Sunset' by The Kinks 'Find the River' by R.E.M. 'Green River' by CCR And the not so obvious 'Mersey Paradise' by the Stone Roses, which is arguably the best song ever written about a river. Hate to be late, but you’ve missed some very obvious ones:

‘Waterloo Sunset’ by The Kinks
‘Find the River’ by R.E.M.
‘Green River’ by CCR

And the not so obvious ‘Mersey Paradise’ by the Stone Roses, which is arguably the best song ever written about a river.

]]> by: Wendolyn http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-1933 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:29:30 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-1933 "On the third day he took me to the river He showed me the roses and we kissed And the last thing I heard was a muttered word As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist" Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue's Where the Wild Roses Grow, of course. Is merely mentioning a river enough? I'm guessing not. “On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he stood smiling above me with a rock in his fist”

Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow, of course.

Is merely mentioning a river enough? I’m guessing not.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-983 Fri, 26 May 2006 08:18:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-983 How about a song BY Rivers? Rivers Cuomo of Weezer? Would that count? Not that I heave heard much of his work. How about a song BY Rivers? Rivers Cuomo of Weezer? Would that count?

Not that I heave heard much of his work.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-982 Fri, 26 May 2006 03:11:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-982 I KNOW the song doesn't have anything to do with rivers, it was just the line in it about bringing the 'family down to the riverside if you wanna stay alive' thing. WHat this has to do with cameras on a wire I'll never know;) I KNOW the song doesn’t have anything to do with rivers, it was just the line in it about bringing the ‘family down to the riverside if you wanna stay alive’ thing.
WHat this has to do with cameras on a wire I’ll never know;)

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-981 Thu, 25 May 2006 22:30:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-981 Scroll down. Scroll down. Scroll scroll scroll. Scroll - wait. No, down a bit more. Keep going. Scroll scroll. Hang on. No. Scroll. THERE! Just below Boney M's Rivers of Babylon Scroll down.
Scroll down.
Scroll scroll scroll.
Scroll - wait.
No, down a bit more.
Keep going. Scroll scroll. Hang on. No.
Scroll.
THERE! Just below Boney M’s Rivers of Babylon

]]> by: meg http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-980 Thu, 25 May 2006 21:17:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-980 I'm not seeing Billy Joel's River of Dreams here. Oh. Maybe there's a reason for that. I’m not seeing Billy Joel’s River of Dreams here.

Oh. Maybe there’s a reason for that.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-979 Thu, 25 May 2006 20:37:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-979 You could do, if your list had nothing whatsoever to do with rivers. Only joking Ed - liked your cameras on a wire analogy, Ed. That stayed with me all day. You could do, if your list had nothing whatsoever to do with rivers.

Only joking Ed - liked your cameras on a wire analogy, Ed. That stayed with me all day.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-978 Thu, 25 May 2006 18:29:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/05/25/top-ten-songs-about-rivers/#comment-978 I was going to suggest 'Burn Down the Mission', by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, but it really isn't about a river, it's really about something else. But there's a riverside mentioned in it. I was going to suggest ‘Burn Down the Mission’, by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, but it really isn’t about a river, it’s really about something else. But there’s a riverside mentioned in it.

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