What about "Octopus's Garden"  thats about as malacological a reference I've
ever seen on a pop song.
 
ferreter wrote:
 
> Nice Ross but if you have a sister with a new 45 of "She loves you , ya ya
> ya " and plays it for 5 hours straight you kinda find the Beatles a bit
> nauseating.
> For me "Duke Ellington"
> Didn the Beatles ever write of play a song about shells? Who was the Walrus,
> was it a reference to a over zealous Sheller, a stoop backed sanibleian? or
> a 1 ton mammal that eats mostly bivalves it scrapes off the sea bottom with
> those ivory tusks ?
> Mark James & Peta Susan Bethke
> 3001 South Ocean Dr. Suite 4-V
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Mayhew <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Saturday, May 08, 1999 5:03 AM
> Subject: Re: A shelling Adventure - elbows or not!!
>
> >Scott;
> >        When you are the only non-fisherman on a boat, you don't usually
> get to
> >pick music you can live with !!  (and stucturally-speaking, most country
> >and western and most "extreme" forms of rock are actually quite similar
> >- I IV V V7 IIIm VIm - simple chords endlessly and often mindlessly
> >repeated in not-so-novel sequences, unimaginatively strophic with
> >seldom-changing refrains - now the Beatles - THEY wrote music even a
> >musicologist can love!!! (unfortunately, not too many Nova Scotia
> >scallopers dig the ***really*** cool cats - Miles Davis, Phelonius Monk,
> >Dave Brubeck, Lenny Bro - these are unknown in the fishing crowd
> >(likewise Josquin, Pergolesi, Gabrielli, Ockeghem, Machaud, Thomas Luigi
> >de Vittoria, Messien (check out Quartet For the End of Time!!) , Billy
> >Joel (ok some may have heard of him!).....) But it grows later than you
> >think, so enjoy yourself and i think this message is wandering
> >off-topic......did anyone ever write music about shells (there, i said
> >the magic word!!)?
> >-Ross M.
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> >