Imaginary Lovers

Imaginary Lovers March 20, 2011

Posted by Michael in Stupid shit.
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Yup, the header refers to an Atlanta Rhythm Section classic. Hippies actually did some good stuff.

Here’s how it sounds on a vinyl album at 33 rpm.

So, lets just say you were a radio station disc jockey previously playing a 45 rpm single, and forgot to change speeds before playing the LP version of Imaginary Lover. What contemporary artist did it sound like?!?

Thanks to Retired Geezer for the tip, and see a hint below the break if you don’t recognize the voice.

Comments

1. daveintexas - March 19, 2011: I bet that fat dude in the silk shirt is the bass player and he can’t sing for shit.

*grumbles
2. Lipstick - March 19, 2011: That’s wild.
3. Andy - March 19, 2011: I’m glad Ronnie Hammond isn’t alive to see this desecration! (He was buried yesterday)

http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1660231/services-held-for-atlanta-rhythm-section-singer-ronnie-hammond.jhtml
4. Michael - March 19, 2011: I’m glad Ronnie Hammond isn’t alive to see this desecration! (He was buried yesterday)

Wow, Andy!

Talk about bad timing for this post!!!

(I actually like the 45 rpm version much better. Fleetwood Mac should have done this song.)
5. kevl - March 19, 2011: Great song.
6. daveintexas - March 19, 2011: Imaginary lovers, never dis-agree.
7. lauraw - March 19, 2011: I wonder how well this would work in reverse.
8. daveintexas - March 19, 2011: they’re always there, they’re always near when you need.

Satisfaction guaranteed.
9. MCPO Airdale - March 19, 2011: I buried Paul
10. Retired Geezer - March 19, 2011: Good job, turning this into a post.
11. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: So, let’s see, how many songs are there anyway about rubbin one out? This one, I can think of a Jackson Browne tune called “Rosie”. Others?

This is important.
12. kevl - March 20, 2011: “Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady?”
13. kevl - March 20, 2011: Whole Lotta Love.
14. kevl - March 20, 2011: The Chicken Dance.
15. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Say A Little Prayer For You
16. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Desperado
17. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Feeling Hot Hot Hot
18. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Imagine
19. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Smells Like Teen Spirit
20. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: Endless Love
21. lauraw - March 20, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP4buaa4ouY
22. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: Oh duh, forgot that one. One hit wonder group, the Divinyls.
23. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: >> Once, Twice, Three Times

Three times. Oh sure, if you’re like, Superman or something.
24. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Be Good To Yourself
25. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Centerfold
26. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Hold On Loosely
27. lauraw - March 20, 2011: Relax
28. lauraw - March 20, 2011: With Or Without You
29. lauraw - March 20, 2011: The Stroke

Beat It

Urgent

Under Pressure

Making Love Out Of Nothing At All

Love Walks In

Every Time You Go Away
30. doc - March 20, 2011: Turning Japanese
31. doc - March 20, 2011: Dancing With Myself
32. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: You know, I should have known it was more than two, given that the subject matter is important to people.

“Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
33. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: Fleetwood Mac did a cover version of this song?

Well, we know what that means…..
34. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: >So, let’s see, how many songs are there anyway about rubbin one out?

Knocking on Heaven’s Door?

I Am The Walrus?

SWLABR?
35. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: Tequila Sunrise
36. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: More Than a Feeling.
37. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: Knockin on Heaven’s Door
38. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: wait, that one is about sex with two people.

…

ok, how about “Legs”?
39. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: Tequila Sunrise
40. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: Spirit in the Sky
41. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: A Passage to Bangkok.
42. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: that was pretty good wasn’t it?

Sometimes I even impress myself.
43. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: One Night in Bangkok
44. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: You’re just goin to school on me now.

Fag.
45. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: I Hope You Dance
46. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: Volcano

(Jimmy Buffet)
47. Cathy - March 20, 2011: *shows up*

*checks comments*

*makes stiff martini with a twist*

*smiles, winks, waves bye-bye*
48. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: *makes stiff martini with a twist*

Little early, ain’t it?
49. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: Killjoy
50. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw.
51. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: That’s for two people
52. Cathy - March 20, 2011: *makes stiff martini with a twist*
Little early, ain’t it?

It’s 3:00 p.m. Duh! ??

Killjoy.
Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw.

See, Wiser… Some folk’s got the right idea…
53. Michael - March 20, 2011: Simply Irresistible.
54. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: >> That’s for two people

Not if I’m by myself. So there.
55. Cathy - March 20, 2011: Paul Goddard – Atlanta Rhythm Section bass player waaaaaay back.

Dave = genius. Fin.
56. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: Oh my God.. he looks like me.

*sigh
57. Cathy - March 20, 2011: Would somebody fix my html-tag @ #55, please?

Fanx.
58. wiserbud - March 20, 2011: Dave = genius. Fin.

It’s not like he wrote the song……
59. lauraw - March 20, 2011: That eagle thing is making IB load slower than a fat girl doing the last flight up the Empire State Building.
60. BrewFan - March 20, 2011: Chicken Dance
61. TXMarko - March 20, 2011: Am I the only one who thought the sped-up version sounded like Reba McEntire?
62. Michael - March 20, 2011: Yes.
63. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: It totally sounds like the Fleetwood Mac chick.
64. Cathy - March 20, 2011: It totally sounds like the Fleetwood Mac chick.

yeppers…
65. Michael - March 20, 2011: Right down to the tone, pitch and vibrato, it sounds like Stevie Nicks.
66. Dave in Texas - March 20, 2011: >> It’s not like he wrote the song……

I covered it though.
67. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: I had two bowls of Captain Crunch for lunch. Alert the media.
68. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: All that stuff about the cereal company not promoting it any more because it’s bad for you reminded me how good it tastes.

Nanny State Fail
69. daveintexas - March 20, 2011: oooo
70. kevl - March 20, 2011: Capn Crunch is da bomb but it tears up the inside of your mouth. The crunch cuts pretty deep. Good stuff.
71. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: Yep Dave, I’m a REBEL!!! Rough, tough, scooter-riding badass.
72. Lipstick - March 20, 2011: Kevl, what’s shakin?
73. GrumpyUnk - March 20, 2011: That is downright spooky how much that sounds like Stevie Nicks.

I always thought that was a creepy assed song and wondered just who in the hell would want their name on that as the songwriter. Hell, it still gets airplay and ASCAP is probably helping out the writer even now.

Several of the guys in the ARSection were part of the band, The Classics IV. Listen to their hit songs, “Stormy” or “Spooky” and you can hear the connection.
74. Retired Geezer - March 21, 2011: Several of the guys in the ARSection were part of the band, The Classics IV. Listen to their hit songs, “Stormy” or “Spooky” and you can hear the connection.

Hey, that’s something I didn’t know.
I used to be a DJ, (the radio kind).
75. sandy burger - March 21, 2011: “She Bop”, by Cyndi Lauper.
76. Mark in NJ - March 21, 2011: “Pictures of Lily” – the Who
77. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: “Ode to Joy”
78. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Bittersweet Symphony
79. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Tonight I Wanna Cry
80. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Here I Go Again
81. lauraw - March 21, 2011: You’re Only Human
82. doc - March 21, 2011: Obsession

hehheh at ode to joy – goot vun
83. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Since I Don’t Have You
84. lauraw - March 21, 2011: What Is Love
85. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Wishing You Were Here
86. lauraw - March 21, 2011: I Can’t Make You Love Me
87. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Hewwo??

Man, this is awfully lonely.

I’m in here just playing this game all by myself.

*rimshot
88. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: I Ain’t Missing You
89. Retired Geezer - March 21, 2011: Uh…. Born to Lose?

*unclear on the concept*
90. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: It’s a one-person job really.
91. geoff - March 21, 2011: The Hand Song
92. Cathy - March 21, 2011: The Lone Ranger

*dunno rulz*
93. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Alone Again, Naturally
94. Mark in NJ - March 21, 2011: All I Have to Do is Dream
95. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Good one!
96. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Puff the Magic Dragon
97. geoff - March 21, 2011: Losing my Grip
98. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Willie and the Hand Jive
99. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Hold on Loosely

…Wait, no….
100. geoff - March 21, 2011: Me, Myself, and I
101. geoff - March 21, 2011: One is the Loneliest Number
102. geoff - March 21, 2011: “I polished up that handle so carefully That now I am the Ruler of the Queen’s Navy.”
103. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Take on me
104. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Whip it
105. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Sylvia’s Mother
106. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Tainted Love
107. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: I Touch Myself – Divinyls
108. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Coming Up

Working My Way Back To You
109. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Betcha By Golly Wow
110. skinbad - March 21, 2011: The One That You Love

Slow Hand
111. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Always On My Mind

Shake it Up

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
112. Cathy - March 21, 2011: *getting the hang on the rulz-thing*
113. lauraw - March 21, 2011: I Am A Rock
114. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Funeral for a Friend
115. Cathy - March 21, 2011: I Think We’re Alone Now
116. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Goin’ to Big D and I Don’t Mean Dallas
117. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Funeral for a Friend

bwa ha ha haa

Ohhh. You wanna do *inappropriate* titles for songs about masturbation?

Okay.
118. lauraw - March 21, 2011: WORST TITLES FOR SONGS ABOUT MASTURBATION!
GO!
119. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Tequila Sunrise.
120. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Bowl Of Oranges
121. lauraw - March 21, 2011: I don’t get the tequila sunrise thing.
122. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Tough Enough
123. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Running on Empty

A Boy Named Sue

WOLD
124. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: I don’t get the tequila sunrise thing.

Read comments 34-39
125. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Sunday Bloody Sunday
126. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Daddy’s Hands.

(yes, it’s an actual song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOAjAWToYMI)
127. Mark in NJ - March 21, 2011: don’t remember the name of the song but it had a good organ solo
128. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Come On Eileen
129. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: The First Cut is the Deepest
130. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Muskrat Love
131. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Eye of the Tiger
132. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Smokin’ in the Boys Room
133. skinbad - March 21, 2011: No Woman, No Cry
134. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: To Sir With Love
135. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough

Comfortably Numb
136. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Tears of a Clown
137. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Tumbling Dice

Carry on Wayward Son
138. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Why Don’t We Do It in the Road
139. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Come Monday
140. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Me And You And A Dog Named Boo
141. skinbad - March 21, 2011: ^Horse With No Name?

Norwegian Wood
142. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Tears of a Clown

OMG, I didn’t get that at first.
143. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Ave Maria
144. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Long Train Runnin
145. Michael - March 21, 2011: Whiter Shade of Pale
146. Michael - March 21, 2011: One Headlight
147. Michael - March 21, 2011: The Court of the Crimson King
148. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: OMG, I didn’t get that at first.

🙂
149. Cathy - March 21, 2011: I’m Too Sexy for My Shirt
150. Cathy - March 21, 2011: One Headlight

Bwaaaahahahaha! Fun-nay-Hub-bee!
151. Cathy - March 21, 2011: The Man in the Mirror
152. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Empty Garden

Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Love Lies Bleeding

Tiny Dancer
153. Michael - March 21, 2011: Rough Justice
154. Cathy - March 21, 2011: It’s My Party And I’ll Cry If I Want To
155. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Wipe Out!
156. wiserbud - March 21, 2011: Trololololo
157. Cathy - March 21, 2011: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
158. Michael - March 21, 2011: Hurts So Bad

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?
159. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: Crying in the Chapel

Bo Diddly

Whole Lot A Shakin’ Going On
160. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me

Twist And Shout

Glad All Over
161. Cathy - March 21, 2011: PattyAnn!!!!!!

*tackles*
162. Michael - March 21, 2011: Small Town

It’s A Small World
163. Michael - March 21, 2011: Yankee Doodle Dandy
164. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Eruption
165. Michael - March 21, 2011: Did anyone say “Beat It” yet?
166. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Stroke Me
167. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Crosstown Traffic
168. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Bus Stop
169. Michael - March 21, 2011: Shock The Monkey
170. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Under The Boardwalk
171. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Yesterday…
172. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Macarena
173. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Bridge of Size
174. Michael - March 21, 2011: Sledgehammer

If I Had A Hammer
175. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Ballroom Blitz
176. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do

*did sumbunny already say that?*
177. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Good Vibrations
178. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Fire Your Guns
179. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Mostly Martha
180. Michael - March 21, 2011: Cat Scratch Fever
181. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Lick it Up

(by KISS)
182. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Sittin’ On The Dock of the Bay
183. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Tootie Fruitie
184. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Whole Lot of Rosie
185. Michael - March 21, 2011: Losing My Religion
186. Cathy - March 21, 2011: One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer
187. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Leaving On a Jet Plane
188. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Into The Darkness
189. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Running On Empty

*did sumbunny already say this one too?*
190. Michael - March 21, 2011: Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory

(Traffic)
191. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Pocket Full Of Miracles
192. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Hard Day’s Night
193. Cathy - March 21, 2011: White Room
194. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Love Potion #9
195. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Don’t Look Now
196. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Looks like this didn’t take the first time:

Hard Day’s Night
197. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Eminence Front
198. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
199. Cathy - March 21, 2011: *gots some creative folks here*
200. lauraw - March 21, 2011: The Load Out
201. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Lovin’ Every Minute of It
202. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’
203. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Radar Love

*for my hubby*
204. lauraw - March 21, 2011: On The Willows
205. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Taxi
206. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: *waves to Cathy

Hi, all!
207. lauraw - March 21, 2011: Tommy Can You Hear Me
208. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: Jam Up And Jelly Tight

Mony, Mony
209. skinbad - March 21, 2011: Bad To The Bone
210. Cathy - March 21, 2011: Knock Three Times On the Ceiling
211. Dave in Texas - March 21, 2011: Rocket in My Pocket

(hi PA)
212. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Getcha Some
213. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: I Like To Move It
214. Michael - March 21, 2011: Head Games
215. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Like The Way I Do
216. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Got Me Under Pressure
217. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Woke Up With Wood

(ZZ Top)
218. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Amish Paradise
219. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: What The Cowgirls Do

(by Vince Gill)
220. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Warm Love
221. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Stranglehold

(The Nuge)
222. Cathy - March 21, 2011: The Days of Whine and Rosacea
223. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Pump Up The Jam
224. Cathy - March 21, 2011: More Than a Feeling
225. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: Walk This Way

Theme From Shaft
226. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Some Girls Do
227. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: Night Moves

You’re So Vein
228. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Pussy Control

(By Prince)
229. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Straight Up
230. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Down Under
231. Cathy - March 21, 2011: *creative commentary – like old times*

*pours glass of red wine*

*toasts everyone*
232. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Guys Do It All The Time
233. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: The Safety Dance
234. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: You Shook Me All Night Long

Down Under
235. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Fur Elise
236. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: Cotton-Eyed Joe

I’m So Excited
237. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: “Fur Elise”

Hahaha!
238. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: How are you feeling PattyAnn?
239. PattyAnn - March 21, 2011: Hey, Lips! A little progress everyday 🙂
240. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Glad to hear it, PA!
241. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Has someone already suggested “Whip It”?
242. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Expresso Love
243. Lipstick - March 21, 2011: Pop a Top

(Alan Jackson)
244. Retired Geezer - March 21, 2011: Tush
ZZ Top
245. Retired Geezer - March 21, 2011: Pinball Wizard.
246. daveintexas - March 21, 2011: Walkin the Dog
247. kevl - March 22, 2011: Perfect Strangers
(Deep Purple)
248. daveintexas - March 22, 2011: Blogging at Innocent Bystanders
249. Retired Geezer - March 22, 2011: Blogging at Innocent Bystanders in my underwear.

FIFY
250. Retired Geezer - March 22, 2011: Blogging at Innocent Bystanders in my assless chaps.

FIFM
251. daveintexas - March 22, 2011: Pop Goes the Weasel
252. Cathy - March 22, 2011: Rosie-Doats.
253. Retired Geezer - March 22, 2011: I worked the Anthony Newley show at Caesars Palace back in the 70’s. He sang Pop Goes the Weasel after explaining what he thought it was about.

Perhaps because of the obscure nature of the lyrics there have been many suggestions for their significance, particularly over the meaning of the phrase ‘Pop! goes the weasel’, including: that it is a tailor’s flat iron, a hatter’s tool, a clock reel used for measuring in spinning,[5] a piece of silver plate, or that ‘weasel and stoat’ is Cockney rhyming slang for ‘coat’, which is ‘popped or pawned’ to visit or after visiting the Eagle pub, that it is a mishearing of weevil or vaisselle, that it was a nickname of James I, and that ‘rice’ and ‘treacle’ are slang terms for potassium nitrate and charcoal and that therefore the rhyme refers to the gunpowder plot.

Obviously Dave’s explanation is the only one that will hold, uh… water.
254. Cathy - March 22, 2011: *Rosie-Doats*

^ Actually, it was called “Mare-see-doats*
255. xbradtc - March 22, 2011: I’m sorry, but I died laughing after DinT’s entry for worst masturbation song:

Come on Eileen
256. Dave in Texas - March 23, 2011: I don’t wanna brag but I think I pretty much won the internets with that one.
257. wiserbud - March 23, 2011: Come On Eileen
258. lauraw - March 23, 2011: I still don’t get Tequila Sunrise.
259. daveintexas - March 23, 2011: really? That was my second favorite.
260. Michael - March 23, 2011: Tequila Sunrise cracked me up too.

Maybe its a guy thing.
261. Retired Geezer - March 23, 2011: I didn’t get it either

*scratches bald spot*

*tears corner off man card*
262. Michael - March 23, 2011: (Pssst, Geezer, nobody got it. We’re just yankin’ Laura’s chain. I’m chuckling right now imagining her asking Scott to explain Tequila Sunrise.)
263. Cathy - March 23, 2011: Tequila Sunrise cracked me up too.

Maybe its a guy thing.

Um. I got it. And I’m betting Laura got it too…
264. lauraw - March 23, 2011: *hangs head*

No. Still no.

*shuffles off to eat paint chips off the windowsill*
265. doc - March 23, 2011: Aight, who broke the blog?
266. Cathy - March 23, 2011: Who touched it last?

*peers over sunglasses at Laura*
267. lauraw - March 23, 2011: *chews a paint chip with pie-eyed innocence*
268. Dave in Texas - March 23, 2011: I do think Pop Goes The Weasel was an easy second place entry.
269. Lipstick - March 23, 2011: Oh, and Good Vibrations is chopped liver??
270. Lipstick - March 23, 2011: Tommy Can You Hear Me

From Yentl:

Papa Can You Hear Me?
271. Brian - August 9, 2012: Both Ronnie Hammond and Stevie Nicks were interviewed about this phenomenon when it was first discovered, and both were astounded. I think Stevie did perform it live at one point, but I’m not sure. Can’t “imagine” Ronnie would have a problem with Stevie and he being mentioned in the same sentence. She’s still a pretty hot witch!
272. Brian - August 9, 2012: Oh, that last post in response to post #3, and the following as a response to just about every post since:

“Fat Man in a Bathtub” and “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome”