As I’ve mentioned before, our 10-year-old boy is a serial song obsessive. He’ll fall in love with a song, then spend the next week or two playing the same song as many as 30 times in a row, learning the lyrics and mimicking every nuance of the vocals. He’s not a big fan of long fadeouts, so his love affairs with The Rolling Stones‘ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and The Who‘s “Getting in Tune” would be cut short and the songs repeated as soon as the extended jams commenced. Once he’s moved onto a new song he will still circle back every few days with a favorite song from the past. Now that I think about it, it’s been some time since he’s started this practice. David Bowie‘s “Changes” was the first song that really caught his ear. This 2008 post developed out of repeated listens to that song.
Anyhow, our younger son lives among 3 other rock snobs. His ear is superb and his taste in music is generally strong, although now and then he does get turned onto Top 40 songs like Adele‘s “Rolling in the Deep” from his school friends. (We may have to consider home schooling…) Past the 15th spin of any song, be it a song I obsessed over as at his age, like The Band‘s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” or “Party Rock Anthem” (as I think it’s called), my wife, 15-year-old son, and I yell in unison: PUT YOUR HEADPHONES ON!
One song our younger son loves that has cause him and his big brother to literally come to blows over is the Styx anthem “Come Sail Away.” Our boy got into the song thanks to an episode of Freaks and Geeks. He loves it the way a 10-year-old was meant to love it. My wife and I can’t stand that song, but we can admit to appreciating its charms at his age. Our older boy is way too cool for school. He may be cooler than his dad at this point. He won’t stand for “Come Sail Away.” Until the other night.
Sunday night we were driving home from a joint birthday dinner for our recently 14-year-0ld boy and my younger brother, the kid I once assaulted for playing KISS albums in my presence. “Come Sail Away” came on the radio. At first I only knew it was a Styx song and that I hated it. Then I thought of our youngest son and the kick he would get from hearing it randomly on the radio. He perked up before I could think better of it and turn the dial. “Oh no!” our oldest son moaned in mock horror. Our little guy started singing along at the top of his lungs. My wife joined in. I joined. Even cool guy Big Brother went along with it and joined in. We sang along as we approached our house, trying to match our little guy’s enthusiasm. We laughed. It was probably the most television-like moment of my life. It was a moment to cherish.
I still hate Styx and that song, and as soon as I got out of the car my Cool-o-meter kicked back in and I had the following thought: Excluding anything by The Beach Boys, who feature a would-be ship’s Captain in the band, are there any good rock ‘n roll songs about sailing?
I look forward to your suggestions.
Wooden Ships.
Mmm…I partially hate that song, but I partially like it. That’s a decent answer! Will it find any mates on deck?
The best songs about sailing were always metaphors about getting high. Or sometimes there was nothing metaphoric about it (“Heroin” by Velvet Underground)
“I partially hate that song, but I partially like it”–exactly!
“Heroin” is a great entry. (But Rock Town Hall does not support its use, kidz!) Nice work, Mr. Slouch, and welcome aboard.
“I’m Your Captain.”
If you suppress the “good” and “rock and roll” parts of the equation, you have Christopher Cross’ “Sailing,” Little River Band’s “Cool Change,” and of course the immortal Starbuck’s “Moonlight Feels Right.”
Slightly better, though still well back of “Wooden Ships,” are CSN’s “Southern Cross” and McCartney’s “Wanderlust” from Tug of War.
It isn’t really about sailing but Dylan’s “When the Ship Comes In” is a great song.
Actually, so is “Sail On” by the Commodores but that isn’t about sailing, either. Still, underrated, in my book. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-ivWxy5KE
Isn’t that what AC/DC’s “Let Me Put My Love Into You” is about?
Shiver Me Timbers – Tom Waits
Hey without Wooden Ships there wouyld have been no Starship, and thus no We Built This City. So think before you hate.
Which do y’all prefer, the Airplane version of the CS&N version?
Ray wants to sail away to a distant shore and make like an “Apeman” in that Kinks song.
CSN.
Jimmy Buffett – “Son of a Son of a Sailor”. One of his better ballads.
Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve listened to either version. Let me sample them now and get back to you. If memory serves I may actually prefer the Mansion Family harmonies of the Airplane on this version to the Rug harmonies of CSNY…
OK, I just listened to a few minutes of excerpts from each. I think CSNY’s version is “better” – better guitar parts, better singing, etc – but I think the Airplane’s version is more appropriate. It sounds really dirty and nasty, the way people would have smelled on a ship across the ocean back then. It’s more primitive. I can’t believe I’m saying this (well, I don’t like CSNY either), but I think I get a little more of a kick out of the Airplane’s version.
Which do you prefer, BigSteve?
(making puking gesture)
That song’s pretty good until the endless “I’m getting closer” fade. For that reason, can we accept that as an actually “good” song about sailing?
David Bowie – “Red Sails”,
Yeah, but the whole song’s not about sailing. There are probably lots of sailing references through Arthur, but no specific sailing song, if memory serves.
Rod Stewart’s Sailing. Not very rock, just throwing it out there.
(making motion to make room at the toilet bowl)
This from the guy that brings up Christopher Cross, Little River Band, and Starbuck.
Brandy (You’re a fine girl)
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Procol Harum’s A Salty Dog is finally about giving up sailing, but I think it qualifies, and it’s a great song.
“Brandy” is not bad, but what’s “good” about “The Wreck…”?
Well, it’s definitely the best song about sailing by Grand Funk Railroad that I can think of. And this clip is pretty memorable in its way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyF5J7au1jE
I’ll buy that one.
I’m surprised at how many, at least, decent songs there are about sailing, even if we exclude “Sloop John B.” [Cue: “And don’t forget ‘Sail on Sailor’!”]
And of course “Land Ho!”
(I’m suprised that you didn’t think of this Mr Mod)
Yeah, but tony, I made it clear that those aren’t good! Read the fine print, my man.
The best sailing song is Quasi’ “Sea Shanty” about a mutiny gone horribly wrong.
Repair the hull, replace the sails.
The monkey wrestles with the ghost
And a thousand pleasures form a thin veneer
Over lack of hope.
The captain was rightly murdered by the crew
But now they don’t know what to do
The Doors song or is there another of that same name?
And of course, even if it’s really about an electric keyboard, “Ride Captain Ride,” a divisive song here at RTH,
Toots & the Maytals — Sailing On:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPNln7nPCJc
I don’t really hear any nautical references here, but I can never tell what he’s saying and anyway it’s such a great track I don’t care.
Pogues, “Greenland Whale Fisheries” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtR8e_uf_s8
There’s Crystal Ship too, which seems to fit into the category of drug songs that use sailing and a metaphor for being stoned.
Am I crazy or doesn’t Iron Maiden have a “musical” adaptation of Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner? I remember being told this. Obviously it must be very long and unintentionally hilarious.
Don’t forget “Horse Latitudes”!
Here’s a cool duet between Charlie Rich and Jerry Lee Lewis on a song called Sail Away (not the Randy Newman song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HEhcRBitU
Maybe I’ve been around too many marinas and on too many sailboats in my life (or eaten too much seafood) but I’m not actively offended by Jimmy Buffett.
JEEZ! “Land Ho” has got to be my favorite sailing song. Thanks, bro.
The Doors
Roger McGuinn – “Jolly Roger”.
On behalf of Tvox, who’s having trouble logging on at the moment, a song that ranks up there with “Land Ho!” in my book, Every Mother’s Son’s “Come on Over My Boat”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50b-Q-Z1bF0
I’ll be interested in your boy’s thoughts on John Densmore’s deft drums in the song next time I see him.
GREAT song but I may have to call BS on that choice – they make reference to a fishing boat not necessarily a *sail* boat.
Taking off the Pince Nez
“Frigging in the Rigging,” Sex Pistols
Ahoy! Scurvies! Listen to this then!
It was on the good ship Venus
By Christ, ya shoulda seen us
The figurehead was a whore in bed
And the mast was a mammoth penis
The captain of this lugger
He was a dirty bugger
He wasn’t fit to shovel shit
From one place to another
Chorus:
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
Friggin’ in the riggin’
There was fuck all else to do
The captains name was Morgan
By Christ, he was a gorgon
Ten times a day sweet tunes he’d play
On his fuckin’ organ
The first mate’s name was Cooper
By Christ he was a trooper.
He jerked and jerked until he worked
Himself into a stupor
Chorus
Hold on! Give it some BOLLOCKS!!
The second mate was Andy
By Christ, he had a dandy
Till they crushed his cock with a jagged rock
For cumming in the brandy
The cabin boy was Flipper
He was a fuckin’ nipper
So he stuffed his ass with broken glass
And circumcised the skipper
Chorus
Ahoy! Jimmy!
Chorus
The Captain’s wife was Mabel
To fuck she was not able
So the dirty shits, they nailed her tits
Across the barroom table
The Captain had a daughter
Who fell in deep sea water
Delighted squeals revealed that eels
Had found ‘er sexual quarters
“Red Sails in the Sunset” – The Platters, Fats Domino, and others.
I win.
“Rock the Boat” by Hues Corporation?
And yet they “sail away.”
I dunno, I’d look to imagine him reciting “Horse Latitudes” at the top of his lungs.
I prefer the Airplane version.
YES, a personal Top 5 sailing song, assuming that boat sails.
Though I have to admit I prefer the Christopher Cross version of this song.
Good one – and The Milkshakes’ “Black Sails in the Sunset” to boot. (I think Costello also has B-side included one of the Trust reissues that has a title like this – also a pretty good song.)
They’ve “been sailing with a cargo full of love and devotion.”
Mmm, I’m taking your word for it. I wish your boating knowledge would have saved me from an inaccurate boating reference in an old Head song.
Of course! I’m usually too busy doing the bump to listen to the lyrics.
I really like Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, mainly because I like Gordon Lightfoot anyway, like very long story songs (Brit folk roots showing) and think that it builds amazingly well as the story develops.
GL doesn’t get played on the radio over here, so one doesn’t just happen upon his music. I can imagine that if I had heard it on the radio over and over again at a certain age that I may think very differently about it.
Nice one!
I’ve always been very partial to Lulu’s version of Neil Diamond’s “The Boat That I Row”
I call foul on the vast majority of these, as there’s no proof they actually reference *sailing* vessels.
I’ll second some that I would have brought up myself: Wanderlust, Land Ho, A Salty Dog, Ride Captain Ride and Quasi’s Sea Shanty. They’d all make the cut on my “ten best songs about boats/sailing/ghost pirates”. Sloop John B (which I really do like) and Sail On Sailor would be in contention, too.
Some more contenders:
-Split Enz’ “Six Months In a Leaky Boat”
-The Fiery Furnaces’ “Sing For Me” (possibly the only lost at sea song with a happy ending?) and “Blueberry Boat” (probably too long of a song for these purposes)
-Danielson’s “Cast It At The Setting Sail”
-ELO’s “Illusions in G Major” (I’m pushing it with “good” now, I’m sure, but it’s pretty much a first run at “Hold On Tight”)
I assume the narrator in Queen’s “Seven Seas of Rhye” has to be a ship’s captain, doesn’t he?
Exactly. “Come on down, we’ll sail away.”
For Philly acts, Joey Sweeney has a song called “Tiny Ships” in which the crew lash him to the mast.
I am also on Team Edmund Fitzgerald, but it was not a sailing vessel. It was a freighter that sank in 1975. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald
Brandy kicks ass but is it about sailing or just about boats? This matters!
Ah, but the Hall’s very own Captain andyr may disqualify that as a rowboat entry.
Perhaps yet another in the sailing as metaphor for drugs category, but Cream’s “Tales of Brave Ulysses.”
Given Plant’s Tolkein/magic/swords/quests leanings, I’m willing to assume Zeppelin’s “What Is and What Should Never Be” can be taken at face value when he talks about sailing away and the wind not blowing.
(“The Ocean”, however, is not about an ocean.)
Wait a minute, Come Sail Away is not about sailing ships. It’s about flying away with aliens. With that in mind, I feel comfortable throwing Flying Saucer Rock and Roll by Billy Riley into the ring.
Love this song — my personal winner!
Okay, what about “What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor” then?
Brandy is about having a girl in every port, not sailing.
In fairness, that IS the best song that’s been mentioned so far, and the only one that I can hum right now.
“Sail” as a verb does not necessarily refer to sailboats. “The cruise ship is sailing to the Bahamas next week” and “The cargo ship sailed to China” are both acceptable and common usage.
He’s definitely a sailor who also happens to get kidnapped by aliens. Like, they come down and literally beam him off his sea ship onto their space ship.
After that, his fate is unclear. I assume the aliens return him to earth centuries in the future where he teams up with Kilroy to liberate rock music from the evil robot empire.
Or they just eat him once they get him on the spaceship.
Certainly. My wife knew that. Sailing can be sailing, even without sails. Sail on, sailors.
A lot of sailing goes on in the course of Van Morrison’s “Listen to the Lions.” I love that song. Another Top 5 sailing song, as far as I’m concerned, even if it takes a while for him to sing about sailing.
Best Rock & Roll song about sailing? Duh! Frankie Ford – “Sea Cruise” – “Got to boogie woogie like a knife in the back!”
Not really Rock & Roll, but Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea” is a pretty swingin’ number for all the hep cats and kittens…
Is that Led Zep “Immigrant Song” all about marauding Vikings storming distant lands in their fierce warships…and stuff.
I think I like the CSN version better. It’s lighter especially when they go to double time. I prefer the tone of Stills’ lead guitar to that quacking sound Jorma always used. The Airplane version is generally more ponderous, like they took the lyrics seriously, which I can’t.
I nominate this entire two-CD set, which came out a few years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue%27s_Gallery:_Pirate_Ballads,_Sea_Songs,_and_Chanteys
Thank you, thank you for beating me to posting “Brandy.” And thank you for a chance to mention this song twice in one week.
Isn’t sailing almost always accompanied by some sort of consciousness-changing substance? Redundancy!
A good one for Mod to share with his son.
Good ones!
This one’s for Mockcarr: “I Am a Viking,” by Yngwie J. Malmsteen.
I am a Viking, I’m going out to war
I’ve got death upon my mind
And I was leavin’ oh yesterday
I’ve got no fear in my heart
As the shores of my home disappear
I sail over the sea without fear
Dragonships are charging through the waves
Just want to sail away, far away, into the sea yah, yaaaahhhh!
I am a warrior my mind is set to kill
Life or death is on the line
I am a slayer and you will taste my steel
I’ve got your life right in my hand
As the shores of my home disappear
I sail over the sea without fear
Dragonships are charging through the waves
Just want to sail away, far away, into the sea yah, yaaahhhh!
You are a loser and it’s such a shame
That you’re a fool and you don’t know
That I’m a viking, and I’ll walk all over you
And by my sword you will die
As the shores of my home disappear
I sail over the sea without fear
Dragonships are charging through the waves
Just want to sail away, far away, into the sea yah, yaahhhh!
I win again!
I actually heard Loudon Wainwright perform this song live last week, although he titled it Good Ship Venus. Apparently it’s on a two disc comp called Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Song And Chanteys.
Guess I should have read thru the whole thread before my last post.
Funny you should mention KISS in the post, ’cause I immediately thought of Hard Luck Woman which features the line:
“Rags, the sailor’s only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queen”
Whatever that means. Let Garth Brooks sing you the tale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0GLNI-Mj5s
For those of you few in the hall who like washy guitars (wet, wet, wet), here’s The Verve’s “Star Sail.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtS_KMsSoDo
Or for something more traditional, Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren.”
Even the Monkees liked this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBHGY4
Another one is “Bottom of the Ocean” by House of Freaks, which is about a slave ship whose crew throws the “cargo” overboard.
And then there is this cautionary tale:
“Ship of Fools” – World Party. Notice continuity errors with his collar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHh0V7UjVXI
I’m ashamed to admit that it’s my favorite Kiss song.
You kick ass at this HVB!
“Death Ship” by The Hoodoo Gurus
“Death Ship, I sail this ship alone / Death Ship, there’s no port I call home”
I have no idea what the actual song is about, but Duran Duran’s RIO is hands down the best video featuring sailing, plus Simon LeBon almost killed himself sailing around the world, amirght?
And I truly believe every Decemberists song I have ever heard is some sort of sea shanty. don’t bother correcting me if I’m wrong, it doesn’t really matter
Eno – “Julie With…”
I am on an open sea
Just drifting as the hours go slowly by
Julie with her open blouse
Is gazing up into the empty sky
Now it seems to be so strange here
Now it’s so blue
The still sea is darker than before…
No wind disturbs our coloured sail
The radio is silent, so are we
Julie’s head is on her arm
Her fingers brush the surface of the sea
Now I wonder if we’ll be seen here
Or if time has left us all alone
The still sea is darker than before…
Great minds think alike. I like many of the artists on that comp, but I’ve never had the nerve to explore it.
The Grateful Dead and John Cale also have songs called Ship of Fools.
Milkshakes!
Through my Sails, Neil Young’s Zuma (with CS and N, but not overproduced: no rug harmonies).
Fairport Convention’s “A Sailor’s Life”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrGtFxtWXU
What about the Doors song called “Ship of Fools” which not only shares the same album as Land Ho, but the same side?
Another tremendous song of the high seas!
Love it! And to think just a couple of nights ago I was wondering if there were any good songs about sailing…
Downton Abbey would not have been nearly as good had LeBon died and not been able to play Matthew!
http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/15900000/Matthew-Crawley-downton-abbey-15932584-570-364.jpg
My Top 5 is getting mighty crowded.
“Hard Luck Woman” was another KISS song that my brother could play in my presence without the threat of physical harm. It’s not too late for Rod Stewart to cover it.
Ween’s Ocean Man has to be in this discussion somewhere
Now there’s an ambitious thread we may need to tackle some day: Continuity Errors in Rock Videos.
The Decemberists – Mariners Revenge Song is a hoot.
And of course, this one (if the link works):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060112182528/http://selfies.com/media/audio/flbs/10%20-%20Titanic.mp3
mr mod, I had forgotten we shared a love of Morrison Hotel
*HIGH FIVE*
Group hug, if andyr and saturnismine are reading!
116 responses and no one has mentioned the greatest sailing song of all time, “Louie, Louie”?
Fine little girl waits for me
Catch a ship across the sea
Sail that ship about, all alone
Never know if I make it home
etc.
Richard Berry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woOaEIevnE
The Wailers/Robin Roberts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihpGNoCreyg
The Kingsmen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmmYQ3UupRg
The Sonics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhM5k_EGzaQ
Count me in as a fan of Morrison Hotel.
Beautiful!
to be fair, nobody without a permenant pince nez has a flippin clue what the lyrics are to that song.
Big fan of that album and that song.
Is that the puffy Le Bon?
pince nez, my a** – you need Google Translator!
Same here. The thought of two discs of sea songs is too daunting. And having heard Good Ship Venus once, well, once is plenty.
Haven’t heard the World Party album, but it sounds like it’s worth checking out. I do like “Ship of Fools” – pretty good for late-’80s synth rock/pop.
And “Single Handed Sailor” from Dire Straits’ Communique
I am now!
Also by the Guru’s Death Defying
“Ever since the world began
Men have sailed to foreign lands
And the fortunes that they’ve found
Are now buried in the ground.”
and
“Well, I barely learned to swim,
Just enough to save my skin.
Now I’ll never sail alone,
And my harbor is my home.”
Richard Berry sings them quite clearly. It’s all the Kingsmen’s fault.
“Come On Down To My Boat (Baby)” – Every Mother’s Son
Great album. There are SO MANY underrated tunes on that album (“Queen of the Highway”!).
Pince Nez Reversed!!
Can you please explain the reference – an old Head song?…
I have a specific reason for asking…
Sorry, that was some intra-band member banter. That’s a reference to a long-running, highly unsuccessful band that andyr, chickenfrank, and the rarely posting sethro have been in since the mid-’80s, Nixon’s Head.
Out of the two, the Cale song is, unsurprisingly, the good one…and fun to play on guitar.
You are absolutely right about this, and I’m kicking myself for not thinking of it first.
This is a great one (esp. if drinking is involved) – The Mekons – “Shanty” : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-lAFGzErMM&feature=colike
Let a captain come lead us and chart us a course
Through the icebergs, the fog, and the hail
On the dogwatch a strange fear invaded my heart
And my blood froze like rain on the sail
With a Yo and a Ho and there’s one thing I know
We’re not in the same boat at all
With a Yo and a Ho and the wind starts to blow
As we float off the edge of the world
A long list of saints will watch over me
As I’m casting my nets in the sea
A long list of saints just as long as your arm
A candle is burning for me
With a Yo and a Ho and there’s one thing I know
We’re not in the same boat at all
With a Yo and a Ho and the wind starts to blow
As we float off the edge of the world
Concrete and steel and a flame in the night
Cromarty dogger and bight
A diver gets bends when he’s pulled up too tight
And the fish can play tune on him bone
With a Yo and a Ho and there’s one thing I know
We’re not in the same boat at all
With a Yo and a Ho and the wind starts to blow
As we float off the edge of the world
We float off the edge of the world
As we float off the edge of the world
As we float off the edge of the world
This one by The Mekons is good, too, if you’re in a mutinous castaway mood – “(Sometimes I Feel Like) Fletcher Christian” :
http://youtu.be/bfAtfxFvge8
I guess you could add Zevon’s “Mutineer” to this subset.
I have a soft spot for Lyle Lovett’s “If I Had a Boat” with all of its ponies and boats nonsense. I have a good friend who plays solo acoustic around the Lehigh Valley (Allentown, PA for you townsfolks in far flung locales) and that is a always a winner for him.
I got your back on “If I Had A Boat”
I like “Ride Captain Ride”. The great bass and drums completely obliterate the possible stupidity of the song
I think “Sing for Me” might be my favorite Fiery Furnaces song. It seems like such a genre exercise but somehow comes off as amazingly heartfelt, not a feeling I’d typically associate with them.
I was getting ready to post Shanty, but found it way down here at the end of the string.
I really think Fletcher Christian is a great song, every line a classic:
“We sucked hard on every pleasure.”
Tom Greenhalgh is also one of the greatest “non-singer singers” ever.
My favorite Lyle Lovett song by far.
I have to go with God Will for that honor.
We reach, Geo!
“The White Ship” – HP Lovecraft. Groovy 1968 psychedelia! Actually not a bad song for what it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WrA0iGsYqk
Nothing to do with sailing, but I feel like “The Ship Song” by Nick Cave still warrants a mention.
Last night, Mr. Royale and I went to see Spiritualized. I caught myself singing along to one of the songs, and realized, doh!, that the words were “about” sailing. Here’s “So Long You Pretty Thing”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbYm6GlAm8o
PS – this is a pretty nice album.
Nobody has mentioned “Rael.” It’s not exactly “about” sailing, but it does take place on a boat.
“Well” by Captain Beefheart is a tale about an old salt. It’s one of his two acappella numbers on Trout Mask.
Sorry, the one about the sailor is “Orange Claw Hammer”.
“I was shanghaiiiied by a high-hat beaver mustache man/And his pirate friend….”
“I got me a Chrysler, it’s as big as a whale, and it’s about to set sail.” – Fred Schneider
A whale-sized Chrysler would have room for way more than 20 people, wouldn’t it?
Hard to say. There are several subcompact whales on the market.
I always thought the best sailing song was “Rocking Chair” by the Band.
Hi, Making a sailing songs cd tonight (titled Flotsam/Jetsom) and came across your wonderful site. Thanks so much for turning me on to the Mekons tunes–perfect for the darker edge the cd is taking near the end. How about:
Barbados Poco
Trawlerman’s Song Mark Knopfler
Bermuda Triangle Fleetwood Mac
Singapore Tom Waits
Welcome aboard, mate! Glad we could be of service. I was revisiting the charms of “Singapore” just last week. Love that song.
I’d TOTALLY forgotten about this thread and how many responses it got. It’s funny how some threads stick with me through a year while other great ones slip my mind.