Rolling Stones-In Another Land

[dave9199]

I saw this review & thought it funny.

Reviewer: pss69 from New York City Yes, it's true. This is my favorite Stones album. Not their best, but my favorite. In about 1974, "Citadel" turned me from a little boy into a teenager in about three minutes. "2000 Man" was my theme song for the Millenium. I learned how to jam listening to the "Sing This Altogether"s. "She's a Rainbow" and "The Lantern" bring back very specific memories. "Gomper" and "2000 Light Years From Home" are great stoner tunes. And of course, "In Another Land" is the worst song ever written!

Which reminds me of a story. And I'm gonna tell it to you right now!

A year or two after "Citadel" turned me into a teenager, my best friend "Robert" had a crush on a girl named "Sharon." (the names are being changed to protect the clueless!) "Robert" came up with this brilliant idea! He was going to write a love poem to "Sharon" and tape it to front door, ring the doorbell and run! Well actually, I was going to tape it to the door and ring the doorbell and run. Actually, I was going to write the poem as well, since he didn't know how to write a poem!

I wasn't any more experienced in the arts of poetry and seduction, but I had listened the Their Satanic Majesties Request for the hundredth time the night before. I decided to have a little fun with "Robert." I wrote on a piece of paper for him:

"In Another Land, where the breeze and the trees and the flowers were blue,

I stood and held your hand, and the grass grew high and the feathers floated by.

I stood and held your hand.

And nobody else's hand will ever do.

Nobody else will do..."

Robert was impressed! He made me stick the poem to the door for him, while he waited in the bushes nearby. I ran the bell and ran off! "Sharon" called him up the next day, and the two of them "went steady" for two or three months!

The following year, "Robert" had a crush on "Susan" and asked me if I remembered the words to that poem that "I wrote" the year before. (I never told him the truth about it!) I said that I did.

"In Another Land, where the breeze and the trees..."

Taped to door, doorbell rung, boys run off... "Susan" called him, they "went steady" for two or three months. You get the picture.

Three or four years later, I hadn't seen "Robert" in a couple of years. I was sitting at a card table in a friend's basement. "Sharon" and "Susan" were there and happened to be sitting on a couch right behind me. My ears perked up when I heard one ask the other:

"Hey, didn't you go out with that goofball Robert in like junior high?"

"Yes! He wrote the stupidest poem you can imagine and like taped it to my door and rang the doorbell and ran off! It was just so cute that I couldn't resist, so we went out together for a few weeks."

"Oh my god! That sounds exactly like what happened with me!"

At that moment I turned around and said to the two of them:

"In Another Land, where the breeze and the trees and the flowers were blue,

I stood and held your hand, and the grass grew high and the feathers floated by. I stood and held your hand..."

Naturally, a good laugh was had by all, at the expense of poor old "Robert" and of course, Bill Wyman!

[Parkertown]

Now that's hilarious!

You're probably lucky they didn't pound you and "Robert" into the ground. B)