It's Gloomy and Doomy and Just Goes On and On

[Dan Gould]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/arts/edmund-fitzgerald-gordon-lightfoot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.o8Rl.LbaN2a01PVJh&smid=url-share

 

[JSngry]

That's one of those songs on which I would always switch the radio. 

[HutchFan]

I read this thread title and I assumed that it was a commentary on the state of our world & country.   

 

[Teasing the Korean]

 

[Dub Modal]

I almost thought a new sludge band just dropped but there's no way Dan G is into that. 

[Dan Gould]

I can only imagine what a "Sludge" band is. 

I do hope people clicked on the link, I am not a sailor or particularly interested in the subject but did find the article interesting and worth ten minutes.

As for Lightfoot parodies, there is only this:

 

[Aggie87]

I knew Gordon's song Carefree Highway for many years, but had no clue it was an actual road.  When we moved to Arizona a couple of years ago, we ended up less than a mile or so from that road.

Apparently Gordon was touring and was driving between Flagstaff and Phoenix and saw the exit for that road, and liked the name enough to write a song.

Now every time we drive down that road, one of us has to sing the chorus.

 

[Dan Gould]

10 hours ago, Aggie87 said:

I knew Gordon's song Carefree Highway for many years, but had no clue it was an actual road.  When we moved to Arizona a couple of years ago, we ended up less than a mile or so from that road.

Apparently Gordon was touring and was driving between Flagstaff and Phoenix and saw the exit for that road, and liked the name enough to write a song.

Now every time we drive down that road, one of us has to sing the chorus.

 

Aggie, this reminds me of something I feel compelled to do here in Florida.

My wife and I used to watch Bar Rescue and sometime after we arrived in Plant City, there was a bar just to the west of us where a shooting took place.  So every time I drive past that location (even now when the building is long gone, replaced by a quick lube company) I say in my best Jon Taffer voice,

"Two people were shot to death in your bar ... and you're failing!"