McArthur Park - Best song of all time?

[MaryH]

I think it was voted "worst song" of all time. But for some reason I just love it.

[kslib]

1. Yea!

:yourock:

[Phillycat]

2. That goddamn cake will never stop melting in the rain.

Even 30 (!) years later. :)

[MaryH]

3. I know - the words are pretty strange but I just love that song.

[Patiod]

4. AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!

NO!!!!!

My next-door neighbor in the college dorms was a psycho bitch, who loved that song. One evening, I had a temp of 104, and called her up and asked her to please turn it down. Instead, she cranked it up, put the recond-player arm up so the album would repeat over and over (how old am I?) and left for the night, locking her door.

[MaryH]

7. Oh, no.

She ruined the best song in the world for you. Now you ever be able to hear it and love it again.

That is so terrible. I am so sorry.

[mac56]

5. My best friend was at work one day.

A customer came in to register a minor complaint. In discussing the situation, she had the poor judgement to use the phrase, "I don't think that I can take it."

My friend replied, "'Cause it took so long to bake it?"

His co-worker at the desk added, "And you'll never have that recipe again?"

The boss then stuck his head out of his office and added, "Oh nooooo......."

[MaryH]

9. That is hysterical! That would have put me on the floor.

[Richardo]

6. Yeah. In Haiti.

Thanks, Chevy ;-)

[ohiosmith]

8. Being high on acid was essential to the full appreciation of the lyrics.

MacArthur Park


Written By: Jimmy Webb
Sung By: Richard Harris or Donna Summer, equally silly.

Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!



There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why



MacArthur Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

[MaryH]

10. Now that you mention it, it does sound a lot like an acid

trip. All that melting stuff.

I still love it.

[Wapsie B]

11. Only if it was Maynard Ferguson

doing it.

[MaryH]

12. Whose Maynard Ferguson?

And don't those words remind you of "BlowUp" All those scenes in the Park with the green, green grass.

[Wapsie B]

13. He's one of the gods of the trumpet world.

MacArthur Park was one of his signature songs in the 70's. Is "Blow Up" a song or a movie?

[Richardo]

15. I had the MF album with MacA Park on it, now that you mention it

Maynard rocked the 70s.

[MaryH]

16. BlowUp was an Antonioni Movie

It was very strange. But a lot of it was in a park. You can still get it in video stores - it was a cult classic.

[kslib]

17. Woohoo!!

Trumpet geeks of the world unite!!

:headbang:

[BlueJazz]

20. Damn...I didn't think that anybody else (on the Forum) would know

...who Maynard Ferguson is..... I actually tried out for his band many years ago (in Jacksonville, Florida).
My solos were OK but I couldn't cut the charts.
The music (for Alto Sax) looked like a flock of crows had dipped their feet in black ink and flew down on a bunch of staff paper and danced for awhile.....Fuck!...it was hard!
I made too many mistakes and was so nervous I could hardly think...but it was fun..(now that I look back on it. :)
Maynard was a absolute sweetheart though...what a nice, warm person...

[CO Liberal]

14. Best song of all time - FOR ME TO POOP ON!!!!

Source: http://deseretnews.com/

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. I agree with Triumph!

Add me to the list of "haters." LOL

[Floogeldy]

18. I searched for the song on the Internet years ago . . .

. . . and was surprised to find that it was on lots of lists of "best songs ever" and "worst songs ever."

Its funny how most people either hate it or love it.

I love it and even like the Richard Harris vocals.

[Aristus]

19. No. "Jurassic Park" is.

Jurassic Park is scary in the dark
When all the dinosaurs are running wiiiiiiiild
I'll admit it's rather eerie
But it proves my chaos theory
And I'm never coming back this way agaaaaaaain
Oh nooooooooooooo!



Thank you, Weird Al. ;-)