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| smashmachine |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 00:31:13
I'm listening to this song right now on perpetual repeat. I've seen its name before, but decided to finally try and find it and got it off Soulseek tonight. The organ is what does it. The song is haunting, beautiful, sincere, all the best of a frank black song. Does anybody hear what I am saying, do you people like this song like I'm loving it.
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| danjersey |
Posted - 07/02/2013 : 17:45:01
this song, above them all? Franks got plenty of songs that invite the listener on a journey. St francis dam disaster, Massif Central, old black dawning. But there is something, or many things that pan American highway just does so right as to making it, at least for me, the greatest rode trip ever. this isn't about truckin, or a magic carpet ride, Pan American Highway is about the end. "to go all the way, south"
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| moksha23x |
Posted - 02/16/2007 : 17:32:20
quote:
Originally posted by smashmachine
I'm listening to this song right now on perpetual repeat. I've seen its name before, but decided to finally try and find it and got it off Soulseek tonight. The organ is what does it. The song is haunting, beautiful, sincere, all the best of a frank black song. Does anybody hear what I am saying, do you people like this song like I'm loving it.
Yeah Man this song is great, I hear you on the "perpetual repeat"!
If you love this song and you just download a few songs at a time you should really get the whole One More Road for the Hit, I mean its got several "perpetual repeat" worthy songs. When I first got 'One More Road for the hit', I had "Preacher's Daughter" on 'Perpetual repeat'. And there's others 'perpetual repeat' worthy on OMRFTH:
La Cigare Volant
Preacher's Daughter
Pan American Highway
Living on Soul
Pray For The Girls
there's more but those are my "perpetual repeat" songs
......Then there's "Snake oil"
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| houstonguthrie |
Posted - 02/16/2007 : 15:36:07
does anybody have a live acoustic version of this tune? would love to hear it |
| kfs |
Posted - 02/14/2007 : 05:53:43
This song makes me think of snow. Right after I downloaded it we went for a drive in the snow. Beautiful song, beautiful scenery. Good memory. |
| Grotesque |
Posted - 02/13/2007 : 20:37:32
I listened to it one week ago while traveling on the routa panamerica saliendo de Buenos Aires (the road has two versions in south america).
It s as good as listening Calistan on the California Highways.
A great song of course, but would anyone agree that it is quite poorly recorded? Just like constant sorrow man. |
| Little Black Francis |
Posted - 02/13/2007 : 19:12:31
I miss hWolsky
Unicorns and Rainbows |
| Neptune |
Posted - 02/13/2007 : 19:08:24
that's great that threads get drudged up 3 years later. i've never seen this before...
great song. one of my favorites. Thank god for OMRFTH
...to go all the way SSoouuuuthhhh |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 02/13/2007 : 16:10:02
It's a brilliant song. Great production too. |
| s_wrenn |
Posted - 02/13/2007 : 15:59:20
"I packed up my gun and got on the plane"?
Autobiographical?
Yes I realise this is 3 years old now
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| vilainde |
Posted - 11/30/2004 : 01:55:37
It's on the Robert Onion ep (w/ Angst).
Denis
"I believe in your perfect face..." |
| ramona |
Posted - 11/29/2004 : 08:31:38
When I did Five Favorites a year or so ago this song was the overwhealming favorite of everybody who "played".
It is a B-side to a single which I have, although I can't remember which one right now.
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If you don't, then pass me by
And I might even touch your sleeve
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| VoVat |
Posted - 11/27/2004 : 13:45:00
It was on the Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day sessions, and I think it might have been a B-side as well. It was never on a commercially released album.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| Georges Abitbol |
Posted - 11/27/2004 : 10:51:39
excuse my stupidity, but what is this song? which album?
L'important, c'est de bien s'ennuyer. Jean Carmet.
What is important is to bory well. John Kermitt. |
| Brackish Heart |
Posted - 11/26/2004 : 01:25:56
I kinda classify this song as a poor mans version of the Ryan Adams autobiographical masterpiece 'Oh My Sweet Carolina' of Heartbreaker...download that and it will truly blow your mind...
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| floop |
Posted - 11/23/2004 : 10:32:39
as far as i know, it's very autobiographical. it makes sense to me..
ist es möglich für ein quesadilla skrotum zu lecken? beim sprechen der quesadillas von LBF, ja. ja in der tatheheheheheheehehee! |
| Dallas |
Posted - 11/23/2004 : 09:00:10
Great song, but, I got addicted to it and totally overplayed it. Not just the cd, but, in my mind. It was stuck there for a couple of weeks. Now it has that 'not so fresh feeling' attached to it. I hate when I do that to great songs... |
| Triakel |
Posted - 11/23/2004 : 07:50:35
I loved this song the moment I heard it. Used to work with a Nebraskan who howled "maybe someday we'll make Omaha home" everytime it cycled on the boombox.
Made me realize that "Kansas" shirt Frank used to wear in the press photos wasn't entirely ironic. |
| hWolsky |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 11:37:37
A pure chef d'oeuvre (masterpiece) like Annoucement. Can't tell wich one is better. I pressed a vinyl best-of with one on each side...
HW |
| Jose Jones |
Posted - 11/15/2004 : 10:32:03
one of the greatest songs in the history of sound.
-dan
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| Erebus |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 05:50:09
If memory serves, his father spoke of possibly one day making the drive as a family. I don't recall whether this was thought of fancifully or as an actual plan. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 04:53:15
well don eduardo, since DITS most of his songs are autobiographical
I reckon this song is extremely autobiographical though
 "I joined the cult of Jon Tiven/Bye!" |
| Don Eduardo |
Posted - 11/14/2004 : 03:36:19
i remember hearing somewhere that this was an autobiographical song....anyone else?
3rd Annual Australian Frank Black Countdown August 2003 - all involved parties rank EVERY released FB song from FB self/titled to the present - average ranks are calculated - beer (or suitable substitute) is added (mostly in drinking-game form - ie. rate a song well below its average and you drink a punishing amount), then sit back and enjoy a day of frank black....the only problem is quite often memory of the top songs is somewhat limited the next day |
| dogjones |
Posted - 11/13/2004 : 15:51:51
kinda reminds me of a song tom petty would do...style-wise anyway
love the song, btw. |
| Helmut |
Posted - 11/13/2004 : 03:30:39
Yeah it is a great song. Thank god it'll finally get a proper release with the Catholics B-sides are rarities double album. |
| johndietzel |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 23:35:45
It's a real ballad, but with a bridge. It has one of those "this is the last song I wrote before I offed myself" feelings to it. I don't mean depressing--just like guileless submission to the audience.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 18:46:12
quote:
Yes, I'm loving it.
Like McDonald's?
Seriously, though, this is probably one of Frank's best songs. I should listen to it again soon.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
| Conrad |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 17:47:49
I sincerely love this song. It somehow reminds me of Christmas. Call me crazy.
You had me at "Los Angeles"
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| BrendanT |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 10:29:51
I think it might be the conviction that Frank sings with albeit with a sombre mood.
Will he ever travel the Pan American Highway? Do many bands get to take that route?
Strummer-man
I had me a vision!
It's step, hip, step, pivot! Are you trying to piss-off the volcano?! |
| peter radiator |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 10:18:40
Everyone always talks about how great this tune is, but I've never cared for it. I actually find it meandering and rather forgettable.
Maybe I need to try again.
~ Peter Radiator
"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder |
| dayanara |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 10:13:16
Everything about this song is wonderful, I could (and have) play it all day. Haunting is a good description. Has the same effect on me as SFDD.
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| billgoodman |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 08:32:54
I find the bridge a bit disturbing though
it's a lovely bridge but doesn't seem to fit
or the recording makes it sound like it does not fit in
"I joined the cult of Jon Tiven/Bye!" |
| mrgrieves1971 |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 07:13:06
I think it is absolutely one of his best songs. It's so personal too. Haunting and sad. |
| Adam |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 07:00:21
It is quite good, although it does not make my top ten.
Free the Heel! |
| Erebus |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 06:46:31
It's been one of my top ten FB efforts ever since I first heard it. |
| gary13th |
Posted - 11/12/2004 : 05:36:43
gotta be one of the best fb&tc songs!
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