John Denver (country, rock, great songs, albums, member)

MariaVolante · 12-10-2008, 12:34 PM

haha, I feel like a dork for loving his one song: Take me Home Country Roads... anyone ever heard or love it too? There is a cover of it made by Olivia Newton John.

Besides that he WAS the first to introduce Leaving on a jet plane which rocks!!

savannah · 12-10-2008, 01:06 PM

john denver wrote some great songs,....

i think my favorite is this old guitar,....

i could do with out the ONJ stuff though,....fly away is right,....

WeeLittleHobbit · 12-10-2008, 01:07 PM

I don't think it's dorky at all. John Denver was a great songwriter, and a couple of my favorites by him are: Annie's Song, Rocky Mountain High, Take Me Home Country Roads, Leaving on a Jet Plane, and Back Home Again.

Mark Lint · 12-12-2008, 11:29 PM

As a 9-year-old I made myself mix tapes of the 6 or so JD albums my dad owned. I REALLY liked "Annie's Song," I guess, because I put that one multiple times on there, interspersed between like every four or five other songs.

...I should ask, does anyone know if he did anything respectable in his later career? I remember that "Don't Close Your Eyes" tonight song coming out, which was kind of a nice song, but also very creepy picturing JD having sex. Ug.

MariaVolante · 12-14-2008, 09:47 AM

no way.... I don't think anyone wants to see that haha:P

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but also very creepy picturing JD having sex.

thechad90000 · 12-19-2008, 01:14 PM

Yeah I'll listen to John Denver any day of the week but never do I ever wanna picture him having sex.

mofito · 01-04-2009, 02:04 PM

Listing to John Denver's Take Me Home Country Road while driving home to visit my Parent in Philadelphia PA from Kentucky is just the best...

VEGANGELICA · 07-10-2009, 10:52 PM

Ahh...John Denver. I first heard his songs when they were new, back when I was a tiny tot. I think a babysitter used to sing me "Country Roads" and I would imagine the country road stretching out before me. "Annie's Song" is one of the most beautiful love songs I know of. I always think how sad it is that even a brilliant, poetic song like that...and the feelings that went behind it...weren't enough to keep John Denver and Annie, his first spouse, together. At least they rekindled friendship shortly before his plane accident death...which, sadly, was far from being "dying in her arms." I'm glad he at least had a chance to experience the feelings that inpired him to write "Annie's Song," even if the relationship didn't last.

BADFASTBUSA · 07-11-2009, 01:48 AM

I quit listening to any J.D. songs after that movie came out where the kids would get killed after hearing J.D. songs... now they give me the creeps!

VEGANGELICA · 07-11-2009, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by BADFASTBUSA

I quit listening to any J.D. songs after that movie came out where the kids would get killed after hearing J.D. songs... now they give me the creeps!

Hehe, BADFASTBUSA, yes, I agree there is at least one John Denver song that gives me the creeps. I managed to survive listening to it as a child, but some of the subjects in the song weren't so lucky! Even as a kid, before I attained my current state of Veggiedom, "Grandma's Feather Bed" seemed a macabre celebration of animal slaughter and chilling childhood acceptance of it, since the tykes are completely unperturbed by the death upon which they feast and sleep, as John Denver describes when he pines away for those times when...

"We'd have chicken pie and country ham,
homemade butter on the bread.
But the best darn thing about Grandma's house
was her great big feather bed.
It was nine feet wide, and six feet high, soft as a downy chick
It was made from the feathers of forty-eleven geese."

Now, I don't know about others, but I never felt particularly lulled to sleep as a child by knowing that I was resting on the feathers plucked from forty-eleven corpses! As an adult I find this callous ode to country butchery even more disturbing.

Also, doesn't it strike anyone as just a teensy bit odd that the kids are dragging into bed a cute "piggy we stole from the shed" whom they will probably soon feast upon as a "country ham?" I have never understood how people could claim to enjoy an animal's presence and then, betraying whatever trust she must have had in them, turn around and kill and eat her as a table treat! Even as a child I realized through songs such as John Denver's "Grandma's Feather Bed" that I was a sheep living in a human wolf pack. Probably understandably, I was quite shy as a child due to this.
--Erica

12-10-2008, 12:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
MariaVolante Groupie Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 10	John Denver haha, I feel like a dork for loving his one song: Take me Home Country Roads... anyone ever heard or love it too? There is a cover of it made by Olivia Newton John. Besides that he WAS the first to introduce Leaving on a jet plane which rocks!!

12-10-2008, 01:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
savannah afrocentric Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: texas Posts: 753	john denver wrote some great songs,.... i think my favorite is this old guitar,.... i could do with out the ONJ stuff though,....fly away is right,.... __________________ i changed my mind; i changed my mind;now i'm feeling different all that time, wasted i wish i was a little more delicate i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my i wish my name was clementine - sarah jaffe

12-10-2008, 01:07 PM	#3 (permalink)
WeeLittleHobbit The Stain Specialist Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Maryland Posts: 312	I don't think it's dorky at all. John Denver was a great songwriter, and a couple of my favorites by him are: Annie's Song, Rocky Mountain High, Take Me Home Country Roads, Leaving on a Jet Plane, and Back Home Again. __________________ Tommy: I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I'm here to fcking amuse you? What do you mean, funny? How am I funny? Henry: You know, how you tell a story. Tommy*: I don't know. You said it. You said I'm funny. How am I funny?

12-19-2008, 01:14 PM	#6 (permalink)
thechad90000 Groupie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 14	Yeah I'll listen to John Denver any day of the week but never do I ever wanna picture him having sex. __________________ My sunny side has up and died I'm betting that when we collide, then universe will shift into a low.

07-11-2009, 01:48 AM	#9 (permalink)
BADFASTBUSA Groupie Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Atoka Oklahoma Posts: 17	I quit listening to any J.D. songs after that movie came out where the kids would get killed after hearing J.D. songs... now they give me the creeps! __________________ My motto: Living life on the edge is fun, just don't fall off, although you have to try it or you never will know what it was like!

12-12-2008, 11:29 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mark Lint Groupie Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 16	As a 9-year-old I made myself mix tapes of the 6 or so JD albums my dad owned. I REALLY liked "Annie's Song," I guess, because I put that one multiple times on there, interspersed between like every four or five other songs. ...I should ask, does anyone know if he did anything respectable in his later career? I remember that "Don't Close Your Eyes" tonight song coming out, which was kind of a nice song, but also very creepy picturing JD having sex. Ug.

01-04-2009, 02:04 PM	#7 (permalink)
mofito Groupie Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 20	Listing to John Denver's Take Me Home Country Road while driving home to visit my Parent in Philadelphia PA from Kentucky is just the best...

07-10-2009, 10:52 PM	#8 (permalink)
VEGANGELICA Facilitator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Where people kill 30 million pigs per year Posts: 2,014	Ahh...John Denver. I first heard his songs when they were new, back when I was a tiny tot. I think a babysitter used to sing me "Country Roads" and I would imagine the country road stretching out before me. "Annie's Song" is one of the most beautiful love songs I know of. I always think how sad it is that even a brilliant, poetic song like that...and the feelings that went behind it...weren't enough to keep John Denver and Annie, his first spouse, together. At least they rekindled friendship shortly before his plane accident death...which, sadly, was far from being "dying in her arms." I'm glad he at least had a chance to experience the feelings that inpired him to write "Annie's Song," even if the relationship didn't last.