whitesnake - "here i go again"

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i'm probably wrong to find this, like, an exceptionally moving song, right?

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

this shit is my neon bible

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Right.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

(in response to original question)

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

it's always the first song on my ipod, and i like to think it'll come on the radio in the car when i'm finally released from prison and on to here knows when.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Youtube still doesn't have the Ruth Badger version of this.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

you shit the neon bible? dude. the arcade fire are serious dudes i would not fuck with them.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

It's the raging Yang to "Cryin' in the Rain"'s sober Yin.

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

everytime i quit a job, i blare this in the parking lot as i peel off into the sunset

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

How often have you quit your job?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

It shows how effective the word "drifter" is over "hobo".

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

YEAH WELL FUCK HER, HERE I GO AGAIN, RIGHT DAVE

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

seriously i love this song

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

so so much

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Dave is very Right.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Terrible! I can't stand David Coverdale's singing or lyrics, sorry!

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

everytime i break up with a girl, i blare this album as i pack up my box of stuff from her apartment and shuffle off into the sunset.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

norman do you hate SELF-SUFFICIENCY?

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ original "hobo" lyrics

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

we dont always get it right straight out of the gate i guess

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

here you go again on your own, strongo.

― andrew m., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

this song is all the company i need

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

having made up my mind

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

and wasting no more time

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

walkin' down the only road you've ever known.

good tune.

i like whitesnake mostly. slide it in is good. it's a lil' more 70s rock but cool.

i have an vandenberg cassette somewhere, remember liking a few songs off that.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

haha "having made up my mind"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

ha, i've been listening to this song a lot myself.

i love the chorus, it's so gigantic. i love gigantic choruses.

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

strongo, i bet you were born to walk alone

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

(yes, including the chorus from "gigantic")

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

"who among us does not love whitesnake?"

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

"watching as mediocrity gets canonised around you in this inevitable, grinding fashion is even more dispiriting than dealing with the monolith of the existing canon of mediocrity"

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

i always heard it growing up as "like a prisoner i was born to walk alone" which makes slightly less sense

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

marcello i think we have some years to go before whitesnake is "canonized"

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

no yeah this song rocks.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I think the correct phrase here is "cold dead hands."

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

al if you look out your window soon you may see me triumphantly striding off to get a sandwich while listening to this

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

no sandwich has ever seemed more important, more fraught with potential heartbreak

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Whitesnake are the salmonella of rock.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

maura.com (12:52:11 PM): it's just another pastrami in need of rescue
STRONGO (12:51:47 PM): lol

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

I did actually put this on after being fired once. I also once listened to Hall & Oates "She's gone" after being dumped.

― jim, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

tawny kitaen is dancing on that sandwich

― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's alright. I can almost feel it. I mean, I can feel my way to what I'm supposed to feel, but once I get there, I can't quite feel the thing itself. The thing itself eludes my feeling, a soapy breast.

― vals tips for teens, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

"who among us does not love whitesnake?"

Tracer Hand on Tues

They're like a power ballad version of Whitehouse.

― Pashmina, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

(Another hearty "fuck you" to nu-ILX code, etc.)

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Norman that's a DISGRACEFUL SLUR to INDUSTRIAL PIONEERS OF DARKWAVE CORE

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder who has had more success with women in string bikins: David Coverdale or William "Don't Call Me Paul McKenna" Bennett?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, BEST FOOTNOTE I'VE READ TODAY:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/w/whitesnake/here+i+go+again_20146215.html

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Park Avenue is indeed a lonely street of dreams.

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

i am shocked -- shocked -- that this seems to be breaking down along british/american lines

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

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i hear that Nirvana sounded like a lot of bands that existed years earlier than. most of them never sold many records.

― artdamages, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

(than them.)

― artdamages, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

so let's talk about something else then!

wasn't it weird that nikki sixx was like the only bassist ever who was the coolest member of the band?

i remember being weirded out when i found out that Y&T had been a band since like 1968 or something...they just kept changing w/the times and ended up as a pop metal band.

"night songs" by cinderella holds up SURPRISINGLY well, as does "long cold winter"

does anyone remember the album "No Respect" by Vain...honest to god, I swear it's like the lost classic of that LA glam era.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

what was the deal with D.A.D.? they had this weird scandanavian vibe about them, like i wonder if they used to in punk bands like the junkyard dudes or maybe in a hanoi rocks kinda thing? "sleeping the day away" was a great song though.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

actually maybe geir hongro knows the secret 411 on DAD?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

honest to god, I swear it's like the lost classic of that LA glam era

You must excuse me. There is only one:

In praise of Pretty Boy Floyd

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

haha that was a great thread!

i'm totes serious ned you should check out that Vain record!

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

I've no doubt it is of the crazed genius.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

just look at it!

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0006FV648.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

i remember when we still lived in the old house, i had my entire room wallpapered with posters and cutout pages of circus, hit parader, metal edge, rip, etc....man i wish i woulda saved some of those...i remember i had a sweet one of the iron maiden stage setup for the somewhere in time tour.

I used to cut up the CD long boxes and make wall collages out of them. I even manged to work in Tesla's Five Man Electrical Jam artwork into there!

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

i hope this isn't too off-topic, but...

i heard tuff's "american hair band" for the first time last week and almost lost control of the car. wow.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

wasn't it weird that nikki sixx was like the only bassist ever who was the coolest member of the band?

Lemmy.

― unperson, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/Tommy_StinsonGNR.jpg

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

i heard tuff's "american hair band" for the first time last week and almost lost control of the car. wow.

Embrace your inner hesher.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH you ruined it by using the word "hesher"! This whole thread is repellent now.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

i never heard the word "hesher" growing up....i think lifter puller was the first time i heard that....maybe it's not a southern MN thing....people said "dirtballs" or "motorheads"

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

A word is worth a thousand mental pictures?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

hesher is a pretty east coast thing i think.

it's wierd, other than liking this song when i was 9, i really hated this kind of music, at the time! i never liked motley crue or any of that, and EVERYBODY did around me. actually i take that back, i loved "slippery when wet" when i was in 3rd grade, i probably still have that memorized if i ever heard it again.

but now i totally adore pyromania and hysteria, i think those two records really are their own thing, somehow

― gff, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

We said "hesher" (or "hescher") in the mid-south.

I was surprised that in Missouri, they called hicks Hoosiers.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

hesher is a pretty east coast thing i think

I grew up in suburban NJ, and the first time I heard it was when my cousins from L.A. came to visit.

― unperson, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

THIS THREAD 100% OTM

― max, Saturday, 16 June 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

i dont even like this "ironically" I LOVE IT AUTHENTICALLY TAKE THAT YOU POSTMODERN BITCHES

― max, Saturday, 16 June 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

another song that is great but very different: peaches and cream

― max, Saturday, 16 June 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm happy that the Monster Ballads commercial is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNCiXKpO94g

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 16 June 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

playing this right now.

i love this song.

― latebloomer, Monday, 30 July 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

classic song, classic thread yall

― Fred Durst. Wat heb ik gewonnen? (Matt P), Monday, 22 June 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

if this doesn't win the #1 of 87 poll i will be SO SAD

― ian, Monday, 22 June 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

feeling this song tonight, as per usual, i can't lie

― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 07:05 (thirteen years ago)

s/t lp is the jam. Don't deny!! Even the deep cuts cut deep!!

― sug ones (omar little), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 07:11 (thirteen years ago)

i'm just a hobo looking for my tawny

― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 07:40 (thirteen years ago)

Every bad boy has a soft side

― let's keep this board about feet, please. (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 08:20 (thirteen years ago)

I remember an older friend gave me this on on tape alone with a frosted pink lip gloss on Christmas and ugh IT WAS THE COOLEST.

This song is one of the greatest ever in the world no question.

― ENBB, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

one of my favorite parts of The Fighter was when walberg & bale walk into the ring to this song, singing along and air punching

― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:09 (thirteen years ago)

Ain't wasting no more time iirc

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 17:22 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

didn't know where else to put this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7gK_wbVAmQ

― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 20 December 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

"I used to [sing it a lot], because the words, I thought the words fits me. The words makes me feel like, yeah, it's me again. [It goes] "Like a drifter I was born to walk alone, 'cause I know what it means to walk alone the lonely street of dreams." And it's true because it's just dreams. Dreams that I would be home one day, dreams that I would be free, dreams that Guantanamo would be closed."

Shaker Aamer: In his own words

― Anyway, it's not a three, it's a yogh. (Tom D.), Monday, 14 December 2015 07:05 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

this shit is my neon bible

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:30 AM (eleven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, ain't it though

― omar little, Thursday, 28 June 2018 21:02 (seven years ago)

watching as mediocrity gets canonised around you in this inevitable, grinding fashion is even more dispiriting than dealing with the monolith of the existing canon of mediocrity
― lex pretend, Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:03 AM (eleven years ago)

my vote for the new ILM board description.

― enochroot, Thursday, 28 June 2018 21:44 (seven years ago)

didn't know until recently that Crying In the Rain was a re-recording of a song they'd already made on their 1982 album Saints An' Sinners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL27exW4VVk

― omar little, Thursday, 28 June 2018 21:50 (seven years ago)

Eleven-year lurker posting for the first time. Ironically, this was the first thread that caught my attention on ILM, due to the "hobo" revelation.

― Andrew "Hit Dice" Clay (PBKR), Friday, 29 June 2018 01:42 (seven years ago)

Hobo version is also on Saints & Sinners.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 June 2018 01:58 (seven years ago)

This song is fine. "Still of the Night" is the best Zep rip outside of Billy Squier's "Lonely is the Night." Everything else I've heard from Whitesnake is garbage.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:12 (seven years ago)

For most of their career before breaking big in 1987, Whitesnake mainly a serviceable Deep Purple w/o the confidence.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:16 (seven years ago)

I particularly resented how "Is This Love" throws solo Robert Plant-in-ballad-mode in the garbage can.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 June 2018 02:17 (seven years ago)

Whitesnake remained a bit less obvious in the Zep ripoff dept than their contemporaries in Kingdom Come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIr9-Gn-SNs

― omar little, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:43 (seven years ago)

i liked how Plant called Coverdale "David Coverversion"

― omar little, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:44 (seven years ago)

Been singing this shit when reasonably alone since this dumb thread re appeared

― calstars, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:49 (seven years ago)

Eleven-year lurker posting for the first time. Ironically, this was the first thread that caught my attention on ILM, due to the "hobo" revelation.

Lolololol

Eleven-year lurker posting for the first time. Ironically, this was the first thread that caught my attention on ILM, due to the "hobo" revelation.

11 year lurker? wtf

― calstars, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:50 (seven years ago)

For most of their career before breaking big in 1987, Whitesnake mainly a serviceable Deep Purple w/o the confidence.

No no no. Sorry but WS has nothing on DP

― calstars, Friday, 29 June 2018 02:51 (seven years ago)

xpost, that's probably the smartest way to interact w ilx

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 June 2018 03:00 (seven years ago)

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