My interpretation is that she's trying very hard to justify why her man is leaving L.A. and why she's following him.
A better interpretation is that it's the greatest song ever written. Goddamn do I love "Midnight Train to Georgia."
― My name is Kenny, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:08 (sixteen years ago)
yes. yes it is.
― jerk store (hmmmm), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:40 (sixteen years ago)
great song. i love the way it's not so much about this failed sad dude as the extra layer of sadness of being the woman who's following him.
― the meth got me open like challopian tubes (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:45 (sixteen years ago)
i mean, i love that shift in perspective.
― the meth got me open like challopian tubes (s1ocki), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:46 (sixteen years ago)
My mom tells a story about how she was in the building when this was being mixed, and how this young guy enthusiastically asked her to listen to this song, which had just been finished mixing minutes earlier, and how incredibly proud he was of his craftsmanship. He said he believed it was going to a big hit.
On another note, this song's backing vocals are incredibly fun to sing along with.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:53 (sixteen years ago)
*he had just been finished mixing...
― Cunga, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 06:54 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.hypeful.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/30rockmidnighttrain.jpg
― jerk store (hmmmm), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 07:01 (sixteen years ago)
Possibly 30 Rock's finest moment there, Jerk Store.
― My name is Kenny, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 13:18 (sixteen years ago)
The #1 song in the U.S. the day I was born.
― http://tinyurl.com/zom720 (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:27 (sixteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3412/3442959270_ee53727a97.jpg?v=0
― dad a, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:30 (sixteen years ago)
WOO WOO
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 14:33 (sixteen years ago)
a su-per star but he didn get far
― andrew m., Tuesday, 21 July 2009 15:05 (sixteen years ago)
I think someone said it on another thread but "I'd rather live in his world than live without him in mine" is a truly great line.
― shaane, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 15:14 (sixteen years ago)
I kept looking for another version of this to fit into a mix, because the sound wasn't quite right for what I had planned (looking for something a little less ornate than the version I had—like, same thing only without the strings), but goddamn, I love Gladys.
― James Blood Ulver (I eat cannibals), Thursday, 3 September 2009 03:08 (sixteen years ago)
This song is perfect.
― Turangalila, Thursday, 3 September 2009 03:30 (sixteen years ago)
The whole album it's from is killer. My parents used to dance around the living room to this album when I was a child, and I would look up at them, and then look at that angelic picture of Gladys and the Pips in that heavenly all white world with those golden picture frames in their hands. My parents mushy "they're playing our song" jam was "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" and now it's kind of my song that I listen to when I feel mushy about my sweetheart. Gladys is a goddess.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Thursday, 3 September 2009 03:48 (sixteen years ago)
Gladys is a goddess.
Cosign * 1000. It really is the perfect pop song: Sad, proud, resilient, defiant, epic.
― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 3 September 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)
When this song was out my dad used to say that if he could have any other job in the world he would want to be a Pip.
― dad a, Thursday, 3 September 2009 03:51 (sixteen years ago)
granddad a.
― ian, Thursday, 3 September 2009 04:07 (sixteen years ago)
oh i would totally be a pip
― crabRCISE (gbx), Thursday, 3 September 2009 04:18 (sixteen years ago)