What’s your favourite Don McLean song? Apart from American Pie I like Vincent.
Don McLean appreciation thread
Elijah Richardson
Matthew Roberts
Either Grave or Castles In The Air
Lincoln Young
One time, when I was a sophomore in college, I went to a party where I got super drunk and almost passed out next to another girl, who was as fucked as I was. American Pie started playing, and the two of us sang every lyric perfectly on-key. Still one of my favourite songs. Good times.
Gavin Reed
If We Try
Landon Thompson
Castles in the Air is probably my favourite come to think of it
Wyatt Lopez
Bump
Michael Howard
At the risk of sounding like a boomer here, American Pie truly is the greatest pop/rock song ever written. Don did Dylan better than Dylan. The piano track in particular often gets overlooked for how brilliant it is, with its majestic opening chords, going into highly-rhythmic calypso-influenced sections, never sounding dull or repetitive for all 8 and half minutes.
Logan Anderson
I agree with you. It’s my favourite song of all time.
Isaiah Myers
American Pie [United Artists, 1971]
The title cut is the great novelty song that may be about the death of rock and roll or may be about its refusal to die. The other material here indicates that McLean himself believes the former, but since it also indicates that he couldn't have composed "American Pie"--he just took dictation from the shade of Buddy Holly, who must be taking some pretty strong drugs up there to make such a mistake--you might as well judge for yourself. And do so like a real novelty-lover, by buying the single--unless you're in the market for a song about how nobody understood Van Gogh. C-
Don McLean [United Artists, 1972]
More dreck from your unfriendly doomsaying hitmaker. Question: Why does he say "I feel like a spinnin' top or a dreidel" without explaining how a dreidel differs from a spinning top? Point of information: McLean's pubbery is called Yaweh Tunes, Inc. Point of order: No one who has sailed with Pete Seeger should put this much production into an album. C-
Brody Lewis