Dear Jackson Browne.

[Sugar Smack]

If I heard a guy speaking to his friends when he thought no one else was around, and he said, "I've got to be somebody's babe, I must be somebody's babe, I've got to be somebody's babe, cause I'm so fine", I wouldn't want to write an entire song about that person. I'd just go to biology lab & be done with it.

Love,
Steffi

[Richardo]

1. You are too much, Sugie

:rofl:

[Sugar Smack]

2. Really!

Honey, I heard it the other day & I thought, "What's wrong with that girl?" I've got to be somebody's babe? Cause I'm so fine? WTF is up with that? There's nothing wrong with a healthy ego, but I'm not ABOUT to stand around with my friends and say, "I've GOT to be somebody's babe, cause I'm so fine"

[KG]

3. well, you should be my babe. coz you so fine.

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

4. *******blushes*******

:blush: No, I'm not, but THANK YOU!!

[KG]

5. yes, you are.

i got the pics to prove it.

also, i met you, and was smitten. :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

6. No, you weren't. You had some extreme car trouble &

got bonked on the head once or twice.:loveya:

[KG]

12. nah, i think was those boots you were wearing...

:)

[Tyler Durden]

7. Sniff, sniff. She dig da YOUNG guys.

Us oldies is outa luck.

[Sugar Smack]

8. *PPPHLBLT* Mama don't just dig the young guys.

She dig the older guys, too.:D

[Tyler Durden]

9. You must be honey cuz Sugar jes don' get that sweet.

[Sugar Smack]

10. You got to be somebody's

caramel sundae w/out nuts, is my thinking.:D :9

[Tyler Durden]

11. Well.....

I been "snipped" but they still there!!!

[Sugar Smack]

15. Tyler,

I didn't mean you don't have balls because you do. You, who wrote the most memorable thread in GD ever. Without even participating. :rofl: :loveya: :yourock: :hug: I. Freaking. Adore. You.

[Richardo]

13. That was Jackson's first draft if I recall.

[Sugar Smack]

14. Well, two days later, what was his second...

BABE?:D

[Richardo]

20. According to "Behind the Music: Jackson Browne's Search for Hipness"

"The Laurel Canyon scene in the late 70s was a mere shadow of its former self: John and Michelle, Denny and Cass, John Sebastian, Brian Wilson, Graham Nash - all gone. The only remnant of those glory days was a hermit like figure, huddled in a drainage culvert just below Mulholland Drive....

On certain nights, a passer-by might see a dim glow from the depths of the pipe - a flickering incandescence that indicated a presence - a presence of genius.

But that turned out to be Brian Wilson. Jackson Browne at that time was living in comfort in a large house at the top of the canyon - a house where he strove for the relevance he thought was rightly his. To this end, he worked, as a fine craftsman does, honing his art to a finely tuned piece: "I've got to be somebody's.... what? Caramel sundae without nuts? Too saccarhine. Somebody's.......Tommy Burger with extra chili and no onions? No one would get the symbolism. Somebody's......babe? Could it be? Babe? That simple, basic, elementary particle of the soft rock anthem? Yes. YES! Babe! Babe it is!! And they will celebrate this song for time immemorial!!!1!!1"

Next on "Behind the Music": Reality sets in for Mr Browne.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. He must be running on empty.

:P

[Sugar Smack]

18. You're TERRIBLE, Muriel!

:loveya:

[carly denise pt deux]

25. lol

Carly

[tigereye]

17. aw, but some of his songs are so much better than that

I have to say I really like "The Naked Ride Home," one I hadn't heard before.

I think he's capable of being a good writer when he wants to.

I can't help it, he had me from the first time i heard "Take it Easy" on the radio.

[Sugar Smack]

19. He swept me through 12 and 13 pretty cleanly

& I was boy-crazy. Did he reallyb write "Take it Easy"? For the Eagles? That one?

[tigereye]

21. Yeah he wrote it -

I like his version the best.

Well, I'm runnin down the road, tryin to loosen my load, got 7 women on my mind.
four who wanna own me, two who wanna stone me, one says she's a friend of mine.
Take it easy, take it easy, don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy"


and
"there's a girl my lord in a flatbed ford, slowing down to take a look at me."


I think his songs have held up pretty well, actually. I still like them, and I can't say that about everything I listened to in the 70s.

[regnaD kciN]

22. Well, he wrote that song for the soundtrack of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"...

...so I think it designed to accompany the storyline of the girl who was, as someone here put it, "boy-crazy."

[Guava Jelly]

23. I wrote that song!!! grrrrr

:hide:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. Speaking as a Lab Experiment Gone Horribly Wrong....

These tentacles making typing near impossible

:hug: :loveya: :smoooooch:

Hey there m'lovely :)