Song of the Day: Traveller in Time

[athelind]

One last post before I call it a day:

A little Uriah Heep. You may be hearing more of them from me; there's something in the air this summer. Maybe it's just the unusual humidity; I first heard Heep in Texas, whilst flunking out of Texas A&M.

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Traveller in Time
Uriah Heep
from the album
Demons & Wizards

Every day I have to look to the sun
To see where it was that I have come from
I have a feelin' that there must be a time
When I'll get a chance to go home
'Cause I'm so tired of being here alone
But I'm just a traveller in time
Trying so hard to pay for my crime

If I could go back the same way I got here
And see the people that I once held so near
I'd do my best to find an answer for you
But first I must wait 'til I'm set free
And I don't know how long that's gonna be
'Cause I'm a man with a whole lot on his mind
Just out there somewhere travelling in time
Travelling in Time

I've tried for so long to find
Some way of helping mankind

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Comments

[mocha-mephooki.livejournal.com]

Heap is a lot of fun to do at Karaoke, but usually they only have Stealin' in their lists.

Still fun, but that mid-riff screech is a killer on my throat!

[athelind.livejournal.com]

I might try karaoke some day, but I'd want to find a place that has Rush, Styx, Blue Oyster Cult or Meat Loaf songs in their, um, music thing.

Or Heep, natch.

I'm not sure I could handle King Crimson, though.

[mocha-mephooki.livejournal.com]

Rush, Styx, and Meatloaf are usually easy finds... BOC beyond Don't Fear the Reaper and Burning For You... that's a little tougher to find.

The majority of karaoke places can only use songs that have been made available for karaoke by the artist's companies, which for some groups is an extremely short list. I would personally ADORE some additional Oingo Boingo songs in a KJ's selection, but there are only about 6 that have ever been released and of those, only two are commonly found: Little Girls and Dead Man's Party.

Generally speaking, if the song didn't go mainstream, it is a rare find... although now that lot of KJ's are finding their songlists over the internet and doing a little re-mastering of their own to make private selections of tracks, its getting easier to find specific KJ companies and groups that have extended playlists for their favorite artists. There's a company out here, for instance, that has at least 25 non-cropped Meatloaf tracks that I haven't been able to find anywhere else.

Sadly, they lost their local Saturday night location, so I'm not sure where they migrated to.