Its Sunday morning March 10th 2024...And i just wanted to start todays "service" with a song and a prayer.. I do hope you will join me. " best movie ever,BTW".......wasnt intended on blasphemous sound.... Have a great Sunday Lebowskians!
Something about this song is so sad to me. I guess it's the theme of being disappointed in one's life's outcome - so much so that the person in question is ashamed to see someone from their past that they were once close with. Hits close to home for me lol and I'm sure many others
This cover of the Stones hit, Dead Flowers, is a Townes Van Zandt masterpiece, no one else can top Townes. The Coen Brothers were wise to have this song to end The Big Lebowski or The Dude movie, as I call it, lol 😂I am a huge fan of TVZ, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steven Buschemi, Julienne Moore, everyone in that movie, especially Jesus 😅Just recently got a beautiful new persian rug that really ties the room together.❤ Watched The Big Lebowski last week, again, can never get tired of this movie, or Townes Van Zandt ❤❤❤
I love when I hear Townes in a random show or film..I've heard his stuff in at least 2 tv shows and 4 movies. Sometimes I like the fact it ain't so well known...even though he is clearly the greatest ever. Hell of Wheels used Waitin' around to Die...really cool version from his Far Cry From Dead album.
Having heard and loved the stones original for years hearing this was a bit of a poof, he's kind of like Kris Kristofferson in that people Rave about him but he just sings dully, seems to be flatlined, but to each his own
Well, when you're sitting there in your silk upholstered chair Talking to some rich folk that you know Well, I hope you won't see me in my ragged company Well, you know I could never be alone Take me down little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the queen of the underground And you can send me dead flowers every morning Send me dead flowers by the mail Send me dead flowers to my wedding And I won't forget to put roses on your grave Well, when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon And another girl can take my pain away Take me down little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the queen of the underground And you can send me dead flowers every morning Send me dead flowers by the mail Send me dead flowers to my wedding And I won't forget to put roses on your grave Hey Take me down little Susie, take me down I know you think you're the queen of the underground And you can send me dead flowers every morning Send me dead flowers by the US Mail Say it with dead flowers at my wedding And I won't forget to put roses on your grave No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave
From a Rolling Stone article on how T. Bone Burnett secured the rights to this song: A tougher get was Townes Van Zandt’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,” which plays over Lebowski‘s closing credits. “[Former Stones manager] Allen Klein owns the rights to it,” Burnett says. “He wanted $150,000.” Burnett begged Klein to just come down and watch an early cut of Lebowski. “It got to the part where the Dude says, ‘I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!’ Klein stands up and says, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’ That was beautiful.” For the record, Burnett agrees with the Dude (“[The Eagles] sort of single-handedly destroyed that whole scene that was brewing back then,” he says), but the line infuriated Glenn Frey. “I ran into [Frey] and he gave me some shit,” Jeff Bridges says. “I can’t remember what he said exactly, but my anus tightened a bit.”
....great video montage ...thanks for the upload.... our band decided to cover this song after seeing big lebowski....check this version out (altered lyrics).... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xErJIOkfl2c.html
