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What's your favorite song that mentions a payphone?

Posted - January 30, 2019
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  • This here is the place I will be staying
    There isn't a number
    You can call the pay phone
    Let it ring a long, long, long, long time




      January 30, 2019 1:10 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Nice.   There you are again.  This is a good song.
      January 30, 2019 1:11 PM MST
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  • I haven't listened to REM in ages...I have a feeling this post is going to dictate what I'm blaring on the way home tonight. 
      January 30, 2019 1:12 PM MST
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  • 7919
    That was the first time I've heard that song. I fell down the rabbit hole trying to figure out what the lyrics mean. O_o 
      January 30, 2019 8:52 PM MST
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  • 22907
    I love this song. :) Never listened terribly close to the lyrics, even though they're sung very clearly by Stipe. 
    I like the music video a lot, too. And Stipe rarely has looked more hot to me. Ha.

    If you get a chance, listen again starting at the 2:28 spot --  " . . . a falling star . . . or a reading from Dr. Seuss . . ."
    - - and then Stipe has an ADORABLE GIGGLE!!!!!! as he sings "Only to wake her up."
    So fun to me!! It's my favorite part of the song.
    :)



    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 3, 2021 9:46 PM MDT
      June 11, 2020 2:06 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    If it would have just been about a regular phone, that would have been nice.


      January 30, 2019 1:12 PM MST
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  • 7919
    You can ask that one. lol
      January 30, 2019 8:52 PM MST
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  • Judas Priest (and Joan Baez)  Diamonds and Rust -

    "Where are you calling from? A booth in the Mid-West".
      January 30, 2019 1:15 PM MST
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  • 46117
    Now that was brilliant.
      January 30, 2019 1:17 PM MST
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  • The Priest version of this song is so incredible. 
      January 30, 2019 1:42 PM MST
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  • It sure is.  It's a classic.
      January 30, 2019 1:48 PM MST
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  •   January 30, 2019 1:29 PM MST
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  • 7919
    Oooh. That's a beautiful one.
      January 30, 2019 8:53 PM MST
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  • I know, its like a hidden gem to hear it again;)
      January 30, 2019 8:59 PM MST
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  • “ and the operator says 40 cents more for the next 3 minutes“ 

      January 30, 2019 1:40 PM MST
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  • Oh man, I remember this song from when I was a kid.  I loved this song.
      January 30, 2019 1:49 PM MST
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  • I love most of doctor hooks music :) my dad had  the albums and I fell in love at early age. 
      January 30, 2019 1:52 PM MST
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  • I love it.  That's how I have come to love much of the music my parents loved as well.   They always had music playing, and my dad collected albums. 
      January 30, 2019 1:54 PM MST
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  • It was definitely a gift growing up :) 
      January 30, 2019 1:55 PM MST
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  • 7919
    I haven't heard that in ages. Good stuff.
      January 30, 2019 8:57 PM MST
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  • Thinking of this song got me on a Dr. Hook kick this afternoon :) I think I went through $8 of my iTunes Credit in 3 minutes :)
      January 30, 2019 9:31 PM MST
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  • "Operator" by Jim Croce

      January 30, 2019 2:46 PM MST
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  • 10042
    This is the only one I can think of. I do like it. 
      January 30, 2019 7:42 PM MST
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  • 7919
    That's one of my favorites. 
      January 30, 2019 8:58 PM MST
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