GrayKing said:

A very sad song.

gets me every time. from the time i was 2 years old til now.


and there is a sad element to it, but it sounds positive to me. bittersweet at the very least.

GrayKing said:

One of my favorite parts of the Muppet Movie.

GrayKing said:

I believe a lot of it has to do with the pathos that's a part of Kermit's voice, the sound of the banjo.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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Hotlegs said:

don't think i even saw the movie until i was in my teens. i just remember sitting in the corner of our living room next to the outlet with my little fisher price tape player listening to this song over and over. first song i ever knew, i think. first one i was ever obssessed with for sure (first of many).

theAudience said:

You really think so TA Baby.

Hotlegs said:

Yeah. That's how I hear it anyway.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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theAudience said:

Whatever you say is cool with me TA Baby .

Hotlegs said:

You're just so agreeable.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

Well, you're the exception TA Baby.We agre on a alot things b/c we're linked spiritually remember.
[Edited 7/4/05 4:38am]

My room-mate in Uni used to sing this to me.

I was in the closet; he was captain of the rugby team.





Do you think he was trying to make me his Miss Piggy??

onenitealone said:

Awww.

I love Jim Henson characters.

I used to watch "The Muppets Take Manhattan" all the time on the old Disney Channel.

Hotlegs said:

Believe me Legs, the crazy fantasies I could tell you from that year. It was always a treat when the rugby team came to visit.

Anyway, I digress...

i wup this song....

I am the Muppet Authority and I love this song.

Right up there with It's Not Easy Being Green

It's not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
'Cause you're not standing out
Like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky
But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or important like a river
Or tall like a tree
When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why
But why wonder why wonder
I am green, and it'll do fine
It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be

heartbeatocean said:

This is another Muppet Classic of mine.

Something about nearly every project Jim Henson was involved in had a very bittersweet feel to it. The Muppets, Sesame Street, The Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, and everthing else. It was easy to fall in love with and really coonect with his characters; to pretend they were real. In many ways, Henson's puppets were more "human" than many actual human characters are.

Things haven't been the same since he passed away. With the exception of the newest Muppet Christmas special, which made me cry, everything I can recall seing since his death has just been happy and one-dimensional.

i just typed this looooong response talking about my love of this song and all things Henson...about my DVD collection of Movies & Programs that had Henson involvement (like the "StoryTeller"), the fact that I still get caught watching Sesame Street hoping to see old clips (heheh some husbands get caught by their wife watching porn...i get caught watching puppets), my No Strings Attached book about Jims work, about my collection of Kermit & Grover dolls.....i mean ACTION FIGURES...heheh...

i wrote this long thing about how i, as a grown man working at an office, first heard the news that Jim henson had died, I started choking up right there at work. Had to fight them damn tears back...it really felt like a lifelong freind had passed.

anyway..i wrote this long post hit 'post response' only to realize i hadn't logged in and when i hit 'back' everything i had written was wiped out...gone.

ah well..

suffice to say...for family movie night tonight i will be picking the film that my wife & kids watch...and it'll be the Muppet Movie for sure.

heartbeatocean said:

Both are beautiful songs. Ray Charles' version of It's Not Easy Being Green is classic.

RipHer2Shreds said:

YES!!! I saw a special about the composer who wrote it (don't remember his name, but he's totally famous) and he said he knew he had reached his zenith when Ray Charles did a cover of that song, that it really blew his mind. I saw Ray Charles' performance of it and it was entirely emotional.

CinisterCee said:

From the first little strums of the banjo...I lose it.

I love the song, but it makes me so damn sad...can't listen to it anymore.

It's one of the few songs that really make me cry.