Don McLean - Tapestry

[lolpieification]

I am 13 and now at thos time i just thank my dad for raisng me with this music instead of what is in the industry now.

[NekoPandaHero]

Such a beautiful song........

[hanuman16]

love this song

[mhairifiona]

It is World Environment Day today. This world we hold so carelessly, and take from without thought, will find a way to recover, but the human race will not.

[717mienbao]

There are still many singer songwriters out there in this current day. They are overlooked by the music industry at large as the industry mostly wants to cash in on pop culture, safest return of investment.

I grew up listening to the likes of Don McLean, Gordon Lightfoot, etc. And to think that humans have completely changed in one generation is simply showing laziness. You were young when these singers were young and it was easy to find new music. But as we get older we get less curious.

[tommy58photo]

It seems that nobody writes songs anywhere close to this material any more. Just so sweet. Thanks a bunch.

[dylan3657]

his guitar is his weapon and his words are the seeds great hope is renewed peace and happyness to everyone

[lgoopio]

Every thread of creation is held in position

by still other strands of things living.

In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline

of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar,

as not to be satisfied with their own negativity

but needing to touch all the living as well.

[Sachse009]

We still get the video in Germany, amazing!

Youtube killed the videostar, at least in Germany...

[meRLB1996]

what three psychopaths disliked this song and whats wrong with you

[Kenchinl]

Mr. McLean is One of the better songs writer in our times. Haunting and truly strong in his lyrics as in his music, he is unique in his ways. I agreed with everyone who loves his good works.

[ThePiosenkarz]

His songs:

'Vincent','Tapestry' ,And I love you' are masterpieces no doubt

have no comparison to other Artist and Don is extremally sensitive

[mel1194]

i can't help but get chills and cry

my favourite don song by far

[Sachse009]

@mel1194 you are totally right. It is his greatest song.

[MrSammywow11]

i've never come across another artist who's songs are so cleverly crafted, his meaning are so deep, he is visionary, he doesnt write songs he constructs them and builds them so accuratly and with such precision, end result these beautiful songs, thank you Don

[sukpendaliday]

SOULFUL, INTENSE AND HAUNTING....

[glovemonkey]

Don is one of the greatest song writers of all time songs like orphans of wealth are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago. This song actually inspired the creation of greenpeace (so it does have its bad points!!!!)

[jasonscorsese]

Vcv

[jasonscorsese]

I like don and sex. They are niice

[brainwasher9876]

Never thought a song about environmentalism would be able to not sound incredibly corny.

[juiceliina]

Love Don... Everything he has written is so Profound. Beautiful

[centervilletn]

to never be able to say to the one person what should have been said....to the hand that will never be held, to the life you might have lived had you tried...

[wlwak]

Maclean has the power to move a listener like no other. He's great. Thank goodness for artists like him.

[ysmvictor]

good song

[Fliedermous]

What an intensely profound song.

[bondensbabe]

I only have them on the album. Orphans of Wealth remains perhaps my favourite of everything that he did. Tapestry is a brilliant album

[Sshelly34213]

Hey thanks anyway, I actually found them.

True, I'd say Tapestry and Homeless Brother were his best albums

[sameoldfitup2008]

One in eight pupils speaks English as second language

One in eight primary school pupils now speaks English as a second language. There are now 419,000 primary pupils speaking other languages at home, a rise of 42,000 on last year, and 314,950 secondary pupils, an increase of 16,000, representing nearly one in 10. (29.9.06)

[clock99times]

Great song but the sound is a bit distorted.

[finaleofseem]

oh such moral turpitude. It was nature that made man, therefore nature is responsible for it's own demise. unconscious nature doesn't give a squat what happens to it. It is only man that cares because of a very young development in evolution, called consciousness. nature is not separate from the city. the city is a large human ant pile. it is as much a product of nature as a turtle shell. "biological nature" is red in tooth and claw. it had a beginning and it will have an end.

[abottanaw]

this ios one of the greatest songs of all time. don mclean is really a prophet. talking of ecology when it was not fashionable then. thanks a lot don... you really touched not only your generation.

[abottanaw]

this is really the greatest. talking of ecology when it was not fashionable then. don mclean is really a prophet. he is really of the most eloquent souls that has visited our small planet.

[T2000Terminator]

There are 3 songs on this planet that make me cry Don has written 2 of them, he is probably the most poetic and beautiful songwriter of our time.

[sjburslem]

Which ones??? And who wrote the third?

[T2000Terminator]

well this one " tapestry", because you know in your heart its true.... "Vincent" because the line "this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you" because thats true too.... and the third is "those were the days of our lives" by Queen because it was the end of one of the greatest talents in the world and I didn't want it to end. Or maybe I'm just too soft!?!?

[littleorv29]

What about crossroads by don mclean?

[Soulman1990]

crossroads is heart wrenching. McLean is the only man who can melt my heart.

[T2000Terminator]

Ahh come on I can't cry at every bloody song I hear, I'd never get anything done :-)

Yeah its beautiful, strange though how a song can have different effects on different people.

[wardian13]

Es increible, es hermoso..

[themajikat]

"And every fish that swims silent, every bird that fly freely

Every doe that steps softly,

Every crisp leaf that falls, all the flowers that grow,

On this colorful tapestry, somehow they know

That if man is allowed to destroy all we need

He will soon have to pay with his life for his greed"

somehow they know...Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

[themajikat]

"And every fish that swims silent, every bird that fly freely

Every doe that steps softly,

Every crisp leaf that falls, all the flowers that grow,

On this colorful tapestry, somehow they know

That if man is allowed to destroy all we need

He will soon have to pay with his life for his greed"

somehow they know... read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

[davidpockettrpt]

He is a true genius, where North America is concerned. Just listen to Bronco Bill's Lament, Orphans of Wealth, "Bushbash", Respectable, The Grave, or Masters of War(Bob Dylan tune), to see the pure wonder of Don's songwriting/singing/guitar playing skills.

[davidpockettrpt]

I also adore Masters of War, & Dreidel (which was written after the explosion of popularity of American Pie had caused Don's head to start "spinning like a top").

[glovemonkey]

This song is alleged (amongst other things im sure) to have inspired the creation of greenpeace

[davidpockettrpt]

Thanks for posting!I once thought that this was my favorite McLean song, but then I heard The Grave, Respectable, or Everybody Loves Me Baby - and I change my mind (constantly). This tune goes to the heart of what is happening to this paradise we live in(I live in Colima, MX).

[rtupin1956]

painfully beautiful

[amyshinoris]

The lyrics are weaved into a perfect tapestry. The song is just so wonderful to hear and listen with our ears, but even more beautiful when fully understood because it also touches one's heart and soul.

[jackharrison101]

Absolutely amazing!....The lyrics are gorgeous

[wellivebeendreamin]

love don mclean but id never heard this song before...im speechless at how fantastic it was, and sad at how relevant it still is.

[ellendude]

Don Mclean's songs are so beautiful, are adore them =]

[ellendude]

I meant.. I adore them* =] lol

[TalioAngelus]

Don McLean, Epic Wordsmith.

[JoeyDaytona]

This song was on the Clearwater record in the early 70s, with Pete Seeger and others who cared about cleaning up the Hudson River in NY.

[MROSEN62]

Don was an original crew member of the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, launched in the late 60s.

[peacewomanisrael]

held in suspension like the yolk of the egg in albumen....

What a line! the whole song!

I bought this record after hearing this song on WNEW FM radio back in 1970--?.

I still remember all the lyrics! Don McLean-A truly inspired artist!

[jonatancolumbus]

Thanks you very much,and keep the good job,we all need this and more of this.

[777starman777]

thank you Jennie for sending me this; love you forever; the Light, the Love, the Tapestry

[darththc]

men like don and cat stevens are sorely missing from the music of my generation. maybe it's mainstream media that supresses these types of artist today, or maybe my generation is incapable of deeper thought and feeling, i can't say. i can say it is a beautiful thing to have the internet, that i may find artist such as these, who through their song and words place a hand on my shoulder and comforts my sore heart saying the world IS wonderful, but all those dirty people.

[gaviscon200354]

you are very articulate i hope your sore heart is mended by don thanks for your words

[darththc]

you're welcome and thank you. music is truly the medicine of the soul, and were it not for a greivous lack of practitioners, the illnesses of our hearts would not want for treatment.

[blithium]

I hate to say it, but I believe both are true.

[Jim54454]

Maybe those younger than I can tell me who in this generation speaks as does Mclean & Stevens?

[blithium]

Nobody.

[KiwiSA009]

Depends on genre. Rage Against The Machine are pretty heartfelt and extremely clever, but not to everyone's taste (especially people who grew up with mellow folk music)

Even they are hardly "this" generation's spokespeople - I'm 29 and not up with the play with current music so not qualified to say.

[KiwiSA009]

Dammit! Thought I was replying to a message, by Jim54454 - please forgive that out of context it makes no sense.

[bpulv]

@darththc Well stated!

[Rahavin1]

@darththc As Ive been told: "I just want to listen to good music and not have to think"... I never enderstood this. Im into death metal, and hard punk, but damn, who could ever listen to music that didnt have feeling? Its art, the whole purpose of art is to envoke deeper thought and emotion, to unearth what is buried. I never understood when people said otherwise

[Rahavin1]

@darththc Read "Mac Fleckno" ... forgot who by. about some hack poets a few centuries back that would fit in the same catagory as Justin Beiber today

[ThisCitysInPanic]

@darththc Mhmm. I gave up listening to the radio because I can't find a station that plays music like this on a daily basis.

[MrWogo]

@darththc hey.you said it better than i ever could

[KodaRollins]

@darththc i believe its a lot of both cases. shame that this music has virtually vanished from us. these songs are superbly written. more than i can say for most modern music

[atfatw]

@darththc, your stupid wretched generation IS incapable of any deep thought or feeling whatsoever.

[proideot]

@atfatw i agree, my generation are idiots.

[HotRodSixString]

@atfatw If you want a generation to grow up incapable of feelings and deep thoughts I suppose the way to do that is to tell them how wretched and stupid they are . If you're not a part of the solution you are part of the problem .

[atfatw]

@HotRodSixString ridiculous! water rises to it own level people choose the way they want to live.

quality want a good, intelligent, deep, wise life and nothings want a slushy cheap low down druggy sort of life!

[HotRodSixString]

@atfatw  People are not water . A person spirits can be crushed by unkind uncaring callous comments from from a person who clearly only sees the world from their own vantage point . It must be a lonely place where one looks out and is able to label an entire generation of people through insensitive ,unsympathetic , eyes . Cruel indifference has it's own bitter reward in that one usually finds themselves surrounded by the kind of person who is often too willing to agree. Misery loves company .

[ONENIGGER2ANOTHER]

@darththc I am thankful for these true artists like Mclean, Stevens, Denver , Croce, Chapin and their contemporaries. This calibre of talent is almost extinct in the mainstream today. A lot to be said for someone who can sit on a stool with only a guitar and mesmerize an audience for a hour. Thank God for forums like YouTube that remind of us such great musical genuis's.

[bigdjindustriez]

@darththc There are still artists out there from this generation attempting to do the same thing (I'm one of them). The media isn't interested anymore, they just want half naked teenage girls prancing around auto-tuned singing about clothes. It's just a money racket now.

[ElBluesummer]

@darththc I think the existence of people such as yourself is proof enough that our generation is capable of deeper thought and feeling. I believe that the media machine and technologically advanced past-times of our time have served to distract young and potentially powerful voices from delivering their message as well as to suppress the ones that are trying to speak out.

[69warbeast69]

@darththc im 17 and love his music

[WhereEaglesDareUK]

This song blows my mind..............

[WhereEaglesDareUK]

Top Class

[HARDBAL]

Don McLean was ahead of many others in the environmental movement.

[litek08]

Don Mclean is one original legendary pro environmentalist singer, as this song of him says so.-RAS