Van Meter

David Casseres casseres at apple.com
Fri Jan 22 18:13:15 CST 1999


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>Has anyone put "Van Meter" through the Word Machine?
>
>Cheers,
>David
>
>Yes.....it said a "Van Meter" is an instrument for evaluating the relative
>quality of songs like 'Tupelo Honey', 'Moondance', and 'Inarticulate Speech
>of the Heart'. Just for the hell of it here's the lyrics to the one that
>comes out tops on my personal "Van Meter."
>
>Summertime In England...

Ooh yes.  One of the wrong things I did in the 60's was take a dislike to
Van Morrison, for reasons now irrelevant and back then, fairly shitheaded.
It took me years to find out what a stunning songwriter he is.

Cheers,
David



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