This is more one of those songs that seems always around me, waiting to get played. No, not because it’s lyrics reflect my life (thank goodness) or that I link it to a certain time that was important to me. Yes people, this week we hit on one of those rare songs that I don’t just love, but see as one of those personal favourites that is part of my life. This happens to be one of those songs I feel the same amount of curiosity for. I simply admire the dedication.Ībove all, I understand why anyone would put so much effort to tell the tale of a song that in its longer versions still rarely lasts five minutes. My text fits on three A4’s, he writes a book. There is a contrast between my approach and Ted Anthony’s though: I take a week, he worked for eight years on a book. I admit, I haven’t had the time to read it yet, a downside of giving myself only a week to write these things, with not too much time on the side for these kind of ventures. At the same time he tries to find where in New Orleans that house called Rising Sun could have been. In this he tries to find the roots of the classic folk tune House of the Rising Sun, or Rising Sun Blues as it is also known. In 2007 Ted Anthony released a book called Chasing the Rising Sun. Place in the Acclaimed Music Song Poll 2015: #57. Ranks higher than Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin, but lower than Blue Suede Shoes by Carl Perkins. Song ranking on Acclaimed Music in the artist’s discography: 1st. The Animals – House of the Rising SunĪlbum: The Animals (US version only, in the UK it was released as a standalone single). “Well, I got one foot on the platform/ The other foot on the train/ I'm goin' back to New Orleans/ To wear that ball and chain”Ĩ3. So in reverse to other topics on this site I say: “Please comment on this song, rating is optional”.Įarlier entries of this series can be found here. I want it to be about people’s personal reviews and hopefully discussions. You are free to rate the song each week, but I’ll do nothing with this rating. The idea for this topic came to me because I wanted to think of a way to engage more actively with the very large top 6000 songs that Henrik has compiled for us, while still keeping it accessible and free of any game elements. The only other rule in this is that after an artist has had a turn, he can’t appear for another ten weeks. The song is chosen completely at random, through, making the selections hopefully very varied. In this, every week another song from the Acclaimed Music song top 6000 is selected for discussion. This topic is part of the weekly 6000 songs, 6000 opinions.

Chasing the Rising Sun by Ted Anthony