J. M. W. Turner's "Slave Ship"
Anyway, on this CD he put two songs about ships: "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot and "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" by Billy Joel. Two songs for better or worse, I had not heard before. Who decides to put those on his new girlfriend's mix? What his thought process was, I don't know, but it worked and I love them in a completely weird way.
Those two songs are not ones I regularly listen to and it's been some time since I'd thought about them, until I was making fries for dinner, and the brand I was trying out is called "Alexia." I started singing the Billy Joel song, and Nick, who was in the living room, joined in, and before I knew it this song was back in my life again and I'm kind of obsessed. I've fallen down a shipwreck-themed rabbit hole. Follow me:
Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her ill-fated voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Fitzgerald joined a second freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet high. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian waters 530 feet deep, about 17 miles from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at her top speed.
Although Fitzgerald had reported being in difficulty earlier, no distress signals were sent before she sank; Captain McSorley's last message to Anderson said, "We are holding our own." Her crew of 29 perished, and no bodies were recovered. -Wikipedia, ironclad
These things are far too expensive for what they are, so I won't bother linking. They're from Polyvore.
Do you have any songs you like but don't know why?
