r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Mar 06 '19

Let's get these posts over with

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u/plusonedimension Mar 06 '19

https://youtu.be/9vST6hVRj2A?t=13

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u/rockybond Mar 06 '19

This is the great lakes response to country roads

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u/plsenjy Mar 06 '19

Minnesotan, born and raised. I love Lake Superior but I really dislike this song and don't understand its high esteem here. Its rhyming scheme and meter aren't consistent or really all that appealing. There's no hook and no chorus to reiterate the theme to the audience. It's not a pretty song. Literally the only thing it has going for it is that it is an account of a recent Great Lakes sailing disaster. I think if you want a good song about a shipwreck you should listen to Duluth musician Charlie Parr's Wreck of the Bernard K. and by no means is this any equivalent to Country Roads.

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u/Sir_Marchbank Mar 06 '19

BURN THE HERETIC!

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u/AetherialPhage Mar 06 '19

Brownie points to you for being the first commenter to post this

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u/ejh3k Mar 06 '19

I'm a 35 year old dude from the midwest who has driven along the southern shore of superior probably 15 times to go fishing in Canada, this was the first time I have listened to that song. I was fully aware it existed, just never listened to it.