Customer Reviews

American Pie

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This song captures a time in America at the tail end of the hippie generation. You can spend hours decrypting the the lyrics. All of this for about 10 cents a minute. Can't be beat.

American Pie is, perhaps, one of the greatest songs of all time. It is also the best song for karaoke bar none. I could not recommend this song highly enough. Also, the price/min is an unquestionable value.

5+ Stars

I always liked this song growing up, so I wanted to buy it for my ipod. It is the original version, and if you like the song, you will be happy with this purchase.

I bough this for my SONY MP3 player and wanted some oldies to listen to. This is a great old tune by Don Mclean and it brought back lots of memories. I wish I could find the radio studio demo that explained the lyrics - It aired when the song first came out.

Dedicated to Buddy Holly, this is one of the greats...an absolute staple of FM/AM radio during the 1970's it endures. This song will still be getting airtime twenty, thirty years from now.

Whomever it was who chose this portion of this song as the preview clip for Amazon's MP3 store mustn't be familiar with this song, as they've missed the hook entirely. The song's hook, which will cause anyone 40-ish or older to start singing along, drunk or sober, is this:

So bye-bye, miss american pie.
Drove my chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."

This song is a classic and matched with my first T-Mobile G1 purchase you can't go wrong!

Love Buddy Holly. Absolutely hate this ridiculous, whiney, rambling, depressive song. Don M. is a good singer/musician though ... thus the three stars.

Bye bye American Pye, goodby sanity. Incomprehensible lyrics, insipid melody sanctified by incessant radio play. I just want to rip my ears off of my head.