The World Party record I reviewed yesterday had a song called ‘Ship of Fools.’ I remembered I also had a song with the same name on a Robert Plant solo album, and, I had one with yet again the same name on a Bob Seger album.
None of the songs on vinyl were the same song. They just shared the same titles.
A little Google research and 10 minutes later I found that Levi Asher writing for Litkicks.com discovered the same thing by looking at his Apple playlist. He had Seger, Plant and World Party but he also found songs entitled Ships of Fools by the Grateful Dead, the Doors, and John Cale.
He used his discovery to trace the usage of the phrase Ship of Fools which goes back to Plato. It’s fascinating but we aren’t doing that here. See this link if you want more on that.
Let’s get a little inter-active here. Below I am linking to all of these versions. And I’d like you to tell me which one you like best. I’ll tell you my pick at a later date. Mainly because I need to refresh my memory on some of these or most of these.
I love the GD so that’s my vote. Gonna listen to the others to open my mind.
My favorite(s): A tie for #1 between Bob Seeger and The Doors. An aside: Have you seen the1965 B & W movie “Ship of Fools”?. Plot is set in 1933 on a German ocean liner. Based on the novel ‘Ship of Fools’ by Katherine Anne Porter
Good choices. Haven’t seen the movie but I (or my parents) at one time owned the book but I never got around to reading it. Synopsis sounded interesting.