Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: pcolbeck on 14 May, 2014, 02:01:53 pm
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Today's favourite:
Rock and Roll means well, but it can't help tellin' young boys lies
You can always bet on the Drive by Truckers to come up with a good one.
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I know this one from the singing of Mabsant with the late Siwsann George.
"Ac yn Nhrawsfynydd, ar lan y llyn, yr oen yn araf marw"
(And in Trawsfynydd, by the lake, the sheep slowly die)
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I'm not a great Oasis fan, but I do like their line (I think this is it) : -
'Cos the brains you said I had went to my head.
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Cos you said the brains I had went to my head
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I keep meaning to listen to the Drive by Truckers. Someone I like (can't remember who mind) name checked them onstage.
The one that comes to mind is:
"Your mouth has a more complicated history than the American South".
The Mountain Goats.
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"The pump don't work cos the vandals took the handle."
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"It's the side effects that save us"
And
"The followers of chaos, out of control"
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They let you think you're king but you're really a pawn - The Jam, When You're Young.
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Smash the system with the song!
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There will be bleeding from orifices! Do not panic.
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Think only of yourself.
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Your missus is a nutter, She's got curly teeth and walks with a stutter
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There is nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro.
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"The pump don't work cos the vandals took the handle."
Sounds like it may the genesis of, or inspired by:
"Heads you win, 'cos the dog chewed the handle"
Others I like are:
"I came as a rat, came as a whore"
"I seem to recognise your face, haunting familarity, I can't seem to place"
"If all the people in the world were in your back garden, would you call the police, or grab a plate and join them?"
And, of course, my sig line.
Out of them, 3 are Terrorvision, one Pearl Jam and one Modest Mouse, all good for one liner lyrics.
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The Smiths (well, Morrissey wrote the lyrics) were masters at this.
"There's more to life than books you know, but not much more"
"She said, 'I know you and you cannot sing'. I said, 'That's nothing; you should hear me play piano'"
"And if you ever need self-validation, just meet me in the alley by the railway station"
"Two lumps please, you're the bee's knees - but so am I"
but the ultimate is from Happy Mondays.
"I might be the honky, but I'm hung like a donkey" ;D
Shaun Ryder was, of course, the "poet" in the infamous 24 Hour Party People poster; Ian Curtis being the "genius" and Tony Wilson being the "twat".
(http://anencounter.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/bso_24_hour_party_people-frontal2.jpg)
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From Jacques Brel's "Au Suivant":
"Je jure sur la tête de ma première vérole" ("I swear on the head of my first pox").
Scott Walker and Alex Harvey cranked it up a notch with "I swear on the wet head of my first case of gonorrhea"
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"The pump don't work cos the vandals took the handle."
Sounds like it may the genesis of, or inspired by:
"Heads you win, 'cos the dog chewed the handle"
Here you are. (http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/subterraneanhomesickblues.html)
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It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty, delta day
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The Doors, of course...Jim Morrison's drug-fuelled poetry. Most of "The WASP" could be great single-line quotes, but the best is
"Out here we is stoned - immaculate"
Jars a little these days because the bad grammar is supposed to be from "the negroes in the forest, brightly feathered". Compare Tom and Jerry cartoons and "Where am dat cat?".
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"I used to want to plant bombs at the Last Night of the Proms" - Brickbat, Billy Bragg.
"I get the news I need from the weather report" - Only Living Boy In New York, Simon & Garfunkel
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From Jacques Brel's "Au Suivant":
"Je jure sur la tête de ma première vérole" ("I swear on the head of my first pox").
That is a great line. Brel is full of them. One of my favourites is from Les Vieux:
"Le muscat de dimanche ne les fait plus chanter"
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"I have words that do not come from children's books"
- from Everything I've Got Belongs To You by Rodgers & Hart
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"Je crache a la gueule de tout ce systeme" - Trust.
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More conventional but tells a story in a single line
"She had a good-looking momma, who never was around"
Mary Jane's last dance, by Tom Petty.
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Think only of yourself.
;D
If you are making love, it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.
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Think only of yourself.
;D
If you are making love, it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.
Use your wheels. It is what they are for.
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If no wheels are available, metal, not organic limbs should be employed wherever possible...
Sod it; the whole piece is superb!
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It's hard to chose a single line of Bob Dylan, who hs probably written more great lines then the rest of the world's lyricists put together (Cole Porter and Ira Gershwin just didn't write enough songs!) but how about these:-
They're selling postcards of the hanging; they're painting the passports brown
and
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
?
On second thoughts, maybe we should ban Bob Dylan or the internet might break.
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Yes and every bloody emperor's got his hands up history's skirt
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VDGG?
Of course it must be. You ever play two at once? I prefer Boleas Panic from that album.
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Don't marry her, fuck me.
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You ever play two at once?
Wondered what you meant for a sec.
I used to when I played in a prog band about 35 years ago. Occasionally toy with the idea of tenor and bari together (Dana Colley in Morphine) but haven't plucked up the nerve yet.
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I do believe the man I was speaking about now goes by the name 'Jaxen' or 'Jaxon'. I used to have a great y**tube link to a performance of "Darkness'. Wonderful stuff.
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There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
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Think only of yourself.
;D
If you are making love, it is imperative to bring all bodies to orgasm simultaneously.
Says who? In all pornos, she comes first ;-)
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If rain makes Britain great, then Manchester is greater...
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But it's really not that you can't see the forest for the trees, you've never been out in the woods alone.
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There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets
"Nero fiddles while Gordon burns"
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And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican
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How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team?
Billy Bragg - Greetings to the new brunette
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So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away for a wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.
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"People had worries from when the dead sea was only critical" - Lucky Dube.
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Je ne suis qu'un bulletin qu'on intoxique et qu'on glisse dans un urne - Trust
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"You smell like a field, ..cow-shit in the mid-summer sun".
From the song "One eyed trouser snake rumba" by Humble Pie. (Greatest song title ever).From the album 'As Safe As Yesterday'
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På bara Fyra sekunder, underbart är kort - Magnus Uggla
In only four seconds, wonderful is short.
A song about a premature ejaculation sufferer who eventually meets a girl who comes as quickly. I love a happy ending. It got to the top of the Swedish charts in '94.
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"He lost poetic ethic and his songs were pathetic"
"If he made me in his image then he's a failure too"
Both from Failure by Laura Marling
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"On a vu souvent rejaillir le feu de l'ancien volcan qu'on croyait trop vieux"
- Brel, Ne Me Quitte Pas
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Wonder if they use that on French (or Brelgian) packets of Viagra?
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More HMHB:
"I could have been like Lou Barlow, but I'm more like Ken Barlow".
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Don't marry her, fuck me.
She "Left the band" soon after that performance! Paul Heaton managed to uncomfortable face of the year on thAT GIG.
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Riding along in their Big old Chryslers, with the Big under inflated white tyres...
Moe Tucker.. Blue all the way to Canada....
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"It's only when you're trying to stay afloat that you find the cracks in yourself"
-Ruth Theodore, Psychosis & The Willow
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"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand" ~ Warren Zevon - 'Werewolves of London'
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"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand" ~ Warren Zevon - 'Werewolves of London'
"A little old lady got mutilated late last night"
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Could pick any number of Joe Jackson lines (including that one), but for now...
I'd like to fight apartheid, I wish that I could fight the guy upstairs
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Stockard Channing held sway
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OK, not all that great, but listening to Human League's Reproduction has reminded me of:
"'Dehumanisation' is such a big word - it's been around since Richard the Third"
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"my moral standing is lying down"
NIN - The Only Time from Pretty Hate Machine
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Billy Bragg: "A little black cloud in a dress".
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Boy, you'd best pray that I bleed real soon.
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I think a no, I mean a yes, but it's all wrong.
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Invoice me and then your mother ~ "Panzer", Amplifier.
Even Marilyn Monroe was a man, but this tends to get overlooked by our Mother-fixated, overweight, sexist media ~ "Uncorrected Personality Traits", Robyn Hitchcock.
Wear the grudge like a crown of negativity ~ "The Grudge", Tool.
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But in your trunk he left you some treasure - a pint of rye and a case of slim jims for your masticating pleasure.
'Friday the 13th', Royal Crown Revue
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Every man's a captain; men know how to drown.
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There was Della and a dealer and a dog named Jake
And a cat called Kalamazoo.
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Good old Hoyt! There's a lot of good lines in that song. I'm trying to remember the title of his song that includes "Well, I never been to Spain, but I kinda like the music". Do you know it?
Peter
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Pain looks good on other people - that's what they're for - Sisters of Mercy
Are my dreams your nightmares? i hope they all come true - Stone Roses
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Dictators, saviours, refugees........
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"Being a bad boy ain't that bad - had me more dirty women than most men ever had..." AC/DC
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"You lack lust, you're so lacklustre" Elvis Costello.
He's got sooo many more.
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Because it came up on my ipod this evening...
"Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?"
Which is pure fucking poetry.
Then, of course, there's the ne plus ultra of bedroom angst lyricism:
"If a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine"
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Billy Bragg: "A little black cloud in a dress".
"The temptation to take the precious things we have apart to see how they work must be resisted for they never fit together again"
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"The pump don't work cos the vandals took the handle."
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
Which, of course, reminds me of:
"I get the news I need from the weather report" - which is surely the motto of any audaxer, right? [edit: I realise I have already mentioned this line upthread. But it's such a great line that it bears repeating]
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"You've got the horn so why don't you blow it" - Prince, Cream
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"It's wrong to wish on space hardware."
"Hearken to the barking of the dog fox, gone to ground." But that might be two; difficult to tell.
"I'm broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too." Very nearly an entire musical genre summed up in one line.
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"Be my lover don't play no game, just play me John Coltrane." Lucinda Williams - Righteously
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Mr Costello again:
You might not be an old-fashioned girl but you're going to get dated
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"Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan" - Warren Zevon.
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This here's a zoo and the keeper aint you -- Lou Reed (I'm sick of you)
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"Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan" - Warren Zevon.
beezer !
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Jesus and his lawyer are coming back
(Grammatically incorrect but still good)
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"my moral standing is lying down"
NIN - The Only Time from Pretty Hate Machine
I was about to post this one, but decided to read through the previous posts to see if I had already done so and then forgotten about the thread. Turns out I hadn't! ;D
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"I know that the cannibals wear smart suits and ties"
Midnight Oil - Sometimes
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"Messieurs les Flamagands, je vous emmerde"
Jacques Brel, "Les F..."
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'Tatterdemallion and a junketer, there's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he's my hero'
Freddie at his most grandiose . . .
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How did you work out the lyrics to that song? I've been listening to that since forever and always just la la through it.... :-D
That simply has to be the Fairy Feller's Masterstroke...
(google I suppose but who looks up songs you've been listening to before the internet existed)
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If you have the original 1974 vinyl the lyrics were printed on the inner sleeve.
That and a photographic memory . . .
<Casual aside> In last week's pub quiz the final music track was 'Brighton Rock' which I answered as soon as I heard the fairground organ.
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Well I've got the
original vinyl (well an 80s reprint) and I do (iimssm) have a reasonably photographic memory - but then it's got to be about 30 years since I've looked at it to be fair. I've always heard 'junketter' as 'drum guitar' ::-)
I used to have just about every Queen track memorised for lyrics - except that one I guess :-[
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Not to derail the topic but I used to be the biggest Queen fan.
When they quit working with Roy Thomas Baker I still bought all the albums - with the notable exception of 'Hot Space' - but most of what they made after 'A Day At The Races' was dire...
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I only got into them as a teenager in the 80s. My brother bought The Works in '84 and I was hooked. I spent many months trying to work out what that mad track they did years ago with the weird video was from my deepest childhood. It took a piss take on Radio 4s 'Radio-active' to reveal its title and from that moment I was *really* hooked. Bohemian Rhapsody was so memorable (apart the title apparently) that I remember it clearly as a 5 year old :D
I love Hot Space but it is an acquired taste for sure.
My love started to fade from the Miracle onwards personally. Pretty obvious it was all an epitaph from that moment on although they still had their moments.
Hmm, an afternoon of office-bound marking is in the offing - *looks at iPhone and my Queen collection on it...*
I was very impressed with the last episode of Vinyl recently where they feature several songs from their eponymous album during the show :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Grand pianos crash together when my boy walks down the street
(One of many from) The Magnetic Fields
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How has this thread got this far without
"How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team"
???
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"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then." - Bob Seger, Against the Wind
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Dory Previn's response to an offer of a one night stand:
"By tomorrow you'll have come, and gone"
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If you haven't prepaid to use the steps you'll have to feckin' jump - Fascinating Aida.
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"Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life" (Tom Lehrer - Bright College Days)
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How has this thread got this far without
"How can you lie there and think of England when you don't even know who's in the team"
???
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=82467.msg1689123#msg1689123
HTH ;)
Looking back over the thread, there's quite a healthy dose of the big-nosed bard, which is gratifying.
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I blame ctrl-F
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She said "I know you and you cannot sing"
I said "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano"
The Queen is Dead by The Smiths
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The Macc Lads "Boddies":
"You've got to get some ale inside thee, cause you're a f***ing twat"
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"can you tell me why, they make a good bowl of chilli at the jazz club, they play a good game of football in mucron"
Probaby two, or even three lines being strict about it.
Moody Blues, Top Rank Suite
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The Macc Lads "Boddies":
"You've got to get some ale inside thee, cause you're a f***ing twat"
Ah, what a poet young Muttley was!
"She smelt of rotting fish-heads. And old and crispy sick!"
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"Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death" Pink Floyd "Time"
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From Country Joe & The Fish, Moviola, a Pekinpah critique:
"It was all piss and shit and cock and tit and in the end everyone's dead"
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Are you gonna realize the class war's real and not mythologized
Style Council - Walls come tumbling down.
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From Country Joe & The Fish, Moviola, a Pekinpah critique:
"It was all piss and shit and cock and tit and in the end everyone's dead"
Reminds me of my wife's explanation of Madame Butterfly (though can be applied to many an opera)
"After a lot of singing, she dies" ;D
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"If you want my view on history, then there's something you should know
The three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Mo"
(Sorry, it's two lines...)
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And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people. And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people. I never thought I'd need so many people.
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And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people. And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people. I never thought I'd need so many people.
Ah, now we're talking.
We don't talk much, we just ball and play, but we move like tigers on Vaseline.
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Life is short and love is always over in a moment, black wind come carry me far away
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And in the same nihilistic vein:
The future's uncertain and the end is always near
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And since I've invoked the drug-addled spirit of Jim Morrison:
Out here we is stoned, immaculate
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...and I was drinking clear cool water just to quench my thirst.
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"I seem to have left an important part of my brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire"
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"Now nothing's left here, but the stains"
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So take me down to your dance floor,
and I won't mind the people when they stare
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I’ve just looked at myself, and from here to here it ain’t far enough, but from here to here it’s too short.
Hey Garland I Dig Your Tweed Coat - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
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...and I was drinking clear cool water just to quench my thirst.
"I wanna rock your gypsy soul..."
I want that to be played after I'm gone as I go into the mystic.
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Help save the youth of America
It seems topical once again.
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...and I was drinking clear cool water just to quench my thirst.
"I wanna rock your gypsy soul..."
I want that to be played after I'm gone as I go into the mystic.
:thumbsup:
and mine will be
'And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind'
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That's from the prescient song about the President: "Hey, Mister Tangerine Man".
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;D
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Don't mention it! Sorry not to meet you at Malham.
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Old men in stripey trousers rule the world with plastic smiles
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Old men in stripey trousers rule the world with plastic smiles
You're SO 80s... ;D
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As for me, I’ll take the TGV to Zurich and jump off the roof of Dignitas
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Old men in stripey trousers rule the world with plastic smiles
Please put me out of my misery and tell me the source.
Nik Kershaw?
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Old men in stripey trousers rule the world with plastic smiles
Please put me out of my misery and tell me the source.
Nik Kershaw?
Correct - it's from "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
And to pre-empt Torslanda, yes, I am so very 80s... :P
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'Times when the day is like a play by Sartre'
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Hard to pick a line from Carter USM's finest song, but I'll go for:
Butchered bakers, deaf and dumb waiters, Marble Arch criminals and clause 28'ers
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'Times when the day is like a play by Sartre'
Crash Test Dummies?
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'Times when the day is like a play by Sartre'
Crash Test Dummies?
Yep - 'Afternoons and Coffespoons'
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All you ever do is blabber and smoke - Captain Beefheart.
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Oh well, just give me an easy life and a peaceful death
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"If you want my view on history, then there's something you should know
The three men I admire most are Curly, Larry, Mo"
(Sorry, it's two lines...)
Well, if you can quote 2-liners
Is when you're left alone with your memories
That hold your life together, like glue
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"Though I put you on a pedestal you put me on the pill"
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"Though I put you on a pedestal you put me on the pill"
or Billy Bragg's lyric
'Tho I put you on a pedestal, They put you on the pill'
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Since we're on the Bard of Barking:
And there's you; a little black cloud in a dress
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And I am the milkman of human kindness,
I will leave you an extra pont
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With my own hands when I make love to your memory.
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It's wrong to wish on space hardware
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It's wrong to wish on space hardware
*cough* (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=82467.msg1729518#msg1729518) :)
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It's wrong to wish on space hardware
*cough* (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=82467.msg1729518#msg1729518) :)
what can i say, age
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Considering what I do for a living, one of my favourites has to be a simple one:
"I'm banned in DC"* - Bad Brains**
*Though, for work reasons I need to add a "the"
**I was reminded of these guys whilst reading "This is a Call", a book about Dave Grohl.
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A propos of nothing, this one popped into my head this morning:
"If you ever wondered how you get triangles from a cow
You need butter, milk and cheese
And an equilateral chainsaw."
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" Tears arn't like the tide they never ebb just flow "
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There's an all-night chicken takeaway which is finger-lickin' closed
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May be already upthread, but I have had an earworm of:
Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news!
(Teardrop Explodes - Reward)
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Oh no ! I'd always heard that as "Bless my cotton socks I'm in the nude."
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Oh no ! I'd always heard that as "Bless my cotton socks I'm in the nude."
Not an entirely unreasonable assumption when it comes to Julian Cope.
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"You leave a ring around the basin
When you wash your face in...
In my sink"
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"From the first 12 inch I made to the colour of my underwear"
Beautiful South - Song for whoever.
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"I spill my tea- oh silly me"
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Oh no ! I'd always heard that as "Bless my cotton socks I'm in the nude."
Not an entirely unreasonable assumption when it comes to Julian Cope.
Indeed
And, sorry, Hatler :(
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"I spill my tea- oh silly me"
"You drink your coffee, I sip my tea"
"Or will you just politely say good night"
Theme tune to my youth.
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I have tickets for her gig tonight. Really looking forward to it :thumbsup:
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I have tickets for her gig tonight. Really looking forward to it :thumbsup:
That's a rubbish line, fuzzy ;D
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I beat myself off when I sleep on your futon.
(from Religious Songs by Withered Hand)
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Just heard on the radio...
"Husker Du-Du-Du, Captain Beefheart, ELO
Chris De Burgh, Sun Ra, Del Amitri, John Coltrane"
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Reminds me of:
"Disparus Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Eddy Cochran, Buddy Holly,
idem Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, T.Rex, Elvis"
- Serge Gainsbourg, sung by Jane Birkin
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Which in turn reminds me of:
And you wish you could be Brian Jones
But now he's just a heap of bones
That's one better than you, you're a loser
Trash ~ Robyn Hitchcock
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Just heard on the radio...
"Husker Du-Du-Du, Captain Beefheart, ELO
Chris De Burgh, Sun Ra, Del Amitri, John Coltrane"
Reminds me of the excellent "Righteously" by Lucinda Williams
Flirt with me don't keep hurtin' me
Don't cause me pain
Be my lover don't play no game
Just play me John Coltrane
https://youtu.be/H4jliHBepyk
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'And the christening party arsehole who hitherto had blurred / my conception of man as nature's final word / was fleeing from the lava, his satnav pleading thus: / "I'm not from round here, mate, you should have caught the bus"'
Best song about the apocalypse ever.
'Your charmless associates' is a beautiful putdown too.
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I was listening to The Bluetones' first album for the first time in ages. Some of their lyrics are poetry.
"Time rolls along and teaches us nothing"
"You've walked between the raindrops for far too long"
"Everything she had, she handed to you, and what she didn't give you, you stole"
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"I am not in love.... but I'm open to persuasion"
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"And the man in the suit has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your dreams"
Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
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Forgiven the fact it is two lines for and because it is a contender for best title ever. And Steve Winwood.
Sometimes the only quarters between you and a rainstorm are the quarters of the moon.
Might be two lines, too, Working Week.
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"I'm your friend until you need me, and then be sure I won't be there"
RT, Great Valerio.
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'The smell of the bakery from across the street got in my nose'
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"Its very own breath/Of brandy and death" - Cohen the Terpsichorean
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When you're gone, you songs outlive your story.
Shine, James.
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1 2 (XU)!
Pink Flag
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Stand up for your rights, boys, but sit down to piss
(David Rovics)
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"I'd cop a plea to larceny and public nuisance
Conspiracy and sedition
But that thing that happened in Chattanooga
I'm just asking for forgiveness"
Clutch - Your Love Is Incarceration
(Whatever it was, the last verse of the song reveals only that it involved a garden hose and Yellow Pages. :demon: )
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"They waltzed the aisles of the Five and Dime"
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What about the Red Man who met you on the coast?
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Do you dwell upon the thoughts that I occupy, or do you give yourself things to do?