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Author:  Gers [ Thu May 03, 2018 5:53 pm ]
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From Teenage Lobotomy by The Ramones, off Rocket To Russia. Which gets played each and every Thursday in our house...

"Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em that I got no cerebellum"
Author:  Steampunk Don [ Fri May 04, 2018 1:20 pm ]
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BertieWoostersDonsClub wrote:
We satisfy our endless needs, and justify our bloody deeds;
In the name of destiny, and in the name of God.

Eagles - The Last Resort.


I'll finish it off for you......

And you can see them there on Sunday morning
Stand up and sing about what it's like up there
They called it paradise, I don't know why
You call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye
Author:  Steampunk Don [ Fri May 04, 2018 1:23 pm ]
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George Michael - Waiting (Reprise)

Well there ain't no point in moving on
Until you've got somewhere to go
And the road that I have walked upon
Well it filled my pockets
And emptied out my soul
All those insecurities
That have held me down for so long
I can't say I've found a cure for these
But at least I know them
So they're not so strong
You look for your dreams in heaven
But what the hell are you supposed to do
When they come true?
Well there's one year of my life in these songs
And some of them are about you
Now I know there's no way I can write those wrongs
Believe me
I would not lie you've hurt my pride
And I guess there's a road without you
But you once said
There's a way back for every man
So here I am
Don't people change, here I am
Is it too late to try again
Author:  SG19 Cowshed Das Boot [ Sat May 05, 2018 10:54 am ]
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Gonna take a chance on her
One bullet in the cylinder
And in a moment of passion
Get the glory, like Charles Manson
Gonna smile, I'm gonna laugh
You're gonna get a blood bath
And in a moment of passion
Get the glory, like Charles Manson

Glad to see you go, go, go, go, goodbye...
Author:  Brando [ Sat May 05, 2018 9:10 pm ]
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“No longer then, is he our mutual friend”

The divine comedy - our mutual friend.

Stunningly good
Author:  Aliramone [ Sun Jun 03, 2018 7:53 pm ]
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SG19 Cowshed Das Boot wrote:
Gonna take a chance on her
One bullet in the cylinder
And in a moment of passion
Get the glory, like Charles Manson
Gonna smile, I'm gonna laugh
You're gonna get a blood bath
And in a moment of passion
Get the glory, like Charles Manson

Glad to see you go, go, go, go, goodbye...


Dee Dee wrote that after the (ahem) lady in question (Conny) had stabbed him in the ass with a broken bottle. She later died of an overdose - as did he sadly.
Author:  keyser soze [ Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:13 pm ]
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How did we let this thread die? Eejits, all of us.

I love the lyrics of Ode To Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry - the whole song. But this bit is especially great - the tragic and mysterious news, broken during a mundane lunch:

"And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door, y'all, remember to wipe your feet
And then she said, I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge
Today, Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
And papa said to mama, as he passed around the blackeyed peas
Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense; pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow
And mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow"
Author:  keyser soze [ Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:20 pm ]
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This couplet from Urge For Going by Joni Mitchell:

"I had me a man in summertime
He had summer-colored skin"
Author:  keyser soze [ Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:23 pm ]
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Charles Aznavour:

"Yesterday when I was young
The taste of life was sweet as rain upon my tongue
I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame
The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand
I lived by night and shunned the naked light of day
And only now I see how the years ran away"
Author:  Aliramone [ Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:18 pm ]
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I tried to join the ping pong club,
But the sign on the door said 'all full up'.

The Clash. What's My name? (First Album) Blunt teenage angst. (I can remember it which is why I like it)

As a counterpoint to that. By the time they reach 'Combat rock' they have grown hugely in lyrical expanse ;) :roll: . The song 'Car Jamming' is just such a vivid picture of 4 lads in New York for the first time. All new, so big, so different, so disturbing....

Tonight they're closing up the world
N'sweeping smoke from cigarettes
And what is that
Funky multi-national anthem rocking from a thousand
King Kong cassette decks
And then a shyboy from Missouri
Boots blown off in a sixties war
Riding aluminium crutches
Now he knows the welfare kindness
Agent Orange color-blindness
As we works from door to door
The violence in the carpets
The arrow of his wife (in a car jam)
Drives the slum-bum dweller
To grind his hunting knife (in a car jam)
In homesteads of cigar box
The radios hive like bees
The body in the icebox
Has no date for freeze (in a car jam)
Selling is what selling sells
But only saints on the seven avenues
Can sell the seven hells
Fanning the drug afflicted leperizing sword
Once inside, the executive
He never leaves his home
Now, gorillas drag their victims
Hyenas try to sue (in a car jam)
Snakes find grass in concrete
There is no city zoo (in a car jam)
By ventilation units
Where towers meet the streets (in a car jam)
The ragged stand in bags soaking heat up through their feet (in the car jam
This was the only kindness, and it was accidental too
Now shaking single-engined planes trafficking stereos from Cuba
Buzzed the holy zealot mass and drowned out Missa Luba
And drowned out Missa Luba
And drowned out Missa Luba
And drowned out Missa Luba
I thought I saw Lauren Bacall, I thought I saw Lauren Bacall (in a car jam)
Hey fellas, hey fellas
Lauren Bacall (in a car jam)
In a car jam
Yeah, I don't believe it
In a car jam
Ah, yeah, positively-absolutely.
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