THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

I'd rondez-vouez with Janet
Quite near the Isle of Thanet
She looked more like a gannet
She wasn't half a prannet
Her mother tried to ban it
Her father helped me plan it
And when I captured Janet she bruised her pomegranet

Ian Dury - Billericay Dickie

Tom Waits, a certified genius, has so many that he has to stick two of his greatest into one song.

From 'Heartattack And Vine'

"Don't you know there ain't
No devil, there's just God when he's drunk"

And...

"Well I bet she's still a virgin but it's only twenty-five to nine"

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And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

"What do you get when you fall in love?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia.
After you do, he'll never 'phone ya ..."

If Hamilton is taking a bow, Hal David and Burt Bacharach get one too

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
And how we found
The same old fears
Wish you were here

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

Lenny probably needs a thread of his own - and Bob Dylan as well for that matter.

From Lenny, I think "Johnny Walker wisdom" is a great phrase in the "Closing Time" track. There are one or two, or more accurately many, of us on here who have been known to spout a bit of Johnny Walker wisdom on here or TCR or MooCamp, from time to time.

Good shout. B & D could fill this thread on their own (well, D anyway).

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I don't need your ill-informed, half-baked, idiotic opinions. I have plenty of those myself.

You ask me do I love you...
Does the pope live in the woods?
Quod erat demonstrandum, baby...
( ...ooo you speak French!)

Airhead by Professor Thomas Dolby

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P46_ _W _D _L PTS
07/08 29 10 _7 97 PI 1st
14/15 27 10 _9 91 KR 2nd
21/22 26 11 _9 89 LM 3rd
05/06 12 14 20 50 DW 22nd R
22/23 11 12 23 45 lm/MJ 21st R
17/18 11 12 23 45 rn/DM 23rd R
15/16 _9 12 25 39 KR 23rd R
LS: A rocky start, that's all it is.

Talking of 'lines'
These lyrics need to be spat out not sung. Go in at 17.50 although if you like the clash the whole thing is just brilliant. At the top of their game. Not a duff song there. (Was also the night where the cover of LC was shot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81kjqIaoEa0

In the gleaming corridors of the 51st floor
The money can be made if you really want some more
Executive decision, a clinical precision
Jumping from the windows, filled with indecision

I get good advice from the advertising world
Treat me nice says the party girl
Koke adds life where there isn't any
So freeze, man, freeze

It's the pause that refreshes in the corridors of power
When top men need a top up long before the happy hour
With your snakeskin suit and your alligator boots
You don't need a launderette, you can take them to the vet!

I get my advice from the advertising world
Treat me nice says the party girl
Koke adds life where there isn't any
So freeze, man, freeze

Koka Kola advertising and kokaine
Strolling down the Broadway in the rain
Neon light sign says it
I read it in the paper, they're crazy!
Suit your life, maybe so
In the White House, I know
All over Berlin
And in Manhattan!

Coming through the door is a snub nose forty four
What the barrel can't snort it can spatter on the floor
Your eyeballs feel like pinballs
And your tongue feels like a fish
You're leaping from the windows saying don't
Ayaiiiiirrrghhh!
Don't give me none of this!

Koke adds life, advertising world
Treat me nice says the party girl
Koke adds life where there isn't any
So freeze, man, freeze
Hit the deck!

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

I'm old enough to have seen The Clash. And got to go backstage afterwards. So I've met The Clash.

I also met Strummer many years afterwards.

My Strummer story...

I used to work for Whitbread. Doing maintenance on their pubs. Soon after they bought Costa, I was working in one of their coffee shops in Soho.
Long story short, there was a load of syringes and drug nonsense in the place I was working. Not best pleased I called the office, giving them death... "How dare you send me to a place like this. Fucking drugs everywhere. You bastards".

As I'm laying out to them, I notice a guy walking towards me across the street. Look up, giving him the 'stare'.

"Alright man? What's the problem? Take it easy"

Guy on the phone from our office asked what was going on...

"It's Joe Fucking Strummer. Shut up".

Wished me luck, and wandered off into Soho. A giant of a man.

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And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

Wow Gers, what a moment.