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Post by davecook on Sept 14, 2014 22:07:45 GMT
Y'know how at times a certain line from a song particularly resonates with you and gets stuck in your head? Or others that you go back to as though some kind of personal mantra? Well, share them here.
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Post by davecook on Sept 14, 2014 22:23:51 GMT
For me, currently
"When a woman learns to walk she's not dependent anymore"
A line from her letter, May Twenty Four"
From "Bye Bye Pride" by The Go-Betweens - Beautifully crafted with a lightness of touch, one of a series of seeming non sequitors that make up the verses. It encapsulates the relationship, splendidly
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"In result his life was rubbish. Celebrated? Yes, but rubbish"
From "Donuts Only" by Parquet Courts - Just ace, There's a lot of wit in their lyrics that takes a while to come through.
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tommy
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Post by tommy on Sept 15, 2014 4:26:18 GMT
Blatantly obvs. one, but I care not:-
"And in the darkened underpass I thought oh god, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask"
If you don't know what that's from, you have no place here. But yeah, I'm still shit at chatting up women.
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Post by richc6 on Sept 15, 2014 14:59:14 GMT
"I said 'I'm so happy I could die'/she said 'drop dead' then left with another guy/that's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance/but since you got me punctured this has been my sentence."
Sir Elvis Costello.
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Post by rebelliousian on Sept 16, 2014 20:36:45 GMT
I was going to choose the same as Rich. Is that sad? But most Costello lyrics from 'Save up Dutch, courage plus three French letters and a German sense of humour' to don't tell me you don't know what love is when you're old enough to know better / When you find strange hands in your sweater /and your dreamboat turns out to be a footnote / I'm a man with a mission in wo or three editions' or 'She said that she worked for the ABC news / that was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use / Her perfume was unspeakable it lingered in the air / like her artificial laughter and her mementos of affairs.
Having said that The Beatles with 'I want To Hold Your Hand' say it so well and so simply.
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Post by davecook on Sept 24, 2014 23:28:15 GMT
"Son, I'm thirty. I only went with your mother 'cause she's dirty." Kinky Afro by Happy Mondays
The "Shameless" culture summarised in a sentence.
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Post by rebelliousian on Sept 25, 2014 17:02:48 GMT
At the same time that that came out James had a song I remember that mentioned being thirty and becoming all the things that you'd always hated can't remember the song now and can't be bothered to look it up because I'm sure someone will tell me and as I'm not really a James fan anyway it doesn't matter. But he did have a good turn of phrase. I remember being quite impressed by the lines "I believe in happiness / I believe in love / I believe she fell to earth from somewhere high above / So, I'll believe in Hollywood / I don't believe that love must bring despair / 'Cos when I hold her in my arms / I feel like Fred Astaire." I was impressed but that was only because it was the way I was thinking at the time. Now it and the song sound like bedsit shit but I remember those lyrics when reminded of the time and place. So, give my The Happy Mondays anytime. Simple, direct and unaffected.
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Post by rebelliousian on Sept 25, 2014 17:16:10 GMT
"I said 'I'm so happy I could die'/she said 'drop dead' then left with another guy/that's what you get if you go chasing after vengeance/but since you got me punctured this has been my sentence." Sir Elvis Costello. The problem with Costello is that as a female - where is the female perspective on this board, then? - you would never, ever, go near him even for the briefest on romantic interludes 'cos you know the bastard would turn it into song and even his most romantic missives - 'Alison', 'Almost Blue' 'Everyday I Write The Book' and 'I want You' turn quite barbed in places. I don't think any of the great relationship writers can write without experience and Costello has obviously had a few bad ones.
Another one that I think women would learn to keep away from is Gedge from The wedding Present. Possibly even more so because his songs are just plain narratives. There's no disguising what has happened and we've all been in situations he's described. I think 'My Favourite Dress' is possibly the greatest torch song ever written without having to revert to a slow melancholic pace - "Some rare delight in Manchester town / It took six hours before you let me down / To see it all in a drunken kiss / A stranger's hand on my favourite dress / oh
That was my favourite dress you know / That was my favourite dress." - I reckon there's a few girls who listening to local radio in Sheffield or hearing Weding Present / Cinerama LPs out of curious interest cringe when they see themselves in the songs.
There's a lot to be said for those old answer records that used to be popular
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Post by davecook on Sept 28, 2014 20:38:33 GMT
There are times when listening to the George Best album when I think it's the only album you need.
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tommy
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Post by tommy on Oct 9, 2014 19:33:51 GMT
"What's it gonna take, to get your attention? A tracksuit, a gold chain, a 7 inch erection"
No explanation necessary.
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Post by richc6 on Oct 9, 2014 20:56:37 GMT
That's never a Roddy Frame lyric, Tom!
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Post by tommy on Oct 10, 2014 13:09:46 GMT
Heh. Everyone, and that's everyone, should see a Goldie Lookin' Chain gig at least once in their lives.
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Post by ianindependent on Oct 11, 2014 17:02:31 GMT
Heh. Everyone, and that's everyone, should see a Goldie Lookin' Chain gig at least once in their lives. Tom... Gedge, Roddy Frame, Elvis Costello etc or Goldie Looking Chain? I don't even think they are involved in the same are of entertainment. It's like comparing The Inbetweeners movies with Shakespear at The Globe.
Not that I'm against variety or freedom of choice I would add.
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