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Post by B.E. on Sept 21, 2020 15:02:15 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 21, 2020 15:23:54 GMT
From Dylan's "Nettie Moore":
I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band
I don't know why but I love that couplet.
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Post by jk on Sept 21, 2020 17:41:17 GMT
Eek. So there was a thread already. Damn. Hopefully TCK can do that. Yes, Numan can be very inventive when he wants to be.
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 21, 2020 17:55:10 GMT
One of my favorite opening lines ever, I recall hearing it live at First Ave before the album was released.
"We just want to emote 'til we're dead. I know we suffer for fashion or whatever."
(The "or whatever" is hilarious to me.)
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 21, 2020 18:55:29 GMT
I've always liked the opening lines of the first two verses of Guns n Roses' "Mr. Brownstone."
I get up around seven / I get out of bed around nine.
And
Show usually starts around seven / we go on stage around nine.
The casual approach to time and schedules not only perfectly captures the heroin addiction that is the song's subject matter, but more comically* turned out to be a real reflection of GnR's history...
*It's hard not to be more comically than a heroin addiction, which doesn't have a particularly strong comedic aspect...
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Post by B.E. on Sept 26, 2020 22:21:41 GMT
Not to turn this into a Dylan thread, but listening to Live 1975 lately reminds me of two Desire songs with lines about the ocean. A common enough topic in literature, and elsewhere, but having lived by the shore most of my life I feel a great connection to it. Anyway, I really enjoy both of these. Good songs and delivery elevates them, too.
"One More Cup Of Coffee"
Your heart is like an ocean Mysterious and dark
"Oh, Sister"
Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore You may not see me tomorrow
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Post by jk on Sept 30, 2020 8:30:23 GMT
These lines always crack me up. They're from an Ishmael Reed poem called "Skydiving" set to music by Allen Toussaint: "The following noon he leaped But his parachute wasn't with him He spread out on the field like Scrambled eggs" From discogs: Congas – Milton Cordona Drums [trap drums] – Billy Hart Electric bass – Steve Swallow Electric guitar – Elysee Pyronneau Piano, organ, conductor – Allen Toussaint Voice, resonator guitar [dobro] – Taj Mahal www.musicismysanctuary.com/forgotten-treasures-conjure-music-for-the-texts-of-ishmael-reed-1985
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Post by jk on Sept 30, 2020 19:50:43 GMT
Here's a gorgeously evocative example from Barrett-era Floyd: "Across the stream with wooden shoes With bells to tell the king the news A thousand misty riders climb up Higher once upon a time" Oh, and thanks, TCK, for merging these two topics. I'll try to be more attentive in future. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Mother
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Post by Kapitan on Sept 30, 2020 20:54:07 GMT
Oh, and thanks, TCK, for merging these two topics. I'll try to be more attentive in future. There are bigger sins in this world than starting a duplicative thread, my friend. I suspect you'll be completely forgiven in no time flat!
I don't know quite why this one occurred to me today. It's the opening lines from the song (and album) "Album of the Year" by The Good Life, from 2004. And in 2004, it was something my friends and I thought was pretty funny. It seems a lot more pathetic now, but then again, we were in our 20s at the time and self destructiveness felt clever.
The first time that I met her I was throwing up in the ladies' room stall. She asked me if I needed anything, I said I think I spilled my drink.
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Post by jk on Oct 1, 2020 9:08:27 GMT
I don't know quite why this one occurred to me today. It's the opening lines from the song (and album) "Album of the Year" by The Good Life, from 2004. And in 2004, it was something my friends and I thought was pretty funny. It seems a lot more pathetic now, but then again, we were in our 20s at the time and self destructiveness felt clever.
The first time that I met her I was throwing up in the ladies' room stall. She asked me if I needed anything, I said I think I spilled my drink.
Songs about throwing up are always good for a laugh. This one by Saxon is pretty cool!
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Post by kds on Oct 1, 2020 13:35:30 GMT
Ah, Saxon, one of those NWOBHM bands who were more talented than their catalog suggests (if that makes any sense).
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Post by Kapitan on Oct 16, 2020 21:51:34 GMT
Recognizing that he's not a big favorite around these parts (partly because of his near-involvement in No Pier Pressure and partly just that we don't seem to have a lot of rap or modern RnB fans here), but I love this line from Frank Ocean's 2013 single "Chanel," which happens to have popped up on shuffle.
It happens for the first time at 2:28 and again around 3:04. The line is (stylized for effect to mimic his pronunciation):
"I got no money, an' it's all cash."
I love it. And I love how he phrases it. (Igot noooooooo money an'it's aaaaaaaaaall cash)
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Post by jk on Oct 19, 2020 20:48:25 GMT
Something today made me think of these wonderfully illogical lines from Bobby Darin's self-penned 1962 UK top five hit "Multiplication":
"Mother Nature's a clever girl She relies on habit Ya take two hares with no cares Pretty soon you got a room full of rabbits"
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 16, 2020 20:54:20 GMT
Since listening to this recently neglected old favorite of an album this weekend, this line has been in my head (with its upbeat, bouncy melody):
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Post by jk on Feb 21, 2021 21:43:22 GMT
I know I've posted these great lines from Adam Marsland's "1 in 4" in another topic but they belong here too:
"When my baby and I are together in bed / I swear she sees my body on another man's head"
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