| Dire Straits – Telegraph Road Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Considering current news on the Detroit Bankruptcy, just how brilliant and visionary does one have to be to write this song 30+ years ago???? | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival – Porterville Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm going back to my home town for Easter this weekend and this song came into my mind! Greatest hometown song ever, thanks! Did a Google search and there is a Porterville CA? Could be about a small town in Wisconsin also, trust me. |
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| The White Stripes – 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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About the "I have a woman" verse... Has anyone else ever heard that part and been a little bit shocked? That verse could be taken a couple of ways. Amazing song from amazing album though. |
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| Dire Straits – Where Do You Think You're Going? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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For whatever reason, I've thought about this song lately I've never had a relationship end up like that but even after all these years this song sends chills up my spine. I'm not perfect and can be a bit of a male chauvinist at times. But I think if the guy in the story had been a little more sensitive and was not thinking so much about his pride all along she'd not be headed to the door... |
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| Black Sabbath – War Pigs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I was in 3rd grade when the song came out in 1971. That year they put up a yellow civil defense siren on my school also. Today the sirens may be "tornado sirens" to most people but that is not why they were put up... For that reason, the CD siren at the start of the song gave me chills when it came out back then and still does today. To me the sound of the siren and the rest of the song "paints a pretty accurate picture" at least emotionally of what we would have all felt if those sirens had ever gone off for the reason they were put up... impending nuclear war. Hear that sound and scramble for the fallout shelter (my school had one also back then). The line "now in darkness the world starts turning" makes me visualize nuclear winter also. | |
| Dire Straits – Telegraph Road Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If I remember right, this song came out about 1982. In my area (the Midwestern US) we had up to 15% unemployment, high inflation and interest rates. The relative price of oil was soaring and gold was up to 800+ dollars an ounce. The economy was in a period of drastic change, in the past we had a solid industrial / manufacturing based economy but that was dieing rapidly to dead in 1982. The information / internet based economy had not even been conceived of yet by most people in 1982 so it didn't seem like the future was too bright for anything. I had a job literally digging holes and doing other dirty work for minimum wage and was so lucky to have that. Does anyone know if there is an actual town / telegraph road that inspired this song? Sounds like it could have been any town in the Midwestern US (rust belt) back then. Hearing this song haunts me... takes me back to those days. The sky was always grey and people were unemployed. | |
| Dire Straits – News Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| As a lifelong avid motorcyclist, I remember realizing back when the song came out that the line "he just kicks it alive" referred to kick starting a motorcycle. Long after that I learned more about Mark Knopfler I found out that he is also an avid car and motorcycle fan / rider. Also, Dire Straits was originally called the Cafe Racers, referring to the (somebody from the UK help me out here) culture of riding / racing motorcycles around from cafe to cafe in the evenings in London and so on. So to me the song has always been about a cafe racer type guy who may have been riding a little impaired - "He’s burning the grass He take up a glass He swallow it neat" and ended up crashing and possibly getting killed. The line "You know it may be a game But I won’t play to lose" may refer to actual legitimate motorcycle racing, I sometimes have imagined an actual rider in the Isle of Mann TT... many riders have gotten killed at that event and ended up "a line on the news". | |
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