| Blondie – Union City Blue Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's about a woman in Manhattan who is in love with a man in Union City, NJ, just over the river. She takes the tunnel to visit him, but their worlds are so different, she being a professional or a musician or something in Manhattan, while he works in a factory or shipyard of some sort (wearing blue coveralls) in Union City, that their love is doomed. Or at least troubled. Union City is also home to the US's biggest annual Passion Play, so they cleverly allude to that. Maybe the dude's Cuban (big Cuban town, apparently), so maybe that's a problem too. Or maybe it relates to the plot of the movie "Union City," which I haven't seen. Anyone? |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Lyrics | 24 years ago |
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There's a sci-fi book I read when I was a kid, called "The Ship Who Sang," by Ann McCaffrey, which mentions this song (it's about a spaceship that's run by a female human brain in a vat, and she likes music). When I first this song I assumed it was about a 19th century wreck, and I was very surprised to find out that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in the early 1970s. |
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| Syd Barrett – Effervescing Elephant Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| Apparently this was the first song he ever wrote, at sixteen, and the last song he ever recorded. | |
| The Dream Academy – Life in a Northern Town Lyrics | 24 years ago |
| It's a good song. It's about Nick Drake. | |
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