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| Jackson Browne – The Road Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Fantastic tune about the life of a musician. Faces coming in and out of your life if only for the moment. A very lonely existance really, yet so many wish to have it. Beautiful melody. very visual. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I wrote that he can write ANY kind of song even a moody one only his fans would love because he's a brilliant songwriter. Not that THIS song was for die hard fans. This was a mega-hit! |
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| U2 – A Celebration Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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montrose, email me and I will send you a file. BTW, I have this on an import 45 record too from when I was a teenager. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Spirit in the Night Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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The first Springsteen song I ever heard. I was 9 or so when it came out and my older brother played the Greetings LP constantly. I loved this song.
The story of these friends, the classic storytelling of their day out, you practically know everything about these characters, you can SEE all of them in your minds eye so clearly. Billy and Davy cavorting in the moonlight and Joe passed out on the lawn. You can almost see every line on their faces the way Bruce tells their story. His master storytelling almost makes you wanna break down in tears (as in birthday songs - wow!).
You can see why the comparrisons to Dylan came so early in his career. Some heady stuff. Fun and sing-songy and yet sad and beautiful at the same time. |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Hungry Heart Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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great pop song. bruce can write a pop song, a ballad a moody song that only his die hard fans will probably like, etc. he can write for just about any genre. His versatility is what makes him so brilliant. |
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| Tom Petty – The Waiting Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is such a great song. Tom just has this way of conveying a simple lyric in such a way that it is dripping with emotional salavation. Especially the last line in this case:
"...I might have chased a couple women around
All it ever got me was down
Then there were those that made me feel good
But never as good as I'm feeling right now
Baby you're the only one that's ever known how
To make me wanna live like I wanna live now"
The way he delivers those lines is so sincere. If HE wasn't singing them, perhaps we wouldn't believe them?
I've yet to hear a cover version of a Petty song I've liked. Maybe this is why? Tom's songs lend themselves uniquely to him and the heartbreakers. |
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| The Clash – This Is Radio Clash Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Brilliant!
Ever see the video for this tune filmed with some of the footage from when they were at Bonds in NYC? I was at one of the concerts in 1981 when I was a sphmore in High School. They oversold the tickets and there was complete mayhem leading up to the original shows due to fire codes, etc.
My folks freaked and wouldn't let me go when they saw what was going on on the news. I said I was going to sleep at a friends house and wouldn't bother getting involved with the mess at the theater (yeah right...) and went anyway and got other tickets to added show dates. There was NO WAY I was missing The Clash. (The band added extra shows to accomodate all the people who would have been screwed anyway. It was awesome). Still, it was bedlam, but it was WORTH it!
When people say The Clash are the only band that matters, they KNOW what they are talking about! |
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| The Kinks – Dedicated Follower Of Fashion Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Taking the mick out of all of the swinging 60's fashionista's, that all had to have the right clothes and be seen in the right places.
In London the hotspot to buy clothes was the boutiques on Carnaby Street, and what you were seen wearing was just as important as how high your single charted!
I always thought felt Ray was having fun at Dave's expense with this song, because Ray seemed to care very little about his appearance compared to Dave who always wore outrageous get-ups and really got off on being the pop star pretty boy of the band, or the "dedicated follower of fashion" the title suggests. |
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| The Kinks – David Watts Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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David Watts was an actual person and friend of the band.
He also supposedly had a big crush on Dave ;-). He's been immortalized in song by Ray. |
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| The Kinks – Dead End Street Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Nobody seemed to really write and sing pop songs about British life the way it REALLY was in the 60's the way Ray Davies did. Perhaps that is why the Kinks didn't have the same sort of commercial success many of their contemporaries had, but hey, the subject matter in a Kinks song like this one was real and told it like it was.
Fast forward to the late 70's when Punk exploded and the bands then covered Kinks songs because the same issues were still relevant. (You didn't find The Jam covering Beatles songs, even if they were influenced by them... )
Brilliant stuff here. By the way, the BBC banned the video for this tune. Deemed too morbid! |
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| The Kinks – Plastic Man Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Absolutely fanastic commentary on how fake people really are. how on the surface they seem so genuine but they are really phony, "plastic" people that you really never know for sure. Nothing is really what you see, is it? |
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| The Kinks – Picture Book Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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ironically, Ray dislikes having his picture taken or the ideas of photos. brilliant song and great that HP are using it in their commercials now. perfect for an ad campaign. |
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| Billy Joel – Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I always felt this song was about how you work hard for something and someone else always has an idea what's BETTER for you than your own idea ( he's saving his pennies and she says Sonny move out to the country -- working too hard will give you a heart attack). Meanwhile the Sarge is busy working 2 jobs to keep up with Joneses. He's traded his Chevy for a Caddy, and even if he won't be able to drive it, he's busy polishing it up so it'll look good for the neighbors.
Every generation wants better for the next one. Meanwhile that one wants better still, so most of them look around and say "get me outta here". I gre up in NY and I sure as heck wanted out.
So, I always thought this song was about observing the older folks playing these life games and saying, "uh uh, not for me, I am outta here -- I'm moving out".
As for the immigration angle, possibly that's thrown in there because he's alluding to neighborhoods he speaks of in the song which are Italian and Irish areas of NY and NJ. |
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| Billy Joel – The Entertainer Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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he was simply telling it like it is -- you gota have a hit or or YOU'RE GONE. Remember, there was no MTV or videos when this song was written. Image was less important than talent. If the public didn't buy your record, you were GONE. Period. |
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| The Kinks – Days Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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God, this song is so beautiful. I had a friend pass away and this is what I had read at the memorial for him. It's so moving, especially this passage:
Thank you for the days,
Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me.
I'm thinking of the days,
I won't forget a single day, believe me.
The song also marked the end of Pete's days with the band. When they were recording, instead of "Days", he would write "DAZE" on his sheets. |
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| The Kinks – Big Black Smoke Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Big Black Smoke = London. The song is about a young, pure girl who runs away and gets caught up in the dark side of London. (Purple hearts = drugs) |
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| The Kinks – You Really Got Me Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I agree. hey if it wasn't for Dave and his guitar sound on YRGMG, there wouldn't be heavy metal or hard rock music as we know it. |
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| The Jam – Smithers-Jones Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Bruce Foxton wrote this one. It may be about british life, but it sure relates to current American life nowadays. I've been playing this one alot recently, recalling the lyrics from when I was younger and listened to The Jam non-stop. |
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| The Jam – Going Underground Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Hey what's old is new again. This song could have been written on Nov 3, 2004 -- the day after the American presidential elections. God Save us all.... |
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| The Jam – Town Called Malice Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Hey, Weller doesn't mince words. He tells it like it is. That's what makes him so brilliant. Also remember how young he was when he wrote these songs!!! |
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| The Clash – Clampdown Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Hi felix. Alaas, since when do common sense and Rock-n-Roll go together? I give you Exhibit A: Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen ;-)
Cheers,
Lola Bat |
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| The Undertones – Teenage Kicks Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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People will always dis what they think is better music or who does something better. It's called preference. You know, even Ray Davies said he preferred the Pretenders version of HIS Kinks song "Stop Your Sobbing", so there is always room for someone elses interpretation of another tune. In this case, in MY opinion, there was no reason to mess with perfection. The Undertones got it right. But hey, when a song is great, others will admire it and want to re-record it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery after all. |
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| Chris Isaak – Wicked Game Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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it's a very sexy song. I heard him perform it live when he toured with bonnie raitt and it was even sexier. Man, is that even possible? |
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| Yazoo – Only You Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I remember the heartache after a break up back in the 80's and this song playing over and over on the radio and the tears just roliing down my cheeks again and again. Oh the pain fo being a teenager. This sure captured it. |
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| The Clash – Clampdown Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Some people discover music at different times in life and are not as lucky to be born at the same time as everyone else. I grew up with the Clash so can relate to the energy and experience to which the music and lyrics express, but others didn't have that. To denegrate an entire generation and call them CRUD because they get it wrong just isn't right. I consider myself a HUGE Kinks fan even though I was born during their biggest heyday and was a teen during their 2nd wave of success. When any fan ask about the music and wants to know more about it, that should be respected, not denegrated. You didn't learn everything about your favourite band overnight. How do you expect the next generation of fans to do the same if they don't ask questions? |
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| The Kinks – Lola Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Oh by the way, ray had to fly back to Ny and re-record this track because of copyright infringements for using Coca-Cola in the original version. It had to be changed to Cherry Cola eventually. Stupid coca cola... nothing like free advertising in a song that wound up being one for the ages.... |
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| The Kinks – Lola Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It is GLAD I'm a man... I always felt the meaning was Lola was glad he (the singer) was a man, regardless of whatever gender Lola is...
Named one of my cats Lola after this song... She perks up whenever this song is played. it's uncanny ;-) |
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| The Clash – Train in Vain Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It wasn't supposed to be a "hidden" tune. It was just recorded late and thus didn't make it into the liner notes. Oops. A train in vain means your making the effort for no reason. |
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| The Clash – The Right Profile Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Monty Clift WAS an actor famous for his face (right profile) which was eventually messed up in a car wreck. Clift had a serious drug addiction problem and died young of an overdose. He was in several famous films with Liz Taylor, for one. |
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