| Hanson – This Time Around Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied." -Rudyard Kipling, author, Nobel laureate (1865-1936) | |
| Red Box – Lean On Me (Ah-Li-Ayo) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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thanks for getting this song's lyrics posted for me, YtseJam, after my failed attempts this song could be an anthem, if it isn't already |
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| Ramones – Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i think they were being sarcastic or something, as it reads in the little booklet that came with "Ramones: Anthology (Hey Ho Let's Go!)": "...in London. We played there for the first time on July 4, 1976, while in America they were celebrating the Bicentennial. Outside The Round House during sound check, these cool-looking guys were hanging around. They said they were a band calling themselves The Clash, but that they were still just rehearsing and didn't feel they were virtuosic enough to play in public. "Are you kidding?" said Johnny. "I hope you're coming tonight. We're lousy. We can't play. If you wait until you can play, you'll be too old to get up there. We stink, really. But it's great." The house was sold out, the kids went crazy, there were riots in the streets, and the headline of England's leading daily tabloid that day was "Glue Sniff Shocker," a reference to the lower-class drug trash from New York that was celebrating July 4th in the motherland. "Shit, "said Dee Dee. "It's a good thing we split from these assholes 200 years ago. I hope they really don't think we sniff glue. I quit when I was eight." | |
| Spice Girls – The Lady Is A Vamp Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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okay, let's break it down: "Elvis was a coola shaker" - i'm gonna guess they mean Presley, and the band, Kula Shaker, (it's said he's in the background at the beginning of "Last Farewell") "Marley, Ziggy Melody Maker" - Ziggy Marley (Bob Marley's son (i think)) and the Melody Makers are a reggae band "She's a bond babe, kick some ass" - James Bond (series of action novels/movies created by Ian Fleming, an English writer) "Doctor No [not "Nom", typo perhaps?], this girl's got class" - Doctor No, enemy of James Bond "Charlie's Angels, Girls on top" - Charlie's Angels is a TV show from the 70s (?) (correct me if i'm wrong about the decade), as for Girls on top, *shrugs* it's a band, it's a club, it's a movie... they might have just meant it literally... or metaphorically... "Handbags, heels, their pistols rock" - think there's a fair chance it's referring to the previous line "Baby Love are so glam queen" "Sing the blues a love supreme" - ...uh... "Baby Love" is a song sung by The Supremes, it's reportedly the only song by The Supremes which reached #1 in the UK (where the Spice Girls are from) blues is a music genre... if somebody else wants to sort those two lines out, feel free to do so... "Sixties Twiggy set the pace" "Way back then she had the face" - i believe Twiggy was a particularly petite model which i'd guess has something to do with her (nick)name & apparently the 60s were her "prime" or something "That's all in the past, legends built to last" "But she's got something new" "She's a power girl in the 90s world" "And she knows just what to do" - takes it to what i think is the theme of this song: the female "Cos the lady is a vamp, she's a vixen not a tramp" - Frank Sinatra had a song, "The Lady is a Tramp" "She's a dadadadada da da" "Come on fellow raise your bets cos you ain't seen nothing yet" "She's the top of the top, she's the best" - again, i think it takes it to the theme: the female (where she's been, where's she's going) "Jackie O we loved her so" - i'm gonna go with Jacqueline Onassis here, based on the following lines... Jacqueline Lee Bouvier to begin with, then she married John F. Kennedy, (U.S.A.'s 35th President) after his assassination she married Aristotle Onassis (taking that name)... as for the "we loved her so", she was a stylish, classy, woman or so i'm led to believe... there's probably plenty more on her, but you might have to find that stuff on your own, if you're interested... "Sorry Mr. President as far as we know" - based on the following lines (& previous line) i'm gonna assume "Mr. President" is (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)... when Marilyn Monroe sang him happy birthday, i believe that's the name she used - "happy birthday, Mr. President..." ... for more on the affair between Kennedy & Monroe try doing a google search "Norma Jean had a 7 year itch" - Norma Jean Baker is Marilyn Monroe's real name... she was in a movie called "7 Year Itch" "Some like it hot to a fever pitch" - "Some Like It Hot" is another movie with Marilyn Monroe, as a probably/maybe irrelevant note, AFI has named it the funniest movie of all time... i wouldn't be really surprised if the movie titles serve as puns here... "Sandy Denny summer love" "And Grady's t-birds to the moon above" ...uh... i think i'm a bit lost here, easy for somebody to not hear right, or say it's "Sandy Danny summer love" (like it's posted here) then explain it as naming the main characters in the movie Grease, but it's not, i have the album, & the lyrics are included, & it's definitely printed "Sandy Denny" which is an artist, but other then that i don't know what else there is to these two lines... "That's all in the past, legends built to last" "But she's got something new" "She's a power girl in a 90s world" "She's a downtown swinging dude" - mostly a repeat from before, except for that last line "Scary, Baby, Ginger, Posh, Sporty, yes now that's your lot" - the Spice Girls introduce themselves into this, Scary = Melanie Brown, Baby = Emma Bunton, Ginger = Geri Halliwell , Posh = Victoria Adams (Beckham), Sporty = Melanie Chisholm "We're the Spice Girls, ready to go" Ladies and gents can you please take your seats" "And we hope that you enjoyed the show" - the closing of this "Thank you very much" - a line Elvis Presley is known for, sorta brings the whole thing full circle doesn't it? there might be some connections i missed, (for instance, some of "Dr. No" (also being the title of one part of the James Bond series (1958)) is set in Jamaica, which is a place i believe Marley has some roots or that Frank Sinatra socialized with JFK & Marilyn Monroe) |
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| New Order – 1963 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| to add to it, wasn't it jrk jr.'s b-day three days or so after the assassination? "... it's your birthday too"... as for the january reference at the beginning though ??? | |
| New Order – 1963 Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| actually, xod, that theory could make sense if there was a hitman involved or something... | |
| No Doubt – Don't Speak Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| okay, i don't know about the breaking-up-with-Tony theory or the Gwen-standing-out-from-band theory either, i think i heard somewhere that it was written about Gwen's brother leaving the band, & that theory seems to make sense to me, pinkfluffyboots & frumstick seemed to be somewhere along the same train of thought... | |
| The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| actually, i read that it was originally written from a girl's point of view, some girl that had ended up at a whore house, but then the animals took it up, changed girl to boy, which might have made some of it a bit confusing, but apparently that's when it became best known - when the animals did it, i kinda like the melody though... | |
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