| Annie Lennox – Waiting In Vain Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the whole Medusa Album is great. When someone makes an album of their favourite all time songs it gives a great insight into the artist. | |
| Frank Zappa – Dumb All Over Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is in great need of a rerelease or remix. Anybody thinking about fighting for God and Country should take a listen to this first. | |
| Frank Zappa – Bobby Brown Goes Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Frank at his best. I don't know whether he's in hell or heaven now but I'm sure wherever he is, he keeps everybody entertained | |
| Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Never thought of the Charlie - Charles Darwin meaning before and I've been listening to this song for 25 years. | |
| Jethro Tull – Aqualung Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think all this mention of 'Lower class' is absurd. Many of the down and outs of all society were once civilised normal middle class people who for many reasons have broken down and given up, unable to function in normal society. And beware - it can happen to any of us. |
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| Jethro Tull – Aqualung Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think all this mention of 'Lower class' is absurd. Many of the down and outs of all society were once civilised normal middle class people who for many reasons have broken down and given up, unable to function in normal society. And beware - it can happen to any of us. |
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| The Who – Boris The Spider Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I've had a few pet tarantulas and i named them all boris. Those low and high notes are awesome. Sleep Peacefully John. |
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| The Who – Squeeze Box Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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What makes a song great is when you have listened to it for over 30 years and you still can't get enough of it. A true timeless classic indeed. |
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| The Who – Another Tricky Day Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Face Dances was the first album I ever bought. I was only 11 years old. Another tricky day is still my favourite track on the album.. Sleep in Peace John. |
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| The Jam – Wasteland Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Meet me on the wastelands - the ones behind The old houses - the ones - left standing pre-war The ones overshadowed by the monolith monstrosities Councils call homes" Pauls home on Stanly Road was one of the old ones left standing from the II World War. Between his home and his school, Sheerwater Comprehensive stood a huge council estate. Between them at this time a large amount of wasteland remained from wartime bombing raids. |
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| The Jam – To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| A great song with great lyrics, never understood why it was not released as a single. | |
| The Jam – The Eton Rifles Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think it may refer to memories of a school fight between the public school of Eton and Pauls school Sheerwater Comp. located quite close to each other. Later in life as he longs for the working class revolution, he realizes that the Elite class are not a bunch of weak sissys. "Thought you were smart when you took them on But you didn't take a peep in their artillery room All that rugby puts hairs on your chest What chance have you got against a tie and a crest" |
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| The Jam – Saturdays Kids Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's just an observation of working class or should I say Unemployed class of Britain at that time. Paul grew up in Stanley Road, Woking Surrey, an affluent southern town in the Stock Broker belt of Surrey. His house on Stanley Road has long been demolished. Although it was not a in a large council estate it was in the center of the city and Paul had to travel through the huge council estate of Sheerwater every day to his school Sheerwater Comprehensive. Because many of the affluent kids in Woking attended Private Schools Pauls Childhood was spent amongst 'Saturdays Kids'. |
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| The Jam – Town Called Malice Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Quite Right Bloodnok "The significance of The Jam playing both tracks on Top of the pops was because the last time that had happened was in 1965 when the Beatles did We can work it out/Day Tripper on one edition of ToTP. Oasis repeated this feat in 1995/1996? The dates elude me." The other reason was that TownCalled Malice/Precious was the second Jam record to go strait to Number One in the British charts. (Start did too). A year later The Jam became only the second band to achieve this feat three times when Beat Surrender went strait to number one. Only the Beatles had achieved this before. It sure shows The Jam had an amazing loyal fan base in the UK. I was one of those kids who bunked off school on the release date of their singles so I could be first in line at the record shop. Sadly I think the Englishness of these lyricswas the beggining of the end, as Bruce and Rick just didn't see how they could conquer America with lyrics like "A whole street's belief in Sunday's roast beef gets dashed against the Co-op" which would have no meaning to Americas youth. |
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| The Jam – Tales From The Riverbank Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Another great song, that proves Bruce Foxton had great song writing talent too. | |
| The Jam – English Rose Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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When I was like 11 - 14 years old, I played nothing in my bedroom but Loud Jam records. So much so that my sister brought me an expensive pair of headphones for christmas. a few years later I made my sister a compilation cassette of some of my favourite songs that I thought she would appreciate. She loved English Rose, she was absolutely stunned it was by The Jam. I later caught her borrowing my Style Council records. |
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| The Jam – David Watts Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I wonder if Paul Weller covered this song because he new a real David Watts? David Watts became the Chief Executive of Guildford Borough Council just 4 miles down the road from Wellers home town of Woking |
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| The Jam – The Butterfly Collector Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"How can a man that writes songs as good as this just 3 years later decides that the bitterest pill is the way forward for the band." A great question, his dad, the executives at polydor? At this point I still think the band saw eye to eye. |
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| The Jam – Thats Entertainment Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Weller - An awesome poet. What strikes me is his contrast of down to earth speech and classic prose. "Watching the Tele and thinking about your holidays" "Two lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude" |
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| The Jam – Smithers-Jones Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I was a cabbie back in the 90's and picked up bruce a few times from the train station complete in 'Suit and Tie'. I commented that he looked rather like Smithers Jones himself but he laughed and still gave me a great tip. | |
| The Jam – Smithers-Jones Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I was a cabbie back in the 90's and picked up bruce a few times from the train station complete in 'Suit and Tie'. I commented that he looked rather like Smithers Jones himself but he laughed and still gave me a great tip. | |
| Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Soul_Haemorrage "She has used drugs herself, but only a few experimental joints. I'm an Annie Lennox know-it-all! " Well I'm a Dave Stewart Saw-It-All. I used to share a house with his 'Dealer'. |
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| Tears for Fears – Mad World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Something deeper here I think? "The dreams in which I died in are the best I ever had" As far as I understand it is not possible to experience the moment of death in a dream without waking up. So maybe its not the song of a manic deppresive but a man who realizes he is 'Glad to still be alive.' |
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| The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"It wasn't my fault Your Honour, The Devil made me do it". For all the bullshit conexions between religion and the law, it amazes me that the above is not a valid defense plea. |
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| Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Voltafan, the other lyrics are listed as 'Hoochie Coochie Man' but then the blues is all about improvisation. I guess somebody of this talent would never play a song identically the same twice. | |
| Men at Work – Down Under Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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godnose - "All very good analysis, But why in Aussie to "Women glow and men pluder?" Well many of the criminals sent from Britain to Australia were just thieves and hookers. |
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| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Hey Joe Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's Jimmies song but heavily influenced by lyrics of old delta bluesmen. I think the lyrics also influenced Neil Youngs - Down By The River. Nothing to do with nam - just simply wanting to the kill his wife and escape over the border where no hangman can get a noose around him. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Jumpin Jack Flash Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I don't really see the 'Gardner Thing'. Quite right hipshot, "I was born in a crossfire hurricane" refers to Micks birthplace, Dartford Kent during the height of the blitz. "Dartford was very much in the front line during the Second World War. The town and surrounding countryside was a target for air raids by German bombers. German planes which could not reach central London often deposited their bomb loads on Dartford before returning home. Local armaments factories were also a target for bombers. Unmanned flying bombs aimed at London sometimes fell short of their intended target and landed in and around the borough. Over 13,000 houses in the Dartford area were damaged as a result of the bombing. The number of bombs recorded by local ARP officials included 6,000 high explosive bombs, twenty-three land mines, 200 oil bombs, seventy-three phosphorous bombs and an estimated 200,000 incendiary bombs. 150 local people were killed in the air raids and another 700 injured." read more at http://www.dartfordarchive.org.uk/20th_century/military_ww2.shtml The whole song is a prett strait forward autobiograhy in my opinion, I'm not sure if "I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag" refers to his mother or a school teacher but corporal punishment at home and school was very common until the 80's explaining "I was schooled with a strap right across my back". The 60s for Micks generation created an escape from the misery of the post war years and a liberation from the rules and views of their parents generation, thats why mick sings with such conviction even to this day, "But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas But it's all right, I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash It's a gas, gas, gas" I think the best version of this has to be seen as well as heard on the Voodoo Lounge Video. You can really see how much it means to Ron Wood to also be a Rolling Stone. p.s. if anybody wants more great Rolling Stone info visit http://www.keno.org/ |
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| Van Morrison – Sweet Thing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Van the Man will go down in history with Shakespeare, Shelly and Keats for this one. | |
| Bob Dylan – Visions of Johanna Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Dylans finest moment. I just wish Leonado DaVinci was around to here "Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles" |
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| The Jam – Move On Up Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The Jam introduced me to brilliant artists such as Curtis mayfield. Back as an angry young teen The Jams raw covers of old soul classics was more appealing but in my older age Curtis Mayfields Move On Up is definately in my top 5 ever songs. When you are down and deppressed just listen to the words and you won't need prozac to lift you up again. | |
| The Jam – Mr. Clean Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Getting pissed at the annual office do Smart blue suit and you went to Cambridge too You miss page 3, but the Times is right for you And mum and dad are very proud of you" Pure genius, Weller and the boys at their best. |
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| The Jam – Going Underground Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| As a young teen in the late 70's and early 80's The Jam were my whole life. It's not really music I would listen to these days but through their many covers The Jam did introduce me to other great music like The Who, The Kinks, Curtis Mayfield etc etc and Weller proves in this song like many others that his grasp of poetry really owes a big debt to Ray Davis. | |
| Bob Dylan – House of the Rising Sun (The Animals cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think Nina Simone also sings great versions of this song. There is also on old white blues guy called T Bone Fisher who hangs around the caribbean islands who can hold the end lines better than anyone. last i saw of him he was in Venezuela. | |
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