| The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Briggers. Refers to is incorrect, it of course predicts such happenings. As it predicts Thatchers 1979 election victory (all over people changing their votes......) Joe was looking at such bands and happenings and predicting what as coming As did Guns of Brixton |
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| The Clash – Career Opportunities Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Paul was reading the London Evening Standard and the header for the jobs vacant page was CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, he suggested this to Joe as a cool song title and Joe wrote the lyrics. | |
| The Clash – Career Opportunities Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Paul was reading the London Evening Standard and the header for the jobs vacant page was CAREER OPPORTUNITIES; he thought it was a great song title so Joe then wrote the lyrics. It is "making toys" as in a job in a toy factory |
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| The Pretenders – Kid Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Is it about a young goat then? | |
| The Clash – Rock the Casbah Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Joe Strummer did NOT write this, Topper Headon did. The song is about Bernie Rhodes (The King and the Sharriff in the song) trying to influence the musical direction of band (The boogie men). |
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| The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The first part is the disappointment felt by Joe after being exited at the prospect of seeing the artists mentioned live and then being let down by their total lack of soul. The NEW GROUPS are the JAM and it refers to a quote from Paul Weller in 1979 where he said "If there was a general election tomorrow I would vote tory" and at the same time the JAM sing of rebellion to line Mr Weller's pockets. Remember the Style Council!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Does anyone out there understand Irony? The song is Ironic, in that the horrible consequences of what happened were considered "Conditions normal" by the pilot. It is a condemnation of the bombing and contrasts the Mothers kiss to her little boy (Enola Gay was the pilots mother) with the Kiss of death given by the atomic bomb. |
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| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Maid of Orleans Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The Lyric is "Like an orphan or a waif" Your lyric does not make sense |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song centres on the band trying to make it in the music industry. The CUTTER is rejection and the song focuses on Ian's fear of rejection and his reaction to it (drug taking). "What's in the bottom drawer, waiting for things to give" He is saying that when things go wrong he turns to drugs. "With selotape and knives" is a play on words on the biblical quote from Revelations "With seven tapered knives" Revelations is about the end of the world which is how the Singer sees rejection. It is about the thin line between success and failure and how people react to it. Cracking tune!! |
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| The Pretenders – Kid Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The KID referred to in the song is David "KID" Jenson a Radio 1 DJ of the late 1970's | |
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