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The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink Lyrics 13 years ago
Um... this song was released in 1981 in the UK before the PF ever toured America! Courtney love was a child in Portland and California. So, are you trying to say that somehow Richard Butler was hooking up with a minor 8,000 miles away?

Maybe she later became a groupie but the song is not about her.

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The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics 17 years ago
And Plea for a cat named Virtute:
(Cleveland OH Oct 07): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpmg16otpIw

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The Weakerthans – Plea from a Cat Named Virtute Lyrics 17 years ago
Here are live videos I took from these songs. It's so nice to hear so many people singing along. I have to say more people sing in the North.

Plea (Cleveland OH Oct 07): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpmg16otpIw
Departure (Athens, GA April 8 08): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZZE7N8QGkw

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The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics 17 years ago
to follow up on my last post -- I uploaded a live version of the song from their show in Athens last week. I also took a video of Plea in Pittsburg, I will try to upload that too.

Its so nice to hear everyone singing along.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jZZE7N8QGkw

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The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site Lyrics 17 years ago
Is anyone here a guitarist?

When you hear the line "and all those batteries we stole from smoke-alarms" are you thinking what I am thinking?

Whenever I need a 9 volt for an effects pedal where do I get it? ...A smoke alarm.

I often wonder how many guitarist are at risk of burning up in a fire because their smoke alarms are always devoid of their 9 volt batteries for the sake of music.

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The Weakerthans – Elegy for Gump Worsley Lyrics 17 years ago
This 'song' just proves that JSK is really a poet with a guitar. Much more interesting than a guitarist with some lyrics.

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The Weakerthans – Hymn of the Medical Oddity Lyrics 17 years ago
Oh how interesting. Thanks for the link to wiki.

How barbaric of an experiment.

Why do you think JKS is so obcessed with medicine?

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The Weakerthans – Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure Lyrics 17 years ago
When I opened the album last fall and saw the title to this one and it took my breath away....then played that song first.

Isn't it so amazing that JKS made so many people love a cat they never even met. Everyone feels like they lost their own cat.

That is artistry.

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The Weakerthans – Night Windows Lyrics 17 years ago
I am completely with Kviii here. I have noticed for years that there are so many references to illness, diagnosis, hospitals, nurses and losing someone. All the way from Fallow to the current album.

"the doctors play your dosage like a card trick" "tell the nurse to turn the tv back on". There are so many.

Yes, Sampson mentions the Hopper paintings at shows.. and who is to say but I do feel like the I feel like he is using the painting as a metaphor for someone who is no longer with him.

Has anyone heard his wife's music Christine Fellows? She has many similar references to hospitals and such. Both of their 'poetry' is just amazingly sweet and so well written.

That last line of NW is so moving. I guess that is why he sings it twice.

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