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| Al Stewart – Midas Shadow Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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The high performer, top of his game now but finding it all a bit empty...nowhere else to go when you've reached the top. |
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| Gary Numan – Metal Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[gingermick:33245] In the UK, Mallory made 'Duracell' batteries which were extra long life electric cells - again, it ties in to the android dimension that everyone else has mentioned.
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| Tom Waits – Cemetery Polka Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[Isaak:24375] The ideal Tom Waits character is a one armed, one legged, one eyed Cuban Chinese midget sailor. |
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| Al Stewart – Almost Lucy Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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A woman realises her career in the warrior caste of musicians is going nowhere and wisely walks away. And if you don't think that's a happy ending, ask Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse or Billie Holliday. |
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| Madness – Chipmunks Are Go Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Sung at 38000 feet in 1980 by a plane full of Air Cadets coming back from annual camp in Cyprus. That's a high note. :)
Grand old times. |
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| Madness – In The Middle Of The Night Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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The finest song about your friendly neighbourhood knicker thief ever written. The second is Arnold Layne by Pink Floyd.
I'm proud to live in a world where this very specific perversion has not one but two songs devoted to it. Does anyone know of a third? |
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| Talking Heads – Cities Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[EnduringChill:5273] Apparently the real Birmingham AL has a ice-making plant fairly close to the city centre. Don't know if it's a dry ice plant but I've heard it's a good place to get some thinking done... |
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| Joe Jackson – Dear Mom Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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An exasperated brother chases down his runaway sister while a controlling mother looks on, bro not realising that while he looks for sis he is falling for the big city life.
What a wordsmith Jackson is that he can get all that into three minutes and a bridge. Deserves to be a film. |
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| The Stranglers – La Folie Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's about a guy called Issei Sagawa who ate his Dutch girlfriend in 1981. The wikipedia article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa should you want to find out more about it. |
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| Japan – Nightporter Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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It's about a female opera singer in 1960s Vienna running into the commandant of the concentration camp she was confined in during the war and resuming the sado-masochistic relationship they had then, with the roles slightly reversed.
It looks tame nowadays but was the last word in sleaze when it came out, a little undeservedly perhaps. The song kind of maps to the movie, at least in mood. IMO. |
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