| Counting Crows – Bobby and the Rat-Kings Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Brilliant tribute to Springsteen. It’s Born To Run, Thunder Road and Jungleland all rolled into one. Superb. | |
| The Faces – Glad and Sorry Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Can you show me a dream Can you show me one that's better than mine Can you stand it in the cold light of day Neither can I You could be right, I could be right or none of us could be right and we won't know until it's done. None of us can't predict what will happen. |
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| The Faces – Ooh La La Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[New_Morning:32383] Woody actually sang it not Laney. | |
| Stereophonics – Handbags And Gladrags Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Ldxar1:32382] great post | |
| Stereophonics – Handbags And Gladrags Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[parkerstoneftw:32381] Hahaha. Only just read this 11 years too late. In 2019 it's great to see that iPods and laptops have now been replaced by other devices on such a short time. Good post mate | |
| The Pogues – The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Bigblue1894:24634] @[HorseQuack:24635] Great comment HorseQuack |
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| Ronnie Lane – Annie Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Ronnie wrote this with his wife, Kate Lambert and his mate Eric Clapton. They wrote it at Fishpool Farm near Bishop’s Castle in Shropshire, England on the Welsh border. Annie was the Lane’s babysitter and lived down the road in an old cottage. She’d come around every evening around 6, whether they needed her or not and would help Kate out with the kids and things. Old Jack was another neighbour who was always at the farm. Eric wasn’t a great friend of Ronnie until he left the Faces and moved to Shropshire. He liked to visit them there as he was overcoming his battles with addiction. |
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| The Small Faces – All Or Nothing Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Interesting that although Steve wrote it, others werecredited as the songwriters when it was published. | |
| The Small Faces – Itchycoo Park Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[KangNKodos:24398] in Ronnie’s biography, Can You Show Me. Dream he says he wrote it and Steve came up with the middle eight. He was in a hotel room and there was a magazine there about Cambridge with its bridge of Sighs and Dreaming Spires. Steve said it was about everyone’s local park. Steve’s was in Manor Park. He thought Ronnie’s was Spitalfields churchyard. Ronnie said he’d based it on the hum, God Be On My Head but when you youtube that there doesn’t seem to be any similarity. Anyway, it was defo about an acid trip. |
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| Faces – Last Orders Please Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This is just a simple tale of a chance meeting between a couple of ex lovers and how that meeting had “opened up an old wound” and left one of them with confused feelings. But in the end they’ve both got other partners so “what can we do?” It isn’t about a pub despite the title and what Ronnie’s biog “Can you show me a dream” claims. |
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| Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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If you've ever wondered why this song is soooo different to anything else that JD produced its because Ian borrowed the tune from someone else. Frank Ewart had written it for his band, Manchester Mekon who were in the same musician's collective as Joy Division. Ian asked Frank if he could borrow the melody for a song he had an idea for. Frank even lent Ian his 12 string acoustic to use on the recording. He was that sort of lad. Very nice. Ian used the title as a play on words on a pop hit of the mid seventies by Captain and Tennille called "Love will keep us together" that was written Carole King's friend, Neil Sedaka. If you'd like to see a comparison check out this website. http://stereoembersmagazine.com/curious-birth-joy-divisions-love-will-tear-us-apart/ Let's take nothing from this song though. It's one of the very best songs of all time in my opinion. BTW, the posts saying that Ian was addicted to heroin etc are just plain wrong. However he did struggle with epilepsy. |
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| Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Nymphetamine:21651] he definitely wasn't taking heroin. | |
| Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Tyrone:21650] Bigguns he certainly was not addicted to heroin. | |
| The Pogues – Fairytale Of New York Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| The hook has been lifted from The Broad Majestic Shannon that Shane wrote for the same album. Have a listen. | |
| The Pogues – The Broad Majestic Shannon Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Great song that Shane obviously borrowed some of the opening bars for Fairytale that he wrote with Jem Finer. Jem had written Fairytale a long time before its release but Shane changed the lyrics to make them a lot better. He must have also added that infectious hook from Shannon to it as well. The middle bit relates to places near his family's home in Borrisokane, Tipperary where Martin Sheen's family also hail from. Glenaveigh is the nearest village on the Shannon to Borrisokane; Finnoe is just outside of Borrisokane and the cross means a crossroad. Shinrone is the nearest larger town but is across the border in Offaly hence the men going to the fair there but their hearts being in Tipperary. |
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| The Courteeners – No You Didn't, No You Don't Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think it's about people pretending to know the band just because they went to school with them, but they weren't there at the key parts of Liam's memory where he was with a few mates doing keys (loads of Bob Hope) in the back of his mate's garage. Luke was cold so the person who lived in the garage house (obviously better off than them) lends Luke a jumper - a posh one - a Jaeger. | |
| The Pogues – The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Shane explained that he lived at his uncle's Irish pub in Essex for some time and this was written about a conglomeration of characters who went in there - pissheads basically - who had loads of tales from their pasts. One got syphillis in Cologne, one got drunk with Frank Ryan (the leader of the Irish members of the International Brigade who fought Franco's fascists in the Spanish Civil War) and one who was on a bender in the Euston Tavern (a pub near the London railway station), etc., etc. He also name-checks his local cemetery in North Tipperary, Ireland, Cloughprior. Throughout Shane's writing there are lots of mentions of places in this area. I was really impressed by his mention of Frank Ryan. There aren't even many Irish people who know who he is so for Shane to mention him in one of his early songs could demonstrate what a good knowledge of Irish Republican history that his family had and how they brought him up to know this history. For the record, Frank Ryan not only was a republican leader in Ireland and the leader of the small Irish contingent that fought against the Fascists in Spain but he bizarrely also visited Nazi Germany during WW2 to see if there was any common ground between the IRA and Hitler. Christy Moore's "Viva la Quinta Brigade" is all about the Irish volunteers in Spain and was released about a year before Rum, Sodomy and The Lash and so it could be that Shane had simply picked off the history from Christy Moore. |
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| Aztec Camera – Down the Dip Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's not "pack of macks" but "packermacs" which was a cheap plastic overcoat that folded up very small. A bit like an older version of a Kag-in-a-bag but much crappier. The dip was the nickname for the Diplomat pub in East Kilbride where Roddy lived when he was younger. | |
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