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| Paul Simon – Armistice Day Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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The line is not "Shufflin' brown tunes". When I learned to play it long long ago, I thought he said, "Shufflin' around in twos". Yesterday I watched him sing it, and he DID say, "Shufflin' around in twos!" |
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| Steppenwolf – Renegade Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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This song is autobiographical, John Kay remembering his childhood escape from the communists in eastern Europe. No comments? Come on people, you're missing out on some great music! |
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| Rod Stewart – Better Off Dead Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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It's not "layatril", it's laetrile...it was thought to be a possible cure for cancer in the 1970s.
GREAT song, by the way! |
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| Talking Heads – Heaven Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[Ana:35845] Byrd - Good insight. The line, "It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be this much fun," points out that it IS fun. |
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| Steppenwolf – Hippo Stomp Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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No comments here, either. It's sad, everyone wants to talk about "Born to be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride". Do you people ever listen to anything besides what you hear on the radio? Steppenwolf was a fabulous band, and they recorded some truly awesome music, way more than what you heard on top-40 radio. |
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| Steppenwolf – Fag Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[Charlie:35601] the man - they'll never let Jethro Tull into their club either.
The R&R hall of fame is a meaningless charade. |
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| Joe Walsh – Meadows Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[choiceXcreed:33907] - this is the one. It starts of with Joe screaming something like this:
Hey, womma lilly wah bah dipsy abba doodle-dah, woah yeah! AAAH! AAH! AAH! AAH! |
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| Tommy James And The Shondells – I Think We're Alone Now Lyrics
| 5 years ago
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@[scottyboyd:33808] - actually, that's false. It was written by Ritchie Cordell (who also wrote "Mony Mony" and many other Tommy James songs), specifically for Tommy James and the Shondells. Tommy James recorded the vocals on Christmas Eve 1966, and it's first ever release was in 1967. |
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| Alice Cooper – Elected Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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This is the song that made an Alice Cooper fan out of me, when it came out in 1972 -- just in time for the election (which Richard Nixon won, by the way). |
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| Alice Cooper – I Never Cry Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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@[hippiegirll:32417] - actually, on the album previous to this one (Welcome to my Nightmare) he had a very successful ballad--Only Women Bleed. |
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| Humble Pie – Is It for Love? Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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There are so many errors in those lyrics, I hardly know where to start. BUT, they always ignore corrections, so I'll just let it go... |
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| Humble Pie – Drugstore Cowboy Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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These lyrics are so bad, who the heck came up with this? The freaking TITLE is Drugstore Cowboy, how did they come up with "Adjust the power"???
Geez, if you can't understand what Steve Marriott is saying, don't just guess at it and post it here. |
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| Ten Years After – Hard Monkeys Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Compare it to the lyrics to "Over the Hill" (also on this album):
"Like a cripple and his crutch, I have leaned a bit too much
On things that I should never touch again.
Now it seems it's plain to see that this stuff is killing me
Got to quit so I'll be free again." |
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| Ten Years After – Over the Hill Lyrics
| 6 years ago
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Love this song, but it kind of drives me crazy because it sounds like the strings are playing the major third and the minor third at the same time, in places. Does anyone else hear that? |
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| ZZ Top – La Grange Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[boneric22:27535] - don't feel bad, my first concert was ZZ Top too...the Fandango tour. |
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| ZZ Top – Hot, Blue And Righteous Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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I don't know what the song is about, but the lead solo is that fabulous sound of BFG's "Pearly Gates" Les Paul that I have been trying for years to replicate. Fabulous! |
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| Led Zeppelin – The Crunge Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[theplunketts:27484] - well said, and "Where's that confounded bridge?" is because there IS NO BRIDGE in the song! |
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| Humble Pie – Beckton Dumps Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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"Well, it mean that I need to put on his lead
If I don't want a mess on my cheap pan." -- this not only makes no sense, it's also wrong (even though all the lyric sites show it like that). It should say,
"Well, it mean that I need to put on his lead
If I don't want a mess on my G plan."
G Plan was low-budget furniture in England. See wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_Plan |
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| The Who – Bell Boy Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[supernuke:26201] - "Always running at someone's bleeding 'eel..."
Yup, that's Keith! :D |
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| The Who – 5:15 Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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@[regb:26200] I agree, the album is fantastic. But I disagree that there are boring parts...give it a chance, ALL of it will grow on you! |
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| Talking Heads – I Zimbra Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[Pabstdrinkin:24493] - Brian Eno got co-writing credits only because of his inspired solo. Hugo Ball wrote those wacky lyrics. |
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| John Lennon – Serve Yourself Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[atamata:24359] - can you imagine somebody making a parody of "Imagine" after the fashion of this song? Mr. Lennon would have dirtied his britches. |
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| AC/DC – Riff Raff Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Great song! Just saw Angus playing it with GnR on youtube, and it reminded me what a great song it is. So now that riff is stuck in my head, and (although I'm almost sixty years old) I'm wood-shedding like a teenager, trying to learn that lick! |
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| ZZ Top – Have You Heard? Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[ppan3:19202], thanks for that. I never did buy the "Jo ti mahr" line, it's just that ALL the online lyric sites say that. Yours makes better sense in many ways, plus it actually sounds like what Billy Gibbons is saying!
I'm going to edit the lyrics! |
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| ZZ Top – Have You Heard? Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Ok, after a little research, I find this stuff:
In the Sikh scripture, Joti (Light) is term used to describe the Godhead, God's creation or the state of highest spiritual experience.
In Islam, a mahr (in Arabic: مهر; Persian: مهريه) is a mandatory payment, in the form of money or possessions paid or promised to pay by the groom, or by groom's father, to the bride at the time of marriage, that legally becomes her property.
Not sure if any of that is connected, but it's the best I can do. |
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| ZZ Top – Have You Heard? Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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This song has puzzled me for years. Everywhere online has the same lyrics, but I'm not buying that "Jo Ti Mahr" business. Doesn't make sense. |
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| Genesis – Abacab Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[LeArtist:16523] - it's the (original) song structure. A=verse, B=chorus, C=bridge, etc. A more usual song structure is ABABCAB. In any case, they eventually changed the song structure but kept the name. |
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| ZZ Top – Bar-B-Q Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[xlr51:13386] - this is actually from the second album, Rio Grande Mud. |
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| ZZ Top – Apologies to Pearly Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I think the title may come from the fact that the Reverend Willy G. is not playing his Les Paul, "Pearly Gates" on this song--sounds more like a Telecaster to me.
He doesn't play it much any more, but in the old days that guitar featured on nearly every song. |
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| ZZ Top – La Grange Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[boneric22:13372] - my very first concert was the Fandango tour in 1976 :D |
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| ZZ Top – Jesus Just Left Chicago Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[samhopkins:13364] - sure, the signal would go that far! When I was a kid in Arizona, we listened to the big 1520, KOMA Oklahoma city, as well as Mexican radio from Juarez. FM can't do that, but AM radio skips off the ionosphere, you can pick it up halfway around the globe! |
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| The Beach Boys – Sloop John B Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[ironhorse:13193] - it's actually far older than that....very famous and well-loved in the Bahamas. Check wikipedia.
I for one love this song! |
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| Rush – Tears Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@[Frank_Perk:12759] - I think another reason Rush has not been inducted is the reference to Ayn Rand on the liner notes. One cannot be in the R&R Hall of Fame if one is of a conservative bent. Same reason Jethro Tull was never inducted.
For this reason, I consider the R&R hall of fame to be irrelevant nonsense. |
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