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  • pettgra said:

    London Girls by Chas and Dave.
    It is not thought provoking stuff but my god it really cheers you up.
    Have a look and give yourself a chuckle.
    https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/chas-dave/london-girls-31

    Love Chas and Dave. A particular favourite of mine is, from Ain't No Pleasing You:

    Now if you think I don't mean what I say, and I'm only bluffin'.
    You've got another think comin', I'm tellin' you that for nothin'.


    Probably because I spent half my childhood being told I had another think coming and I've never heard that particular phrase in any other song.
  • Best opening line (IMHO):

    Bless my cotton socks I'm in the news

    The Teardrop Explodes
  • Life is just a bowl of All-Bran
    You wake up every morning and it's there
    So live as only you can
    It's all about enjoy it 'cause ever since you saw it
    There ain't no one can take it away.
  • To every thing, turn, turn, turn there is a season
    A time to live, a time to die

  • Two degrees in beebop
    A PHD in swing
    He's the master of music
    He's the rock and roll king.

    Little Feat, Rock and Roll doctor.
  • Over the wall we go, all coppers are b@&:"?!'s. Bowie. ACAB
  • What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
    What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
    It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
    Ah shaddap-a you face
  • Macronate said:

    You spend your time in smokey rooms
    Where haggled old women with cheap perfume say
    "It never happens for people like us, you know"
    Well nothing ever happened on it's own
    And well the toilet smells of desperation
    The streets all echo of aggregation
    And you wonder why you can't get no sleep
    When you've got nothing to do
    And you've had nothing to eat
    Your life's slipping and sliding right out of view
    And there's absolutely nothing that you can do, well

    We'll live and die
    We'll live and die in these towns
    Don't let it drag you down
    Don't let it drag you down now

    We'll live and die
    We'll live and die in these towns
    Don't let it drag you down
    Don't let it drag you down now

    Dirty dishes from a T.V. meal
    That went cold from the wind through a smashed up window
    You can't go out if anybody calls you
    'Cause you can't have a bath When there's no hot water
    And your friends are out on the town again
    And you ask yourself if it will ever end
    And it's all too much for your head to take
    Just a matter of time before you break, well

    We'll live and die
    We'll live and die in these towns
    Don't let it drag you down
    Don't let it drag you down now

    The Enemy

    Great band. Much missed .
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  • Ian Dury deserves a mention.
  • seth plum said:

    Ian Dury deserves a mention.

    He's had one.
  • edited June 2017
    There's a man I meet,
    Walks up our street,
    He's a worker for the council,
    Has been for 20 years,
    And he takes no lip off nobody
    And litter off the gutter
    And puts it in a bag
    And never thinks to mutter.

    And he packs his lunch in his Sunblest bag,
    The children call him boogy,
    He never lets on,
    But I know cos he once told me.

    He let me know a secret,
    About the money in his kitty,
    He's gonna buy a dingy,
    ..... Gonna call her Dignity.

    (Off the top of my head so not sure if word perfect but close enough. :smile: Some of my favourite lyrics of all time)
  • edited June 2017
    Macronate said:

    What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
    What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
    It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
    Ah shaddap-a you face

    Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot in January 1981.
    Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.
  • Flight of the Conchords - Sugarlumps:

    Chillin' at my store, doin' my thing, when in walks a guy with his dick in a sling
    I'm like, "Holy shit! What happened to you?
    He said, "How much will you give me for the family jewels?"
    I said "Ten bucks"; he said "No way!"
    "Ten bucks and a Frisbee"; he said "Okay"
    And I took his sugarlumps and put 'em on display, and sold 'em as hacky sacks later that day
  • Macronate said:

    What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
    What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
    It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
    Ah shaddap-a you face

    Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot.
    Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.
    A couple of contenders that could challenge that:

    Oasis - Wonderwall was kept from number one by Robson and Jerome's I Believe
    David Bowie - Jean Genie was kept from number one by Little Jimmy Osmond's Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

  • River - Joni Mitchell
    Letter to Hermione - David Bowie
    Judy and the Dream of Horses - Belle and Sebastian
    Onward - Yes
    Clarissa - Sun Kil Moon
    Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel.
  • CHG said:

    bobmunro said:

    Bowie - Life on Mars
    Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
    Don McLean - America Pie

    So many ....

    Great shout with Don McLean
    Hmm "the three men I admire most, the father, son and holy ghost, just caught the last train for the coast"
  • I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find -Paronoid -Black Sabbath -Although American Pie takes some beating
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  • Grinderman (Nick Cave) - No Pussy Blues:

    I changed the sheets on my bed,
    I combed the hairs across my head,
    I sucked in my gut and still she said
    That she just didn't want to.

    I read her Eliot, read her Yeats,
    I tried my best to stay up late,
    I fixed the hinges on her gate,
    But still she just never wanted to.

    I bought her a dozen snow-white doves,
    I did her dishes in rubber gloves,
    I called her Honeybee, I called her Love,
    But she just still didn't want to.
    She just never wants to.
    Dammit!

    I sent her every type of flower,
    I played her guitar by the hour,
    I patted her revolting little chihuahua,
    But still she just didn't want to.
  • Pixies Where Is My Mind -

    with your feet on the air and your head on the ground
    try this trick and spin it, yeah
    your head will collapse
    and there’s nothing in it
    and you’ll ask yourself
    where is my mind?
    way out in the water
    see it swimmin'
  • Macronate said:

    What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
    What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
    It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
    Ah shaddap-a you face

    Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot in January 1981.
    Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.
    Remember it well as I loved Vienna. Great video as well.
  • To every thing, turn, turn, turn there is a season
    A time to live, a time to die

    Best use of the Bible ever
  • Macronate said:

    What's a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect?
    What-a you t'ink you do, why you look-a so sad?
    It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place
    Ah shaddap-a you face

    Did you know that this Joe Dulce song got to number one and kept the superb Ultra Vox classic "Vienna" from the top spot in January 1981.
    Considered one of the biggest travesties of all time in British music history.....you can't really say otherwise to be honest.
    Even now it hurts. Despite the famous Billie Curry quote. 'It was great. I wish we'd written it'. Would have hone down as a nothing funny song, but it kept a truely great one off no. 1
  • Des'ree- Life
  • Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve

    Depressing but so true...
  • You think we look pretty good together
    You think my shoes are made of leather

    But I'm a substitute for another guy
    I look pretty tall but my heels are high
    The simple things you see are all complicated
    I look pretty young, but I'm just back-dated, yeah

    Substitute your lies for fact
    I can see right through your plastic mac
    I look all white, but my dad was black
    My fine-looking suit is really made out of sack

    I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth
    The north side of my town faced east, and the east was facing south
    And now you dare to look me in the eye
    Those crocodile tears are what you cry
    It's a genuine problem, you won't try
    To work it out at all you just pass it by, pass it by

    Substitute me for him
    Substitute my coke for gin
    Substitute you for my mum
    At least I'll get my washing done

  • PopIcon said:

    Des'ree- Life

    Yes! I'd rather have a slice of toast to seeing a ghost too. It's a message that carves across generations
  • I always liked,

    a vincent motorcycle, a bit of slap and tickle, cheese and pickle

    also

    while American businessmen buy up Van Goghs for the price of a hospital bed

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