What’s your favourite opening line to a song?
That’s the question for you to ponder this week, with a shining €25 Golden Discs voucher to be won for the best entry.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my publisher.
Please include video links if possible.
Lines MUST close at 6am [Saturday].
Nick says: Good luck!
Last week’s bronzed winner here.
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“I don’t believe in an interventionist god ,but I know darling that you do.”
Nick Cave – Into My Arms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE
ooohhhh, winner will have to beat this one
“I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am…”
TMBG – Birdhouse in your Soul
https://youtu.be/NhjSzjoU7OQ
Excellent choice. Brilliant song.
I reached inside myself and found nothing there to ease the pressure of my ever worrying mind
A-ha – The Sun Always Shinea On Tv
Speaking of A-ha:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpU0ZfXZ_g
Best cover ever!
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night,
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall,
She sees the bartender in a pool of blood,
Cries out, “My God, they killed them all!”
Bob Dylan – Hurricane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpZvg_FjL3Q
Darn it, I want to see your library!
Amazing first line and a genius young songwriter,
https://youtu.be/AifqxMaURFI
Enjoy!!
Is it love your after ?
DONT DO ME WHAT YOU DID TO AMERICA.
Sufjan Stevens just released ‘America’ its haunted,i think its amazing,been on the ‘turnable’ daily here.
DONT DO TO ME WHAT YOU DID TO AMERICA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=OK9EImqaKvI&feature=emb_logo
John Lydon’s menacing “Hello” on Public Image by PIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cifo77azntk
“you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you”
https://youtu.be/uPudE8nDog0
I was was sure you were going to link to this version. So good they made a whole song out of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_74N7KJmEj4
ha! class- never heard that before
Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine.
First line of the album “Horses” by Patti Smith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPO0bTaWcFQ
The rest of the tune ain’t half bad either.
“Eddie Grace’s Buick’s got four bullet-holes in the side…”
Tom Waits, Kentucky Avenue….a masterpiece of childhood friendship and loyalty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeZ1lrywI9I&feature=youtu.be
‘i spent all my money in a mexican whorehouse babe, across the street from a catholic church
and i wiped down my revolver and buttoned up my burgandy shirt’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htGOO2b12Es
“Sweetness, sweetness
I was only joking
When I said I’d like to
Smash every tooth in your head”
The Smiths – Bigmouth Strikes Again
‘i like big butts and i can not lie’
I hear ya
Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?edufilter=NULL&v=RFnd1_zfrJc
They have some great openers when you think about it.
“Hello, is there anybody in there”
and “Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day”
I’ve got 6 things on my mind. You’re no longer one of them”
Prefab Sprout – Desire As
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD998mqQXvo
“Only the very young and the very beautiful can be so aloof, Hanging out with the boys, All swagger and poise
I don’t even care When other people are there I just stare and stare and stare”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URIzGaksDoY
Tom Robinson: War baby
Oh my what a challenge! Not helped by that wonderful opener of Bertie’s! I may have to think on this.
Traffic -40,000 headmen
40,000 headmen couldn’t make me change my mind……………
https://youtu.be/p_UppS-EazE
Still one of my very favourite literary allusions…
“The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National Guitar”
https://youtu.be/H9M4XJXnCcw
Happy Friday everyone. :)
The other Mississippi :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
Sorry, wrong link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f35JyHY38a0&ab_channel=dickiedo0333
Janet, you may like this. They knocked that other band off number 1 :-)
Is this the real life?
Mama?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
The opening line sets up the rest of this fantastic track that was written by a couple of lads who wrote a few decent tunes!!
https://youtu.be/BT5j9OQ7Sh0
Deadly altogether!!
Really? You had to do the Bealtes? Just when I was getting comfortable.
right fupp them and ABBA
let us agree and disagree :-)
Ah now J, you had to go there.
She might be asleep!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrzicaiRLU&ab_channel=AbbaVEVO
The Sisters Of Mercy
“Vision Thing”
Twenty-five whores in the room next door
Twenty-five floors and I need more
I’m looking for the can in the candy store
Two thousand Hamburg four
And colours I ain’t seen before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hNrf9bERN8
Sang this at full volume last time they played in Dublin. Great shout
That’s a good one Bertie
“A-wap-bopa-loopa-a-wap-bam–boo”
Tutti Frutti – Little Richard
White on white translucent black capes back on the rack
Bela Lugosi’s dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY
Oh Bauhaus!! Man I LOVED them
Thems and the Sisters of Mercy
Takes me RIGHT back
‘pretty women out walking with gorillas on my street’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TzKSFbsh2Y
That has got to be the best, and simplest, base line ever!
Two more, then I’m outta here…
Monster magnet:- Ozium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw528SJK2YU
“I’m up to my brain in the mire of an ancient swamp
Pteranadon smiles at me and flies up to god
Baby let me drink deep from your globes of reality
Writhe your naked ass to the mindless groove”
and Leonard Cohen Avalanche
stepped into an avalanche,
It covered up my soul;
When I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
You must learn to serve me well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0ADuVJhYQ
‘there’s a road in oklahoma; straighter than a preacher, longer than a memory’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAho7YBvitc
‘one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go, cat go’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5HKlQ6nGM
‘once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime in your prime – didn’t you?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwOfCgkyEj0
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”, Patti Smith – Gloria
Recycling an opening line from her own poetry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPO0bTaWcFQ
‘the taxman’s taken all my dough, and left me in my stately home’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIl6n_SRCI
Quality
[ignoring the “oh yeah”]
“in france, a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name”
certainly of it’s time – and harrowing at the time
https://youtu.be/8EdxM72EZ94
Beck -Loser-
“In the the time of chimpanzees, I was a monkey.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE
Set’s up the whole sing nicely.
Today was the day I discovered that the word is ‘time’ not ‘town’. Heh.
you’ll be singing yogurt in the shower in no time, as the French say
‘wake up maggie i think i got something to say to you’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbI_awR4CKE
5 words:
“Hello darkness my old friend…….”
Grabs me every time.
It’s no wonder it has been used to in so many movies from The Graduate to Trolls. My personal favourite is it’s use in the funeral scene in Watchmen.
For a song that’s more than 50 years old, it’s more than proved it’s staying power.
https://youtu.be/4fWyzwo1xg0
nice.
This link should work
https://youtu.be/f7McpVPlidc
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Lads, he’s looking for best opening line, not verse !
‘If you want to hang out, you’ve gotta take her out, cocaine’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmD_HcOcfU
Two more, then I’m outta here…
Monster magnet:- Ozium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw528SJK2YU
“I’m up to my brain in the mire of an ancient swamp
Pteranadon smiles at me and flies up to god
Baby let me drink deep from your globes of reality
Writhe your naked ass to the mindless groove”
and
Leonard Cohen Avalanche
I stepped into an avalanche,
It covered up my soul;
When I am not this hunchback that you see,
I sleep beneath the golden hill.
You who wish to conquer pain,
You must learn to serve me well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0ADuVJhYQ
Living on the road my friend / Was gonna keep you free and clean
And now you wear your skin like iron / And your breath’s as hard as kerosene
https://youtu.be/zprRZ2wFQD4
Great song, great choice
‘if you like to gamble baby i’m your man, you win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWB5JZRGl0U
YES!!!!! My Favourite song of all time!
outstanding, you should have also got second place for this one
‘I was dressed for sucess, but success it never comes’…Pavement – Here…https://youtu.be/NOFdJjHbaRk
‘i never thought it would happen with me and the girl from clapham’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQciegmLPAo
Great shout. Both uplifting and sad at the same time.
+1
Was just going to do that one, well played Scottser
A masterpiece in every respect.
I’m mad…And that’s a fact
I found out…Animals don’t help
Animals think…They’re pretty smart
Shit on the ground…See in the dark.
Animals: Talking Heads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96GCfykZ0qE
Tom Waits gives excellent value for money on two great songs, consecutively, no less, on a faultless album.
First up the title track from Swordfishtrombones, the singular Swordfishtrombone.
“Well, he came home from the war with a party in his head
And a modified Brougham DeVille”https://youtu.be/rDGhJtEsmj8
Next is the previous track, Franks Wild Years,
“Well, Frank settled down in the valley,
And he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife’s forehead.”https://youtu.be/1I9GqxDA4ac
If they don’t get your attention, you’re just not listening.
“My brother knows Karl Marx, He met him eating mushrooms in the peoples park.”
Sultans of Ping F.C. – Where’s me jumper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMl5tWtY8c
Just award the voucher already
+1
“WOOF, WOOF, WOOOF WOOF”
Jane’s Addiction, Being Caught Stealing
https://youtu.be/jrwjiO1MCVs
That is an AWESOME song.
+1990
….and a hilariously disturbing video to boot!
Remember Ray Cokes? And Naughty Nympho Nina who ‘became’ Davina McCall.
Holy flashbacks, Batman!!
“I come awake with the gift for womankind, You’re still asleep but the gift don’t seem to mind”
Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Wake Up and Make Love With Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqrXe6TZkuc
“You used to get it in your fishnets, now you only get it in your night dress.”
Artic Monkeys
( dedicated to Scottser and his fish fingers and purple granny pants)
“You can tell by the way I use my walk I’m a woman’s man no time to talk ”
BeeGees
my kinda man
Cheers J, it was a surprisingly intoxicating mix ;p
“I used to love the mortician’s daughter, we drew our hearts on the dusty coffin lids”
https://youtu.be/dJVfYlEw72c
This timeless classic, utter brilliance!!!
https://youtu.be/gJLIiF15wjQ
Made famous by this little guy!!
https://youtu.be/8jiesfFqXQQ
Enjoy
It was one of those nights when you turn out the lights
And everythin’ comes into view
She was takin’ her time I was losin’ my mind
There was nothin’ that she wouldn’t do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGftIcp2SC0
What you want, baby, I got it!”
Aretha Franklin.
Cause Largin it on a Friday
It wasn’t me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64si_CTae2c&ab_channel=GordonVinz
deadly version of one of my favorites !
There’s two:
“Caught between the twisted stars the plotted lines the faulty map that brought Columbus to New York Betwixt between the East and West he calls on her wearing a leather vest the earth squeals and shudders to a halt”
https://youtu.be/0_8-Fm1vfw0
And,
“Just before our love got lost, you said
“I am as constant as a northern star, ” and I said
“Constantly in the darkness
Where’s that at?
If you want me, I’ll be in the bar”
https://youtu.be/0YuaZcylk_o
Serious contender here
if you’re going to go that way
I don’t know just where I’m going
But I’m goin’ to try for the kingdom if I can
’cause it makes me feel like I’m a man
When I put a spike into my vein
or
Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather, whiplash girlchild in the dark,Comes in bells, your servant, don’t forsake him
Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart
etc
1) Heroin – Lou Reed
2) Venus in Furs – Lou Reed
Imagine you wrote 2/3 songs like that, You could retire for ever
Or:
There’s a downtown fairy singing out Proud Mary
As she cruises Christopher St
And some Southern Queen is acting loud and mean
where the docks and the Badlands meet
– Halloween Parade, Lou Reed
Holly came from Miami, F.L.A.
Hitch-hiked her way across the U.S.A.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
Wam! Bam! Mon chat, splatch
Plastic Bertrand – Ça plane pour moi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5vncyWQnY
How about this classic by the next President of the USA.
“If you’re havin’ girl problems, I feel bad for you, son
I got 99 problems, but a bit*h ain’t one”
He doesn’t have a lisp, I put in a “*” to make it (slightly) less offensive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goHYI21YKfc
Wam! Bam! Mon chat, splatch
Plastic Bertrand: Ça Plane Pour Moi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc5vncyWQnY
…
I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
…
..
I’m just a jealous guy
I was feeling insecure
…
For the bro-good Hurray for the Riff Raff cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n14Q4vivph4
Have a great weekend,surfs up- hey Italia headed Ditch Plains-Mtk-if your young lad is looking for a start,have him leave his number with any barman at the Shagwan(Main St Montauk)for Johnny Irish-landscaping with one the irish crews out there.
The The – Infected
Infect me with your love,,,,,,,I’ve got too much energy to switch off my mind but not enough to get organised
https://youtu.be/orIy18qIaCU
I’d forgotten about them , used to love that band
Toura loura loura loo, we’re looking for monkeys up in the zoo-if i had a face like you I’d join the british army.
RDF and their take on Dirty old town
https://youtu.be/6T5yEuDwTF8
‘Tank fly boss walk jam nitty-gritty
You’re listening to the boy from the big bad city‘
Splendiferous nonsense.
Brilliant open lyrics from someone so young,
When routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And resentment rides high
But emotions won’t grow
And we’re changing our ways
Taking different roads
https://youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No
Right Now, Right Now, Right Now…
IT’S TIME TO KICK OUT THE JAM, MOTHER-FUCKERS !!!
https://youtu.be/yvJGQ_piwI0
Jeez. I always thought the Henry Rollins version was the first.
“I’m the trouble starter, punkin’ instigator, I’m the fear addicted, a danger illustrated, I’m a firestarter, twisted firestarter”
The late, great, much lamented, Keith Flint’s snarling introduction to Firestarter, by The Prodigy.
Who wasn’t shocked and frightened by this on first listen/view, only to learn afterwards that Keith was one of the nicest and kindest guys in the music business. R.I.P. Keith, this world is emptier without you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw
“It was a beautiful day, the sun beat down. I had the radio on, I was drivin’. Trees went by, me and Del were singin’. Little Runaway, I was flyin'”
Another musical great, gone too soon. In just a few words he paints a perfect picture of driving a convertible through the unpopulated parts of America, without a care in the world.
Tom Petty, Runnin’ Down A Dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1D3a5eDJIs
“She said, “Andy, you’re better than your past”
Winked at me and drained her glass
Cross-legged on a barstool, like nobody sits anymore..”
Elephant – Jason Isbell
https://youtu.be/ClugMhMbrRg
“It’s like a jungle sometimes tt makes me wonder how I keep from goin’ under”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PobrSpMwKk4
I really like Diamanda Galás work from the eighties- you really need to listen to it all for a few times to accept where the beginning really is but a lovely sing a long for all the family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBeTXiTZbCc
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
It’s not warm when she’s away
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
And she’s always gone too long anytime she goes away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CICIOJqEb5c
“Well you didn’t wake up this morning ’cause you didn’t go to bed You were watching the whites of your eyes turn red”
-The the, this is the day
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYgKCbFbWY
Doobie Bros – What a Fool Believes
He came from somewhere back in her long ago
The sentimental fool don’t see
Tryin’ hard to recreate
What had yet to be created once in her life
She musters a smile for his nostalgic tale
Never coming near what he wanted to say
Only to realize it never really was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Eu17DbeSo
“Taumatawhakatangihangakoayauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukypokaiwhenuakitanatahu”
The Lone Ranger by Quantum Jump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hchOYs_d_Bw
A song, about a fictional, Wild West hero, whose best friend’s name means “thicko” in Spanish? Whose opening word happens to be the longest place name in the world, in New Zealand? What could possibly beat this?
Enjoy Yourself – Prince Buster
Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you’re still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you blink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself, It’s later than you think!
(The Specials) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqoVElIG24
Deep in the bosom of
the gentle night
Is when I search for the light
Pick up my pen
and start to write
I struggle to fight dark forces
in the clear
Moonlight
Without fear
Insomnia
I can’t get no sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8JEm4d6Wu4
I, I will be king
you…you will be queen
“The car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
And a dark wind blows
The government is corrupt
And we’re on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn…”
Dead Flag Blues – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
https://youtu.be/-aLjup934Rk
Hello….is there anybody in there? just nod if you can hear me
“Sup up your beer and collect your fags, there’s a row going on down near slough…”
The Eton Rifles – The Jam
https://youtu.be/7Id3B37H7L8
“I’m drunk on a couch in Nashville
In a duplex near the reservoir
And every single thought is like a punch in the face
I’m a rabbit freezing on a star”
Silver Jews, Horseleg Swastikas
https://youtu.be/ua9Oay6_zak
Or
“In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection…”
Random Rules – Silver Jews
https://youtu.be/bPD0JLwpc3k
Nice.
In fairness he wrote a lot of great lines
I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
‘Til the landslide brought me down
Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
I once worked with a lady who did sound for Fleetwood Mac many moons ago. She tells a story that Peter Fleetwood was not happy about Stevie Nicks coming on board, But Lindsay insisted.
She says that the first time Stevie performed, Peter was in the wings watching. She captivated the audience, and captivated Peter. Since then, he never doubted.
She still captivates. I do not know if you saw her perform with Lady A. They are great performers, but really, Stevie Nicks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXgE9S6N5o&ab_channel=StevieNicks
You mean Mick Fleetwood?
There’s talk of corruption in empires and states
Galliano – The Power n Glory
https://youtu.be/9UPSJZ5iMbY
Especially for USA’94
His wife, LFC 96
and new baby Corona’20
Sleep like a baby.
My little lady.
Dream til the sunrise.
Creeps into your eyes
Tony Christie Avenues and Alleyways
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOzefdfiD4
Great movie to zoom with your besties :)
#Allons enfants de la Patrie ..
Pining for the ferry we were supposed to be getting tomorrow to a proper republic.
(Where the supermarkets have burgundy aisles)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0FGkyWHWY24
Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it’s not like any other love
This one is different, because it’s us
Even though Morrissey’s a total dose, it hasn’t tainted my love of The Smiths. Just played this and felt like I did first time I heard it. So immediate, unusual and arresting. Seemed to capture my teenage confusion and alienation instantaneously. I won’t go on…
https://youtu.be/tnzLPYwDqas
I did go on. Thrice. Sorry bout that!
Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he’s dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I’ve gone and thrown it all away
But actually any song by Tom Waits
‘As they pulled you out of the oxygen tent, you asked for the latest party’.. Bowie – Diamond Dogs
And another one
I can’t seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous and I
Can’t relax
I can’t sleep ’cause my bed’s on fire
Don’t touch me I’m a real live wire
Talking Heads
For the week that’s in it, R.I.P big guy, helping Leeds back where they belong!!!
Opening words still make the hairs stand up, such memories!!!
https://youtu.be/I5PT65I2ny8
Hey Mr. Jim I can see the shape you’re in
Finger on your eyebrow
And left hand on your hip
Thinking that you’re such a lady killer
Think you’re so slick!
https://youtu.be/N5LveBIjg3o
ah yes Minkey DeVille!
a GREAT song
I also have a vague childhood recollection of it being used in an ad for…Club Orange?
I’ve been walking in the rain,
Just to get wet on purpose
https://youtu.be/DSfjtdnUsls
Dearly beloved, we have gathered here today
To get through this thing called life
Electric word life it means forever and that’s a mighty long time
But I’m here to tell you there’s something else (go crazy)
Prince – Let’s go crazy
She sits alone by a lamppost, trying to find a thought that’s escaped her mind…..
Let her cry.
Hootie and The Blowfish
I love you from the bottom of my pencil case.
The Beautiful South
I still love that song!
Net cap. of 58 thousand pounds
They sweat on their way down
Grey ports with customs bastards
Hang around like clowns the
Uh-containers and their drivers
https://youtu.be/N8bjJf3Q5mE
Heaven Can Wait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-SllzH8D4A&ab_channel=daveinprogress3
And long may it!
“Pearl’s a singer . . .”
Elkie Brooks – Pearl’s a Singer.
https://youtu.be/IxwBjfrwpPY
It has to be Fleetwood Mac’s Man of the world. The opening verse is so descriptive and describes Peter Green’s state of mind.
Shall I tell you about my life
They say I’m a man of the world
I’ve flown across every tide
And I’ve seen lots of pretty girls
https://youtu.be/gOqe8_3i0iA
Very sorry to hear of his passing, one of the greats.
Peter Green: Fleetwood Mac co-founder dies aged 73
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/25/fleetwood-mac-co-founder-peter-green-dies-aged-73?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin’ about half past dead.
The Band, The weight.
Great shout
When routine bites hard,
And ambitions are low,
And resentment rides high,
But emotions won’t grow…
Joy Division – Love will tear us apart
https://youtu.be/zuuObGsB0No
I’m running out of miracles
Oh my soul
And the streets alive with one-man shows
Oh my soul
Corner boys were moved along
Oh my soul
We’re plummeting like crippled crows
Oh my soul
https://youtu.be/9lAVeeuwRiI
Late entry – RIP Peter Green
Can’t help about the shape I’m in
I can’t sing, I aint pretty and my legs are thin
But don’t ask me what I think of you
I might not give the answer that you want me to
The start of Oh Well (pt 1).
“Uhraah! Uhraah! Bass!
Ooh white, white
Ooh white, white. Ooh white, white
(Ooh white lines) vision dreams of passion
(Blowin’ through my mind) and all the while I think of you
(High fry) a very strange reaction
(For us to unwind) the more I see, the more I do
(Something like a phenomenon) baby
(Tellin’ your body to come along, but white lines blow away)”
A timely reminder from Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five of the dangers of the South American marching powder. DON’T DO IT!
Why, oh why
Lemon firebrigade, why?
Haircut 100 – Lemon Firebrigade
https://youtu.be/K9qQReb3OYg
I definitely want to see your library!
Ah I gave up aspiring to be cool when I was 14!
“People like you always want back,
The love they gave away,
And people like me wanna believe you,
When you say you’ve changed…”
Taylor Swift – All you had to do was stay
https://youtu.be/FLMgkV8BbbA
Is it just me, or do others feel an obligation to the artist? If it is an official video I have no problem pausing, coming back, rewinding.
But when it is of the singer doing a straight run through, I feel it is disrespectful to not listen all the way through.Even though it is YouTube, or Vevo, or whatever. They are not here, they won’t know.
But I will.
I have ended up in more rabbits holes that way, and enjoyed them all.
I’m waiting on the empty docks,
Watching the ships come in,
I’m waiting for the agony to stop,
And let the happiness in
https://youtu.be/ZmfixlnskpA
You might like this Slightly Bemused….
“I am telling myself the story of my life,
Stranger than song or fiction.
We start with the joyful mysteries,
Before the appearance of ether,
Trying to capture the elusive:
The farm where the crippled horses heal,
The woods where autumn is reversed,
And the longing for bliss in the arms
Of some beloved from the past.”
Prefab Sprout – I trawl the megahertz (all 22 epic minutes of it!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-P7yVqJ9Wk
a masterpiece, thanks Bertie
” I hurt myself today…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvoTktdpIiI
Perfectly succinct. Yet powerful as hell. The opening line hits you with it’s honesty and it continues in that vein. Whatever meaning you take from it and the two great versions. I have my own.