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two step- throwing muses
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jupiter fell into a lapse- mars accelerator
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road- nick drake
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don’t touch my bikini- halo benders
<you’re so heavy, you’re so honey, gettin ready easter bunny, rockin’ steady, makin’ money, toasting vegans, that’s not funny, skater betty, way too sexy, you’re so on it, you’re so honest, you can fold me, you can scold me, all the teachers never told me>
i realized looking these up it’s so hard for me to separate lyrics from voice and style. i don’t think these stand on their own so well perhaps, but when sung…
-"i dipped my toe in this cold, cold life…"–jawbreaker(blake schartztenbach)
-"today i woke up sucking a lemon.."–RADIOHEAD (thom york)
-"hello, my name is on my shirt pocket
i don’t feel like speaking right now
i’m remembering something…
most typically my dreams are dreadfully boring
therefore i come to these places just to see the girls
with hair like hers
with clothes like she wore
with smells like hers
with handwriting like hers…
you wrote me little letters
and that time you brought lunch to my work
the little poem you left on my windshield wrapped in plastic…
to protect it from the rain
protect it from the rain…"–GRANDADDY-"it was the biggest cock she’d ever seen
but she had no idea where that cock had been
you said you were carefull
but you never were with me
you said you did it 4 times
but johnny’s come in packs of 3…"–ARAB STRAP (aidann moffett)sorry for the vulgarity, but i think these lyrics are straight to the point, and from the heart…bitterly!
There’s nothing like a few depressing lines to do you in…
"I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more."– Pink Floyd
Hey,
If I don’t make sense to you
it doesn’t mean I’d lie to you
I just can’t find the words to go thereIf I don’t make sense to you
it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to
I just can’t find the words to go thereGreat song by Transister Sound & Lighting Co…The Coffee Song
Allison [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
as far as killer lines go, how can you go past Web in Front by The Archers of Loaf…
"You’re not the one who let me down, but thanks for offering."
or something along those lines…
Robyn Hitchcock definitely belongs in this thread:
Ted, Woody, and Junior
Were disappointments to their fathers
But they had a way with lather
And they covered each other with soap
covered each other with soap
(Ted, Woody, & Junior)Listen baby, there ain’t nothing in here but my own sweet mind
If it bothers you, we can turn it off
(Wading through A Ventilator)He’d never make love to a loaf of bread
Unless of course he found one in his bed
Now frogs are reproducing on your back
And bubbles keep emerging from a crack
It’s not a cormorant it’s not a shag
It’s only something in a plastic bag
(Bass)I got a dog with the legs are black
He got an aerial strapped to his back
he work by remote control
I sent him down to the water hole
I sent him to get my baby back
Dog comes back and eat some coal
he says master she all full of holes
I say more than usual? dog says yeah
I say never you mind, just bring her here
(Wey wey hep uh hole)It was in the city of shapes
That she made love to several apes
She felt weird for a couple of days
Pretty soon she got used to their ways
(City Of Shame)my cousin bruce came round to stay
the father of my son
he tore apart a stethoscope
and pointed at the sun
‘there’s tentacles between our worlds,’
he said, ‘so i believe’
i said, ‘the man next door’s best friend
was making videos with clean steve’
(Clean Steve)Oh, there’s so much more .. even better ones I’m sure .. but I’ll shut up now.
Hey,
Great lines Zander, Archers of Loaf have millions of them….Telepathic Traffic is my current fav song…cool lines in that one [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]
Maxini thanks for throwing some Robin Hitchcock in this thread, caught him with The Flaming Lips couple years back…very cool. Had heard him way back, he did something with Captain Sensible… [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img] then lost track of him.
Allison [img]images/smiles/converted/aliensmile.gif[/img]
Hey,
Have been in a Jesus & Mary Chain kind of mood…good one to be in [img]images/smiles/converted/cwm12.gif[/img]
I’ve been trying to hide myself from you
I’ve been trying to really hide from you
got no reason to go
got no reason to stay
god knows its true (x3)
god knows its over
got news for you
you didn’t ever understand meHide Myself …off the cracking up single
Pouring rain
I’m feeling impatient cause I can’t explain
the things inside of me that shocked
right thru my brain…trying to slow it down gotta gain control
theres nothing left to say
I’m always thinking but I don’t know…she wants to take me out of all this black and white…its all a game
I gotta feeling like my soul’s being washed away….I was standing in the rain
Rocket off the Cracking Up Single….with some pretty cool guitar noise behind some wicked lines.. [img]images/smiles/converted/aliensmile.gif[/img]
Also picked up a line from a pal out in Vancouver tonite….that lite at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train…in a typical (-) tone but hilarious…thanks to the Beak for that one
Allison
I bought a Replacements album the other day so I`m digging Westerberg`s lyrics.
"All I know is I`m sick of everything that my money can buy."
I`ll come up with more after I listen to it more.Bad Brains-"Another Damn Song"
"another damn song another damn song…"
You get the idea.Hey salamiguy,
Loved the Replacements, even got some of their solo stuff…Westerburg and I think Chris Mars. Way too much substance use in that band for its own good… [img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img]
Fav line currently by The Replacements is…you be me for awhile and I’ll be you…great line.
Scary though El Jesus posted awhile ago that Tommy Stinson was playing with the new GNR.
Allis0n [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
I just love it when something knocks me off my chair right from the start, like the first lines of a song, the first song off an album (the Wagon and Sameday comes to mind here), the open scene of a movie …
Dusted off Television’s Marquee Moon today (whoa, those guitar solos!) and Tom Verlaine got some great opening lines if you ask me, for example:I remember
how the darkness doubled
I recall
lightning struck itself
I was listening
listening
to the rain
I was hearing
hearing
something else
(Marquee Moon)It was a tight toy night
streets so bright
The room was so thin
between my bones and skin
There stood another
person
who looked a little
surprised
to be face
to face
with a world
so alive
(Venus de Milo)Hey Maxini,
Definitely agree with you about that getting knocked back bit…always a thrilling moment and one that sticks with me over time…replays itself over and over [img]images/smiles/converted/aliensmile.gif[/img] The Wagon does that for me every time, great lines by Television [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img]
Allison [img]images/smiles/converted/wink.gif[/img]
Oh yeah .. the wagon .. everything about that tune just kills. Made me rush off to buy Green Mind (my first Dino album) and life just hasn’t been the same since.
Btw, you were saying Tommy Stinson is playing with the new GNR??!! [img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/converted/eek2.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/converted/cwm8.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/converted/puke.gif[/img]
Hey Maxini,
Gotta love those life changing music moments, definitely with you on that… [img]images/smiles/converted/biggrin.gif[/img] My moment of life changing clarity with Dinosaur Jr came in the late eighties…very cool [img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img] Those smilies you used for the Stinson deal…gotta agree it was a shocking moment for me when I heard about that…very appropriate in my opinion. But hey at least someone likes them, just not for me I guess.
Some more cool lines, I really do have too many….This one is by Mad For The Racket…Nuts About You…(Wayne Kramer)
You can call me mental
call me sick in the head
say I’m off my noodle
say I lost the thread
yeah I’m all spaced out
I’m Out of my tree
I’m Out of my skull
like I’m smoking DDTGreat guitar noise behind this one by both Wayne Kramer and Brian James (ex of the Damned)
Allison [img]images/smiles/converted/eek.gif[/img]
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