A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam bam
Tutti frutti, oh rutti, tutti frutti, oh rutti
Tutti frutti, oh rutti, tutti frutti, oh rutti
Tutti frutti, oh rutti
A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam bam
marrillion's "clutching at straws" remains one of my fave cds ever
this song's called "just for the record"
"Many's the time I've been thinking about changing my ways
But when it gets right down to it it's the same drunken haze
I'm serving a sentence to write life's sentences
It's only when I'm out of it I make sense of this"
Tom Waits "Xmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"
"Hey Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street
Right above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue
And I stopped takin' dope and I quit drinkin' whiskey
And my old man plays the trombone and works out at the track"
after a long slow nice piano intro, just the first four words..Hey Charlie im pregnant... catch you COMPLETELY off guard the first time you ever hear it!
hell, all of his songs have fucken awesome lyrics....
how bout Heartattack and Vine's opening...
"Liar, liar, with your pants on fire
White spades hangin’ on the telephone wire
Gamblers re-evaluate along the dotted line
You’ll never recognize yourself on Heartattack and Vine"
or singapore's...
"We sail tonight for Singapore, we’re all as mad as hatters here"
or rain dogs...
"Inside a broken clock
Splashing the wine with all the rain dogs
Taxi, we’d rather walk
Huddle a doorway with the rain dogs
For I am a rain dog too"
or It's All right with me
"It’s the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it’s the wrong face
It’s not her face, but such a charming face
That it’s all right with me"
and the WHOLE of the piano has been drinking
PS sorry im on a tom waits kick at the moment!
Sydney Wed 8 Nov 2006....
when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.........
"Fool enough to almost be it, Cool enough to not quite see it"
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
One of the most chilling, beautiful, moving songs I've ever heard.
"Mother weep the years I'm missing,
all the time can't be given,
back.
Well I'll shut my mouth and strike the demons,
curesed you, and your reasons, out of hand and out of season,
out of love and out of feeling"
Every single time I hear that song, to this day - 4 years or so since I first heard it - when the guitars crash for the first time in the begining i get tears in my eyes.
Anyway..
"My love, she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence,
she doesn't have to say she's faithful, if she's true like ice like fire"
or even better...
"Darkness at the break of noon, shadows even the silver spoon,
the handmade blade, the child's balloon,
eclipses both the sun and moon,
and to understand you know too soon,
there's no sense in trying"
"It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is lyrical perfection.
"Been dazed and confused for so long its not true,
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below."
Damn, I love those lines.
"Strangers passing in the street, by chance two seperate glances meet, and I am you and what I see is me."
When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide
There I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
till I get to the bottom and I see you again......
SEE YOU AGAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have mercy on me, sir
Allow me to impose on you
I have no place to stay
And my bones are cold right through
I will tell you a story
Of a man and his family
And I swear that it is true
Song of Joy - Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
Perfect introduction to a perfect Murder Ballad.
Alice wakes
It is morning
She is yawning
As she walks about the room
Her hair falls down her breast
She is naked and it is June
Watching Alice - Nick Cave - Tender Prey
There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer?)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor
And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
There's a devil waiting outside your door
He's weak with evil and broken by the world
He's shouting your name and he's asking for more
There's a devil waiting outside your door
Loverman - Nick Cave - Let Love In
God Cave is brilliant.. there are so many songs that I wanted to put in here but then thought... No, the best words are in the middle and that would defeat the purpose of the thread. Easy Money, Abattoir Blues, Henry Lee, Stagger Lee, The Mercy Seat,.... it just goes on and on. Genious.
"My smile is stuck
I cannot go back to your Frownland"
"I've got you,
You've got whatever's left of me to get.
Our conversations are like minefields,
No one's found a safe way through one yet"
"Once I had my heroes
Once I had my dream
But all of that is changed now
They've turned things inside out
The truth is not that comfortable, no"
"She took the Oldsmobile out past Condor Ave.
And she locked the car and slipped past
Into rythmic quietude
Lights burning
Voice dry and hoarse
I threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth"
The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
I went stumbling through the fog trying to find a reason for the things I told her
She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinking I was too proud to flip her over
"Early this morning, I heard a knock upon my door.
And I said, 'Hello Satan. I believe it's time to go.'"
--Robert Johnson -- "Me and the Devil"
"I got to keep moving, keep moving--blues falling down like hail, falling down like hail. And these days keep reminding me: there's a hellhound on my trail."
--Robert Johnson -- "Hellhound on My Trail"
Sometimes you can't get any better lyrics than old blues ones.
"Well I just got into town about an hour ago. Took a look around see which way the wind blow."
--The Doors
Sleep on horseback
Far moon in a continuing dream
Steam of roasting tea
Dont believe what you hear, dont believe what you see
If you just close your eyes, you can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl you had fire in your soul
What happened your face of melting in snow?
Now it looks like this!
And you can swallow or you can spit
You can throw it up or choke on it
And you can dream so dream out loud
You know that your time is coming round
...dont let the bastards grind you down
I'm having a hard time thinking of a better one that that. Plus, it's a great opening lyric to an entire album.
Yeah the fact that it opens an album makes it that much better.
I do have to say this one is pretty sweet as well (being as we're on a PJ message board and all)
"The waiting drove me mad. You're finally here and I'm a mess"
“I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
"Darkness at the break of noon, shadows even the silver spoon,
the handmade blade, the child's balloon,
eclipses both the sun and moon,
and to understand you know too soon,
there's no sense in trying"
"It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is lyrical perfection.
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Tutti frutti, oh rutti, tutti frutti, oh rutti
Tutti frutti, oh rutti, tutti frutti, oh rutti
Tutti frutti, oh rutti
A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam bam
"AAAAAAAHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhAHhhhhaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"
marrillion's "clutching at straws" remains one of my fave cds ever
this song's called "just for the record"
"Many's the time I've been thinking about changing my ways
But when it gets right down to it it's the same drunken haze
I'm serving a sentence to write life's sentences
It's only when I'm out of it I make sense of this"
You're finally here and i'm a mess
"Hey Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street
Right above a dirty bookstore off Euclid Avenue
And I stopped takin' dope and I quit drinkin' whiskey
And my old man plays the trombone and works out at the track"
after a long slow nice piano intro, just the first four words..Hey Charlie im pregnant... catch you COMPLETELY off guard the first time you ever hear it!
hell, all of his songs have fucken awesome lyrics....
how bout Heartattack and Vine's opening...
"Liar, liar, with your pants on fire
White spades hangin’ on the telephone wire
Gamblers re-evaluate along the dotted line
You’ll never recognize yourself on Heartattack and Vine"
or singapore's...
"We sail tonight for Singapore, we’re all as mad as hatters here"
or rain dogs...
"Inside a broken clock
Splashing the wine with all the rain dogs
Taxi, we’d rather walk
Huddle a doorway with the rain dogs
For I am a rain dog too"
or It's All right with me
"It’s the wrong time and the wrong place
Though your face is charming, it’s the wrong face
It’s not her face, but such a charming face
That it’s all right with me"
and the WHOLE of the piano has been drinking
PS sorry im on a tom waits kick at the moment!
when all are one and one is all, to be a rock and not to roll.........
see me @ www.myspace.com/bigmuzz
keep on rockin!.......
you know where you are? you're in the jungle baby, you're gonna die.......
with a purple umbrella and a 50 cent hat
one two three four five against one fi five five. five against one
whistling in the beginning of patience guns n roses
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
"Mother weep the years I'm missing,
all the time can't be given,
back.
Well I'll shut my mouth and strike the demons,
curesed you, and your reasons,
out of hand and out of season,
out of love and out of feeling"
Every single time I hear that song, to this day - 4 years or so since I first heard it - when the guitars crash for the first time in the begining i get tears in my eyes.
Anyway..
"My love, she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence,
she doesn't have to say she's faithful, if she's true like ice like fire"
or even better...
"Darkness at the break of noon, shadows even the silver spoon,
the handmade blade, the child's balloon,
eclipses both the sun and moon,
and to understand you know too soon,
there's no sense in trying"
"It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" is lyrical perfection.
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
was rewritten of course. the original was mccaully culkin is not my lover he's just a boy who say's that my bed is fun.
Can you see me now
I am myself
Like you somehow
I'll ride the wave
Where it takes me
I'll hold the pain
Release me
I'm having a hard time thinking of a better one that that. Plus, it's a great opening lyric to an entire album.
Wanted a woman, never bargained for you.
Lots of people talk and few of them know,
Soul of a woman was created below."
Damn, I love those lines.
There I stop and I turn and I go for a ride
till I get to the bottom and I see you again......
SEE YOU AGAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pearl Jam bootlegs:
http://wegotshit.blogspot.com
Allow me to impose on you
I have no place to stay
And my bones are cold right through
I will tell you a story
Of a man and his family
And I swear that it is true
Song of Joy - Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
Perfect introduction to a perfect Murder Ballad.
Alice wakes
It is morning
She is yawning
As she walks about the room
Her hair falls down her breast
She is naked and it is June
Watching Alice - Nick Cave - Tender Prey
There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer?)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor
And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
There's a devil waiting outside your door
He's weak with evil and broken by the world
He's shouting your name and he's asking for more
There's a devil waiting outside your door
Loverman - Nick Cave - Let Love In
God Cave is brilliant.. there are so many songs that I wanted to put in here but then thought... No, the best words are in the middle and that would defeat the purpose of the thread. Easy Money, Abattoir Blues, Henry Lee, Stagger Lee, The Mercy Seat,.... it just goes on and on. Genious.
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
I cannot go back to your Frownland"
"I've got you,
You've got whatever's left of me to get.
Our conversations are like minefields,
No one's found a safe way through one yet"
"Once I had my heroes
Once I had my dream
But all of that is changed now
They've turned things inside out
The truth is not that comfortable, no"
"She took the Oldsmobile out past Condor Ave.
And she locked the car and slipped past
Into rythmic quietude
Lights burning
Voice dry and hoarse
I threw the screen door like a bastard back and forth"
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
Iron Maiden.
23 nov. Santiago
25 nov. Buenos Aires
26 nov. Buenos Aires
http://www.myspace.com/delonelyman
She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinking I was too proud to flip her over
And I said, 'Hello Satan. I believe it's time to go.'"
--Robert Johnson -- "Me and the Devil"
"I got to keep moving, keep moving--blues falling down like hail, falling down like hail. And these days keep reminding me: there's a hellhound on my trail."
--Robert Johnson -- "Hellhound on My Trail"
Sometimes you can't get any better lyrics than old blues ones.
"Well I just got into town about an hour ago. Took a look around see which way the wind blow."
--The Doors
Far moon in a continuing dream
Steam of roasting tea
--Basho
I was thinking EX-ACTLY the same
♪♫♪♫♫
If you just close your eyes, you can feel the enemy
When I first met you girl you had fire in your soul
What happened your face of melting in snow?
Now it looks like this!
And you can swallow or you can spit
You can throw it up or choke on it
And you can dream so dream out loud
You know that your time is coming round
...dont let the bastards grind you down
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
Stewie: Hm, the end result of a drunken back-seat grope-fest and a broken prophylactic?
Yeah the fact that it opens an album makes it that much better.
I do have to say this one is pretty sweet as well (being as we're on a PJ message board and all)
"The waiting drove me mad. You're finally here and I'm a mess"
no doubt, the best.
QFT.
Suitcase in my hand
-"Sweet Jane" by Velvet Underground
7-6-2006 Las Vegas. 7-20-2006 Portland. 7-22-2006 Gorge. 9-21-2009 Seattle. 9-22-2009 Seattle. 9-26-2009 Ridgefield. 9-25-2011 Vancouver.
11-29-2013 Portland. 10-16-2014 Detroit. 8-8-2018 Seattle. 8-10-2018 Seattle. 8-13-2018 Missoula. 5-10-2024 Portland. 5-30-2024 Seattle.
ahh that might be my choice