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« Reply #45 on: February 02, 2004, 06:44:11 pm »
Confession: I had not heard "Muskrat Love" or read the lyrics until now.

Fact: TERRIFYING. Especially the line about "jingin' the jango" (?! Please tell me this is not a Django allusion) and the verse at which point it becomes explicitly about muskrats having sex.

I was going to post a line from a pretentious electro-prog song about orbiting above Venus, but it can't compare. Jesus!
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« Reply #46 on: February 02, 2004, 09:38:00 pm »
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Confession: I had not heard "Muskrat Love" or read the lyrics until now.


Ditto. I've never heard McArthur Park either. I only ever hear of these songs as examples of badness. And not in the late '80's sense of the word
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« Reply #47 on: February 03, 2004, 10:11:56 pm »
Going back to Billy Braggm I was reminded of Bill Bailey's fine Billy Bragg style song, and figured I should add the lyrics, semi-OT here, as they are so fine. Kinda lacks the fantastic impression, but still...

I use to buy my chips,
from an oppressive chipshop regime,
the girl who worked there seemed happy but I knew it was not what it seemed.
And do you want salt and vinegar, was what they made her say,
but in the language of the ghetto, that means Help I'm a woman in chains.
I wanted to free her, in my dreams I would see her,
running naked through the woods 'round Rainham, if I had some tiger's I'd train 'em...
...to protect her, from the sexual fascism that was lurkin' round the gherkins.
I'd lean across the counter, and we would talk.
I carved the name Debbie on a little wooden fork.
But into the shop came a skinhead gang, they snatched the fork, from my hand.
Debbie she looked at me, to ascert my masculinity I said 'Oi', they said 'What?'
I said '...nothing'.
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« Reply #48 on: February 04, 2004, 05:43:21 am »
I had a look at the Rules and Regulations, and none of them seemed to have an opinion one way or the other on posting a link to an on-topic mp3 hosted on my own webspace; the Core Rules of Netiquette were similarly ambiguous, but I got the impression that it was acceptable, provided that I did not "scroll" the screen, or "spam" and "flame" my fellow "cybernauts" like a common "scoundrel". With that in mind: Bill Bailey's "Unisex Chip Shop".

If it turns out I am flagrantly disobeying a rule that I misread, or even one that just falls under the heading of plain old common sense, I'd be more than happy to get rid of the whole unnecessary outburst above, link included, and leave only this contribution to the real topic:

And I try
Oh my God, do I try
I try all the time
In this institution

And I pray
Oh my God, do I pray
I pray every single day*
For a revolution

And I say hey, yeah, yeah, hey
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said hey
What's going on?

* Well, it sure sounded like "I pray for things all day" to me. For the last decade or so. Psh.
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« Reply #49 on: February 04, 2004, 05:50:48 am »
Well, you're just violating international copyright law.  I wouldn't allow you to post it here, but of course you may *link* to anything you'd like.
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« Reply #50 on: February 04, 2004, 01:04:15 pm »
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Well, you're just violating international copyright law.  I wouldn't allow you to post it here, but of course you may *link* to anything you'd like.


I really shouldn't think it a big deal linking to Bill Bailey - he hasn't actually got anything that you can buy anywhere but his gigs, including those songs. And well frankly, he wouldn't complain about internet sharing of his stuff.
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« Reply #51 on: February 04, 2004, 02:45:58 pm »
That song is a hoot.  Who is this Bill Bailey?  I looked at his website but it doesn't quite clear it up.... And is Billy Bragg famous enough in the UK for someone to spoof him and most people will get it?
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« Reply #52 on: February 04, 2004, 04:01:26 pm »
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That song is a hoot.  Who is this Bill Bailey?  I looked at his website but it doesn't quite clear it up.... And is Billy Bragg famous enough in the UK for someone to spoof him and most people will get it?


Well, Bill Bailey is a comedian, who has appeared for a long time live as a musical comedian, since he is a classically trained pianist, and accomplished guitarrist. He also appears on C4's (written by Graham Linehan and Dylan Moran) Black Books, which is also superb.
I really like Bailey, and have seen him a few times live now. He is well worth seeing.
As far as Billy Bragg being well known enough to spoof, he is by the right type, of whom Bailey is. He isn't all that old, but he is more than versed in the kinds of culture that include Billy Bragg.
Anyone who really wants copies of both the CD of various spoof songs (including Tom Waits' Three Blind Mice, and the cockney style Best of Rock album sampler) as well as a recording of him in New York can ask me and I shall send, since as I say, getting these CDs anywhere but a gig is nigh on impossible.
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« Reply #53 on: February 04, 2004, 05:14:21 pm »
Hahaha, god, I think I'm going to play this for my brother as a real Billy Bragg song. The voice is pretty close, but the lyrics are spot on.
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« Reply #54 on: February 05, 2004, 03:22:28 pm »
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And I say hey, yeah, yeah, hey
Hey, yeah, yeah
I said hey
What's going on?


Oh damn. Somehow, I had managed to forget about 4 Non fuck*ng Blondes. I don't see how I could have forgotten (What is a drinking habit? CORRECT FOR $400) seeing as that was actually the first CD I ever bought. Roast Beef's not the only one with completely fuck*ng embarrassing Tales of Youth.

Morphine & Chocolate are my
Substitute, substitutes
Morphine & Chocolate can bring me up
Can warm my heart whenever I want it
...
Morphine & Chocolate could never
Substitute my art !
And that's real love baby X3

THIS HAS BEEN A LIFETIME NETWORK PRESENTATION OF "TRAINSPOTTING"

Oh please Mr. President will you lend me a future
'Cause you'll just get it back
From the little blind woman
With the kid on the corner
And the people all over, doin' crack

EDGY AND RELEVANT OMG

There are more but I literally cannot bear to go through them. They're not just comically bad; they shit in your living, beating heart.
AND THAT'S REAL LOVE BABY
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« Reply #55 on: February 05, 2004, 04:10:06 pm »
What with my shockingly terrible memory, I can't really remember any of the songs I have complained about before lyrically, and all the stuff I have is fairly safe both musically and lyrically.
However I think Smaching Pumpkins tend to have lyrics that I despair about, what with Corgan being pretty retarded and very pretentious.

Then of course there's Keidas' lyrics for the Chili Peppers. They're not stupid or dumb, they just never make any fuck*ng sense.
Well, OK, to read they are pretty dumb but they don't come across too bad on the records since they just don't make sense.
But, go on, read these and see how bad they are in writing...
Zephyr Song
By The Way
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« Reply #56 on: February 05, 2004, 05:20:45 pm »
Doodle doodle ding a zing a dong bone,
Ba-di ba-da zumba crunga cong dong gong.
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« Reply #57 on: February 05, 2004, 05:37:26 pm »
one-quarter of George Washington's head
half of George Washington's head
three-quarters of George Washington's head
ALL of George Washington's head

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« Reply #58 on: February 05, 2004, 09:05:06 pm »
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subtle TMBG bashing


*"you just got called down to the principal's office"-style "ooooh..."*
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« Reply #59 on: February 05, 2004, 09:35:22 pm »
TMBG has many dumb lyrics provided you're willing to issue the caveat "works perfectly in musical context." This is what I let Them get away with, and I apply the same to pre-Document R.E.M., where the lyrics were generally marvelous and incoherent. ("Swan Swan H" is the pinnacle of this -- a song which is more or less perfect and tells an entirely sensical story without any of the lyrics at any point making any literal sense.)

Another example of this is Circumstantial Evidence, which is in general a high-quality breakup song but features a lot of lines like this:

And these goddamn pizza crusts all over
They don't taste so bad
Preservatives, I guess

It ends with a line that is absolutely fantastic in context but stupid otherwise:

And the underwear
With your name on them
Tell your mother I said hi
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