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Bongwater - Too Much Sleep
OK, I’m calling it: 50% of your suggestions today are completely made up (it is 1 April after all)
Bongwater were quietly great. Some of the stuff they did on comps or tribute albums was superb too.
It’s OK you can stop now: April 1st is over
Look, I believe you, but to save me wasting a couple of hours of my life that I’ll never get back, are we in Gong/Here and Now/Hillage territory?
Look, I believe you, but to save me wasting a couple of hours of my life that I’ll never get back, are we in Gong/Here and Now/Hillage territory?
Nooo. Definitely not.
My friend once borrowed a lawnmower from a former member of Jethro Tull. That’s about as close as I get, I’m afraid.
Anyone done Tiffany yet? (let me rephrase that) anyone mentioned the delights of “I think we’re alone now” yet?
This should be my specialised subject but I’m struggling to come up with anything other than “Only the Lonely” and I’ve got a “The streets were deserted” lyric floating round my head but I haven’t worked out where it comes from yet.
My friend once borrowed a lawnmower from a former member of Jethro Tull. That’s about as close as I get, I’m afraid.
Anyone done Tiffany yet? (let me rephrase that) anyone mentioned the delights of “I think we’re alone now” yet?
This should be my specialised subject but I’m struggling to come up with anything other than “Only the Lonely” and I’ve got a “The streets were deserted” lyric floating round my head but I haven’t worked out where it comes from yet.
We are/were far too cool/pretentious to remember Tiffany :)
Snuff did the absolute very best version of I think we’re alone now
I rest my case:)
My friend once borrowed a lawnmower from a former member of Jethro Tull. That’s about as close as I get, I’m afraid.
Anyone done Tiffany yet? (let me rephrase that) anyone mentioned the delights of “I think we’re alone now” yet?
This should be my specialised subject but I’m struggling to come up with anything other than “Only the Lonely” and I’ve got a “The streets were deserted” lyric floating round my head but I haven’t worked out where it comes from yet.
“The streets were deserted” could be “Robbery, Assault and Battery” by Genesis, or “International Echo” by Elvis Costello.
My contribution to the playlist: soon to be added - “We’ve gotta get out of this place” - the Animals.
Snuff did the absolute very best version of I think we’re alone now
Tiffany version is already in there but I’d suggested as you say Paul but to no avail ...
My friend once borrowed a lawnmower from a former member of Jethro Tull. That’s about as close as I get, I’m afraid.
Anyone done Tiffany yet? (let me rephrase that) anyone mentioned the delights of “I think we’re alone now” yet?
This should be my specialised subject but I’m struggling to come up with anything other than “Only the Lonely” and I’ve got a “The streets were deserted” lyric floating round my head but I haven’t worked out where it comes from yet.“The streets were deserted” could be “Robbery, Assault and Battery” by Genesis, or “International Echo” by Elvis Costello.
My contribution to the playlist: soon to be added - “We’ve gotta get out of this place” - the Animals.
Thanks for that - it was the Genesis track I was thinking of! For the Tiffany track, though I remember the original fondly, it really needs revisiting in the context of the opening scenes of “The Umbrella Academy”.
100 Years of Solitude - The Levellers (would also work if a book title themed list was started)
Prettiest Eyes - It Costs to be Austere
Pumajaw - The Safe Inside
American Anolog Set - The Kindness of Strangers
Twerps - Empty Road
TV on the Radio - New Health Rock
Red Snapper - Don’t Go Nowhere
The Pastels - Nothing to be Done
Pavement - Home
The Postal Service - This Place is a Prison
Julian Cope - Safesurfer
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Out of Reach
Mum - Sing Me Out the Window
Ultra Vivid Scene - Medicating Angels
Primal Scream - Pills
The Raveonettes - Sad Transmission
To be fair have we not just reached the point where you’re listing your entire record collection?
To be fair have we not just reached the point where you’re listing your entire record collection?
Yup, that’s it listed in it’s entirety now.
[ Edited: 3 Apr 2020 at 12:01 am by hkrishna ]My partner has Homes under the Hammer or some such ilk on ion the background and they just played “So Lonely” by The Police. Though I always thought they were singing about Italian Sausages. Altogether now… “Salami, Salami, Salamiiiii”
I’ll get me coat (If I were allowed to go outside, that is!)
Rifling the record boxes of my callow youth (as opposed to my still-callow middle age)
Lonely Is The Word - Black Sabbath
Alone Again Or.. - cover by UFO (original by Love, I think?)
Is There Anybody There - The Scorpions
Never knew that UFO covered Alone Again Or - the Damned also did a cover but I think the original by Arthur Lee’s Love is still the best.
Never knew that UFO covered Alone Again Or - the Damned also did a cover but I think the original by Arthur Lee’s Love is still the best.
You “think” :)
Indisputably classic.
Never knew that UFO covered Alone Again Or - the Damned also did a cover but I think the original by Arthur Lee’s Love is still the best.
You “think” :)
Indisputably classic.
Absolutely no doubt at all - oh god, i’m getting middle aged!
In the light of the school closures and the (potential) length of the crisis perhaps a bit of “Wake me up when September comes” by Green Day is on order?
My partner has Homes under the Hammer or some such ilk on ion the background and they just played “So Lonely” by The Police. Though I always thought they were singing about Italian Sausages. Altogether now… “Salami, Salami, Salamiiiii”
I’ll get me coat (If I were allowed to go outside, that is!)
I believe the officially recognised mondegreen for that one is Sue Lawley
For all who don’t know what ‘mondegreen’ (!) means, have looked it up and it is -
‘a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning.’
Ali Campbell of UB40 once told a story that when the single Food For Thought was released, when out and about, he often heard people singing the first words in the opening line as I’m a prima donna, or I Marie and Donna, when it’s actually Ivory Madonna.
By the way, I didn’t know what mondegreen meant either.
The spoken word equivalent is an eggcorn. They work best when the misheard version kind of works anyway - “kiss this guy” in Purple Haze being the textbook mondegreen, although hkrishna will probably have some better examples from his Squelchferret remastered box set or somehwere.
Bob Marley - Is this Love: “...with the roof right over our heads.” My sister used to sing “...with the roof rack over our heads” and get very annoyed when I tried to correct her
Oh and my other half used to think that Bohemian Rhapsody included the lyric “Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard”
[ Edited: 3 Apr 2020 at 05:10 pm by BC Welfare Rights ]Perhaps we need a separate mondegreen / eggcorn thread? I remember Ooooh Gary Davies always had a “twisted lyrics” section in his popular afternoon radio broadcast. Too long ago for me to remember any classics… Bit then there were also the TV ads for a brand of tapes which focussed on “Into the Valley” (“peas sure sound divine”) “Swords of a Thousand Men” (“We’re gonna have a barrel of fudge”), The Israelite (e.g. “Me ears are alight”) and a Bob Dylan number which I can’t remember what track or any lyrics from.
Fill your boots 😊
This was my joyous earworm over the weekend, kind of appropriate title at least.