I support the sentiment about Nicky Wire and also probably Richey.
No need to compare them to the musical greats.
Its irrelevant.
What matters is the depth and brilliance of their lyrics.
Each well worth looking up.
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I support the sentiment about Nicky Wire and also probably Richey.
No need to compare them to the musical greats.
Its irrelevant.
What matters is the depth and brilliance of their lyrics.
Each well worth looking up.
Actually it was orignally written by Belgian Francophone singer/songwriter Jacques Brel and the English lyrics were written by Rod McKuen. By the way Jacques Brel did die of Cancer in 1978.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
As regards Nicky Wire. Lyrically he gets it right more often than he gets it wrong.
Replicas by Tubeway Army ( Gary Numan's breakthrough album)
began it's life as sci-fi novel. All the songs lyrically were originally chapter headings for an unpublished manuscript. So each song and I am given to understand the running order refers to a would have been chapter in the "book"
Me! I Disconnect from You is chapter 1 etc ....
Jam - Down in the tube station at midnight
Jilted John - Jilted John
Arlo Guthrie - Alice's restaurant
Adverts - Gary Gilmore's eyes
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Carny
Wedding Present - Octopussy
Divine Comedy - Summerhouse
Not stories, but two-way conversations:
Tindersticks - Travelling Light
Jesus & Mary Chain - Sometimes Always
Beautiful South - A little time
Yeah I actually bought that :o - don't think Wakeman took the ice bit too seriously though - he doesn't take life too seriously in general but his album "The six wives of Henry V111 is pretty ok if you like instrumental stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
I think Riick introduces a comedy show on one of the UK satelitte channels and appears on various programmes like Never mind the buzzcocks etc.
He was notorious for playing the same trick again and again with rock journalists in pubs.
RW: "We're playing Myrond tomorrow night."
RJ: "Myrond???"
RW: "Thanks very much - I'll have a double scotch."
One thing I don't like about him - he supports the Tories. :eek:
Terry Jacks is still alive - he was on VH1 programme "One hit wonders", hosted by William Shatner a while ago.
The idiot and his 'nowhere buddy' ( :mad: ) wrote some of the most intelligent in-depth lyrics the rock world ever saw. The music is sometimes a bit much of the same, agreed, but lyrically they're top of the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by D2 Red
And can't help and won't excuse for the way I feel about the other artists mentionned. I am not a Beatles fan, my dad played their whole catalogue for years and I just can't help feeling they're terribly overrated. Musically they need to be credited for sure. Lyrically they're not more than very average. If a lyric like "Yesterday" or "Eleanor Rigby" is amongst their best... Let's just say Nicky Wire writes b-sides better than that :eek:
Superb song, really captures some of the resentment felt by Irish people in Britain during "the troubles"Quote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
Johnny Cash - The Baron, great story about a pool game
Christy Moore - Joxer ;) Need I say any more?
The Pogues - And the band played Waltzing Matilda - brilliant and sad story about an Aussies experience in WW1
Sir Hamish - superb pick! My parents met in the Sound of Music club in Glenamaddy (quite famous in its day) - so this song has always held a particular resonance for me. They grew up in Kilkerrin - not too far from yourself. 60s East Galway was a pretty dire place in terms of entertaiment and the showbands and ballrooms were hugely exciting for my parents generation. Didn't stop them moving to Birmingham though! Also didn't stop them inflicting Big Tom, Brendan Bowyer, Joe Dolan and the Indians on me on a daily basis :DQuote:
Originally Posted by sirhamish
:oQuote:
Originally Posted by davey
How did that slip by until post 53?!?!
Sarcasm or not reading post 23? Which is it to be Stu :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
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Originally Posted by Macy
yep - think the Dunphy book was the source - ie official from U2 I suppose... think Bono took it on for other uses later on....the opportunist/rent a cause twát that he is.
jesus the edge must have had some childhood :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bono
electric co. from boy is about one of their friends getting electro-shock i believe. great great song, edge is amazing in the middle
i think some of these songs dont have stories in them as such as such just represented stories. ie walk on wasnt a story based song just a song with a story behind it .
JILTED JOHN by Jilted John
Classic... Gordon is a Moron! :D
I also think the beatles are overrated but Lennon and McCartney are 5 times the songwriters of the idiot and his nowhere buddy.all there stuff is b-sidesQuote:
Originally Posted by Gerrit
Jaysus, don't remind me of the 60s, I remember the showband scene only too well. :eek: There used to be half mile long queues to the Emerald ballroom here when the bands came. I was in national school at the time and a gang of us used to sneak down there at 9pm to help the band bring in their gear and get free photos and autographs. Sad, very sad but we were too young to know any better. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by davey
Out of curiosity I went to see Big Tom here in Gullanes Hotel in the mid 90s and fcuk all turned up, mostly middle aged married couples. I'll say one thing for him, he has terrible shakes yet he played guitar all night so he's a trooper as they say but his "muisic" :eek: To think he once used to pack out the Galtymore in London once. :confused:
Houstan Wells and the Premier Aces - there was a band.
Sorry you had to endure all that c n r in your younger days - and we think Michael Jackson's kids suffer??? Just kidding.
Conor 74, with the old brain recall goin' to hell in a handcart, what would I do without you - Jongluers that's the one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Conor74
I hereby appoint you Sir Hamish's official memory bank!!! :eek: :D :D
Now, here's your first task - I'm dying for a cuppa - where did I leave the tea bags?? :D
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Originally Posted by sirhamish
Don't apologise Sir Hamish, I did get a reasonable musical education with the likes of The Dubliners, Johnny Cash and errr thats it! Folk and country were all that were played in my house aside from the showband stuff.
I saw Big Tom sans mainliners a few years ago - jesus, the years haven't been kind.
Actually theres a lot to be said for the showband years, socially - not musically. Massive impact in dragging Ireland out of the De Valera years. I actually did my dissertation at Univ on 60s Ireland and social change - amazing how pivotal the Showbands were. Anyway, thats another thread and one that probably wouldn't garner much interest. :o
Anyway, more great story songs
Prince - Sometimes it snows in April
Kenny Rogers - Lucille
Pulp - Babies
[QUOTE=davey]Don't apologise Sir Hamish, I did get a reasonable musical education with the likes of The Dubliners, Johnny Cash and errr thats it! Folk and country were all that were played in my house aside from the showband stuff.
I saw Big Tom sans mainliners a few years ago - jesus, the years haven't been kind.
Actually theres a lot to be said for the showband years, socially - not musically. Massive impact in dragging Ireland out of the De Valera years. I actually did my dissertation at Univ on 60s Ireland and social change - amazing how pivotal the Showbands were. Anyway, thats another thread and one that probably wouldn't garner much interest. :o
Agree with you Davey - check out my Knacky story in terrible jokes thread re the Emerald ballroom - dangerously close to being true.
Another song or two or three
Neil Young - Needle and the damage done
Bob Seger - Horizontal Bop
Dave Edmunds - Crawling from the wreckage
Edmunds is in Glastonbury this year.
Oh sweet jebus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anto McC
I rarely go out of my way to be bothered by music that is imo bad but i think that song sounds absolutely awful.
There's far worse trash out there, but as respectable "grown-up" music goes, the lyrics and especially the music are very poor.
If that's as good as they can do, she's looking at another 20 years.
Walk On was a good U2 tune though.
Leonard Cohen
THE PARTISAN
Quote:
When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.
I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.
An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.
There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.
Les Allemands e'taient chez moi, (The Germans were at my home)
ils me dirent, "Signe toi," (They said, "Sign yourself,")
mais je n'ai pas peur; (But I am not afraid)
j'ai repris mon arme. (I have retaken my weapon.)
J'ai change' cent fois de nom, (I have changed names a hundred times)
j'ai perdu femme et enfants (I have lost wife and children)
mais j'ai tant d'amis; (But I have so many friends)
j'ai la France entie`re. (I have all of France)
Un vieil homme dans un grenier (An old man, in an attic)
pour la nuit nous a cache', (Hid us for the night)
les Allemands l'ont pris; (The Germans captured him)
il est mort sans surprise. (He died without surprise.)
Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.
Walk On isnt a story based song though , its a song with a story behind it .Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
I may have already said that on this thread but couldnt be bothered checking:)
You have.
I was just pointing out that after Unplayed Piano, Suu Kyi was only saved from cranial decoupage by that song.
PM me matey I have their collection Life Full Of Surprises on CD and all the tracks are on my hard drive, let me know what you need.Quote:
Originally Posted by hamish
Leonard was from Montreal hence his knowledge of French ... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by BohsPartisan
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven.
Kenny Rogers - Coward of the County
Jesus I'd hate to let my girlfriend loose on this thread or we'll be talking Joni Mitchell for days. I'll limit myself to 2 songs for every artist, cause I could list Dylan, Bush, Young, and Springsteen songs til the cows come home here Anyway some of my picks are:
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Bruce Springsteen - Devils and Dust
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (not her story I know, but a good song none the less)
Neil Young - Ambulance Blues
Neil Young - Tell Me Why
Joni Mitchell - Chelsea Morning
Joni Mitchell - Last Time I Saw Richard
Daniel Johnston - Life In Vain
Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in The End
Beck - Lost Cause
Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own
Ben Folds - Brick
Ben Folds - The Ascent of Stan
Oh and Britney Spears - Everytime :) , the video for that song is looking more and more disturbing with each passing tabloid scandal :(
Disco 2000 - Pulp
Lola - The Kinks
Polythene Pam - The Beatles
Colin Zeal - Blur
Tracy Jacks - Blur
Poor Jarvis, what was she thinking?Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfie
Most Dylan songs are based on stories such as the Hurricane and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
I like this song but i've a feeling that besides the fact its happened thousands of times, Dylan actually saw this happen himself.
Still tells a story i suppose.
Completely forgot about that. Definitely put that in my favourites.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
most of babyshambles stuff, dirty pretty things, some arctic monkeys
small world... my mum is from Glenamaddy and my dad from Dunmore (they also met in the Sound of Music). Got cousins in Kilkerrin.Quote:
Originally Posted by davey
anyway, best story based song...
the entire Streets album, A Grand Dont Come For Free.
love that album, the story and the concept
Just thought of a few more.
From The Jam's Setting Sons album. (Was going to be a concept album set around a civil war in '80's Britain but the concept was abandoned due to pressure to record the album from the record company).
Thick as Thieves, Burning Sky, Little boy Soldiers, The Eton Rifles, The Wasteland.
5 Minutes by The Stranglers... the incidents related in one of the verses actually happened to one of J.J. Burnel's friends.
My dad was part of that "Revolution" He played in a band called the Ventures who toured the UK, America & Canada (we moved to Canada when I was a baby so that they could pursue this further!) The Ventures had a few hits in the Irish Charts & were kept off the top spot by The Men Behind The Wire with their song "Armoured Tanks etc"Quote:
Originally Posted by hamish
Its how my parents met, he was playin the hotel she was workin in. My first "gigs" were dances my dad was playing at.
Oh and Louis Walsh was their Roadie for a while!!!
Damn You beat me to itQuote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
Great Fans think alike :D
Bob Dylan- Hurricane
Boomtown Rats- I Don't Like Mondays