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| Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine – Sheriff Fatman Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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More aliases than Klaus Barbie
Nazi war criminal and head of Gestapo in Lyon, France during the war. Escaped to South America in 1945 with the help of American OSS (fore-runner of CIA) who created several fake identities for him in order to evade capture. Repatriated to France in 1983 to stand trial.
He colluded with the OSS to finger other Nazis such as Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann |
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| Echo and the Bunnymen – The Cutter Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It just makes me think of the Bunnymen's trip to Iceland to play a few gigs in Rekjavik. On their return, Ian McCulloch said of the Icelanders "Everyone was blotto [drunk] and the place smelled of eggy boffs"
Niiiice! |
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| Gerry And The Pacemakers – Ferry 'cross The Mersey Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I am just grateful I don't work on that effing ferry!
I work about 50 yards from the Liverpool ferry terminal at the Pier Head, and I hear the blessed song through the open office windows. I'm just glad that people still commute to work on it - even if the train under the river is much quicker |
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| Mountain – Nantucket Sleigh Ride Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This has got absolutely nothing to do with drugs. Mr Starbuck was first mate on the Pequod - the whaling ship in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.
The Nantucket Sleighride of the title is how whalers referred to their boats being dragged along behind a harpooned whale.
Kinda pisses on your drugs theory, doesn't it? |
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| Flying Burrito Brothers – Sin City Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It demonstrates the difference between country rock and country & western. There's a long distance between Bakersfield and Nashville, and a musical gulf between Parsons and Parton. |
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| Rush – Bastille Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Dear God - much as I like Rush, the words to this song STINK!
Every time I hear them it makes me think they were written by a high school kid. They're so ...immature. |
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| The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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My late uncle was a priest at a parish in the Old Swan district of Liverpool at the time this record was released. Every time I hear it, i'm reminded of visits to the bleak presbytery he lived in next to the church. It was always in the shade - a sepia, cold sandstone building where the lights were always on indoors.
If it wasn't for his gregarious sense of humour, the visits would have been an ordeal...... |
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| Bee Gees – Jive Talking Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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According to Robin Gibb, the unusual rhythm throughout this song was inspired by the sound made by a car as it drove over a wooden bridge near to his home in Florida |
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| Ian Dury And The Blockheads – Sweet Gene Vincent Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Gene Vincent was from Norfolk, Virginia and enlisted in the US Navy - hence the reference to the "Skinny White Sailor" with the "Virginia whisper".
"Who slapped John" was Dury's favourite Gene Vincent song. |
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| The Rolling Stones – Mixed Emotions Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Keef always maintained that he sang the chorus as "You're not the only one, to get Mick's demotion".
A barbed comment about Jagger's assertion that he was the leader of the band (Richard believed that the band was led by Brian Jones....) |
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| Jethro Tull – Fylingdale Flyer Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Fylingdale Moor, North Yorkshire, was the former home of Britain's missile early warning system. Three giant golf ball-shaped domes dominated the skyline for miles around, and were the source of Britain's "four minute warning" of impending nuclear attack |
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| The Pogues – And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Suvla Bay was the landing beach for Anzac forces during the 1915 Gallipoli campaign. Poor intelligence and non-existent maps meant that the "diggers" had little chance of achieving their pre-determined military objectives, and the whole thing degenerated into a stalemate. As many troops were killed by dysentery as by Turkish bullets...... |
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| Stiff Little Fingers – Alternative Ulster Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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SLF broke a taboo with this song. Until this point, artists and groups from Northern Ireland had drawn a discreet veil over "The Troubles", and the controversy the song caused was significant. Within weeks of the album "Inflammable Material" being released, Mountbatten was murdered at Mullaghmore, and the rest of the UK shook their collective heads and despaired of a solution to the "Irish Question" |
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| The Proclaimers – Letter From America Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Strathnaver" by Colin Campbell is a song about the Highland Clearances, and I think this song makes more of a parallel between the enforced clearances of the 18th/19th centuries, and the systematic decimation of Scottish heavy industry under the Thatcher government.
Either way, it's bloody heartbreaking..... |
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| Midnight Oil – Maralinga Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song really rattles me. Maralinga was the site for British Atomic Tests in the 50s and 60s, and it appalls me to think of the damage that was wreaked by a programme that was eventually to prove pointless.
It was reported by scientists on the site that when they went to investigate Ground Zero for many tests, they discovered Aborigines camping in the craters caused by the explosions codenamed "Kittens" "Rats" "Vixens" or "Tims".
For further information on testing Britain's bomb, I recommend the book "Fields of Thunder" by Denis Blakeway and Sue Lloyd-Roberts.
Thank god for bands like Midnight Oil |
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| Icehouse – Great Southern Land Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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That song SHOULD be Australia's national anthem - to hear that played at the Olympics would be great.
Iva Davies wished Australia a happy 200th birthday with this song. Perfect |
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| The Scaffold – Lily The Pink Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Many years ago I came across an advertisement for Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable [medicinal] Compound.
Roger McGough said that the song was originally sung after rugby matches at his old school, St Mary's College in Crosby, and he "adapted" it for the Scaffold. |
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