| The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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From a 2015 interview with Alan Parsons, where he confirms he did not have any major part in writing the Alan Parsons Project songs: Well, Eric Woolfson of course was my principal collaborator with the Alan Parsons Project. We were a two-man team. Eric was the principal songwriter and lyric writer, and I would occasionally pop in with a line or two. I was much more involved in the instrumental contributions to our Project albums. I've become reasonably good at lyric writing in recent years, but back in the day, Eric was the main lyric writer. In the same interview, he asked about several songs and says "I don't know what Eric meant by that". Here's a link too the interview: https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/alan-parsons |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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@[poxypoxy:36162] You have to turn all kinds of cartwheels to interpret a song climaxing with the verse: Through all the doubt somehow they knew And stone by stone they built it high Until the sun broke through A ray of hope, a shining light Ammonia Avenue as a morbid, negative song about death! The conclusion of the song doesn't fit in with your morbid, rotting away theory so you say you don't understand what it means and discount it entirely! I'm glad you "like to think about people begging for their lives" – I mean, whatever floats your boat. If it makes you happy, who am I to judge. Reading your interpretation was worse than death for me. I've never been so revolted and repulsed by a person's world view. "Ammon" is a Hebrew word for a builder, a teacher or a creator. Avenue is a path. "Stone by stone they built it high." It fits. |
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| The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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The song was not written by Alan Parsons; it was written by Eric Woolfson. That information has been out there for almost 30 years, and it has been confirmed by Parsons. In a 1990 interview with Eric Woolfson in the liner notes to a two CD best-of compilation authorized by Alan Parsons, Woolfson said that over all the albums he wrote, "95% of the music and 100% of the lyrics." Parsons sometimes would suggest changes in structure, moving an instrumental to a different part of the song, and other basic changes when Woolfson presented the songs to him. Parsons co-wrote the instrumental pieces like "Sirius" with Woolfson, but he is listed as co-writer on all the songs because, after all, this is the Alan Parsons Project. So the responses that talk about Parsons' spirituality are irrelevant. This song was very personal to Eric Woolfson, who was Jewish. I don't know what his personal beliefs were, but the Jewish religion has no concept of Hell. It's not a thing. This is a song about faith, not about death. Ammonia Avenue is about finding faith and finding your own peace with it. |
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| The Grass Roots – The Runway Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Powered by Lyric Find - the largest database of verified and vetted lyrics. This comical version of "The Runway":is everywhere you look. About a quarter of the lines are completely wrong having not even one word of the actual lyric. You can get the sheet music all over the internet to find out the real lyrics. What a sad joke. | |
| The Grass Roots – The Runway Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Powered by Lyric Find - the largest database of verified and vetted lyrics. This comical version of "The Runway":is everywhere you look. About a quarter of the lines are completely wrong having not even one word of the actual lyric. You can get the sheet music all over the internet to find out the real lyrics. What a sad joke. | |
| The Grass Roots – Lovin' Things Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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By your side I'm gonna stay To hear the lovin' things Baby that you say It's the lovin' things we share That assure me how you care Our friends called us a perfect pair For the lovin' things Baby that we share |
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| The Grass Roots – River Is Wide Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Song was written by Gary Knight and B. Admire. Zekley and Bottler wrote "Wait A Million Years" and "Sooner or Later" | |
| The Grass Roots – Runway Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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I'm gonna get aboard a big white bird Waitin' at the end of the line Who needs that when I'm sittin' here chewin' Popcorn smothered in blues Operator wake me at seven |
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| Buoys – Timothy Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[thethreedguy:35341] "God what did we do?" A little too upset about killing a mule, don't you think? The "mule" was a spin by the record company to get stations that didn't want to play it to play it. The songwriter Rupert Holmes and the group The Buoys always were honest about it being about cannibalism. | |
| The Four Tops – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| The song was written by Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason, not Cook and Greenaway. | |
| The Four Tops – Keeper of the Castle Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Dennis Lambert wanted to write a song about a sensitive subject: black men taking responsibility for children they help bring into the world even if they are not married to or in a relationship with the mother. He asked Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, Jr. how he felt about the idea for a pop song and he liked it. So Lambert wrote it with his partner Brian Potter. First big hit for the Tops in a while. | |
| The Four Tops – Keeper of the Castle [Live] Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Dennis Lambert wanted to write a song about a sensitive subject: black men taking responsibility for children they help bring into the world even if they are not married to or in a relationship with the mother. He asked Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, Jr. how he felt about the idea for a pop song and he liked it. So Lambert wrote it with his partner Brian Potter. First big hit for the Tops in a while. | |
| Steely Dan – FM (No Static at All) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[rodsjazzystyle:8508] The vinyl version of "Gold" is the ONLY place that version with the guitar solo ending has appeared. The original appearance on the "FM" soundtrack used the sax ending, and the actual single used a shortened version of the sax ending. I, too, prefer the guitar ending. There is a clear version of it on a YouTube video. | |
| Steely Dan – FM (No Static at All) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[taverner:8507] The guy doesn't care what's playing at the time because he's only using the music to get in the girls' pants. It's the GIRLS that truly don't care what's on the radio - a statement repeated twice in the song and stressed through rhythm, backup singers and volume. I'd have to say that's an important point the Dan is trying to make. Also misleading in this erroneous version is he is not asking the radio to give "us" some funked-up music, but directing men to give "her" that music. These seemingly small differences from the real lyrics make HUGE differences in the interpretations of the meaning of this song. | |
| Steely Dan – FM (No Static at All) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Some of these lyrics are wrong. Most importantly, and you must listen carefully, it's "give HER some funked-up music" and "feed HER some hungry reggae". Not "us" - it is strictly about the effect of the music on the girls. "Us" also implies that they are both consumers of the music subject to the radio station's whims; "her" shows that these are seduction methods being offered to men by the cynical narrator. Also, he doesn't sing "Muzak", but "music". Muzak is a registered trademark, and its use would have incurred the same flurry of copyright notices and disclaimers on the album that Paul Simon did when he used "Kodachrome", even though he said very nice things about it and gave Kodak a free multi-million selling ad. |
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| Steely Dan – My Old School Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[bilhuf:8500] Sorry, meant THIRD person/second. Another thing, he's "gonna take HER down to Mexico" and "SHE said 'Guadalahara won't do" (now) ... Anyway, I'm more confused than ever (now) | |
| Steely Dan – My Old School Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[bilhuf:8499] Love your analysis, but it's a little shaky around the first person/second person area. I still don't understand why there is a you and a she in there, but agree they're referring to different people. But the third person being Bard College falls apart with "Oleanders growing outside her door/Soon they're gonna be in bloom up in Annandale". The "her" can't refer to Bard College, because her door is obviously somewhere south of Annandale, the location of Bard. I don't have an alternate theory, but yours doesn't work. |
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| Steely Dan – FM (No Static at All) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I also always thought this song was a bit misogynistic. It's saying that girls don't really give a damn about music in the way that guys do. While guys pride themselves on their record collections and their knowledge about the artists, songs, musicians, composers, producers, labels, etc., girls respond to music with their emotions and bodies. They rarely read liner notes and don't bother to read the credits beyond the track listing. I have asked literally dozens of girls and almost none of them know what the names in parentheses below the song title are even referring to. But I have to say that from my experience with girls and women, the great majority of them really don't care about the artists except whether they're cute or not, and don't care about the music except the way it makes them feel. Now I am saying MOST girls. Certainly not all girls are this way, especially, of course, songwriters, singers and musicians. Some women really are interested and knowledgeable about music. But most of them wouldn't know Robert "Mutt" Lang from Marmaduke or Snoopy. |
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| Steely Dan – FM (No Static at All) Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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At last somebody gets the meaning of the "no static at all" line. You should see some of the highfalutin, convoluted interpretations I've read! Total BS about it symbolizing corporate takeover of the FM radio format. (That's what the film is about.) Here, it means you'll get no problems from the girl - no static - if you make a move on her, as long as you set the mood with the music on the radio. It's also, of course, a double entendre on what made the FM band attractive to listeners - AM radio always has a lot of static, but FM has virtually "no static at all". |
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