Thank You Scotland (Personal Nostalgia Thread)
 

For Mark Knopfler - I didn't know he was a 'Weagie' :D

One of the most talented musicians of all time in my opinion. Dire Straits takes me back, they were my Dad's favourite band and his favourite song was Romeo and Juliet. It was the first real concert I went to, my Dad took me to see Dire Straits at the Bruce Stadium in Canberra for my birthday just before I left to join the Army, it's one of my last memories of him. I've just been listening to it remembering him so I thought I'd share the lyrics of an excellent song for all the rest of you Dire Straits fans. I know there's a few here.

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

Juliet says hey it's Romeo you nearly gimme a heart attack
He's underneath the window she's singing hey la my boyfriend's back
You shouldn't come around here singing up at people like that
Anyway what you gonna do about it?

Juliet the dice were loaded from the start
And I bet and you exploded in my heart
And I forget I forget the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

Come up on different streets they both were streets of shame
Both dirty both mean yes and the dream was just the same
And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything you promised me thick and thin
Now you just say oh Romeo yeah you know I used to have a scene with him

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die
There's a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong?

I can't do the talk like they talk on TV
And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be
I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you
I can't do anything except be in love with you

And all I do is miss you and the way we used to be
All I do is keep the beat and bad company
All I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme
Julie I'd do the stars with you any time

Juliet when we made love you used to cry
You said I love you like the stars above I'll love you till I die
And there's a place for us you know the movie song
When you gonna realise it was just that the time was wrong Juliet?

A lovestruck Romeo sings a streetsuss serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

In fact I love the entire Making Movies album, would have to be some of their best work.

:)

You are not well!!!!!!!!!!

:lol:

Yeah, it was a pretty good album but, personally, I still prefer the first one. I think they went down hill fast after Making Movies though...two great albums then a load of overblown dross (just my opinion)

Good choice Tony.

Telegraph Road in my top 5 list.

Mark Knopfler writes such fantastic lyrics.

'Through these fields of destruction,
Baptisms of fire,
I've witnessed you suffering,
As the battles raged higher.'

I'm showing my age! Name that song.

Great post Tony - I could read the lyrics and couldnt help but remember the melody and good times from the past too.

You deserve a video young man......enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3n2wXEFeLI

Frank

Brothers In Arms ;)

What do I win? (I've got a brother already, and some arms, can I have an Inn?)

You're going to have to do much better than that. You and I have played this game already with Pink Floyd songs and you couldn't get me ;)

I like old people's music, it's great :D

Thanks Frank, that's really very nice of you.

:D

:o :o :o :lol:

'I like old people's music, it's great'.
Skippy - the jury is out on your claim to be, erm, a nipper. So it's quite understandable you'd like the music you grew up with .......
I seem to remember we were both rather pi*sed when we had the last 'name that Pink Floyd line' session. I demand a rematch!
Dom - you can have an 'inn'. I'm sure Skippy would accommodate.

I think Skippy would bankrupt me!! :lol:

Oooh! Miaow!!!

30 years old is hardly a nipper! I feel old enough as it is! I'll be 31 later this year!!!

I can thank my hippy uncle (well I would if he'd come out of the rainforest so we knew where he was!) for my appreciation of 'previous generations of music'

Ok so we were inebriated, but I don't know if you deserve another shot at the title just yet ;)

Have you been in training? :p

Plenty of training at getting inebriated, thank you for asking. I was only practicing last night.

Ok then whats this lyric from? Theres some easy clues in the lyrics.

Line and limpid green
a second scene,
A fight between the blue
you once knew.
Floating down the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn Oberon Miranda
And Titania Neptune Titan
Stars can frighten...

Blinding signs flap flicker flicker flicker
Blam pow pow
Stairway scare Dan Dare who's there...

Lime and limpid green
The sound surrounds the icy waters under
Lime and limpid green
The surrounds the icy waters
Underground

:lol:

Well, get inebriated listening to Pink Floyd and you'll improve your chances! :frog:

Cheeky aren't I ;)

Oooh, that was a good one from an early and not so popular album.

Astronomy Domine

Who wrote it?

And what song did he famously inspire?

I assume it would be syd barrett? No doubt I,m wrong. But if thats correct I can only assume the song you refer to would be S,O,Y,C,D?

Correct on both counts :D

I guess my last question kind of gave it away for the fans.

My Mum and Dad bought me a copy of Relics in the early 70s when I was perhaps about 6 or 7 years old. Use to listen to it constantly along with teh Beatles White Album. I think we had 6 Lps in the house back then and I had to compete with Shirley Bassey, Ray Coniff? Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdink. Heard See Emily Play on the radio yesterday which brought it all back. I wonder how Blur got away with releasing 'theres no other way' its the same song!

Err, your parents had 'eclectic' taste in music. :lol:

Damn good move giving you Relics so young! My eldest boy is in to David Bowie at the moment - he's 10!

And Blur - well, dunno but it was pretty damn cheeky!

I'd be into David Bowie given half a chance

Yup, they started buying cassettes of all sorts of **** as time went on. I think they used to go to some sort of Cash & Carry place where they had a limited selection of music. Later on they would come home with Stylistics and such like cassettes but they would always be something for me. I remember getting a T rex album which changed my life music wise. I actually wore the tape out in about 6 months. Then I got Deep Purple 'In Rock' and a few similar albums. Then the Punk thing started and me and my mates would between us buy 1 single a week and share it!

Biting my tongue hard here!!!

'Its one o clock and its time for lunch, dum de dum de dum'





The clocks ticking Tony (no this isn't part of the lyrics)

Bowies Space Oddity was the inspiration for me, then into Dolls/Velvets and punk, aahh, wonderful times. Did you never tape John Peel on a night Martin??

I think you've bloody got me!!! You bastid!

I can't quite place it - Dark Side of the Moon ... hrmmm... ok, I'm off to look it up!

:(

No wonder you've gotten me - it's not from a Pink Floyd song!!

Genesis - I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe

"It's one o'clock and time for lunch,
When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench,
I can always hear them talk.

etc etc"

Here

Cheeky bastid!

i know band/singer but not the track, does that count??


too late TP got it :)

Well done, but i reckon you cheated and used the intanurd.

I never said it was Floyd.

OK who sung

'Alan Shearers illegimate,
he has got no birth certificate,
he's got aids and wouldn't admit,
dirty black and white basket.'

A load of Makams at any Tyne/Wear derby?? :D :D

Yes I cheated - I said I was off to look it up!

I'm not surprised though, Genesis never really floated my boat - I was too young ;)

Very entertaining indeed knowing that there are still loads of us listening to classic rock - but I dont like being reminded of how old I am by youngozwhippersnappers.
I've recently been buying cd versions of vinyl that I havnt been able to play for decades too !
Heres some more to get you going !
'All around my hat I will wear the green willow ...'
and
'Sitting on a park bench - eying little girls with bad intent ...'
and
'Long distance runaround ...'

Ha!!!

How about this Shaun, while you were listening to Genesis I was listening to an album called - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables.

Name me the band, and for extra points and comedic value tell me what the lead singers name was!

:D

The Dead Kennedys !








of course I cheated !

the track listings from their albums do make them look very intriguing tho - must have a lime for them soon :)

Are you going for the bonus points?

The same band who almost had a hiyt with Holiday in Cambodia and also sang such charming songs as i kill children.

And not i didn't use the internet.



















I asked our resident office nurd.:lol: coz i was clueless.



Spot on Gizmo with the answer to my other question

Ha!!

That song was on the Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables album, well done.

They *may* have had a few issues, check out the lyrics!

HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA
So you been to school for a year or two / And you know you’ve seen it all / In daddy’s car, thinkin’ you’ll go far / Back east your type don’t crawl / Play ethnincky jazz to parade you snazz / On your five grand stereo / Braggin’ that you know how the ******s feel the cold / And the slum’s got so much soul / It’s time to taste what you most fear / Right Guard will not help you here / Brace yourself, my dear… / It’s a holiday in Cambodia / It’s tough, kid, but it’s life / It’s a holiday in Cambodia / Don’t forget to pack a wife / You’re a star-belly sneech, you suck like a leech / You want everyone to act like you / Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich / While your boss gets richer off you / Well you’ll work harder with a gun in your back / For a bowl of rice a day / Slave for soldiers ‘til you starve / Then your head is skewered on a stake / Now you can go where people are one / Now you go where they get things done / What you need, my son… / Is a holiday in Cambodia / Where people dress in black / A holiday in Cambodia / Where you’ll kiss ass or crack / Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, etc…. / And it’s a holiday in Cambodia / Where you’ll do what you’re told / A holiday in Cambodia / Where the slums got so much soul

Jello Biafra :o


They've really really got me interested now !


Amazon.co.uk Review
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death is an essential collection of odds, sods, classic singles and non-album rarities from the Dead Kennedys. Heavily socio-political punk forerunners of the 1980's US Hardcore scene, San Francisco's notorious anarcho-satirists The Dead Kennedys were probably the most comic and influential troupe of insurrectionists in the history of American popular music--just ask the pro-censorship lobby. As evidenced by such songs as "Holiday In Cambodia" and "California Uber Alles"--both included here--nobody could beat them for shock value. And although it all ended in tears--and in court, several times--the righteously rabid diatribes of singer Jello Biafra still continue to pack a punch. For anyone unfamiliar as to why certain institutions kept files on them (the DK's were no friends of organised religion, big business, racial intolerance and American high school sports coaches) well, it's all right here. For sheer prescience, for example, how about the early LAPD inspired b-side "Police Truck" (all together now, "Going downtown gonna beat up drunks") which tackled the subject of lawlessly thuggish, baton-happy cops years before the controversy--and riots--surrounding the Rodney King incident. --Kevin Maidment
Description
If you could only own a single Dead Kennedys' album, your best bet would be 1987's 17-track compilation GIVE ME CONVENIENCE OR GIVE ME DEATH. Collecting the controversial quartet's best-known tracks as well as scattered oddities, CONVENIENCE is the ultimate Dead Kennedys set. The Dead Kennedys are categorised by singer/activist Jello Biafra's biting political commentary, the group's unwillingness to takes themselvestoo seriously, and some of the most memorable punk-pop of all-time (music that influenced such future chart-toppers as Green Day and the Offspring). Highlights include such punk anthems as "Police Truck", "Too Drunk to ****", "California Uber Alles", and "Holiday in Cambodia", plus the hilarious stage improv "Night of the Living Rednecks".