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| 1362.1 | Dont ask me what EC is on about. | CHEFS::PANES | DECattrition the tool of the 90s | Tue Aug 20 1996 09:12 | 14 |
| "somewhere out there in the quisling clinic
theres a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes"
Just one example of the tricky wordplay of the very fabulous Elvis
Costello...unfortunately I haven't got time to type in the whole
of his repertoire.
I also like the fun punnery of Carter , and the Only Living Boy in New Cross
brings a tear to my eye.
A Romantic
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| 1362.2 | | CHEFS::UKARCHIVING | for once in my file | Tue Aug 20 1996 09:41 | 9 |
| I've always been fond of the following couplet from pen of one of the
brothers Gallagher...
"Slowly walking down the hall
faster than a cannonball"
erm?
dickie.
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| 1362.3 | | CHEFS::UKARCHIVING | for once in my file | Tue Aug 20 1996 09:57 | 74 |
| or for our older readers from ELO's Time album...
This whole lyric has immense class...
2095, 2095, 2095, 2095
I love you, sincerely
Yours truly, yours truly...
I sent a message to another time
But as the days unwind, this I just can't believe
I sent a note across another plane
Maybe it's all a game, but this I just can't conceive.
Can you hear me?
I drive the very latest hovercar
I don't know where you are
But I miss you so much till then
I met someone who looks a lot like you
She does the things you do
But she is an IBM.
2095, 2095, 2095, 2095
I love you, sincerely
Yours truly, yours truly...
She's only programmed to be very nice
But she's as cold as ice
Whenever I get too near
She tells me that she likes me very much
But when I try to touch
She makes it all too clear.
She is the latest in technology
Almost mythology
But she has a heart stone
She has an I.Q. of 1001
She has a jumpsuit on
And she's also a telephone.
2095, 2095, 2095, 2095
I love you, sincerely
Yours truly, yours truly...
Yours truly, yours truly...
CHORUS:
Is that what you want? (Is it what you want?)
Is it what you really want? (Is it what you really want?)
Is that what you want? (Is it what you want?)
Is it what you really want?
I realize that it must seem so strange
That time has rearranged
But time has the final word
She knows I think of you, she reads my mind
She tries to be unkind
She knows nothing of our world
Although her memory banks overflow
No one would ever know
For all she says: "Is that what you want?"
Maybe one day I'll feel her cold embrace
And kiss her interface
'Til then, I'll leave her alone.
I love you, sincerely
Yours truly, yours truly...
REPEAT CHORUS:
"Is that what you want?"
I think you will agree, quite brilliant.
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| 1362.4 | Bloody Spice Girls...... | WOTVAX::STONEG | Temperature Drop in Downtime Winterland.... | Tue Aug 20 1996 10:20 | 11 |
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CHORUS:
>> Is that what you want? (Is it what you want?)
>> Is it what you really want? (Is it what you really want?)
>> Is that what you want? (Is it what you want?)
>< Is it what you really want?
....I knew I'd heard those lyrics before !
G.
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| 1362.5 | | RIOT02::SUMMERFIELD | Sic Transit Gloria Mundi | Tue Aug 20 1996 13:10 | 8 |
| I'd like to second the nominations for Carter and good old Declan. I'd
also add Shane McGowan, especially for the line...
You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot
In a Fairytale of New York. Now, that's my kind of Christmas song.
Balders
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| 1362.6 | Good work Fella!!!! | VYGER::CAIRNSM | | Tue Aug 20 1996 18:30 | 10 |
|
Going back to Elvis Costello,who could fault the man who wrote in
Olivers Army,
And I would rather be anywhere else than here today!
Hands up if you've ever sang that to yourself during an absolute
pants day..
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| 1362.7 | Monday Morning | CHEFS::CONNELLA | Now is not the time to cry | Wed Aug 21 1996 09:16 | 5 |
| Why live in the world when you can live in your head.. Pulp
Andrea
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| 1362.8 | | CHEFS::PANES | Norfolk - the English Provence | Wed Aug 21 1996 09:19 | 6 |
| re. 6
Don't start me talking , I can talk all night.
Stuart
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| 1362.9 | Oh how I miss 'em | CHEFS::ASHLEYSMITH | They think it's pavlova..... | Wed Aug 21 1996 15:10 | 23 |
| The Three Johns' "Bulshitiaco" starts,
'I sing with the voice of a donkey,
I sing with the lungs of a motorbike,
I know a little holiday paradise,
and Johnny Rotten is it's name'
& ends,
'If you don't get paid you an '-ist',
like a communist, a capatalist or an anarchist,
like an artist...
'If your lucky enough to get paid your are an '-er'
like a worker, like a washer...and a washer is
part of a tap.'
No idea what thats all about but for some reason it has always
stuck in my mind.
Andy
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| 1362.10 | ....REALITY CALLING.... | VYGER::CAIRNSM | | Wed Aug 21 1996 22:17 | 5 |
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Isn't Robbie Williams going to be the next lyrical Tolstoy!Or should
I really say"WHO THE CHUFFING BOBBINS DOES HE THINK HE IS!!!!"
MUZ..
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| 1362.11 | | CHEFS::CONNELLA | Now is not the time to cry | Thu Aug 22 1996 09:18 | 5 |
| We'll have to wait and see on that one.. -:)
Gary Barlow is on the White Room this week.. blimey.
Andrea
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| 1362.12 | S | VYGER::CAIRNSM | | Thu Aug 22 1996 16:08 | 6 |
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re.11.
Has someone on the production team have a lobotomy,or are
they just determined to drag down the acts?
MUZ...
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| 1362.13 | | CHEFS::CONNELLA | Now is not the time to cry | Thu Aug 22 1996 17:41 | 3 |
| What the f... do you know anyway...
Andrea
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| 1362.14 | But I do rather agree with the sentiments of .12 | CHEFS::CROSSA | Nuns! Reverse! Reverse! | Thu Aug 22 1996 18:52 | 1 |
| You tell him!!!!
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| 1362.15 | Did I really write that | CHEFS::CONNELLA | Now is not the time to cry | Fri Aug 23 1996 10:17 | 4 |
| err.. really aggresive reply from me yesterday and I apologise. I
still think you know nowt but I shouldn't have been so nasty. Sorry.
Andrea
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| 1362.16 | For the Verbal Gymnastics category... | VARESE::TRNUX1::IDC_BSTR | Oh no! NOT Milan Kundera again! | Wed Aug 28 1996 14:34 | 9 |
| I have to agree with the Thinking Man's Palace Fan, Stuart Panes, on
his choice of Elvis Costello. Fave specimen:
"New Amsterdam has become much too much
Do I have the possession of everything she touches?
Do I step on the break to get out of her clutches?
Do I speak double-dutch to a real double dutchess?"
Dom
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| 1362.17 | | CHEFS::FIDDLER_M | The sense of being dulls my mind | Wed Aug 28 1996 14:44 | 4 |
| Re-1 been one of my faves for years, I think I have that on an EP with
a jazzy painting on the cover?
mikef
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| 1362.18 | psychedelic lyrics & Rickenbackers... | WOTVAX::STONEG | Temperature Drop in Downtime Winterland.... | Fri Aug 30 1996 14:21 | 40 |
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One of my fave's is on the CD player at the mo'...
"A Palm tree nodded at me last night,
He said hey, you look so pale,
I don't know if it was the air,
or the breeze in my hair,
I had a feeling I had failed.
So down to the beach just out of reach,
the moon was being trailed,
a girl and a sailor and Hot Dog trailer,
thats their Holy Grail.
The sand whispered heat and burned the feet,
of girls languing(sp?) on the shore,
in the Motel pool the Waitress cools,
she deosn't ask for more.
She makes a wish, she takes a risk,
she opens up her door,
through human eyes she's a Dolphin in disguise,
it's the last night of the war
And somewhere far away there's another day,
and someones getting out of bed,
she puts on here face in the morning space,
she doesn't know she's dead.
Her ruby lips can't excite me anymore,
and pain spills on the chair, it's always there,
and he descends the stairs, he doesn't see,
the sunburned Landlord glares,
for all the people, he can never be,
he can never, he can never be..... "
The Church 'Bel-air' 1981
Graham
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