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Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner were interested in WW2 history and both had read 'House Of Dolls' where they saw the name. The lyrics to... -
Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..Great album. I think Blood on the Tracks just edges it for me though.
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Quite a few UK rappers use references that I have to look up. A genre it's easy to dismiss but is full of articulate, smart people with...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..Or "The Kick Inside" which is about a consensual incestual relationshjp between a brother and a sister and the sister becomes pregnant...
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listening to the lyrics " Click, click, click, click, click, click himself under" I did some googling about the "Kevin Carter" track by...
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I remember learning about this massive miscarriage of justice from the first song on UB40’s first LP...
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Freewheeling was the first Album (LP in those days) that I bought.
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..The band name Joy Division made me aware of the brothels set up in the nazi concentration camps where the female prisoners were forced...
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Billy Bragg introduced me to the Diggers and Gerard Winstanly.
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Wreckless Eric taught me the entire story of 1960s record producer Joe Meek
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..Thats a testament to the educational power of the fusion of song and football forums.... And if you read my reply (post #21) you'll...
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Ladies by Sparks was one of my favourite songs when I was about 9. Its lyrics name a few famous women with quirky little lines Ron does...
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I learned about Satpal Ram, and the campaign to release him, through Asian Dub Foundation.
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I’d never heard of an English artist called Richard Dadd until, despite having loved the song for years, I decided to look up what Fairy...
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Mmarlowe replied to the thread [Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names..From the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water" I learnt about the fire which burned down the Montreaux Casino in Switzerland in 1971. I...