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[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.
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cheshunt seagull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Dexy's Dance Stance was a reading list. Also the Clash introduced me to Montgomery Clift.
maltaseagull
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Freewheeling was the first Album (LP in those days) that I bought.
5Ways Gull
È quello che è
Alanis Morrisette introduced me to the fact that people from the North American continent really don't get Irony.
Brighton Mackem
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Discovering what a Nantucket sleigh ride was.
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More questions than answers though, I still haven't a clue just who IS the five o'clock hero?
Mine has to be the significance of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the average american. First properly noticed it in the Fleet Foxes song which goes by the name 'blue ridge mountains' but now it crops up seemingly everywhere.
Now firmly on my bucket list of places to go as it's got to have something special to be mentioned so often.
Now firmly on my bucket list of places to go as it's got to have something special to be mentioned so often.
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METALMICKY
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- Jan 30, 2004
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Well I never knew that and quite dark for essentially a ' fluffy ' band and pop music.
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Steely Dan
The Clamp
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First heard of Nicholas Van Hoogstraten via Carter USM’s Sheriff Fatman song
“Moving up on second base behind Nicholas Van What’s-his-face”..
It intrigued me enough to ask my stepdad who he meant. No internet in those days.
“Moving up on second base behind Nicholas Van What’s-his-face”..
It intrigued me enough to ask my stepdad who he meant. No internet in those days.
The Clamp
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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is anything but “dry” but yes, Maiden gave it a certain kick.
One of my favourite pieces of writing though. It’s tremendous.
Blues Guitarist
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Which is the correct pronunciation according to Arlo Guthrie in the song Alice's Restaurant Massacree.
Very good call.
The Clamp
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Hear about the West Memphis 3 through Eddie Vedder changing the lyrics to one of Pearl Jam’s songs, Do The Evolution, when playing live to
“free the West Memphis Three”
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“free the West Memphis Three”
West Memphis Three - Wikipedia
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WildWood
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Thanks to Gwen Stefani, I know now how to spell Bananas…
METALMICKY
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I was just suggesting the average school child might find it so. I think it's great. Thanks to Bruce Dickinson I now have an appreciation of William Blake.
Alfagull
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This was an eye-opener!
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Or "The Kick Inside" which is about a consensual incestual relationshjp between a brother and a sister and the sister becomes pregnant as a result.
That's quite dark subject matter.
The song was inspired by a traditional folk song called Lucy Wan
The song that inspired Kate Bush to write about incest
Take a look at the traditional folk song that inspired Kate Bush to write a song about incest, and see why she chose to write about such a taboo