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Great album. I think Blood on the Tracks just edges it for me though.
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[Music] Knowledge you've acquired through songs or band names.
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I was thinking about them earlier. I can't remember for certain but I may have learnt about the Attica Prison riots from the song Rubber Bullets which is what inspired the song.
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From Dexys Midnight Runners (and Top of the Pops) I learnt that Jackie Wilson was not only a great soul singer, but through a mean dart as well 
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The pilot named her after his mother
It’s difficult to make a case against this.
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The cocaine in Notting Hill is fairtrade
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I'll trump you with a Highway 61 revisited
...which ends with my favourite Dylan song.
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….and Lovin Spoonful
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An outstanding choice Sir. It depends on each day for me, to many good ones
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For me if you tolerate this then your children may be next - Manic street preachers on Spanish civil war
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From Dexys Midnight Runners (and Top of the Pops) I learnt that Jackie Wilson was not only a great soul singer, but through a mean dart as well
I wasn't aware that their song Geno was about Geno Washington. During our Gillingham exile, a mate and I were returning by train from a match and he said Geno Washington was playing Croydon Town Hall, did I fancy going. I'd never heard of him, but went anyway. Great gig.
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I did learn that Prince Phillip DID actually say something along the lines of “us having to work harder”
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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 taboofaroutmagazine.co.uk
Although not quite as dark, Sparks’ Fa La Lee from 1971 has the same subject matter but again, as a primary school child I was blissfully unaware
I learned about Sharman's boxers from this amazing track.
I found out about quite a lot from this. Still makes me angry today.