[Music] Favourite Song Lyrics

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And they put up a parking lot

Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi 1970 (we can't say we weren't warned)

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[studio150]

Repeat when necessary

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?374019-Best-lyrics-in-a-song://

 

[dejavuatbtn]

On the National Express there's a jolly hostess
Selling crisps and tea
She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks
For a sky-high fee
Mini-skirts were in style when she danced down the aisle
Back in '63 (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
But it's hard to get by when your arse is the size
Of a small country

 

[grubbyhands]

The Vapours."Turning Japanese", 1980 something?

"I asked a doctor to take a picture so I could look at you from inside as well"

WTF was that all about?

Realistically not a favourite lyric on reflection just curious like!

 

[Easy 10]

The Vapours."Turning Japanese", 1980 something?

"I asked a doctor to take a picture so I could look at you from inside as well"

WTF was that all about?

Realistically not a favourite lyric on reflection just curious like!

You know what 'turning japanese' is referring to, right ?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

I'm a clean cut kid and I've been to college too................. you unpatriotic rotten doctor commie rat

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

 

[father_and_son]

You know what 'turning japanese' is referring to, right ?

From https://www.jonkutner.com/turning-japanese/

Ill-informed journalists and trivia-writers have long since passed on the ‘fact’ that it’s about ************ because Turning Japanese refers to the Oriental facial expression people pull at the moment of climax whilst holding your sausage hostage. Actually it isn’t about that at all.

There was also talk at the time that certain members of the band had a fascination with the Japanese culture, which was rubbish too. There really is only one small connection to the East and that it the guitar sound that opens the song. That recognisable riff which is also repeated a few places in the song is actually called the oriental riff and is generally used when a Western band wants to invoke the sound of the Far East in a song. Other examples of this are Carl Douglas’ Kung Fu Fighting and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Hong Kong Garden.

The Vapors were a pub-rock group from Guildford in Surrey and were formed by singer David Fenton, guitarist Edward Bazalgette and included Steve Smith on bass and Howard Smith on drums. They originally spelt their name The Vapours, but decided to drop the ‘U’ to make people think they were American. Bruce Foxton of the Jam discovered them and went on to co-manage them with Paul Weller’s dad John. Bruce invited them to support The Jam on their Setting Sons tour.

Dave Fenton explained in an interview about the title, “It could have been Portuguese or Lebanese or anything that fitted with that phrase, it’s nothing to do with the Japanese. It’s actually a love song about someone who had lost their girlfriend and was going crazy over it. The title is just all the cliché’s about angst and youth and about turning into something you didn’t expect to.”

 

[zefarelly]

Not my 'favourite' but always makes me chuckle as its so silly.

I don't give a damn I don't ****ing care
I'm gonna kill me mum and then pull out me hair
I'm fed up with the dole and the human race
Gonna cut me liver out and shove it in your face

Kill! Kill!

I don't like animals or lifting heavy weights
Gonna shoot me fingers off and carve up all me mates
Gonna steal a motor car and smash it all to pieces
Gonna cut me liver out and pin it on your braces

Kill! Kill!

I'm not pathetic, I'm lazy and rude
I'm boring and I'm stupid and I'm vicious and crude
I get thrown out of pubs and stuff for pissing on the floor
Gonna cut me liver out and nail it on your door

Kill! Kill!




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrQi66kxd-I

 

[Icy Gull]

Today I'll go for lyrics that I have often felt like quoting to people I've met. I'm sure plenty have felt the same about me though



I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

 

[Easy 10]

Dave Fenton explained in an interview about the title, “It could have been Portuguese or Lebanese or anything that fitted with that phrase, it’s nothing to do with the Japanese. It’s actually a love song about someone who had lost their girlfriend and was going crazy over it. The title is just all the cliché’s about angst and youth and about turning into something you didn’t expect to.”[/I]

Dubious.

 

[half time scores]

Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Billericay Dickie

Good evening I'm from Essex
In case you couldn't tell
My given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay
And I'm doing very well

Had a love affair with Nina
In the back of my Cortina
A seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener
She took me to the cleaners
And other misdemeanours
But I got right up between her
Rum and her Ribena

Well, you ask Joyce and Vicki
If candy-floss is sticky
I'm not a blinking thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
And I'm doing very well

I bought a lot of brandy
When I was courting Sandy
Took eight to make her randy
And all I had was shandy
Another thing with Sandy
What often came in handy
Was passing her a 'Mandy'
She didn't half go bandy

So you ask Joyce and Vicki
If I ever took the mickey
I'm not a flipping thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
And I'm doing very well

I'd rendezvous with Janet
Quite near the Isle of Thanet
She looked more like a gannet
She wasn't half a prannet
Her mother tried to ban it
Her father helped me plan it
And when I captured Janet she bruised her pomegranet

So you ask Joyce and Vicki
If I ever shaped up tricky
I'm not a blooming thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
And I'm doing very well

You should never hold a candle if you don't know where it's been
The jackpot is in the handle on a normal fruit machine

So you ask Joyce and Vicki
Who's their favourite brickie
I'm not a common thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
And I'm doing very well

I know a lovely old toe-rag obliging and noblesse
Kindly, charming shag from Shoeburyness

My given name is Dickie
I come from Billericay
I thought you'd never guess

So you ask Joyce and Vicki
A pair of squeaky chickies
I'm not a flaming thicky I'm Billericay Dickie
And I'm doing very well

Oh golly, oh gosh come and lie on the couch
With a nice bit of posh from Burnham-on-Crouch

My given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay
And I ain't a sloutch

So you ask Joyce and Vicki
About Billericay Dickie
I ain't an effin' thicky
You ask Joyce and Vicki
And I'm doing very well

 

[Norman Potting]

You know what 'turning japanese' is referring to, right ?

I believe it is an oblique reference to onanism.

 

[Brovion]

From https://www.jonkutner.com/turning-japanese/

Ill-informed journalists and trivia-writers have long since passed on the ‘fact’ that it’s about ************ because Turning Japanese refers to the Oriental facial expression people pull at the moment of climax whilst holding your sausage hostage. Actually it isn’t about that at all.

There was also talk at the time that certain members of the band had a fascination with the Japanese culture, which was rubbish too. There really is only one small connection to the East and that it the guitar sound that opens the song. That recognisable riff which is also repeated a few places in the song is actually called the oriental riff and is generally used when a Western band wants to invoke the sound of the Far East in a song. Other examples of this are Carl Douglas’ Kung Fu Fighting and Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Hong Kong Garden.

The Vapors were a pub-rock group from Guildford in Surrey and were formed by singer David Fenton, guitarist Edward Bazalgette and included Steve Smith on bass and Howard Smith on drums. They originally spelt their name The Vapours, but decided to drop the ‘U’ to make people think they were American. Bruce Foxton of the Jam discovered them and went on to co-manage them with Paul Weller’s dad John. Bruce invited them to support The Jam on their Setting Sons tour.

Dave Fenton explained in an interview about the title, “It could have been Portuguese or Lebanese or anything that fitted with that phrase, it’s nothing to do with the Japanese. It’s actually a love song about someone who had lost their girlfriend and was going crazy over it. The title is just all the cliché’s about angst and youth and about turning into something you didn’t expect to.”

Hmmm. I'm not sure if that isn't history being re-written to make themselves not sound so casually racist. Certainly at the time they did nothing to deny the "Hee hee, it's all about w@nking innit?" story.

 

[aberllefenni]

Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum

Ramones - Teenage Lobotomy

 

[Worthing exile]

They took all the trees
And put them in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
'Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And they put up a parking lot

Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi 1970 (we can't say we weren't warned)

A good song ruined totally by its ending.

 

[GT49er]

And it's a teenage sadness
Everyone has got to taste.
An in-between age madness
That you know you can't erase
Til she's sitting on your face.....
....singing
'Good girls don't,
Good girls don't,
Good girls don't, but I do'.

 

[Play it cool Rodders]

I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand,
Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man?

 

[grubbyhands]

You know what 'turning japanese' is referring to, right ?

Nope, pray enlighten me.