songs w. impossible-to-get lyrics
Celia Courtright
There are a few mistakes that I'll correct (from the "official" version - the CD cover)
(I'll leave out typos and misspelled words, unless it is a drastic mistake)
>: : 2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
First four verses are correct (look under original posting - I can't post them all)
> Joseph Stalin, Alan Cobb, Nasser and Procofiev, Rockefeller,
Alan Cobb is actually Malenkov
>Campenella, Communist Bloc
> Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Tuscanini, Dacron, Bien Diem Phu falls, Rock
>around the clock.
>
> Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winnin' team, Davy
>Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, DisneyLand
> Bob Dole, Budapest, Alabama, Kruschev, Princess Grace, Peyton
Billy Joel goes by years, Bod Dole wasn't a big name in '56 (this verse) it's Bardot, as
in Brigitte (sp?) the movie actress.
>Place, Trouble in the Suez.
> (Chorus)
> Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Joe and
>I(Aagain... ????), Bridge over River Kwai
The words here are Chou En-Lai, the leader of China's democratic government -
relocated to Taiwan
> Lebanon, Charles DeGaul, California Baseball, Stark with a
Starkweather - I believe he was a mass murderer or something
>homicide, Children of Thalydimide.
>
> Buddy Holly , Ben Hur, Space monkey, Mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro,
>Edsel is a no-go
> U2, Simon Ree, Payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho,
Simon Ree is Syngmann Rhee - does anyone know what this is referring to?
>Belgians in the Congo.
>
> (Chorus)
>
> Hemmingway, Agnon, Stranger in a Strange Land, Belden, Berlin,
Agnon is Eichmann, Belden is Dylan
Ok for a while then,
> Bacon, Reagan, Palistine, Terror on the airlines, Ayatollahs in
Bacon is Begin
Ok again for 5 lines or so
> Hypodermics on the shore, China's under Martial law, Rock'n'Roll
>and Cola Wars, I can't take this anymore!!
The official last line of the song here makes no sense to me. I think that
your words make more sense than Billy Joel's. His are:
Rock and Roller Cola Wars. What ?!?!? Oh well, he wrote it, I guess that
he *must* know what he means.
Brian W Rigatti
Edward A King <eak...@pitt.edu> wrote:
>I song that I could never figure out the lyrics
>to was The Black Crowes version of "Hard To Handle"
>
>I haven't heard the Otis Redding version, but I'm
>guessing that he's easier to understand than
>Chris Robinson.
>--
The Grateful Dead also do a great version on their release
"History of the Grateful Dead, Vol.1 (Bear's Choice)" and
You can understand all the words that Pigpen sings, I'll
compare the two and see if they sound close and see if I
can come up with the lyrics!
Later,
Brian
yo...@unhesp.unh.edu
han...@mailserv.nbnet.nb.ca (John and Kathryn Hanson) wrote:
> In article <foxCy0...@netcom.com> f...@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>
>
> >ica...@acme.csusb.edu (Ian Cahir) writes:
>
> >>: 1. Blinded By the light - Manfred Mann
> >>: 2. We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
>
> >>What about "Fool's Gold" by the Stone Roses, or half of the Smiths songs?
>
> >Just the other day we were discussing "I Need a Lover (That Won't Drive
> >Me Crazy)" by John Cougar Mellencamp (also Pat Benatar). The lyrics are
> >nearly impossible to discern from listening to the song.
>
> I've always wondered what Mick Jagger was singing in "Prodigal Son" on the
> Beggar's Banquet album.
Blinded By the Light is actually a Springsteen song, off his first
album(?), "Greetings from Asbury Park". The lyrics are included with the
cassette but be warned, Manfred Mann leaves out some verses and moves some
others around. I fyou've never heard the Springsteen version check it out,
IMO its much better.
Adam Thrasher
>Definitely the most ABSOLUTELY INCOMPREHENSIBLE song ever created is the
>infamous "U Got Me Bugged", by DEVO. Anyone who has heard Hardcore DEVO
>Volume 2 cannot but agree.
>I'm not joking.
>DRZenko
Shut up, Zenko.
DEVO sucks.
Edward A King
to was The Black Crowes version of "Hard To Handle"
I haven't heard the Otis Redding version, but I'm
guessing that he's easier to understand than
Chris Robinson.
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Michael Winterstein
< much stuff deleted >
: > Hypodermics on the shore, China's under Martial law, Rock'n'Roll
: >and Cola Wars, I can't take this anymore!!
: The official last line of the song here makes no sense to me. I think that
: your words make more sense than Billy Joel's. His are:
: Rock and Roller Cola Wars. What ?!?!? Oh well, he wrote it, I guess that
: he *must* know what he means.
I would guess that this has something to do with the big controversy
that took place a few years back -- remember any of it? A lot of
people were getting upset about the fact that so many rock stars were
endorsing and even writing songs about colas. I don't quite
remember it that well, but Neil Young (I think) wrote a song
that started out " Ain't singin' for Pepsi, ain't singin' for Coke . . ."
and the refrain was "This note's for you!". Does anyone remember
the details of that song (as long as this is alt.music.lyrics anyways)?
michael
Michael Winterstein parz...@ece.ucdavis.edu
"Hey, hey, my, my -- Rock'n'Roll will never die."
Steve Drost
: did proclaiming Pepsi to be the Choice of a New Generation? What does
: Jackson know about colas that no one else does? Rock and Rollers, hired
: to fire off shots in the Cola wars.
: Did Coke ever do spots with some other rock star? I can't
: remember any, and yet I have this vague recollection of Bruce Springsteen
: appearing for one or the other.
: -jc
I remember Diet Coke using Paula Abdul and Elton John a couple of years
back.