Music chain

Bill Ward - Sixty Minutte Man

Everyone's feeling pretty
It's hotter than July
Though the world's full of problems
They couldn't touch us even if they tried
From the park I hear rhythms
Marley's hot on the box
Tonight there will be a party
On the corner at the end of the block

Didn't know you
Would be jammin' until the break of dawn
I bet nobody ever told you that you
would be jammin' until the break of dawn
You would be jammin' and jammin' and jammin', jam on

Stevie Wonder, Master Blaster


Nice girls, not one with a defect
Cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct
Red dogs under illegal legs
She looks so good that he gets down and begs

Elvis Castello - "Watching the Detectives"


Just listening to this song now


I, I will be king
And you, you will be queen
Though nothing will drive them awaqy
We can beat them, just for one day
.......
And you, you can be mean
And I, I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers, and that is a fact
Yes we're lovers, and that is that
Though nothing, will keep us together
We could steal time, just for one day
.......
What d'you say?

I, I wish you could swim
Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
Though nothing, nothing will keep us together
We can beat them, for ever and ever
"

David Bowie, Heroes

One I'm listening to right now...

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mother's children, brothers, sisters torn apart

U 2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"

U 2 = Fantastic Band, fantastic Songs


Just listening to this one


When my love said to me
Meet me down by the gallowtree
For it's sad news I bring about this old town
And all that it's suffering
Some say troubles are abound
Some day soon they're gonna pull
The old town down
One day we'll return here
..............

Brothers,sisters where are you now
As I look for you right through the crowd
For all my life here I have spent
With my faith in god and church
And the government
Some say troubles are abound
Some day soon they're gonna pull
The old town down
One day we'll return here

Simple Minds: Belfast child


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"This ain't the way,
I spend my mornings baby...
Come stai?
You been with him,
And you come back lady
Hey, what's he like?
I just sit, and watch the ocean
With myself, even I do my own cooking
You can laugh, you're forgiven, but
I'm no longer frightened, to be living..........."

and you expect people to recognize it Demi ? only google can

SENZA UNA DONNA - WITHOUT A WOMAN




Some say the x, make the sex
Spec-tacular, make me lick you from yo neck
To yo back, then ya, shiverin, tongue deliverin
Chills up that spine, that ass is mine
Skip the wine and the candlelight, no Cristal tonight
If its alright with you, we ****in (that's alright)

....

..You must be used to me spendin
And all that sweet winin and dinin
Well I'm ****in you tonight

Ok, Google is my friend. Notorious BIG featuring R Kelly. The title will get censored though....:p

Maybe we should have a new rule, that if after 24 hours no-ones guessed the answer then the person has to give clues....

Here's one:

'Put on your almond rocks and daisy roots
Brush your Hemstead Heath
and wear your whistle and flute
Lots and lah-de-dah's and cockneys here
So hurry up and get out of here

Get your skates on, mate
Get your skates on, mate
No bib around your Gregory Peck today, hey!
Drop your plates of meat right up on the seat'



If you want a clue....think a classic film, currently having a ham fisted Hollywood remake.

The Self-Preservation Society song from "The Italian Job".

My sister's boss is a hairdresser from the East End (apparently in the early 60s this was considered a manly profession along the lines of haberdashery) and whan he gets going with the goofy slang, he sounds just like that song (most of the time he sounds just like Austin Powers becuase he's 'poshing it up').



Speaking of British...

I never thought it would happen
With me and the girl from Clapham
Out on the windy common
That night I ain't forgotten
When she dealt out the rations
With some or other passions
I said, "you are lady"
"Perhaps," she said, " I may be"

We moved into a basement
With thoughts of our engagement
We stayed in by the telly, allthough the room was smelly
We spent our time just kissing
Though the railway arms were missing
But love it got us hooked up
And all the time it took up

I got a job with Stanley
He said I'd come in handy
And started me on Monday
So I had a bath on Sunday
I worked eleven hours
And bought the girl some flowers
She said she'd seen a doctor
And nothing now could stop her

I worked all through the winter
Though the weather was bitter
I put away a tenner each week to make her better
And when the time was ready
We had to sell the telly
Late evenings by the fire
And little kicks inside her

This morning at four fifty
I took her, rather nifty,
Down to a naked baiter
And thirty minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
Within a year, a walker,
She looked just like her mother
If there could be another

And now she's two years older
Her mother's with a soldier
She left me when my drinking
Became a proper stand-in
The devil came and took me
From bar to street to bookie
No more nights by the telly
No more nights, nappies smelling

Alone here in the kitchen
I feel there's something missing
I beg for some forgiveness
But begging's not my business
And she won't write a letter
Allthough I always tell her
And so it's my assumption
I'm really up the junction.

RIO

Just going OT....I happen to think Cockney Rhyming Slang is pretty cool. I mean, I love the way those guys talk in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Oh, and you guys realise that I will petition Tony Blair to declare war on Hollywood if they mess up the Italian Job, with nukes and all the rest. I mean....it's set in Los Angeles! How Italian is that....grrrrrrr. And what about Michael Caines great line 'Your only supposed to blow the bloody doors off'. How can Marky Mark possibly say that? Me is unhappy.

Rant Over....for the time being

Set in LA?!!?
The commercials (which are on TV here every 10 minutes now) make it look like "Europe" (a fascinating fairy tale like world of Hollywood's creation) --a lot of alp-like mountains and Cooper's Minis driving along narrow cobbled roads-- is the setting. I'll have to look closer next time one is on...should be about two minutes.

RIO

That's what I heard, it's mostly based in LA. I've seen pictures allegedly from the movie with more that a few American muscle cars. Maybe it isn't a remake but a sequel of sorts, so the bit in the mountians happens at the start of the movie.....maybe. Like I said, Hollywood messes up a quintissential British classic, the Ghurkas are coming to Hollywood :p .

Just checked...without spoiling anything the film starts in Italy and the Alps, then transfers to LA.

Am I suposed to be giving clues on the lyrics? It has been a few days.


RIO

Yeah....I mean, it's beat me, and I don't want to google it. So (Pretty Please ) give us a clue, or I'll go mad!

1. The band that did it were semi-big in the (very) early 80s. I'm guessing they were bigger in the UK than in the USA.
2. Their first keyboard player has (had? its not like we get up to date British TV here in the USA) a TV variety show called "Later, with..."
3. They had their biggest hit with a song that had vocals by their second (or third) keyboard player. This song had probably the cheapest looking video ever to be played on MTV.
4. Their name rhymes with "Tease", and for a while, here in the US, had a "UK" after it--kinda like The Beat was known as The English Beat here, to all but a few anglo-philes.
5. For a short time, their two songwriters (Difford and Tillbrook) were considered the new Lennon-McCartney, but you know, that didn't last for long, since the band broke up in 1984, and god knows what they are doing now.

There's five clues.


RIO