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====== Embodies ======

Two new wave, two ragtime, and a new wave precursor?

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//Frustration//, Soft Cell, embodies frustration in the disjointedness of the rhythm

//Haywire//, Aztec Camera, embodies its title in the style of the chorus

//Stumbling//, Zez Confrey

//Kitten on the Keys//, Zez Confrey

//Here Come the Warm Jets//, Eno




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Date added: 7/4/2012


====== That image seems familiar ======

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Date added: 6/24/2012


====== Coincidence? ======



In 1984 the Smiths dug Sandie Shaw out of the mothballs to do a version of their //Hand in Glove//. In 1969 she did a song called //Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now//; the Smiths of course did a song called //Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now//

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Date added: 6/19/2012

====== Pronunciation Anomalies ======






=== "Miles" as a Two-Syllable Word ===



//Low//, Cracker



//Synchronicity II//, Police


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"miles," in the line "many miles away" pronounced normally first two times it's used; turned into two syllables at the end-of-song repetition of the "many miles away" line

Other pronunciation weirdness in the song is "Scottish lake" to "Scottish loch" back to "Scottish lake" 




==== Older Entry ====



=== Annoying pronunciation of the long "i" sound by art punks ======





The word "migraine," pronounced "mee-graine" in //Natural's Not in It//, Gang of Four



"Venus de Milo," pronounced "de Mee-lo" in //Venus de Milo//, Television



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Northern brits Gang of Four can claim cute, quirky regional exemption, but what's Tom Verlaine's excuse?


Date added: 6/17/2012






====== Smart-ass ======


Richard Meltzer quote: "A hundred percent of the two best-dressed men at Monterey both up and died. They were ... Brian and Jimi"

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Eisen, ed., Twenty-minute Fandangos, p. 218

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Date added: 5/14/2012



====== A Friendship Story ======

As a record collector, I can relate ...

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1. BEANIE BABY WALK 2:57
A toe-tappin' tribute to Beanie collectors and the fun of shows and friends

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2. BEANIE BABY BOOGIE 4:35
Sing along with the names of 87 of Janet's favorite Beanies


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3. IN SOME SMALL WAY 4:52
A song that expresses the heart of all collectors


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4. ONLY BABY 4:35 (The broken hearted guy version)
Beanies gone Nashville. A hilarious look at lost love and the undying faithfulness of Beanies


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Extra credit: what 70s classic country song is this a soundalike to? find my email in special_areas:about 

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5. GONE COLLECTIN' "Janet's Song" 2:37
An upbeat instrumental with a bluegrass feel

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6. BEANIE BIRTHDAY SING-ALONG 3:50
Teach your kids the months of the year as they yell out the names of Beanies on the month they were born


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7. THE DRIVE THRU "The Teenie Beanie Song" 3:49
Hysterical look at a day in the life of a crazed plush toy collector


{{:the-drive-thru-the-teenie-beanie-song-six-akimbo.mp3|}}


8. BEANIE LULLABY "Hearts In Starlight" 3:42
A Beanie lullaby

Keep listening for more Beanie FUN ...

ONLY BABY (The broken hearted gal version) 2:52
The female side of the pain-of-lost-love story

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GONE COLLECTIN' (Reprise) 1:36
The musicians wouldn't leave the studio until we let them loose on this great tune for a second time


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If you haven't been part of the Beanie Baby craze, you must have been spending a lot of time on Mars. There's never been anything like it. So Rooster Records in concert with Six Akimbo, has put together this CD to add to the festivities. We've used 25 musicians and 5 different solo artists. The songs range from lush ballads like In Some Small Way, a song that expresses the heart of all collectors, to The Drive Thru, an hysterical look at a day in the life of a crazed plush-toy collector. We hope you get as much pleasure listening to this album as we got from making it.




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BEANIE BABY WALK



I never wanted to collect them

I was only gonna get one or two

But once you get started

They're kinda like a part of you

And I've got twenty dollars

And a couple hundred dollars on top

I just want the cute ones

Then I'm pretty sure I'll stop



CHORUS

Beanie World is calling

Mine are worth more everyday

Buy 'em when you find 'em

Don't let a good deal get away

I could have had worse habits

That's what I'll always say

How much is enough?

How much is enough?

How much is enough?

One more Beanie Baby

Gotta get a Beanie Baby

Gonna do the Beanie Baby Walk

(repeat 3 times)



Pretty in purple

Pretty in blue and green

Colors of nature

Combinations I've never seen

So I'm takin' my daughter

Going to the Beanie Baby show

They've got our favorite

Which one it is we just don't know



REPEAT CHORUS



And I've got these good friends

And we're walking this Beanie Baby show

There's one next weekend

You can bet that we're gonna go

Cause I've got twenty dollars

And a retired Beanie Baby on top

Come meet some new friends

Maybe we can Beanie Baby swap



REPEAT CHORUS



BEANIE BABY BOOGIE



Oh, well, yes indeed,

Hello, cowboys and señoritas

Beanie Ken gonna sing a little song for ya

Help ya learn the names of the Beanies, right here

If you would please sing along

Oh, the Beanie Baby Boogie, let's go

Skip, Dotty, Bones, Inky

Snip, Hissy, Nuts, Iggy

Snort, Jolly Twigs, Baldy

There's Spike, Happy, Waves, Stinky

Crunch, Blacky, Ears, Daisy

Erin, Lucky, Stripes, Patti

Look at the Beanies boogie



CHORUS

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

Beanie Baby Boogie

All the babies are in the house



Grunt, Lefty, Tusk, Lizzy

Splash, Speedy, Spot, Sparky

There's Flash, Righty, Nip, Ally

Here comes Hool, Kiwi, Trap, Goldie

Rip, Spooky, Stinky, Bucky

Web, Cubbie, Caw, Manny

Look at the Beanies rock



REPEAT CHORUS



Here comes Fleece, Gracie, Scoop, Scortie

Mage, Chilly, Tank, Humphrey

There's Digger, Bessie, Legs, Pinky

How about Pooch, Doby, Chip, Spunky

Rover, Ziggy, Zip, Tuffy

Mel, Brownie, Waddle, Smoochy

Hey, the Beanies are here



REPEAT CHORUS



Echo, Curly, Maple, Batty

Blizzard, Pugsly, Mystic, Derby

Peanut, Sly, Ringo, Floppity

Peace, Roary, Putter, Hoppity

And there's a whole gang of bears named Teddy

Cause every Beanie's in the house



REPEAT CHORUS three times





IN SOME SMALL WAY



Sometimes small things

Can help me understand

The place I share with all, great and small

My pledge to protect

To love and respect

The precious life this earth has to offer

I hold it



CHORUS

In Some Small Way

I can touch something precious

I can hold something in my hands

That's worth more each day ... forever

And in some small way

I can share it with another

I can embrace something priceless

In Some Small Way



Just one small change

In the way we see our world

Can help to make each day, a little better In every way

The little things we share

Can make our hearts and minds, a little better, together



REPEAT CHORUS



I can see a better place

I can love for both of us

I can see a better place

I can love for both of us



CHORUS



ONLY BABY



You know it's been a while, dear

Since you broke this heart of mine

But now I've found some new friends

To help me pass the time



CHORUS

They may be just little stuffed critters

But to me they mean alot

Cause my Beanie, Beanie Baby's

The only baby that I got



Those warm and fuzzy feelings

That I once shared with you

I now get from my babies

You've found someone new

Beanie Babies stay true



They don't fuss they don't complain

You'll find your new love

Will only bring you pain



REPEAT CHORUS



Sometimes when I think about it

You know it doesn't seem right

A little cotton kitty

Close as I'm comin' tonight



REPEAT CHORUS



GONE COLLECTIN'

Instrumental



BEANIE BIRTHDAY SING-ALONG



HINT: There are many places to find the birthdays of your favorite Beanies. When it comes to the right month, shout out your favorite Beanie of that month's name.



Every Beanie Baby has a special day

You can learn the months in a special way

Listen to the questions and shout the names

It's the Beanie Birthday Sing-Along song

Which Beanie Babies where born in January?

Which Beanie Babies where born in February?

Which Beanie Babies where born in March?

Which Beanie Babies where born in April?



January, February, March and April



Which Beanie Babies where born in May?

Which Beanie Babies where born in June?

Which Beanie Babies where born in July?

Which Beanie Babies where born in August?



January, February, March and April

May, June, July, & August



Which Beanie Babies where born in September?

Which Beanie Babies where born in October?

Which Beanie Babies where born in November?

Which Beanie Babies where born in December?



January, February, March and April

May, June, July, & August

September, October, November, December



Repeat with "Does anybody here have a birthday in ________?"







THE DRIVE-THRU SONG (THE TEENIE BEANIE SONG)



They say there is a limit of one per auto occupant

So I'm hitting every drive-thru in this town

It's the Teenie-Beanie sales promotion,

And it's become my life's devotion

To get all 12 this time around



CHORUS

I've been renting cars and neighbors' Kids,

and putting on disguises

My freezers full of burgers I bought

Just to get the prizes

And I confess I've done it all

There is no trick I haven't tried

What I wouldn't do, what I haven't done

To get a teeny beanie



Meanwhile back at the drive-thru

Father Al speaks

Those squawk boxes are hard to hear

I don't need extra french fries dear

No I don't want the special of the day

I just want a meal to make me happy

A plush toy with a name that's sappy

If that station wagon was just out of my way



REPEAT CHORUS



Meanwhile back at the drive thru ...

The State Patrol

Meanwhile back at the drive thru

Ray the barber



BEANIE LULLABY ("HEARTS IN STARLIGHT")

You and your Beanies have had quite a day

Full of fun and full of play

Gather your Beanie friends around

Close your eyes, lay your head down



CHORUS

And a star shines down on you and me

Wherever life may find us

When you look and see the twinkling sky

You'll remember you and me

Our hearts in starlight

Hearts in starlight



And you ask me what it means

This star inside the heart

It means I'm with you everywhere

Together and apart



REPEAT CHORUS



As the years go by and you have grown

And we are apart

You will always know I'm with you

The star inside your heart



REPEAT CHORUS



All songs written by Six Akimbo



A Friendship Story

The Gone Collectin story began when Ken, a musician, decided to write a song for his friend, Janet, who is an avid Beanie collector. One song soon led to another. When she heard his songs, Janet said, "If other people love collecting as much as I do, they'll love these songs." Ken asked his friends in the music business to help him produce a professional Beanie album for Janet and collectors everywhere.








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Date added: 5/6/2012

====== Groups Who You Might Not Expect to Use Harmonica, but Do ======


Thomas Dolby, //Europa and the Pirate Twins// (at the beginning)



==== Earlier entries ====

The Cure

(last song on Boys Don't Cry)

Black Sabbath

Tangerine Dream


====== Song refers to another song ======


//Today I Met the Boy I'm Going to Marry//, Darlene Love, refers to //Here Comes the Bride//

 
//A Quiet Place//, Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters, mentions //Sweet Adeline//


//Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun//, Julie Brown (not Downtown Julie Brown), mentions //Evergreen// 


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Date added: 4/29/2012


====== Question ======

What's with David Bowie and mandolins* and wildness?:

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"and the hangman plays the mandolin"

//The Wild-Eyed Boy from Freecloud//

"I hear the sound of mandolins"

//Wild Is the Wind//

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in the latter, Bowie's wild mandolin obsession drove him to cover the Johnny Mathis tune

*or Rod Stewart for that matter: //Mandolin Wind// and mandolin use in //Maggie May// and //Gasoline Alley//


====== Question ======

Who's a better guitar player, Neal Schon or Craig Chaquico?



====== Two Pairs of Songs by Nat King Cole ======

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//Unforgettable//

//Unbelievable//

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//The Ruby and the Pearl//

//The Sand and the Sea//



====== Alliterative Keyboardists ======

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Herbie Hancock 

Chick Corea 

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Date added: 4/22/2012




====== I Steal Briethaupts' Category: Catchphrases, Buzzwords ======

I'm a fan of the late 70s and early 70s books by the Briethaupt brothers. (I posted a couple excerpts [[http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=special_areas:book_excerpts_music_books#night_movespop_music_in_the_late_70s|here]].) The early 70s book has a list of songs using buzzwords. Their list includes //Do Your Thing//, Isaac Hayes; //If It Feels Good, Do It//, Ian Lloyd & Stories; //Love Means (You Never Have to Say You're Sorry)//, Sounds of Sunshine. Getting common expressions wrong, as Sounds of Sunshine have done here, is another category on this site: [[http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=chapters:lyrics#in_which_a_common_phrase_is_misused|here]], [[http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=start#in_which_a_common_phrase_is_annoyingly_misused1|here]], and [[http://www.songsthatsoundlikeothersongs.com/doku.php?id=start#in_which_a_common_phrase_is_annoyingly_misused|here]]

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//We've Got to Get Ourselves Together//, Delaney & Bonnie

//Gonna Make You an Offer You Can't Refuse//, Jimmy Helms

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no doubt inspired by the Godfather, as the next entry was inspired by the Terminator II

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"hasta la vista, baby," in //Looking for a New Love//, Jody Watley

"don't want to tell you how to run your scene," in //Rock & Roll Crazies//, Stephen Stills

//Keep On Truckin'//, Eddie Kendricks

"different strokes for different folks," in //Everyday People//, Sly & the Family Stone






====== Precursors to Pavement, song titling dept ======
 
Three titles on the album Restrictions, by Cactus:

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//Tokin' Chokin'//

//Guiltless Glider//

//Bag Drag//



====== Nicely Complex Grammar (in Song Title) ======
 
//Could I've Been So Blind//, Black Crowes

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My existence led by confusion boats: Absolutely Almost Fabulously Famous Counting Cameron's Blue Jack Black Kurt Russell's daughter Sheryl Terrier Cars Crows Crowes 



Date added: 4/15/2012


====== Noteworthy song title ======

//Please Be Somewhere Tonight//, Pezband




====== Noteworthy lyrics, not necessarily good ======

"Take a chance you stupid ho"

//What Are You Waiting For?//, Gwen Stefani

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not sure, but I think she's addressing herself, which would go into a category I've got some stuff for, Self-Loathing: A Theme from the 90s On 



==== Earlier entries ====



"We were so close /





There was no room /





We bled inside each other's wounds"







//Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)// -- Melanie







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Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" presciently anticipates the problem of drunk driving ("Have a drink, have a drive"), Melanie's "bleeding inside each other's wounds" anticipates the problem of AIDS







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"There's a flame from the stack /





And that smoke's a blowin' black as coal"














//Six Days on the Road// -- Dave Dudley







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the pre-pc confessions of an air polluter


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Date added: 4/6/2012







====== Weather Metaphors Gone Awry ======

//Sandman//, America

"He flies the sky like an eagle in the eye /

Of a hurricane that's abandoned"

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call Triple A



====== Men's Names, Yo La Tengo ======

//Tom Courtenay//

//Barnaby, Hardly Working//



====== Fact ======



//They Don't Know//, Tracey Ullman, was written by Kirsty MacColl




====== Fact ======



Bobby Womack wrote //Breezin'//, George Benson





====== Fact ======



Dinosaur Jr.'s greatest hits alb is called Ear-Bleeding Country





====== Fact ======



Kylie Minogue covered //Give Me Just a Little More Time//



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Date added: 4/1/2012






====== Obscure Metal Bands ======


Unholy Stench

Listless Awakening

Surprise for the Fortune Teller

Fluffed for Damnation

Triplets of Goats

Outrageously Heinous

Hot-Rods of Doom

Praying for Burial

Invective

Concrete Pillories

Measured Remnants


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Date added: 3/24/2012



====== Tribute Quotes ======


=== Land ===


//Here Comes the Hotstepper//, Ini Kamoze, quotes //Land of a Thousand Dances//, Wilson Pickett and others

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//Burning Farm//, Shonen Knife, quotes //Land of a Thousand Dances//


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=== Money ===


//Power//, Lipps Inc., quotes //Venus//, Shocking Blue, "he's got it, yeah baby, he's got it" [changes gender]

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{{:tribute_power_venus.mp3|}}

Did Bananarama get the idea to cover //Venus// from this?

I doubt it


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//Ground Level//, Stereo MCs, quotes //Really Saying Something//, Bananarama (the MCs' quote is of a Bananarama vocal element that's not in the Velvelettes' version)


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{{:tribute_ground-level_he-was-really-sayin-something.mp3|}}

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//Hitchin' a Ride//, Vanity Fare, quotes //Venus//, Shocking Blue


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{{:tribute_hitchin-a-ride_venus.mp3|}}

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//Venus//, Shocking Blue quotes //Money//, Barrett Strong; also Shocking Blue pronounces "goddess" as "godness," revealing Dutchness?


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//Radiation//, Suicide, quotes //Money// (more Suicide below)


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{{:tribute_radiation_money.mp3|}}


=== Sympathy (first Stones) ===


//Mad Cyril//, Happy Mondays, quotes //Sympathy for the Devil//, Rolling Stones


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{{:tribute_mad-cyril_sympathy.mp3|}}

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//Never Coming Down Again (Part 1)//, Spacehog, quotes //Sympathy for the Devil//, Rolling Stones


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{{:tribute_never-coming-down_sympathy-for-the-devil.mp3|}}

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//Funk #49//, James Gang, quotes //Sympathy for the Devil//, Rolling Stones


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{{:tribute_funk-49_sympathy-for-the-devil.mp3|}}


=== Second Stones ===


//Lose to Live//, Strawberry Alarm Clock (alb w///Incense and Peppermints//), tribute quotes //Satisfaction//, Rolling Stones


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{{:tribute_lose-to-live_satisfaction.mp3|}}

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//Let Me//, Paul Revere & the Raiders, quotes //Satisfaction//, Rolling Stones


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(sound file to come)


=== Third Stone ===


//Antiworld//, Nina Hagen, quotes //Third Stone from the Sun//, Jimi Hendrix


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{{:tribute_antiworld_third-stone-from-the-sun.mp3|}}

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//Dance with the Devil//, Cozy Powell, quotes //Third Stone from the Sun//, Jimi Hendrix


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{{:tribute_dance-with-the-devil_third-stone-from-the-sun.mp3|}}

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//Baby, Please Don't Go//, Amboy Dukes, quotes //Third Stone from the Sun//


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{{:tribute_baby-please-dont-go_third-stone-from-the-sun.mp3|}}


=== Fourth Stone? what papa was ... ===


//Bite the Hand//, ABC, quotes //Papa Was a Rollin' Stone//, Temptations


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{{:tribute_bite-the-hand_papa-was-a-rollin-stone.mp3|}}


=== Papas (& Mamas) and Monkees and Beach Boys ===


//Good Thing//, Paul Revere & The Raiders has a Beach Boys tribute section


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{{:tribute_good-thing_beach-boys.mp3|}}


This one's crazy. My original note said there was Beach Boys and Monkees, but now I don't see Monkees (maybe at beginning). But in this clip, there's a little Mamas & the Papas moment at 0:12 - 0:16, then Beach Boys at 0:22 - 0:28, followed by something fairly close to the Who's //Substitute// guitar riff


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//Golden Age of Leather//, Blue Oyster Cult, quotes //Good Vibrations//, Beach Boys


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{{:tribute_golden-age-of-leather_good-vibrations.mp3|}}

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=== British Invasion ===


//Southside Girl//, Don Dixon, quotes //Needles and Pins//, Searchers


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{{:tribute_southside-girl_needles-and-pins.mp3|}}

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//Push It//, Salt n Pepa, quotes //You Really Got Me//, Kinks


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{{:tribute_push-it_you-really-got-me.mp3|}}


=== Dirigi-bullishness ===


//Believe Me//, Stories, quotes //Whole Lotta Love//, Led Zeppelin


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{{:tribute_believe-me_whole-lotta-love.mp3|}}

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//Ride the Sky//, Lucifer's Friend, quotes //Immigrant Song//, Led Zeppelin


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When I first made this note, I assumed without checking that the Lucifer's Friend was later, but a friend informed me that, in fact, it's one of the canonical Jimmy Page rip-offs

don't have it, but it's at @0:58 in this youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rACzxgW8c4


=== Sex Pistol-Whipped ===


//The Return of Jackie and Judy//, Ramones, quotes //Pretty Vacant//, Sex Pistols


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{{:tribute_the-return-of-jackie-and-judy_pretty-vacant.mp3|}}

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//Lexicon Devil//, Germs, quotes //EMI//, Sex Pistols


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{{:tribute_lexicon-devil_e-m-i.mp3|}}


=== And the Rest ===


//Serious//, Talk Talk, quotes //The Court of the Crimson King//, King Crimson


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{{:tribute_serious_court-of-the-crimson-king.mp3|}}


I wish there were more tribute quotes of songs like this


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//That's the Way (I Like It)//, KC & the Sunshine Band quotes //Funky Stuff//, Kool & the Gang, at end


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{{:tribute_thats-the-way_funky-stuff.mp3|}}

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//Hit the Floor//, Earthquake, quotes //Born to Be Wild//, Steppenwolf, at least


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{{:tribute_hit-the-floor_born-to-be-wild.mp3|}}

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//Share That Beat of Love//, C+C Music Factory, quotes  //Rock with You//, Michael Jackson


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{{:tribute_share-that-beat-of-love_rock-with-you.mp3|}}

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//Demons Are Real//, Guided by Voices, quotes //I Want You/She's So Heavy//, Beatles, or is it Cheap Trick's //Downed//?, which itself quotes //Dear Prudence//

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{{:tribute_demons-are-real_shes-so-heavy.mp3|}}

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//Sofa (of My Lethargy)//, Supergrass, quotes //Norwegian Wood//, Beatles


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{{:tribute_sofa-of-my-lethargy_norwegian-wood.mp3|}}

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//Pretty in Pink//, Psychedelic Furs, organ flourish gets close to famous Al Kooper part in in //Like a Rolling Stone//, Bob Dylan 


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{{:tribute_pretty-in-pink_like-a-rolling-stone.mp3|}}

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//Pretty in Pink//, Psychedelic Furs, riff is pretty similar to //Girl of My Dreams//, Bram Tchaikovsky, though it would probably be a regular soundalike, rather than a tribute 


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{{:tribute_pretty-in-pink_girl-of-my-dreams.mp3|}}

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//No Tears Tonight//, Murray Attaway (gone solo lead singer of Guadalcanal Diary), quotes //Girl of My Dreams//, Bram Tchaikovsky


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{{:tribute_no-tears-tonight_girl-of-my-dreams.mp3|}}

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//A Groove of Love (What's This Thing Called Love)//, C+C Music Factory, quotes //Tom's Diner//, Suzanne Vega


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{{:tribute_a-groove-of-love_toms-diner.mp3|}}

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//Tom's Diner//, Suzanne Vega, itself quotes //Popcorn//, by Hot Butter


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{{:tribute_toms-diner_popcorn.mp3|}}

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//Bad Wisdom//, Suzanne Vega, //Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald//, Gordon Lightfoot


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{{:tribute_bad-wisdom_wreck-of-the-edmund-fitzgerald.mp3|}}

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//Bizarre Love Triangle//, New Order, quotes //AEIOU-sometimes-Y//, Ebn Ozn


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{{:tribute_bizarre-love-triangle_aeiou-sometimes-y.mp3|}}

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//The Film of My Love//, 10cc is rewrite/alt-universe of //Can't Help Falling in Love//, Elvis Presley


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{{:tribute_the-film-of-my-love_are-you-lonesome-tonight.mp3|}}

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//Halo of Flies//, Alice Cooper, quotes //My Favorite Things//, Julie Andrews


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(to come)

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//Leaving Las Vegas//, Sheryl Crow, quotes //The Joker//, Steve Miller


==  ==

{{:tribute_leaving-las-vegas_the-joker.mp3|}}

===  ===


//Tell Her Tonight//, Franz Ferdinand, section sounds like the Turtles


==  ==

{{:tribute_tell-her-tonight_turtles.mp3|}}

===  ===


//Slider//, T-Rex, quotes //Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher//, Jackie Wilson


==  ==

{{:tribute_the-slider_higher-and-higher.mp3|}}

===  ===


//Dark of the Matinee//, Franz Ferdinand, quotes //Hava Nagila//


==  ==

{{:tribute_dark-of-the-matinee_hava-nagila.mp3|}}

===  ===


//Last Train to Heaven//, Urge Overkill, tribute/rewrite of //I Wanna Be Your Dog//, Stooges


==  ==

{{:tribute_last-train-to-heaven_i-wanna-be-your-dog.mp3|}}



Date added: 9/24/2011



====== Male Anxiety, in My Early Radio ======

"All the time you know she's smilin' /

You'll be on your knees tomorrow,"

====  ====

//Do It Again//, Steely Dan

====  ====

//Sundown//, Gordon Lightfoot




==  ==

Date added: 4/4/2011





====== Populism ======

//It Takes People Like You to Make People Like Me//, Buck Owens




====== Coasters Go to Walgreens ======

//Ain't It Sanitary?// (also in vocab)


//Deodorant Song//


//Love Potion #9//

==  ==

yes, it's mainly a Clovers song (the other Lieber/Stoller group with "C"), but the Coasters did it too




====== Lazy Lyrics ======

//Third-Rate Romance//, Amazing Rhythm Aces

====  ====

He came back with the key /

She said, "give it to me /

And I'll unlock the door" 




====== Recommended Sean Paul ======


//Get Busy//

//Temperature//




====== At Least One Version Flips the Two Phrases ======

Most versions of //Roll On Buddy// say,


==  ==

"If you knew what I know, you wouldn't roll so slow"

vs., one version at least that says,

"You wouldn't roll so slow, if you knew what I know"




==== Title flip ====


//One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer//, Amos Milburn

//One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer//, John Lee Hooker


==  ==

**Addendum:**

Since posting this, I saw this song used in Glee (ugh), and they used Bourbon first, which caused me to haul from the memory banks that George Thorogood did this song and //he// put Bourbon first. (I assume Thorogood's version is what got the song on Glee.) Did Thorogood put Bourbon first because of J. L. Hooker?, or because of some other Bourbon-putting-first version? Inquiring minds want to know.

==  ==

Date added: 3/21/2011







====== My existence led by confusion boats ======

==== Hollys ====

Holly St. James, on a Kent R&B comp

Holly & the Italians, alb, seen but not bought

Holly George or Holly St. George or Holly George Warren, writer



==== "Run" Song Web ====

An appetizer, two Run Boy deep voice country songs ...

===  ===

{{:run-boy-run_lee-hazelwood.mp3|Run, Boy, Run}}, Lee Hazelwood

{{:run-boy_don-gibson.mp3|Run Boy}}, Don Gibson

====  ====

... leads into the Run Run Run group of songs. Two of them are on Nuggets comps. (I wondered, would either of them be covers of the Who, or of VU; or maybe the VU was some garage rock thing from Lou Reed's garage rock days?) Turns out they're all different. There's also a Supremes song, which I haven't included because it wasn't part of my initial speculation. (The Gestures and the Supremes have commas.) //Run Red Run//, by the Coasters thrown in for good measure.

===  ===

{{:run-run-run_the-third-rail.mp3|Run Run Run}}, The Third Rail (first Nuggets)

{{:run_run_run-the_gestures.mp3|Run, Run, Run}}, The Gestures (later Nuggets)

{{:run-run-run_velvet-underground.mp3|Run Run Run}}, Velvet Underground

{{:run-run-run_the-who.mp3|Run Run Run}}, The Who

//Run Run Run//, Jo Jo Gunne [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buMg7cDtlls]], 

{{:run-red-run_the-coasters.mp3|Run Red Run}}, The Coasters




==== Band Names ====

Trip Shakespeare, Thelonious Monster -- for a long time, when I would see a record by one, wouldn't immediately be able to think of the name of the other group (6/11/2011 add: throw in Trotsky Icepick -- just saw them mentioned on Christgau's site)



==== Band Names "Webs" ====

Morphine, Codeine, Come, Cell, Cake, Sloan, Smog, Shellac, Sublime

Konk (from Christgau's 80s list), Kong, Korn, Pond, Tool, Members, Membranes, Melvins, Helmet, Helium, Helvet, Rammstein

Bud Harper, Roy Harper, Ben Harper, (Led Zeppelin's //Hats Off to (Roy) Harper//)

Unsane, Unrest, Beat Happening

Mumps, Muffs, Scruffs (power pop), Stills, Shins, Shirts, Shoes

Belly, Breeders, Echobelly, Elastica, Veruca Salt, Velocity Girl, the Vels, Belle Stars

Cat Heads, Fetchin' Bones, Pushtwangers (female)

Modern English, Modern Romance

Ben Vaughn (Combo), Ben Folds (Five)

Michael Hedges, Michael Hurley

Cornershop, Chapterhouse, Easterhouse, Sparklehorse

Fleet Foxes, Fiery Furnaces, Friendly Fires

Lush, Luna

Birthday Party, Wedding Present

Buffalo Tom, Grant Lee Buffalo

Fotomaker, Jim Photoglo, Randy Vanwarmer

Material Issue, Miracle Legion

Animotion, Alphaville, Dramarama

Cannanes, Spinanes

Letters to Cleo, Death Cab for Cutie (prepositions and (nick?)names with "C")

Roni Size, Labi Siffre, Maxi Priest


==== Doctor Web ====

//Doctor Rock//, Ween

//Calling Dr. Love//, Kiss

//Dr. Love//, First Choice

//Doctor's Orders//, Carol Douglas





==  ==
Date added: 11/8/2010

====== Mando Pages: Awesome number ======

John Duffy and the classic lineup of the Country Gentlemen, doing a tune I haven't been able to find out much about

This [[http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursc/country_g.htm|discgraphy]] says it may first have been the b-side of the Starday 1963 single of Copper Kettle, and then appeared also on Yesterday and Today, Vol. 3 (Rebel)

===  ===

{{:sunrise-countrygentlemen.mp3|}}

==  ==

Date added: 10/25/2010

====== Stalking Used to Be Romantic ======

====  ====
//Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You?// (1928)

(Larry Shay - Haven Gillespie - George Frommel)

===  ===
Who wouldn't be jealous of a girl like you and

Who wouldn't be watching everything you do

I'm on my toes, for goodness knows

When you go out you're marvelous hard to doubt but hard to trust

Who wouldn't be hanging round your neighbourhood

====  ====
//On the Street Where You Live//

===  ===
And oh, the towering feeling just to know somehow you are near

The overpowering feeling that any second you may suddenly appear


People stop and stare, they don't bother me

For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be

Let the time go by, I won't care ...

==  ==
Date added: 7/23/2010

====== Widely Disparate Same-Title Songs ======

====  ====

//Dancing with Tears in My Eyes//

===  ===

Leadbelly

Ultravox


====  ====

//Mama Said//

===  ===

Shirelles

Metallica

==  ==
Date added: 7/2/2010





====== New Soundalike ======

//Since You Been Gone//, Rainbow

//Reelin' in the Years//, Steely Dan

==  ==

{{:since-you-been-gone_reelin-in-the-years.mp3|}}

====== New Soundalike ======

//Did I Hear You Say You Love Me//, Stevie Wonder (Hotter Than July)

//Fool for the City//, Foghat

==  ==

{{:did-i-hear-you-say_fool-for-the-city.mp3|}}

====== New Soundalike ======

//Too High//, Stevie Wonder (1973)

//Humpty Dumpty//, Joy of Cooking (1971?)

==  ==

bassline; both are also similar to //Wack Wack//, Young Holt Unlimited

{{:too-high_humpty-dumpty.mp3|}}

====== New Soundalike ======

//The Flame//, Cheap Trick

//Nature's Way//, Spirit

==  ==

{{:the-flame_nature_s-way.mp3|}}

====== New Soundalike ======

//Wish You Were Here//, Pink Floyd

//Almost Independence Day//, Van Morrison

==  ==

{{:wish-you-were-here_almost-independence-day.mp3|}}

====== New Soundalike ======


//Fly Like an Eagle//, Steve Miller Band


//Grandma's Hands//, Bill Withers

==  ==

{{:fly-like-an-eagle_grandma_s-hands.mp3|}}

(oops. I think I did the wrong parts of these songs. Will remove this note when new version done)

====== New Soundalike ======

//Breakfast in America//, Supertramp

//You're a Very Lovely Woman//, The Merry-Go-Round

==  ==

{{:breakfast-in-america_you-re-a-very-lovely-woman.mp3|}}


==  ==

Date added: 6/6/2010



====== Two-Song Medleys ======


//Superwoman/Where Were You When I Needed You//, Stevie Wonder


//Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding//, Elton John


//Iron Horse/Born to Lose//, Motorhead


//City of Gold/Fly by Night Lady//, Head East


//Peace Frog/Blue Sunday//, Doors


==  ==

Date added: 5/2/2010



===== Earlier entries =====


//Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen// -- Santana


//Fallin' In and Out of Love with You/Amie// -- Pure Prairie League


//Livin' Lovin' Maid/Heartbreaker// -- Led Zeppelin


//This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide// -- The Kings


//No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature// -- Guess Who


//Prelude/Nothing to Hide// -- Spirit




====== Five Songs Called ... ======

//Candy Man//, Mississippi John Hurt

//Candy Man//, Roy Orbison

//Candy Man//, Grateful Dead

//Candy Man//, Sammy Davis Jr.

//Candy Man//, Sweathog


==  ==
Date added: 4/27/2010


====== New Soundalike ======


====  ====

//Crazy Train//, Ozzy Osbourne (1980)



//Y.M.C.A.//,  Village People (1978)




==  ==
Date added: 4/4/2010



====== TV Stars on Record ======


{{:tv-stars-on-record.jpg|}} 


All's I can say is beware ye who enter LL's //Smooth Talker//

I might have put up only that mp3, but for the fact that someone involved with the Hagman track got the idea from Janis Ian to use the word "debentures." There //is// a percentage in that kind of jive

Side 1

Dreamin', John Schneider

Ballad Of The Good Luck Charm, Larry Hagman

If You Want To Come Home, Lisa Hartman

Are You Lonesome Tonight, John Schneider & Jill Michaels

{{:smoothtalker-lorenzolamas.mp3|Smooth Talker, Lorenzo Lamas}}

Side 2

Fools Like Me, Lorenzo Lamas

Walk Away, Lisa Hartman

It's Now Or Never, John Schneider

{{:my-favorite-sins_larry-hagman.mp3|My Favorite Sins, Larry Hagman}}

Do You Love Me, David Hasselhoff



====== Portmanteau Songs ======

In which the song title is an internally referenced song (//portmanteau// probably doesn't mean this)

==== New Entry ====

//Oh Yeah//, Roxy Music -- "they're playin' Oh Yeah on the radio"

==== Earlier Entries ====


//Tennessee Waltz//, Patti Page


//Kentucky Waltz//, Bill Monroe


//Truck Drivin' Man//, George Hamilton IV





====== Charmingly Clumsy Lyric ======

"won't somebody stop and help a guy?"

====  ====


--//Hitchin' a Ride//, Vanity Fare

==  ==
"a guy?" -- you mean, //you//? you want me to help . . . //you//?

==  ==

{{:hitchin_-a-ride_vanity-fare_section.mp3|}}



==  ==
Date Added: 3/27/2010





====== You: Listen to These Records ======


====  ====

{{:pressure-cooking_labelle.mp3|Pressure Cooking, Labelle}}

I once heard [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Bosworth|Brian Bosworth]] of the 1985-86 champion Chicago Bears say his football playing was the equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing; Patti Labelle's singing is the human-voice equivalent 















====== Best Mandolin Album, Ever ======


{{:dickdia.jpg|}}

I play 1, 2, 3, 8, 11 (12, 5, 7 eventually)

Side 1

{{:01_la_napoletana.mp3|01 La Napoletana.mp3 }}

{{:02_la_siciliana.mp3|02 La Siciliana.mp3}}

{{:03_guaglione.mp3|03 Guaglione.mp3}}

{{:04_non_dimenticar.mp3|04 Non dimenticar.mp3}}

{{:05_la_bellissima_bruna.mp3|05 La bellissima bruna.mp3}}

{{:06_ciao_mazurka.mp3|06 Ciao Mazurka.mp3}}

Side 2

{{:07_la_spagnola.mp3|07 La Spagnola.mp3}}

{{:08_santa_lucia.mp3|08 Santa Lucia.mp3}}

{{:09_vieni_sul_mar.mp3|09 Vieni sul mar.mp3}}

{{:10_carnival_of_venice.mp3|10 Carnival of Venice.mp3}}

{{:11_tra_veglia_e_sonno.mp3|11 Tra veglia e sonno.mp3}}

{{:12_tango_della_rosa.mp3|12 Tango della rosa.mp3}}





==  ==
Date Added: 3/21/2010




====== New Soundalike ======

====  ====

//A Muse//, All



//Of Wolf and Man//, Metallica


==  ==


{{:a-muse_of-wolf-and-man.mp3|a-muse_of-wolf-and-man.mp3}}



====== You: Listen to These Records ======


=====  =====


{{:kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3|kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3}}


==== A Pair of Paradoxes ====

===  ===

{{:breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3|breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3}}

==  ==

harmony all the way through

===  ===

{{:no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3|no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3}}

==  ==

slow-build thriller

=====  =====

{{:gypsy_moody-blues.mp3|gypsy_moody-blues.mp3}}




==  ==
Date Added: 3/13/2010




====== Cryptic Soul Song Titles ======


==== New Entry ====


//I'll Kill a Brick about My Man//, Hot Sauce

==  ==
Date Added: 3/1/2010


==== Older Entries ====


//One Monkey Don't Stop No Show//, Honeycone





==  ==



Written by Joe Tex





====  ====



//One Chain Don't Make No Prison//, Four Tops








====== Question ======

Why did Pearl Jam do a song called //Even Flow//?


==  ==

Date Added: 2/24/2010



====== Girls Talk, VU Style ======

//Lisa Says//


//Candy Says//


//Stephanie Says//


==  ==

Date Added: 2/20/2010


====== Pronunciation Anomalies ======

//Da Doo Ron Ron//, by the Crystals, is as it's printed, but the sound of the record is D__e__ Doo R__u__n R__u__n

======  ======

"It's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout __a__ rock and roll" -- is there more than one rock and roll to tell the stranger about, or does the enormity of the task of telling someone about rock and roll for the first time elicit a pause ("about, uh, rock and roll")?
====  ====

--//Do You Believe in Magic//, Lovin' Spoonful

======  ======

"grandmas sit in chairs and rem-__o__-nice" -- long o sound

====  ====

--//The Beat Goes On//, Sonny & Cher


======  ======

"only you can-//d//-make"

====  ====


--//Only You//, Platters

======  ======


"I'll meet you at your house at a quarter to __h__eight" -- he means eight but for some reason says "hate"

====  ====

--//Baby We've Got a Date (Rock It Baby)//, Bob Marley

======  ======


"don't dizgard me"

====  ====

--//Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me//, Elton John

I'm not the only one who noticed: Christgau: "Yes, I hate the way he says 'don't dizgard me' too"

{{:pronunciation-anomalies.mp3|}}

==  ==

Date Added: 2/15/2010






====== Question ======


Is the La's the start of Britpop?





====== Songs with Duck Sounds ======


//Birdman of Alkatrash//, Strawberry Alarm Clock (b-side of //Incense and Peppermints//)

==  ==

Date Added: 2/9/2010













====== Back Up and Push Rubber Dolly ======


A fiddle tune can have more than one title, or two titles refer to two tunes that are very similar. Examples are: //Lost Indian// (how it's known on most recordings) and //Cherokee Shuffle// (how it seems to be known to fiddlers I meet); //College Hornpipe//, aka //Sailor's Hornpipe// (the "Popeye theme")

From four great mandolinists, these are four versions of the same tune, with two titles -- //Back Up and Push//, and //Rubber Dolly// (the Jethro Burns is //Back (It) Up and Push//)

Not much about Paul Buskirk appears to be on the Internet, but Deke Dickerson recently put up a youtube of Buskirk in a movie, and he's put up some other great pickin' http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=KoolKlipsFromDeke#p/u/21/8fWQBA-i0Tc



{{:jethro-burns.jpg|}}



{{:backitupandpush-jethroburns.mp3|Back It Up and Push - Jethro Burns}}


{{:backupandpush-billmonroe.mp3|Back Up and Push - Bill Monroe}}


{{:paul-buskirk-hot-pickin.jpg|front cover}}


{{:paul-buskirk-hot-pickin_back-cover_.jpg|back cover}}


{{:rubber-dolly-paul-buskirk.mp3|Rubber Dolly - Paul Buskirk}}


{{:red-rector-old-homestead.jpg|}}

{{:rubber-dolly-red-rector.mp3|Rubber Dolly - Red Rector}}



And, here is an unrelated tune, {{:step-it-up-and-go_maddox-brothers-and-rose.mp3|Step It Up and Go - Maddox Brothers and Rose}}


==  ==

Date Added: 2/7/2010














====== Keyboard parts that go like this ======

//Confusion// -- New Order


//AEIOU Sometimes Y// -- Ebn Ozn


//IOU// -- Freeez


//Remember What You Like// -- Jenny Burton


==  ==

{{:iou_keyb_rhythm.mp3|}}


====== Gross, or unpleasant to visualize, lyrics ======


====  ====

"There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad"

==  ==

//Riders on the Storm//, Doors



====  ====

"She'll rock you in the night-time till your skin turns red"


==  ==

//Witchy Woman//, Eagles


Date Added: 2/2/2010


====== Impossible to sing to oneself ======


//When I Grow Up to Be a Man//, Beach Boys


==  ==

Date added: 1/26/2010



====== Quotes and facts from Punk on 45, Gavin Walsh ======
{{:punkon45.jpg|}}
====  ====

"TRB's [Tom Robinson Band's] 1977 debut '2-4-6-8 Motorway' sounded like Status Quo with a middle class vocalist" (p. 99)

==  ==

Wm: Really?!?!

====  ====

Nipple Erectors (later Nips) vocalist Shane O'Hooligan, later reverted to orig name McGowan

Riff Raff member Billy Bragg -- early 2nd wave UK punk

Poly Styrene's orig name is Marion Elliott

Tom Miller & Richard Meyers -- Tom Verlaine & Richard Hell

Stuart Goddard -- Adam Ant

Henry Padovani is the guitarist whom Andy Summers replaced in the early Police

==  ==

Wm: a CD comp I have called Lost Hits has a band called the Flying Padovanis, song //Piu in Alto//

====  ====

"The US assimilation of punk rock would not take place until the early 1990s, when its championing by Nirvana would inject some ..."

The quote "are we not men?" is from the SF movie //The Island of Lost Souls// 

The Corpse Grinders, w/ex-New York Doll Arthur Kane and Rick Rivets

New York: The Shirts were melodic power pop, as were the Criminals, led by ex-New York Doll, Sylvain Sylvain

"Nina Hagen ['s] ... main claim to involvement with punk rock seemed to stem from her Siouxsie-ish application of mascara. In reality, she was a young acolyte of the European bohemian/post-hippie scene, who enjoyed a close relationship with Dutch junkie rocker Herman Brood"

Ruzan Pamean, "I Mlad" (Serbian), not the first punk group from that region, is "indicative of the post-punk sound subsequently epitomised by Joy Division."

Pistols Cook and Jones joined Thin Lizzy on the Greedies' Christmas song "A Merry Jingle" (Greedies, formerly known as the Greedy Bastards)

Spizz Energi: "Where's Captain Kirk?"

Look into band: Kleenex

Look into band: Skids (//Into the Valley// -- what does it sound like? what style is it?)

Look into band: Swell Maps

Rezillos changed name to Revillos to escape a bad contract

Monochrome Set (is in Group Name, Song Title -- are they ex-members of Adam and the Ants?)


==  ==

Date added: 1/21/2010


====== New Sound Files for Earlier Items ======



====  ====

//Old Days// -- Chicago (1975)

//I'm Your Captain// -- Grand Funk Railroad (1970)

==  ==

{{:olddays-i_myourcaptain.mp3|}}

I love this one. The swirling string section is also in //Love's Theme// by Barry White's Love Unlimited Orchestra from 1973


====  ====

//Primal Scream// -- Motley Crue (not putting in umlaut)

//Shake Your Body// -- Jacksons

==  ==

{{:primalscream-shakeyourbody.mp3|}}

====  ====

//Don't Look Back in Anger// -- Oasis

//Pretty Flamingo// -- Rod Stewart (tribute cover of) Manfred Mann 

==  ==

"so Sally can wait" -- Oasis

"Some sweet day" -- Rod Stewart

{{:don_tlookbackinanger-prettyflamingo.mp3|}}

==  ==

Elsewhere, the Oasis song has a guitar section just like the guitar in Rod Stewart's //Tonight's the Night// (a many-songed title)

====  ====

//Wonderwall// -- Oasis

//Take Me to the Pilot// -- Elton John

==  ==

"but I don't know ho-o-ow" -- Oasis

[leads into ...] "Take me to the pilot" -- Elton John

{{:wonderwall-takemetothepilot.mp3|}}

====  ====

//Wonderwall// -- Oasis

//Sandman// -- America

==  ==

"And all the roads we have to walk are winding" -- Oasis

"Cos I understand you been runnin' from the man (that goes by the name of the sandman)" -- America

{{:wonderwall-sandman.mp3|}}



====  ====

//Come Out and Play// -- Offspring

//Runaway Boys// -- Stray Cats

==  ==

"you're under 18 you won't be doing any ti-ee-ime [time]" -- Offspring

"you're only 15 and can't get a job" -- Stray Cats

{{:comeoutandplay-runawayboys.mp3|}}





Date added: 1/17/2010







====== Most obstrusive drum part ======

//The Mountain's High//, Dick & Dee Dee

//Money//, Flying Lizards


==  ==
Date added: 9/6/2009




====== New Soundalike - from a reader ======





====  ====






//Mercy// -- Duffy





//Home By The Sea// -- Genesis



{{:duffy_genesis_soundalike.mov|play soundalike clip}}





==  ==





Reader Ross contributed this clip and says: "The rhythm, downbeat baseline and base drum, the percussive keyboard, and even some of the repetitive intro vocal melody are quite clearly the same."

Thanks Ross. A reasonably strong soundalike (how'd you know Genesis was my favorite band in high school?)

==  ==

And why not rip off Phil Collins's rhythm/drum sound? "In the Air Tonight" would fall into a category on this site which is unique-sounding songs, in the Performance, delivery section.

==  ==

Though I'm a big fan of Phil Collins's drumming, he (and Genesis) are not technically heroes of this site, but I can't resist posting his collaboration with Russ Ballard (songwriter) and Abba's Anni-Frid Lyngstad, since Russ Ballard and Abba ARE heroes of this site.

==  ==

(Collins was the drummer/producer of this epic collaboration, and Daryl Stuermer, Genesis's touring guitarist played guitar. Owing to the high degree of overlap between Genesis fan-dom and computer nerds, there's A LOT of information about Genesis on the internet.)

====  ====

{{:iknowthere_ssomethinggoingon-frida-edit.mp3|I Know There's Something Going On-Frida-EDIT.MP3}}

==  ==

And I'll post Phil Collins's amazing drum freakout in the second half of Nuclear Burn from Brand X's first album Unorthodox Behavior. Brand X was a fusion band side project of Collins's. The first album is outstanding, and the second album too had a lot of great moments.

====  ====

{{:nuclearburn-brandx-edit.mp3|Nuclear Burn-Brand X-EDIT.MP3}}



====== New Soundalikes ======





====  ====






//Tighter, Tighter// -- Alive & Kicking





//Your Saving Grace// -- Steve Miller Band



{{:tighter-yoursavinggrace.mp3|play soundalike clip}}





==  ==





the intros of these sound the same





(this is just an excuse to mention this superb Steve Miller Band song, written and sung by drummer Tim Davis. The main part of the song chugs along, and then that trippy breakdown)







====  ====






//1979// -- Smashing Pumpkins





//Harborcoat// -- R.E.M





==  ==






"she ... don't even try" -- Smashing Pumpkins





"she's ... comin' from the harborcoat" -- R.E.M.





==  ==





Date Added: 3/25/2008











====== Questions ======





Other than that it's obvious, why //do// a lot of songs about jail have a homosexual undercurrent?, the ready example: "Jailhouse Rock", but also "Rubber Bullets" (10cc) (rubber? effeminate singing).





What's paradoxical about "Me and Mrs. Jones"?    Mrs. Jones isn't Mrs. Jones's real name





====== New Sound Files for Earlier Items ======





Here are some items from earlier that didn't have sound files





====== "Goony" singing style ======





====  ====






//Highwire// -- Linda Carr



{{:highwire-lindacarr-edit.mp3|play Highwire-LindaCarr-EDIT.MP3}}





==  ==





My mother used to say, "so and so is goony" or "don't be goony," which expresses well the way Carr pronounces "highwire," essentially as "how are you."





====== Observation ======





"Nice and Slow" Jesse Green from double cd Let's Go Disco has Herb Alpert-style horn fills, sublime





{{:niceandslow-jessegreen-edit.mp3|play NiceAndSlow-JesseGreen-EDIT.MP3}}





====== Strange refrain in lyrics ======





====  ====






//Stop Alternating// -- Vulgar Boatmen





{{:stop-alternating-vulgarboatmen-edit.mp3|play Stop-Alternating-VulgarBoatmen-EDIT.MP3}}





==  ==





In addition to the refrain, "stop alternatin," this song uses the word "vacillation." This is the only song by this group I know (I have it on a promotional comp), but I like it.








==  ==





Date Added: 8/15/2007





====== Stuff from readers ======





I got a major spike in traffic on this site a couple weeks ago, with the Avril Lavigne-Rubinoos controversy.*



My site got linked to from a rollingstone.com story on the subject, and in addition to the traffic I got some nice e-mails from readers.







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How do I add stuff to your website, Eye Eee, bands named after that last name of the "talent" ............ Travers (Randy Travers), Winger (Kip Winger), Vandenberg (Adrien VandenBerg), Montrose (Ronnie Montrose). Or Brothers ......... why art thou????.......... Nelson ......... Van Halen. etc????





Wm's comments: Good categories





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I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you're mishearing a Bob Seger lyric.





He's actually saying: she had been born with a face that Would let her get her way





Completely changes it, right?





I think this might be a new category for you -- the Lyric I was Hearing Is Better than the Actual Lyric





Wm's comments: This reader really groks what I'm doing here





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I don't see these two on your list, and I am amazed by the similarity of the two. Track #8 in Fuel's Natural Selection album, "Most of All" and U2's "With or Without You." Almost exactly the same at the beginning. Just thought you might find it interesting.





Wm's comments: I've been a moderate fan of U2 since the beginning. I knew "I Will Follow" and got my favorite alb of theirs, October, when it came out. However, I'm quite dismayed by how pervasive U2's influence has been. In a trend growing since the 80s, so many bands (important and un) sing like Bono, or the guitar is like the Edge, or both. In copying U2, are these bands doing themselves, us (we) any favors?





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"The Only One I Know" Charlatans UK 1990 rips off "Midnight Rider" Allman Brothers Band 1970





Wm's comment: In terms of finding something to rip off, one could do a lot worse. Didn't know Charlatans song, nor Charlatans at all. (confusable with Chameleons?) Listened to this song, didn't hear Allman Bros. The main "riff/groove" of Charl. song is same as Deep Purple's Hush (& the Joe South orig.) -- probably what was meant





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"Songs with simulated sex sounds" category. "Love is a social disease" by Bon Jovi has a intro full of moaning and groaning. I think it was on their 3rd or 4th album





Songs that have sex sounds: "Do Me Baby" by Prince and "Drive" by Melissa Ferrick. Also Corey Hart's song, "It Ain't Enough": "it ain't enough for you" sounds like "that enema for you," which is kinda funny when it keeps repeating.





*I do know the Rubinoos song (don't have though, have only second alb), did recognize the similarity when I first heard the Avril Lavigne track







====== On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, err, the Psychedelic Furs ======





=== Lyrical tics ===





"Stupid" is, like, the Psychedelic Furs' favorite adjective. Below are the "stupid"-containing songs and lines, all from the first album


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INDIA





'Stupid on the carpet floor'





'Stupid on the carpet floor'





'This is for the discotheque / This is stupid I object'





SISTER EUROPE





'Stupid on a steinway'





'The radio upon the floor / Is stupid, it plays Aznavour'





'Even dreams must fall to rules / So stupidly'





FALL





'Sail upon the stupid sea'





'Parties for our stupid friends'





'We will live our stupid dream'





'Flowers for our stupid friends'





'Parties for our stupid friends'





'We will live our stupid dream'





WE LOVE YOU





'We are so stupid, we all dream'





FLOWERS





'And out of him came stupid light'





=== What do these lyrics mean? ===





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"Paint me like the shirt I'm in"





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//Sister Europe// -- Psychedelic Furs





=== What's up with the blue cars in "We Love You"? ===





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'I'm in love with your blue cars'





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'Love is just a car like you'





'That turns so blue and turns so blue'





'No blue cars will run my world'







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Date Added: 10/31/2006







====== Confusing lyrics that use the word "confusing" ======





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//I Want to Tell You// -- Beatles





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"So if you think that I'm unkind / It's only me and not my mind . . . [long pause makes you think a new line is starting] that is confusing things." I always thought there was an error. I thought the idea involved a full stop, as in, "So if you think that I'm unkind, it's only me and not my mind. That is a confusing thing." I thought it was a misspeak in which Harrison wrongly pluralized "things." Recording a song in the midst of a rewrite, or reshaping of the lyrics, is not unprecedented. Queen was moving between "fastidious and precise" and "meticulous and precise" and wound up with the nonexistent word, "mesticulous."   





====== New Soundalike ======





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//Urban Guerilla// -- Hawkwind





//Search & Destroy// -- Iggy & the Stooges





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Is it possible this is a real rip-off?






====== By extension ... ======





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//Put a Little Love in Me// -- Delegation





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"I was sent here to ask you to put a little love in me"





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Date Added: 1/1/2006





====== People I get confused (honk if you do too) ======


==== Doo-wop white singer cluster ====





Jay Black, (name changed from David Blatt), big-voiced, white singer of Jay & The Americans, a 50s-60s bridging group. Black replaced group-founder singer John "Jay" Traynor who sang "She Cried." Jay Black sang the group's biggest song "Come a Little Bit Closer" and also "Cara Mia"





Johnny Maestro (& The Crests) (& The Brooklyn Bridge), big-voiced, white singer. Maestro also bridged the 50s-60s in these two groups, singing "Sixteen Candles" and "Step by Step" for the Crests and "The Worst That Could Happen" for the Brooklyn Bridge.




The 50s hits of these groups are typical simplistic teen songs, whereas their 60s entries "Come a Little Bit Closer" and "The Worst That Could Happen" are high-concept lyrically ambitious songs. Also I can't keep the two straight when they appear on oldies revival PBS shows.





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Date Added: 12/27/2005





====== Songs with simulated (we hope) sex sounds ======





==== Female ====





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//Lazy Lagoon// -- Anjali





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From Real Fidelity comp.





====== Songs with bad grammar ======





==== Misc grammar problems ====





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//Don't Make the Same Mistake as I Did// -- Johnny Kidd





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Date Added: 12/16/2005











====== A long time in the rehearsal studio ======





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//Hearts of Stone// -- Charms





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Repetitions of "no" = 14, in two different places = 28





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//Ain't No Sunshine// -- Bill Withers





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Repetitions of "I know" = 24





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//Ain't No Sunshine// -- Al Jarreau





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Repetitions of "I know" = ?, probably 24 like Bill Withers's





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//Satisfaction// -- Devo





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Repetitions of "baby" = 32





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I'll let a commenter (hello, are you out there?) do Nobody But Me by the Human Beinz





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Date Added: 12/6/2005





====== Songs where they speak French in them ======





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//Psycho Killer// -- Talking Heads





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Credit: Thanks, Colin





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Date Added: 12/4/2005







====== In which a common phrase is (annoyingly) misused ======





//Little Red Book// by Love (and Manfred Mann, written by Bacharach & David); the common expression is "little //black// book."





====== Songs with chicken sounds in them ======





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//Cissy Strut// -- The Meters





====== Late '70s early '80s reggae pervasiveness ======





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//(What a) Wonderful World// -- Bryan Ferry





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Actually has a calypso element, with steel drums





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Date Added: 11/14/2005





====== Analysis of lyrics: Plush, Stone Temple Pilots ======





One of the reasons I wanted to do this site was that years ago I would go on the Internet looking to see that others shared my perplexed dismay verging into alarm that the lyrics of this song are "I believe when the dogs do smell her, will she smell alone." (Not to mention being ungrammatical in a few ways.)





When searching several years ago for explanations/interpretations of this song the best I could come up with was fansites where the Leslie Fiedlers of their time decided it was "a song Scott Weiland wrote about his girlfriend." Yeah, it was commonplace in 90s relationships to sic a pack of dogs on your girlfriend so they could smell whether she'd really "been alone," as she so innocently claimed. (And how were the dogs supposed to communicate their findings to Scott?)





I'm pleased to report, though, that since my original research (did I say that was 4 or 5 years ago?), the level of discourse on the Web has risen. In the entries below I found at www.lyrical-interpretations.com there's some mention of the dogs. 


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**e5rtt**

he could be refering to his freinds in the song, for when he sings when the dogs do find her he could mean when his friends do find her. Also when he sings the times a wasted go he could mean hangin with his freinds doing nothing.




**This song is about "hooking up"**

I think that this song is about sex. When he sings "and I feel times a wasted go - where ya going to tomorrow". It's like he is saying - Why waste time, lets get together tomorrow. Then "I see that these are lies to come - would you even care". He is saying that he already knows that this affair will end badly, but who cares? Cuz "I feel it". I think the referral to dogs smelling her is sexual, like dogs sniffing for a partner. Then "I think that so much depends on the weather, so is it raining in your bedroom". It is like he is saying let's not make small talk about the weather, lets get to your bedroom.

--Linda A.S.W.




**thoughts of a serial killer?**

perfect example of killer (no pun intended) music w/unnerving lyrics. irony rules here: musically upbeat/driving, but lyrically dark. great metaphors going on: wasted/wasting time; eyes of disarray; mask (one you wear for others or society; one that others or society wear(s);and one you don't even know you have on) = hints of serial killer mentality; dogs/smell/find her/alone? = victim/possibly multiples. whoa - maybe too much CSI/Cold Case Files? but also could be just a protest against society/status quo = why look forward to tomorrow when everything is fake and a lie? sorta like the Eagles' Hotel California: either a sinister song about satanic rituals or about the decadence of Hollywood.




And there's a veritable Algonquin Round Table going on at [[http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3422|http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3422]] 


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Date Added: 11/10/2005





====== Younger Brothers' Bands ======





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AC/DC (Angus Young)





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Easybeats, Flash and the Pan (George Young)





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.38 Special (Donnie Van Zant)





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Lynyrd Skynyrd (Ronnie Van Zant)





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Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmie Vaughan)





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Stevie Ray Vaughan





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I know, easy, but so what?





====== Album covers that say "Play this album loud" or some variation  ======





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Hot Tuna, America's Choice: "Warning: This album to be played at full volume for maximum effect"





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On the front of the album, no less (great cover by the way)






====== Under-utilized Lyrical Subject Matter ======





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"Got a funky walk / In his little **orthopedic shoes**"





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//Rockin' Roll Baby// -- Stylistics





====== A Backwards-Detective Soundalike Story ======





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//Oh Let the Sun Shine In// -- Pebbles (?), on The Flintstones





//Silver Bell// -- Doc Williams





====== Country Song Idea ======





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//A Bad Time Was Had by All//





====== New Soundalikes ======





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//Fast as You Can// -- Dwight Yoakam






//Ballad of John and Yoko// -- Beatles





{{:fastasyou-balladofjohnandyoko.mp3|play soundalike clip}}




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//Joe's Garage// -- Frank Zappa





//Mexican Shuffle// -- Herb Alpert





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some U2 song -- 





slow song on side 1 of Black Sabbath 4





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//The Way// -- Fastball







//Delilah// -- Tom Jones



{{:theway-delilah.mp3|play soundalike clip}}



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//The Way// -- Fastball









//It Would Take a Strong Strong Man// -- Rick Astley




{{:theway-itwouldtakeastrongstrongman.mp3|play soundalike clip}}


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Date Added: 11/1/2005





====== New Soundalikes ======





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//Bad Wisdom// -- Suzanne Vega





//Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald// -- Gordon Lightfoot





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//Space Truckin'// -- Deep Purple





//Down on the Street// -- Stooges





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//Soul Finger// -- Bar-Kays, others





//Lucille// -- Little Richard





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Little Richard: "Please come back where you belong"





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//More Than a Feeling// -- Boston





//Words// -- Bee Gees





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"It's only words, and words are all I have / to take your heart away"



leads into high, squeaky guitar part of More, right before the descending thing, coming out of the verse





====== Have you heard? ======





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//Wind Beneath My Wings// -- Gladys Knight & The Pips (1983)





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//Wind Beneath My Wings// -- Lee Greenwood (1984)





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To go in Covers





====== In which a common phrase is (annoyingly) misused ======





"You've Got Another Thing Comin'" Judas Priest. (also to go in Song Titles) The common expression is "you've got another thin//k// coming," not thin//g//.






====== Possible R&B influence on early reggae ======





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//Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth// -- Jimmy Reed





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//(If You Cry) True Love, True Love// -- Drifters





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Reed from tape, Drifters from Pomus & Shuman comp





====== Weak insults ======





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//Big Boss Man// -- Jimmy Reed





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"You ain't so big, you just talk that's all"





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that may be, but I can still fire your sorry ass





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//Sweet Home Alabama// -- Lynyrd Skynyrd





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"Hope Neil Young will remember / A southern man don't need him round anyhow"






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After having the whole ethos, history, and self-image of southerners hung out to dry by Neil Young in "Southern Man" the best comeback the self-appointed defenders of the south's virtue can come up with is the equivalent of "yeah, well nuts to you too"





====== Talkin' blues ======





In the grand tradition of the Talkin Blues that Dylan made several of, imitating Woody Guthrie, and just for good measure, one by Woody himself





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//Radar Blues// -- Coleman Wilson



{{:radarblues-colemanwilson.mp3|play mp3}}





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//Talking Dust Bowl Blues// -- Woody Guthrie



{{:talkingdustbowlblues-woodyguthrie.mp3|play mp3}}





====== Things we may recognize only subliminally ======





Steve Perry's solo hit title rhymes with his last name: "Oh Sherrie" 





Hipgnosis album covers that are mostly white: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here; Led Zeppelin, Presence





====== Band where a (somewhat) bad-voiced singer dominates or gets more play relative to a better-voiced singing member of the group ======





Or, at least, there's some kind of discrepancy between singers and how much "play" they get in the group





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Squeeze





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Okay, Difford's voice is admittedly inferior, so he can't legitimately claim 50/50 but he should get more than one per album or one per side. I like his voice and think it's interesting. I'm sure there's even kneejerk contrarians out there who would say his voice is superior to Tilbrook's