johnnyguitar

I've panicked now...I hope no-one thinks I'm being mean...just honest...I'll post my re-write of the lyric once I've got it to fit the tune that's circulating in my head...it's just such a good lyric, but I could never sing a line like 'loved that I turned her on'....honest, if you saw me you'd know why...I look like a Klingon. (well, my wife might disagree...but I did have to vanquish her brothers in hand to hand combat and then prove myself against the Tugarre people of Omega 5 before her father...Lord Snarrrgh of Tekarissh, would allow me to marry her)

Well, I'm going to shamelessly steal some of your lines and put them to a new tune I'm working on...I think some of the lines are brilliant (I love the 'not ryhming stuff' because I just can't do it very well...and you can), however I'm not going to nick them all because for me they didn't all entirely fit together and I'm a bit less twee than you (I mean that in the most appreciative sense...I'm an oaf and I'd just look/sound daft using a word like 'admonishment')...e.g I'd rather say something like 'piss me off' rather than 'admonishment' which, while having less syllables and entirely changing the sense of the line, adds for me a certain 'edge' that, well, I seek. Don't get me wrong, your lyrics are a whole lot better than mine...that's why I'm stealing yours...and, in the vanishingly unlikely event that I would ever make a penny from any song I write...sue me! Great thread...thank you for the 'More Cowbell' link...wonderful

oooooooh! (said in a sort of increasingly high pitched 'get you' kind of way)... any votes for 'Dr.Strangely Strange' ? Gary Moore played for them once or twice....odd hippy band...great name

I think you should note that my question was...well, a question, what with having a question mark after it 'n'all. I was merely enquiring as to (at the risk of repeating myself) where you felt the name Nerve Rack stood in the pantheon of shite names? I'm still none the wiser, although apparently Lou thinks it's cool...and if Lou thinks its cool then its cool with me

So, your old muckers 'Nerve Rack'...where's that stand in the pantheon of shite names then? Also...was it one word or two? I followed them for years and never quite got the hang of it...mind you...I am a bit thick (and long too....fnarr, fnarr)

Similarly impressed, you either know alot more about music than I thought...or more about fish than is healthy...or have more time on your hands than you need.

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Thanks for the tip about uploading...I've never done it before... Hey...it works!

I have several fovourites...perhaps you could share yours? Cod Gave Rock'n'Roll To Me Prawn To Run It's Only Rock'n'Sole...(but I like it). Salmon Chanted Evening That's a Moray and a particular fave...Never Mind the Pollack (also, anything by Pike and Tin of Tuna, Goby Grey or Elvers) (sorry, but I'm VERY bored)

Well, I had 'Unlimited Edition' from 1976 but I think I lent it to one of my brothers...anyway, I haven't listened to it for nearly 30 years...I can only remember one track as being a 'standout' and that was called 'Mother Upduff'. It had a spoken lyric and a storyline worthy of the redoubtable Diggsy himself...as I recollect it involved a family holiday on which Granny dies so they wrap her in a carpet and put her on the roofrack of the car from which she is promptly stolen whilst they continue their holiday...those crazy Krauts eh? The rest was meandering bleeps and shrieks and tin bashing...pretty dire really. Now, Amon Duul 11 ...there was a good Kraut band. 'Live in London' (which I have) is now worth a bloody fortune....well, 15 squid at least . JMHO

Are you saying, in your usual oblique way, that 'Sniff This' was a good name?

Where does Nina Hagen 'sit' in this debate?

My doctor is 6' 7" and has hands the size of basketballs....I've already told him that if I develop any early symptoms of this illness then I'm toast....I'm not letting him anywhere near me! Seriously though...get it checked...the practice nurse is 5'2" and gorgeous....I'm sure she'd lend a hand.

Thanks Sir Paul, this line just does my head in every time I hear it...'in which we live in'...?....in...in..in...aaaargh! and it doesn't rhyme with anything else in the song so why mangle the language to this extent to make it scan?

'Pukkalips Now'....geddit? Definitely my fave stupid band name....formed from the relics of the redoubtable 'Sniff This' (a play on the transiently famous other band 'Take That')who were, in their turn, derived, in the main, from ex-members of 'Swine Before Pearls' (not to be confused with numerous bands calle Pearls Before Swine...which is altogether less funny and more cliched) who actually contained several members of the 'never to be forgotten' 'Lost Chords'...well, I wont forget them anyway

'The Reach' is my fave Fogleberg track...slightly worthy, rather twee singer/songwriter with an ok voice who occasionally hits a nerve with a good lyric and a nice tune...'Another Auld Lang Syne' is a good example...nice little angsty story about meeting an old lover many years later and the 'unspoken' gap that has developed over the years...they never were compatible but, hey, they were young, it was intense...but it would never have worked....would it? JMHO more than

Ooooh, and we wouldn't want that would we? JG

Well, although I'm not as old as Sir Paul, the rules that were around at the time were still around when I was going through school. Nowadays nearly 50% of folk go through higher education. I was one of the 5%....basically, if you did well in your 'O'levels you could CHOOOSE to then go on to take 'A' levels (advanced level) and then, if you did well enough in those you could CHOOSE to go to a University that would accept you...but clearly your choices were partly determined by your economic situation (many people chose to leave school as early as aged 15 to earn money or do an apprentiship in some trade such as Electrician or Plumber...or join the Army, Airforce, Navy etc. or work on Daddy's Farm (qv Montrose, Bad Motor Scooter...and hundreds of other songs). If you failed your exams or did not get good enough results you could stay on and repeat the exams...but, again, somebody had to feed and house you during this period and many people decided they had to leave school and work...my father-in-law was in Singapore working for the Navy when he was the age my oldest son is now (16)....! Seems strange to think that some 'kids' were working thousands of miles from home in the 1950's and 60's...you've got to remember Paul McCartney and John Lennon (and the rest)were born DURING the second World War....the world was very different then and most folk who went to University were from reasonably wealthy families...even if you were very smart and passed all your exams it was unusual to go to University if you were from working class or poor background. Cheers JG

In those days you took an exam at the age of eleven (the Eleven Plus exam, as it was known) to decide which secondary school you went to. You could leave secondary school at 15 without taking any more exams, or, more usually, at 16 after having taken exams called 'O' levels ('Ordinary' levels). A small percentage of students who did well in their 'O' levels would stay at school until 18 and do 'A' levels...they could then leave or go on to University if they did well in their A level exams. In the Beatles days less than 5% of pupils went on to University although many others would go to a 'College' (usually to study Art and start a band...Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, The Beatles...to name a few)....hope that helps.

Well, 'scary-eyed' would make sense...in that it would mean someone with wide 'scary' eyes...I've never heard the song, but 'scare-eyed' would not be a common English phrase, but 'scary-eyed' might be...' 'Square-eyed'...was a popular phrase in the 70's and 80's to mean someone who watched too much television....might be appropriate?

So far so good....my kid's presents all worked straight out of the box, which, considering they were 3 seperate PCs (one laptop and 2 games enabled PCs) all wirelessed up and now (along with my one) all connected to the internet and all working fine (I was dreading having to spend all day screaming at a dumb computer and my kids)is a minor miracle.... Love and merry Xmas to all

Does this make him Dame David Furnish now?

So, this isn't the place for my 'Which Kung Fu that?' joke then....?

....there's some great ones here....anybody want to compile a Christmas 'Best Of' compilation?

....and their music rather vapid. I think we might have a poem here