johnnyguitar
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I'd like to hold your tongue too...or am I not allowed to say that?
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If you are ever...ever...caught in a miserable mood on a rainy day...just put on Rhythm of the Blues...Mary Chapin Carpenter....just keep the razor blades locked up.
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Ok Ok...I'll come clean. This tongue-tied buffoon that I play in order to seduce impressionable babes is a complete con. Actually I have a black belt 7th Dan in the Marital Arts.
Although...nowadays it does occasionally take me all night to do what I used to do all night. As the old saying goes. -
It's not that I'm hard. No, hang on, I didn't mean that...I mean I could be 'hard', but I'm not easy..no, wait a second...what I meant was...It could be easy to be hard with you?...no, err..I'm getting flustered here...put on the CommodoresNot that I'm easy!Sod it...put on Smokie.
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Now...it's Mrs. Potter's Lullaby (Counting Crows)...my head is really screwed...I spoke to 'Mrs Potter' earlier...and it has done my head in again...why do I do this?
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This has got to be one of the hardest things I've ever tried to deal with. (As George said to the policeman!)
Run it past me again..no lyrics and it's in the key of what?..the notes go up and down...errr?
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If it works for you...then I'm willing to experiment.
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I think I know what you mean. Those songs just go on for too long.
But it might bring a whole new meaning to "The Summer of 69"...
My mother was known to love 'Keep On Running' by Spencer Davis, however, on reflection, if you tried it on to that with some laydee she might have cause to think you were a predatory psychopath and it could stifle the mood somewhat. I think I have mentioned before how I was indelibly scarred (and a little scared) when my father bought 'Hot Love' by T-Rex and played it on repeat.....I had to run away from home.
I have always stayed clear of the 'Let's Get it On' end of the seductive spectrum, maybe if I was taller and blacker it might have worked. I preferred to play the 'wistful nerd' ticket (to good effect, I can tell you).
I have to say, the invention of the 12" single upped my game considerably and, by the end of the decade I could just about manage the whole side of a Crusaders album.
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Good point..last time I was 'down with the kids' it led to all sorts of trouble (I'm on some sort of register nowYeah, but you don't want to come across as an old guy trying to be down wit da kids either...May I suggest a little Tim Buckley to show your romantic side...
)Tim B....good call. It worked in the 70's so it should still work now...Dolphins would be my choice.
I wouldn't want to even try and make love to Bryan Adams...if you know what I mean?
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I don't see what the problem with any of these songs is. They suit the mood that is being looked for I think.
I seek to disagree, unless you want to create the idea that you are a boring old fart with nothing in his music collection post 1989, a sad taste in middle aged, middle of the road, claptrap and have the imagination of a whelk...if that's the mood you think will get the lady panting with desire then ...fine.
Me? I'd go for something that showed that I was not only sensitive and shaggable but up-to-date and happening. I want rampant rumpey pumpey based on a lustful appreciation of my eclectic modernity...I don't want to bore the poor girl into submission and get a sympathy shag for the old guy who's lost touch...Wonderful Tonight...my mother wouldn't have put out for that garbage.
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Yeah, that should get the evening off to a good start.
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Today?....Ryhthm of the Blues - Mary Chapin Carpenter.
I'm missing someone.
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Heaven - Bryan Adams.
When You're Gone - Bryan Adams.
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton.
With Or Without You - U2.
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac.
Unless she's about 50 herself I wouldn't bother with any of that old tosh (with deepest respect).
I'd go with something relatively new, good tune, great lyrics, superb 'Claptonesque' solo and a real knicker-dropping ending...hmmm
Gravity - John Mayer
Buy her the album you tightwad.
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No, not really. I'm looking for uplifting lyrics, and music.
Well we haven't been very helpful so far have we....Coldplay? I've seen more uplift in a training bra.
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I'd like to fix them.
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Can't beat a bit of Yo La Tengo...Night Falls on Hoboken is a masterful evocation of...errr, well, night falling...on Hoboken.
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I was strangely moved by God is Dead (Marilyn Manson) in the outro of the first Matrix...it seemed a perfect tune for the film...normally I can't stand his stuff...but it took on a new dimension as a soundtrack.
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Can't beat 'Tapestry' by Carole King (IMHO) best rainy day album ever...first chords of So Far Away and I can't see the rain for the tears...sentimental fool that I am.
If I'm really sad and it rains all day I'll bung on Nick Drake (anything) and reach for the pills and gin.
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Well, I do find the odd, more maudlin tune a tad uplifting from time to time...but not that bollocks you were mentioning...I'd rather throw myself off a bridge than have Bono tell me how to shape up.
Me, I'd probably reach for Mrs. Potters Lullaby (Counting Crows)or, He Thinks He'll Keep Her (Mary Chapin Carpenter)...uplifting tunes...miserable lyrics.
Is that what you're after?
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Albert Stubbins had a perfectly good career and helped Liverpool to their first title in 24 years in his first full season.
He also had a strong USA connection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stubbins
Lennon was rumoured to support Everton...in a rather subdued way.
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That groove one is just plain filth...
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Not so much risque...as hornae.
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Well, I had posted something along the lines of 'I'm glad he's dead, the fat, corrupt, homophobic, racist bastard' on another thread a few days ago (guess which one?)...but for reasons that defeat me, it was deleted...and yet on this thread, other folks fair comment about the demise of the fat, corrupt, racist, homophobic bastard is allowed.
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Go figure.
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I grew up in the environs of the small South Yorkshire town of Doncaster: hardly metropolis. However, if Doncaster has any "claim to fame", it might be that The Sex Pistols played there in 1977 under the sobriquet The SPOTS (Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly) during the time when they were otherwise unable to play due to a nationwide ban.
Being only 12 at the time and mainly into chart-pop, I didn't make it to the gig.
Otherwise, MOR rocker John Parr (once big in the states, virtually unheard of over here, apart from one hit single) originates from Doncaster.
I've lived in Leeds since 1983. Leeds' claims to fame?
Leeds
-is where The Who recorded "Live In Leeds"
-spawned the most excellent Gang Of Four
- is regarded as the Goth Capital of the World, having given birth to The Sisters Of Mercy and a legion of imitators. Now that Goth is a genuinely international (watered-down and widely reviled) phenomenon, people tend to overlook Leeds' pivotal role in the genre's history. In a 4-star album review in the now-defunct music weekly "Sounds", my old band was credited with administering a "life-extinguishing kick in the crutch" to Goth. "Goth is dead! Leeds must suffer no more", gushed the reviewer. Had we ever become famous, that might have been something worth being famous for.
BF...Methinks you engage in a lytotic divertissement vis a vis bands that might claim a Leeds connection....surely some of the below-mentioned might also be worthy of a footnote in rock's history?
Abrasive Wheels
Age of Chance
The Attic Project
Black Wire
The Blueskins
Buen Chico
Christie - Jeff Christie born in Leeds
Chumbawamba
Dead Disco
Duels
Embrace - Actually from Brighouse, near Huddersfield but often talked about as a 'Leeds band'.
The Expelled
¡Forward, Russia!
Girls At Our Best
Hood
Kaiser Chiefs - Ricky Wilson went to Leeds Grammar School and joined with the rest later
The Little Blackhearts
The Isles
The March Violets
The Mekons
The Music - went to or met at Brigshaw High
NerveRack
School.
The Smokestacks
Otherside
Troubled Shooting
Pale Saints
Parisman
Printed Circuit
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Room44
Salvation
Send More Paramedics
Soft Cell
This Et Al
The Three Johns
The Underdogs
Utah Saints
Vib Gyor
The Wedding Present
Your Vegas
Just a thought (or two)
(apologies if you've mentioned any of them in you otiose prose).
Although...nowadays it does occasionally take me all night to do what I used to do all night. As the old saying goes. 
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Isn't Brazil's a fairly chirpy celebration of Brazil?