Music that doesn't suck

[Matty_Vegas]

Don't even know if turns are still being taken, but I'll post a song that I used to have few lines of in my sig tag. Never was a huge fan of the fella who wrote it myself, but it's got to be some of the finest words (and anyone who's been there before as I have knows, truer) strung together among many of my favorite songs. Of course, the version I play almost daily is done by none other than:

One of the greatest covers ever:

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

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that song routinely makes me cry...damnit!!! now i have to listen to it

 

[Matty_Vegas]

this should be an easy one... I think it is funny as all getup

Where's your brand new pretty wife
She might still be inside
Either save her or your cocaine from the fire !!!

 

[Blue Dragon]

this should be an easy one... I think it is funny as all getup

Where's your brand new pretty wife
She might still be inside
Either save her or your cocaine from the fire !!!

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Dead Kennedys - Forest Fire - Plastic Surgery Disasters

Jello Biafra rocks!!! My favorite is Terminal Preppy. That album is great to this day.

hmm... gonna have to think now ....

 

[Blue Dragon]

Dead Kennedys - Forest Fire - Plastic Surgery Disasters

Jello Biafra rocks!!! My favorite is Terminal Preppy. That album is great to this day.

hmm... gonna have to think now ....

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Man, now I have that song stuck in my head....



Ok, here you go:

When they kick down your front door
how are you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
or on the trigger of your gun?

 

[Captain Leafheart]

That's the Clash, but I forget which tune (I'm at work now).
Guns of Brixton?
Incase I'm right, I'll go ahead. If I'm not, just ignore me.

I caugh a train, I met a dame,
she was a hepster and a real gone dame
she was pretty, from New York City,
as we trucked on down that old fair lane;
with a heave and a ho,
Well, I just couldn't let her go,
Get along.
Sweet a little woman, get along,
and be on your way,
Get along,
sweet a little woman, get along
and be on your way
with a heave,
and a ho
well, I just couldn't let her go.

 

[Blue Dragon]

That's the Clash, but I forget which tune (I'm at work now).
Guns of Brixton?
Incase I'm right, I'll go ahead. If I'm not, just ignore me.

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That's right. The Clash - Guns of Brixton - on London Calling

I have no idea what your song is though ...

 

[Matt R]

Keeping it Canadian


Well, the woman said now come into my room
I don't mean to be rude but like it matters
And the woman said now what've you got to lose
It's what you were made to do, that's what matters

The daddy said I'm throwing my bones on you
So what if it was me and not you 'cause like it matters
And the jury said we're throwing the book on you
Would've hung you but for the old fool that's what matters

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Yeah, well no one has gotten my last one yet and y'all are posting new ones... play by the rules, fartheads.

 

[Matt R]

That's the Clash, but I forget which tune (I'm at work now).
Guns of Brixton?
Incase I'm right, I'll go ahead. If I'm not, just ignore me.

I caugh a train, I met a dame,
she was a hepster and a real gone dame
she was pretty, from New York City,
as we trucked on down that old fair lane;
with a heave and a ho,
Well, I just couldn't let her go,
Get along.
Sweet a little woman, get along,
and be on your way,
Get along,
sweet a little woman, get along
and be on your way
with a heave,
and a ho
well, I just couldn't let her go.

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That's Train Kept a Rollin', Yardbirds, but I think some others did it too.....and I don't think it was written by them.

 

[Captain Leafheart]

Correct Matt R.
Written by Johnny Burnett. First done by him and The Rock and Roll Trio (before my time).
Then the Yardbirds (I first heard it by those guys).
Young'uns might be familiar with Aerosmith's version.

 

[Matt R]

Clapton fan, so while Aerosmith's version was more in my "timeframe", I remembered The Yardbirds first.

 

[Blue Dragon]

Keeping it Canadian


Well, the woman said now come into my room
I don't mean to be rude but like it matters
And the woman said now what've you got to lose
It's what you were made to do, that's what matters

The daddy said I'm throwing my bones on you
So what if it was me and not you 'cause like it matters
And the jury said we're throwing the book on you
Would've hung you but for the old fool that's what matters

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Yeah, well no one has gotten my last one yet and y'all are posting new ones... play by the rules, fartheads.

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Oh yea?

Wide Mouth Massons - Tom Robinson

Take that!

I reserve the right to post some obscure lyrics after I get home to dig something good up. :whistling:

 

[AVB]

I stand corrected. :blush:

nope. they both said "sunglasses" and they both said "Wayfarers". the words are the same.

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[Blue Dragon]

I reserve the right to post some obscure lyrics after I get home to dig something good up. :whistling:

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They showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear
and asked which one is different
which one did not belong
they taught me different was wrong

 

[Eshaw99]

I reserve the right to post some obscure lyrics after I get home to dig something good up.  :whistling:

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They showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear
and asked which one is different
which one did not belong
they taught me different was wrong

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"My I.Q."...Ani Difranco if I'm not mistaken.

Here goes:

That's a hell of a hat that you're wearing
Goes real well with your earrings
Five through the nose bold and daring
You got to pardon me if I'm staring

 

[Lopaka]

Here goes:

That's a hell of a hat that you're wearing
Goes real well with your earrings
Five through the nose bold and daring
You got to pardon me if I'm staring

Mighty Mighty Bosstones Hell of a Hat

Here are some more for guessing...

Follow the pale moonlight
Once I wished for this night
Faith brought me here
It`s time to cut the rope and fly

 

[CoventryCat86]

Here are some more for guessing...

Follow the pale moonlight
Once I wished for this night
Faith brought me here
It`s time to cut the rope and fly

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Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders

Now here's one for ya that's you cheaters can't google: :laugh:

For once __ fell in love with a maiden __ _________


Good luck...

 

[Lopaka]

CC, because I love a challange...I couldn't resist.

Captain Kelly's Kitchen

For once he fell in love with a maiden so bewitching

However, I didn't google this...but I did find it on the net...you can put the next lyrics up.

 

[MiamiCubano]

These lyrics are absolutely some of the finest written by one of the, in my eyes anyway, fellas who just doesn't get enough credit in the circle of trad C&W music. This gent was my grand-daddy's third favorite, next to J.C. and Marty Robbins. He also had an INSANE song called "The Rubber Room" which, if you can track it down, is well worth it.

But, this song is as bare-knuckled as it gets, and I have this record, which the cover is absolutely beautiful to, framed and hanging in my pool-table room of my pad. SO, here goes. Enjoy:

I got back in town a day before I'd planned to
I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
I don't think I'll phone,I'll just head on home
'Cause I didn't know the cold hard facts of life

I passed a little wine store on the corner
I pictured pink champagne by candle light
I stopped the car right then,got out and hurried in
My mind not on the cold hard facts of life

A stranger stood there laughing by the counter
He said I'll take two bottles of your best
Her husband's out of town and there's a party
He winked as if to say you know the rest

I left the store two steps behind the stranger
From there to my house,his car stayed in sight
But it wasn't till he turned,into my drive that I learned
I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life

I drove around the block till I was dizzy
Each time the noise came louder from within
And then I saw our bottle there beside me
And I drank a fifth of courage and walked in

Lord you should have seen their frantic faces
They screamed and cried please put away that knife
I guess I'll go to hell,or I'll rot here in this cell
But who taught who the cold hard facts of life

Who taught who the cold hard facts of life

 

[Matty_Vegas]

not too hard..worked in a record store....the artist was the easy part...it is Porter Wagoner (freaking genius)"the Rubber room" is a rather infamous song at the store I worked at...


the song I believe is called something like "the facts of life"...or "the cold hard facts of life" remeber listening to it at work...

edited for spelling

 

[MiamiCubano]

Yeah, Porter Wagoner in his early days was untouchable. Before he really started to get in a race with Kenny Rogers to see who could do the most duets with Dolly Parton that is. But, I can't knock him really.

"The Rubber Room" is a hard find. I've found it buried on some "Desperate R&R" compilations and some Bear Family stuff, but it ranks up there with "Bad News" by Johnny Cash as one of the all-time great songs. That laugh of ol' J.C.'s in "Bad News" is too much.