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You Can't Catch Me
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfx1nZTAuM">You Can't Catch Me</a>, Music and Lyrics by Chuck Berry. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/_/You+Can%27t+Catch+Me">The Stones covered it.</a> John Lennon was<a href="http://www.abbeyrd.net/lenlevy.htm"> sued (twice!)</a> for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdo1jGfzsM">covering it</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e7AQQTONvg">appropriating the lyrics</a>. If Iggy Pop and the Stooges were never sued for doing the same thing as "Come Together" in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7dKnF0coxQ">1970</a>, perhaps it's because nobody could understand what exactly he was saying, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Birdman#Origins">not even the bands that took their names from the adapted lyrics</a>. Perhaps JJ Cale was thinking of the chorus when he wrote <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUBsEMgW5o&feature=related">Call Me The Breeze</a> in 1971. Finally, though Jonothan Richman's "Roadrunner" clearly took inspiration from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4qp3T476co&feature=related">Velvet Underground's Sister Ray </a>and Bo Diddley's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKUt8CtSOI">Road Runner</a>"(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/jul/20/popandrock5">among other things</a>), but, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTT-wj69ObE">as a Berry fan</a>, you can hear Richman echoing the lyrics in the Spirit of 1956 going Faster Miles an Hour, with the radio on, tuned to Rock And Roll. More covers: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_x2I8FQ8Q">Steven Stills</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Blues-Project/dp/samples/B000001EIV/ref=dp_tracks_all_2#disc_2">Blues Project</a>. Lyrics: <strong>Can't Catch Me</strong> I bought a brand new airmobile It was custom made It was a Flight DeVille With an outboard motor And some hideaway wings Push in on the button and you can hear her sing Now you can't catch me No, baby, you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close You know I'm gone like a cool breeze New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours I was rolling slowly 'cause of drizzlin' showers Up come a flattop he was movin' up with me Then come sailin' goodbye In a little old suped up mini I put my foot in my tank and I begin to roll Moanin' sirens, was the state patrol So I get out my wings and then I blew my horn Bye-bye New Jersey I become airborne Now you can't catch me No, baby you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close You know I'm gone like a cool breeze Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night Wasn't no gray cloud floatin' in sight Big full moon shinin' up above Cuddle up honey be my love Sweetest little thing that I ever seen I'm gonna name you Mabelline Flyin' with all the things set on flight control Radio tuned to rock 'n' roll Two, three hours passin' by Altitude dropped to 505 Fuel consumption way too fast Let's get on home before we run out of gas Now you can't catch me No baby, you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close You know I'm gone like a cool breeze <strong>Come together</strong> Here come old flattop. He come grooving up slowly He got ju-ju eyeballs. He's one holy roller He got hair down to his knee Got to be a joker he just do what he please Shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot me! He wear no shoeshine he's got toe-jam football He got monkey finger he shoot Coca-Cola He say "I know you, you know me" One thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come together right now over me. Shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot me! He buy production he got walrus scumble He's got Ono sideboard he's got spinal cracker He's got feet down below his knee Hold you in his arms till you can feel his disease Come together right now over me. He's roller-coaster he's got early warning He's got muddy water he's got mojo filter He say "One and one and one is three" Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see Come together right now over me. <strong>1970</strong> Out of my mind on Saturday night 1970 rollin' in sight Radio burnin' up above Beautiful baby, feed my love All night till I blow away All night till I blow away I feel alright, I feel alright Baby oh baby, burn my heart Baby oh baby, burn my heart Fall apart baby, fall apart Baby oh baby, burn my heart All night till I blow away All night till I blow away I feel alright I feel alright <strong>Roadrunner</strong> Roadrunner, roadrunner Going faster miles an hour Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop With the radio on I'm in love with Massachusetts And the neon when it's cold outside And the highway when it's late at night Got the radio on I'm like the roadrunner Alright I'm in love with modern moonlight 128 when it's dark outside I'm in love with Massachusetts I'm in love with the radio on It helps me from being alone late at night It helps me from being lonely late at night I don't feel so bad now in the car Don't feel so alone, got the radio on Like the roadrunner That's right Said welcome to the spirit of 1956 Patient in the bushes next to '57 The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick Suburban trees, suburban speed And it smells like heaven(thunder) And I say roadrunner once Roadrunner twice I'm in love with rock &amp; roll and I'll be out all night Roadrunner That's right Well now Roadrunner, roadrunner Going faster miles an hour Gonna drive to the Stop 'n' Shop With the radio on at night And me in love with modern moonlight Me in love with modern rock &amp; roll Modern girls and modern rock &amp; roll Don't feel so alone, got the radio on Like the roadrunner
Rhymes with ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay.
<a href="http://www.playgroundjungle.com/">Playground Jungle:</a> <i>The "folk process" in the subversive songs, rhymes, stories and jokes you told when the teacher wasn't around.</i> Visit the whole (growing) collection via the <a href="http://www.playgroundjungle.com/2009/12/index-of-first-lines.html">index of first lines</a>.
Hurricane Chris
Shreveport rapper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Chris_(rapper)">Hurricane Chris</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0PCQYalZU8">performs</a> for the Louisiana State Legislature.
But what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?
<i>"[Jax de Leon's] last project as a student was a graphic representation of every note, word, instrument and voice from <a href="http://www.jaxdeleon.com/illinois/introduction/">Come on, Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens.</a>"</i> Read an <a href="http://perfectlaughter.com/index.php/sufjan-illinois-jax-de-leon/">interview with him here.</a>
Filed under: he said what now?
<a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/">Snacks and Shit</a> - The <a href="http://www.noroomservicejustsnacksandshit.com/2009/02/1_05.html">premise</a> is simple: A single hip-hop <a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/71.html">l</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/75.html">y</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/32.html">r</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/25.html">i</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/58.html">c</a>, taken out of context, with bonus commentary.
Enter Sandkitty
<a href="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6798/af20907621cbf76cee7547eco9.jpg">Herein</a> lies a link to a JPG of LOLcats representing the famous Metallica lyrics. (<a href="http://status.metafilter.com/">Again</a> 'cause I can't help myself.) You have to zoom in when the page loads.
National Anthems of the World
Have you ever wondered what the national anthem of Bolivia, Nepal or The Republic of Seychelles sounded like? Well wonder no more because <a href="http://www.nationalanthems.info/">NationalAnthems.info</a> has got you covered! It claims to have the national anthem for every country in the world in MIDI format, along with downloadable lyrics and sheet music so you can sing and play along. But if the MIDI format isn't doing it for you, there's also other sites that you can visit that have downloadable MP3s of pretty much every national anthem this planet and its inhabitants have to offer, <a href="http://www.national-anthems.net/">such as this one</a> or <a href="http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/national_anthems.htm">this one</a>, which is notable in that the anthems featured there were performed by the US Navy Band. And finally, for your further reading and listening pleasure, <a href="http://www.nationalanthems.us/">check out this forum</a> which contains background information on and even more links to downloadable national anthems.
Prewar Blues Lyrics &amp; Dylan Lyrics Concordances 'N Stuff
The things I like best about Michael Taft's <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/michael%20taft,%20blues%20anthology.txt.WebConcordance/framconc.htm" title="">Prewar Blues Lyrics Concordance</a>, a subsection of T. G. Lindh's <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/concordance_meny.html" title="&#0169; Copyright TG Lindh , all rights reserved ">Web Concordances of Pre-War Blue Lyrics and Bob Dylan Lyrics</a>, are the listings of the lyrics by singer: <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesA_C/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20A-C.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - A - C">A - C</a>, <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesD_H/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20D-H.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - D - H">D - H</a>, <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesJ_L/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20J-L.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - J - L">J - L</a>, <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesM_R/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20M-R.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - M - R">M - R</a> and <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesS_Y/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20index%20by%20Artist%20S-Y.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - S - Y">S - Y</a>. And the nice thing about the blues lyrics is you don't need to ask for a log in and password. It 's all right there. Explore and enjoy. <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/cncintro.htm" title="''Its simplest use is as an index, to locate quickly any passage in a text. All you need to know is one word from the passage: look up that word in a concordance to the text and you will find the passage.''"><em>What is a Concordance ?</em></a> you may ask. Well, woot, there it is: <em>A concordance is a comprehensive index of the words used in a text or a body of texts. </em>. See also <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm" title="This site is devoted to the study of literature using literary computer concordances, a form of analysing text. This document will attempt to help students understand what is meant by literary concordancing and will ask questions about featured Romantic writers which may be answered by using the English department concordance site.">The Web Concordances and Workbooks</a>. Not to mention the less scholary, more incomplete and occasionally rather dubious <a href="http://www.federalcigarjugband.com/Pages/glossary.html" title="What follows is an excerpt from the dictionary portion of The Jug Band Dictionary and Companion&#0169;. The Jug Band Dictionary and Companion&#0169; is a work in progress by Federal Cigar Jug Band bass player/juggist, Bill Boslaugh -- the completed work is expected sometime in the (not too?) distant future. ">Jug Band Dictionary</a>, as the etymologies of some words therein are sometimes more folk than the author realizes...
Lyrical visuals
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/658158">Solar, with lyrics.</a> A very pretty, surprisingly wordy video. <a href="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5558">(via)</a>
Protest Songs
So are you ready to march on Washington to protest in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_song">song</a>? Here are some <a href="http://www.ocap.ca/lyrics.html">lyrics</a>. Some <a href="http://www.brownielocks.com/sixtieswarsongs.html">examples</a> from the 60's. Something <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-op0vyUhkE">sweet</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>. Speaking of Zimmermans, here's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlUyNmUABbc">Roy's</a> take on Iraq. Roy is new to me, but <a href="http://royzimmerman.com/">apparently</a> he protests in song about a lot of stuff.
Famous First Words
<a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">The 25 Best Pop Song Opening Lyrics, like EVER</a> - a spinner.com 'hit list', complete with wry commentary and abruptly cut-off audio clips. Bonus: <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">25 more</a>, suggested by people who don't work for the webside. If you are as annoyed by the one-item-per-page format as I am (and if you don't have AdBlock, the video ads are extra annoying), here they all are sorted by artist name: 50 Cent <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-22/">#22</a>, Fiona Apple <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-24/">#24</a>, The Beatles <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-4/">#4</a> <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-11/">R11</a>, Beck <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-7/">#7</a>, Bon Jovi <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-10/">#10</a>, Johnny Cash <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-13/">R13</a>, The Carpenters <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-6/">#6</a>, Elvis Costello <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-11/">#11</a>, The Doors <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-8/">R8</a>, The Eagles <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-14/">R14</a>, Erik B and Rakim <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-12/">R12</a>, Merle Haggard <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-18/">#18</a>, Jimi Hendrix <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-14/">#14</a>, Human League <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">#25</a>, Michael Jackson <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-15/">#15</a>, Joe Jackson <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-5/">R5</a>, Rick James <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-1/">#1</a>, Jefferson Airplane <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-18/">R18</a>, Led Zeppelin <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-10/">R10</a>, Jerry Lee Lewis <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-24/">R24</a>, LL Cool J <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-5/">#5</a>, Lynyrd Skynyrd <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-6/">R6</a>, Madonna <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-21/">R21</a>, George Michael <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-19/">#19</a>, Nirvana <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-19/">R19</a>, Roy Orbison <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-12/">#12</a>, Ozzy Osbourne <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-23/">R23</a>, Pavement <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-16/">#16</a>, Carl Perkins <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-8/">#8</a>, Tom Petty <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-20/">R20</a>, Prince <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-17/">#17</a> <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">R25</a>, The Ramones <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-3/">#3</a>, Otis Redding <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-15/">R15</a>, The Righteous Brothers <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-23/">#23</a>, The Rolling Stones <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-2/">#2</a> <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-1/">R1</a>, Bob Seger <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-17/">R17</a>, The Sex Pistols <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-20/">#20</a>, Simon &amp; Garfunkel <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-21/">#21</a>, Paul Simon <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-22/">R22</a>, Sir Mix-A-Lot (!?!) <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-2/">R2</a>, The Smiths <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-16/">R16</a>, Patti Smith <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-9/">#9</a>, Bruce Springsteen <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-4/">R4</a>, Rod Stewart <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-7/">R7</a>, Three Dog Night (?)<a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-3/">R3</a>,Weezer <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-13/">#13</a>, Warren Zevon <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-9/">R9</a>.
Carlos Gardel and the Tango
<a href="http://www.gardelweb.com/index-english.htm">Carlos Gardel was a singer</a> who became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carlos_Gardel_Abasto_Buenos_Aires.jpg">national icon of Argentina</a>. <a href="http://www.gardelweb.com/Gardel_music.htm">He sang<a href="http://www.totango.net/ttindex.html"> the tango </a>among other styles, but would now be most famous for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHhSVJ_S6A">this</a>, which was originally <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrDh5OLS-M">this</a>. (<a href="http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/porunaca.htm">Lyrics here</a>.) For those of you who think this is all too romantic, listen to <a href="http://www.todotango.com/spanish/biblioteca/letras/letra.asp?idletra=154">another side of tango</a>...(<a href="http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/cambalac.htm">Translation here</a>.)</a>
Bomb the Bass
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHsp1Sn5-M">Bug Powder Dust</a> <br><a href="http://www.sauna.org/kiulu/powder.html">Lyrics</a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_The_Bass">Bomb the Bass</a>
Great Russian Voices
<a href="http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/">Giants of Soviet opera are little known in the West.</a> But Victor Han has taken it upon himself to keep their memory alive....my personal favorite is <a href="http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/Reizen/index.htm">Mark</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afLLdU8Odfs">Reizen</a>, a deeply nuanced bass, who was powerful enough to carry on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MzO56PmjQ4">singing into his ninth decade</a>. If you'd care to follow along with some of the songs, you can use Emily Ezust's <a href="http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/">massive archive of lyrics</a>, to which Victor contributes. Or, try listening in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ch6dmen2k">English</a> first. Too much music? <a href="http://www.vor.ru/English/Music_Portraits/Music_Portraite_06.html">Here's some reading</a>.
Haaaaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! The Laughing Policeman!
<a href="http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/sing_along.htm">When I was a kid, my dad, who grew up in London, during the Blitz, used to play this old record: a song called "The Laughing Policeman."</a> It always put a smile on my face. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Policeman_%28song%29">Wikipedia</a>, it was written in 1922 by Charles Jolly, who wrote "numerous other laughing songs (The Laughing Major, Curate, Steeplechaser, Typist, Lover, etc)." If you want to hear the happiest policeman ever, <a href="http://www.radiocraft.co.uk/laughiiceman.mp3">here's the mp3</a>. The song has inspired <a href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/l/laughing_policeman.asp">cartoonists</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752847724/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">mystery novelists</a> (great series, by the way!), <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0070292/">filmmakers</a>, a <a href="http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/recordings-laughingpoliceman.html">more-recent recording</a> (<a href="http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/sound/mallett2.mp3">mp3</a>), and, inevitably, some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH1Atggwzfc">scary</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HAD1fcPDOM&mode=related&search=">people</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpvYV32eQIQ&mode=related&search=">on</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYEIcPPEydk&mode=related&search=">youtube</a>. Speaking of youtube, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPkrkT6BVQ">this</a> is how I remember the song.
Paroles, Paroles, Paroles...
<a href="http://lyricwiki.org/Main_Page">LyricsWiki</a> is the place to find reliable lyrics without invasive ads. <a href="http://www.songmeanings.net/">SongMeanings</a> when you've been wondering what those lyrics mean. <a href="http://www.kissthisguy.com/">The Archive of Misheard Lyrics</a> because sometimes your version is much better than the original.
Songophobia
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2006/09/29/jarvis_cocker_w.html">What inoffensive songs do people find scary?</a> A list asked for by a curious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker">Jarvis Cocker</a>, former frontman of the band Pulp. <br>My favorite entry:<br>"Laughing Gnome - Bowie. Scared the crap out of me as a kid. I remember getting my parents to check under the bed. My father, a bit of an evil electronics bastard put a speaker under my bed one night and played the song just as I was drifting off. He then ran in when I started screaming and pulled out a doll from under the bead and chopped its head off with a machete. God I need therapy."
Bob Dylan Annnotated and Tablaturated
Artur J's <a href="http://republika.pl/bobdylan/lat/" title="'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.' - The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism T.S. Eliot">Annotated Lyrics of Bob Dylans Love and Theft</a> has expanded and now features Annotated lyrics for <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/streetl/index.html" title="Street Legal comes the closest to where my music is going, you know. It has to do with an illusion of time, I mean, what the songs are necessarily about is the illusions of time.- Bob Dylan 1978">Street Legal</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/kol/" title="'I’m thinking about calling this album Knocked Out Loaded. Is that any good, you think, Knocked Out Loaded?' - Bob Dylan 1986 (to Mikal Gilmore">Knocked Out Loaded</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/ohmercy/index.html" title="'Most of [Oh Mercy songs] are stream-of-consciousness songs; the kind that come to you in the middle of the night, when you just want to go back to bed.'- Bob Dylan, 1989">Oh, Mercy</a> and <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/mt/index.html" title="'I'd make this record no matter what was going on in the world. I wrote these songs in not a meditative state at all, but more like in a trancelike, hypnotic state. This is how I feel? Why do I feel like that? And who's the me that feels this way? I couldn't tell you that, either. But I know that those songs are just in my genes and I couldn't stop them comin' out.' - Bob Dylan 2006">Modern Times</a>. And he is already on top of Dylan's quotes of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/arts/music/14dyla.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin" title="But maybe you've heard his words, if you're one of the 320,000 people so far who have bought Bob Dylan's latest album, 'Modern Times,' which made its debut last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. It seems that many of the lyrics on that album, Mr. Dylan's first No. 1 album in 30 years (down to No. 3 this week), bear some strong echoes to the poems of Timrod, a Charleston native who wrote poems about the Civil War and died in 1867 at the age of 39. ">Henry Timrod</a> on the new album. On a related tip, someone waved a lawyer at Eyolf &#0216;strem, so he removed all his tabs from his Dylan tablature site, <a href="http://www.dylanchords.com/" title="My Back Pages Bob Dylan - Chords and lyrics - For chords, go to one of the mirrors. The rest you may still find here">My Back Pages</a>. But, fortunately there are some mirrors and the blog of <a href="http://dylanchords.info/" title="Aug 26: Didn’t I say it? And it was so. I was going to wait until the official release date, but since a) I am going away for a week, and b) most people seem to have it already, I figured: why wait any longer? Modern Times it is.">this one</a> has a tab page for Modern Times already.
It's like 10 000 spoons when all you need is a knife
<a href="http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid14634.aspx">32 worst lyrics of all time</a>
Gracenote.com announces legal lyrics downloads
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/14/BUG1MJUJOT29.DTL">An end to</a> <a href="http://www.kissthisguy.com/">mondegreens?</a> It looks like <a href="http://www.gracenote.com/">Gracenote</a>, the company behind the <a href="http://www.mp3-converter.com/faq/cddb.htm">CDDB</a> (CD database), is looking to enhance your music-listening experience by providing an expansive and "legitimate" lyrics database <a href="http://www.betanews.com/article/Gracenote_Inks_Deal_to_Offer_Lyrics/1152903017">in association with major on-line digital music providers</a>. Will this be the end of the road for <a href="http://www.mredkj.com/other/lyrics-illegal2.html">existing lyrics sites</a>? <small>[more inside]</small>
i was standing by the window
Made most popular to many Americans as the closing song for the Grand Ole Opry programs, Will The Circle Be Unbroken was written in 1907 by Ada Habershon, an intensely religious young woman and acquaintance of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Moody">Dwight Moody</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_David_Sankey">Ira David Sankey</a>. The music was "composed" by <a href="http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/501300335">Charles Gabriel</a>, a popular songwriter and composer of the era who is often solely credited with the song, but while he may have put the notes down on paper, the tune itself already existed as the African-American spiritual Glory Glory / Since I Laid My Burden Down. [lots more inside]
Music CopyRight Cops Strike Again
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm">Now they're after the lyrics.</a> The MPA isn't stopping at the MP3 files.
Singhing the blues
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1581445,00.html">When science meets art.</a> Science writer <a href="http://www.simonsingh.com/">Simon Singh</a> was annoyed with the lyrics to British singer <a href="http://www.katiemelua.com/">Katie Melua</a>'s latest single. He rewrote them to be scientifically accurate, and she sings <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today1_melua_20051015.ram">the unfortunate result</a> (RealAudio file).
the saddest song I've ever heard
<a href="http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa/asiwoits.htm"><i>The Streets of Laredo: The Cowboy's Lament</i></a> was originally written as the Irish drover balled <i>Bard of Armaugh</i> (or <i><a href="http://www.ierland.com/lyrics/bard_of_armagh.txt">Armagh</a></i>), which later mutated into <i>A Handful of Laurel</i>, about a young man dying of syphilis in a London hospital, musing back on his days in the alehouses and whorehouses. Immigrants settling in the Appalachians brought their own version, <i><a href="http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7101">The Unfortunate Rake</a></i>, sung as early as 1790, about a young soldier dying of mercury poisoning, a result of treatment for venereal disease, who requests a military funeral - a slight but important evolution from the previous version. The current lyrics are most popularly attributed to cowboy <a href="http://www.cowboypoetry.com/fhmaynard.htm">Frances Henry "Frank" Maynard</a>, who copyrighted them in 1879. While various <a href="http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46310">versions</a> of the song were popular in the US before Maynard took pen to paper and needle to wax cylinder (under such titles as <i><a href="http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3672">Locke Hospital</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5525">St. James Infirmary Blues</a></i>, <i>Tom Sherman's Bar</i> and <i>Way Down in Lodorra</i>), his version is the one with which we are most familiar today.</br> </br> <i>beat the drum slowly, play the fife lowly / sound the death march as you carry me along / cover my body in sweet-smelling posies / for I'm the young</i> (rake, soldier, man, girl, lass, etc) <i>cut down in</i> (his/her) <i>prime</i> (or <i>and I know I've done wrong</i>)</br> </br> The song has been recorded by pretty much every country, western and folk-identified musical artist since recording music became practical, although the most popular versions must be those by <a href="http://www.arlo.net/bio.shtml">Arlo Guthrie</a> (who once said it was "the saddest song I know," and who sings it on his album <i>Son of the Wind</i>) and <a href="http://www.johnnycash.com/Cashcareer.htm">Johnny Cash</a> (who added <a href="http://www.lyricsdepot.com/johnny-cash/streets-of-laredo.html">a few verses</a> to his 1965 version, improving the song a bit and making it more emotionally complex). <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/search/individ.php?mid=103">Roger McGuinn's</a> creative commons-licensed version is one of my personal favorites, as is Bobby Sutliff's <a href="http://www.houseofideas.com/bobby_sutliff/sound.htm">version</a>.
People have a problem with me, cause I ain't lazy...
<a href="http://www.pegcity.com/images/bastidpipismitty.mov">"I Ain't Lazy"</a> (lyrics NSFW) featuring <a href="http://www.skratchbastid.com/">Skratch Bastid</a>, <a href="http://www.peanutsandcorn.com/artists/johnsmith.html">John Smith</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.peanutsandcorn.com/artists/pipskid.html">Pip Skid</a>. A day-in-the-life indie hip-hop video directed by Jason Lapeyre featuring another top notch crew of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40944">PCRs</a>.

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John Lennon: He Asked To Give Peace A Chance
Copyright 2006 Robert Benson

He dreamed of world peace. He was an artist, poet and an outspoken voice of the hippie generation. He was an influential musician, a peace activist, an absent father and a devoted lover and husband. He abused alcohol and drugs, sneered at normality, yet took time off from his rock and roll career to raise his son. But most of all, he was a Beatle. He was and still is, John Winston Lennon.

Born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940, John Lennon was shot to death on December 8, 1980 by a fanatical fan. The world mourned his death as millions grieved for the man who was the heart and soul of the world's best rock and roll band, the Beatles.

He had an unusual childhood, shuttled back and forth between his mother Julia and her sister Mimi. John eventually spent his formative years with his aunt Mimi and Uncle George and as Mimi recalls, “His mind was going the whole time, and it was either drawing, or writing poetry, or reading.”

Yet, he was an unruly, stubborn and a disobedient, troubled youth. He failed at art school, yet swore to his aunt that "one of these days I'm going to be famous and you'll be sorry.” John had a premonition of things to come, as he knew he was a bit different than most people. As he looked back, he explained: “I always knew I was going to make it, but I wasn’t sure in what manifestation. I knew it was just a matter of time.”

There are many words to describe John Lennon. He called himself a leader, yet did some of his best work alone. He was an alleged wife beater, very outspoken, often putting out controversial quotes to the media; either to make a point or just to be outlandish. But when he spoke, people listened. The Beatles pushed musical boundaries further than any other group. They quit touring. Their last concert was in San Francisco at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966. They were that big. But, John thought that the concerts had just become a freak show, no one could hear the music and the only reason to be the Beatles was to make and play the music.

The decision to quit touring also came on the heels of one of the most controversial quotes in rock and roll history. In an interview, John made the mistake of saying that the Beatles were more

You Can't Catch Me
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfx1nZTAuM">You Can't Catch Me</a>, Music and Lyrics by Chuck Berry. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Rolling+Stones/_/You+Can%27t+Catch+Me">The Stones covered it.</a> John Lennon was<a href="http://www.abbeyrd.net/lenlevy.htm"> sued (twice!)</a> for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdo1jGfzsM">covering it</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e7AQQTONvg">appropriating the lyrics</a>. If Iggy Pop and the Stooges were never sued for doing the same thing as "Come Together" in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7dKnF0coxQ">1970</a>, perhaps it's because nobody could understand what exactly he was saying, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Birdman#Origins">not even the bands that took their names from the adapted lyrics</a>. Perhaps JJ Cale was thinking of the chorus when he wrote <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVUBsEMgW5o&feature=related">Call Me The Breeze</a> in 1971. Finally, though Jonothan Richman's "Roadrunner" clearly took inspiration from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4qp3T476co&feature=related">Velvet Underground's Sister Ray </a>and Bo Diddley's "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKUt8CtSOI">Road Runner</a>"(<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/jul/20/popandrock5">among other things</a>), but, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTT-wj69ObE">as a Berry fan</a>, you can hear Richman echoing the lyrics in the Spirit of 1956 going Faster Miles an Hour, with the radio on, tuned to Rock And Roll. More covers: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3_x2I8FQ8Q">Steven Stills</a>. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-Blues-Project/dp/samples/B000001EIV/ref=dp_tracks_all_2#disc_2">Blues Project</a>. Lyrics: <strong>Can't Catch Me</strong> I bought a brand new airmobile It was custom made It was a Flight DeVille With an outboard motor And some hideaway wings Push in on the button and you can hear her sing Now you can't catch me No, baby, you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close You know I'm gone like a cool breeze New Jersey Turnpike in the wee wee hours I was rolling slowly 'cause of drizzlin' showers Up come a flattop he was movin' up with me Then come sailin' goodbye In a little old suped up mini I put my foot in my tank and I begin to roll Moanin' sirens, was the state patrol So I get out my wings and then I blew my horn Bye-bye New Jersey I become airborne Now you can't catch me No, baby you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close You know I'm gone like a cool breeze Flyin' with my baby last Saturday night Wasn't no gray cloud floatin' in sight Big full moon shinin' up above Cuddle up honey be my love Sweetest little thing that I ever seen I'm gonna name you Mabelline Flyin' with all the things set on flight control Radio tuned to rock 'n' roll Two, three hours passin' by Altitude dropped to 505 Fuel consumption way too fast Let's get on home before we run out of gas Now you can't catch me No baby, you can't catch me 'Cause if you get too close You know I'm gone like a cool breeze <strong>Come together</strong> Here come old flattop. He come grooving up slowly He got ju-ju eyeballs. He's one holy roller He got hair down to his knee Got to be a joker he just do what he please Shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot me! He wear no shoeshine he's got toe-jam football He got monkey finger he shoot Coca-Cola He say "I know you, you know me" One thing I can tell you is you got to be free Come together right now over me. Shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot me! He buy production he got walrus scumble He's got Ono sideboard he's got spinal cracker He's got feet down below his knee Hold you in his arms till you can feel his disease Come together right now over me. He's roller-coaster he's got early warning He's got muddy water he's got mojo filter He say "One and one and one is three" Got to be good looking 'cause he's so hard to see Come together right now over me. <strong>1970</strong> Out of my mind on Saturday night 1970 rollin' in sight Radio burnin' up above Beautiful baby, feed my love All night till I blow away All night till I blow away I feel alright, I feel alright Baby oh baby, burn my heart Baby oh baby, burn my heart Fall apart baby, fall apart Baby oh baby, burn my heart All night till I blow away All night till I blow away I feel alright I feel alright <strong>Roadrunner</strong> Roadrunner, roadrunner Going faster miles an hour Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop With the radio on I'm in love with Massachusetts And the neon when it's cold outside And the highway when it's late at night Got the radio on I'm like the roadrunner Alright I'm in love with modern moonlight 128 when it's dark outside I'm in love with Massachusetts I'm in love with the radio on It helps me from being alone late at night It helps me from being lonely late at night I don't feel so bad now in the car Don't feel so alone, got the radio on Like the roadrunner That's right Said welcome to the spirit of 1956 Patient in the bushes next to '57 The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick Suburban trees, suburban speed And it smells like heaven(thunder) And I say roadrunner once Roadrunner twice I'm in love with rock &amp; roll and I'll be out all night Roadrunner That's right Well now Roadrunner, roadrunner Going faster miles an hour Gonna drive to the Stop 'n' Shop With the radio on at night And me in love with modern moonlight Me in love with modern rock &amp; roll Modern girls and modern rock &amp; roll Don't feel so alone, got the radio on Like the roadrunner
Rhymes with ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay.
<a href="http://www.playgroundjungle.com/">Playground Jungle:</a> <i>The "folk process" in the subversive songs, rhymes, stories and jokes you told when the teacher wasn't around.</i> Visit the whole (growing) collection via the <a href="http://www.playgroundjungle.com/2009/12/index-of-first-lines.html">index of first lines</a>.
Hurricane Chris
Shreveport rapper <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Chris_(rapper)">Hurricane Chris</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0PCQYalZU8">performs</a> for the Louisiana State Legislature.
But what would Frank Lloyd Wright say?
<i>"[Jax de Leon's] last project as a student was a graphic representation of every note, word, instrument and voice from <a href="http://www.jaxdeleon.com/illinois/introduction/">Come on, Feel the Illinoise! by Sufjan Stevens.</a>"</i> Read an <a href="http://perfectlaughter.com/index.php/sufjan-illinois-jax-de-leon/">interview with him here.</a>
Filed under: he said what now?
<a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/">Snacks and Shit</a> - The <a href="http://www.noroomservicejustsnacksandshit.com/2009/02/1_05.html">premise</a> is simple: A single hip-hop <a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/71.html">l</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/75.html">y</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/32.html">r</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/25.html">i</a><a href="http://www.snacksandshit.com/2009/02/58.html">c</a>, taken out of context, with bonus commentary.
Enter Sandkitty
<a href="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/6798/af20907621cbf76cee7547eco9.jpg">Herein</a> lies a link to a JPG of LOLcats representing the famous Metallica lyrics. (<a href="http://status.metafilter.com/">Again</a> 'cause I can't help myself.) You have to zoom in when the page loads.
National Anthems of the World
Have you ever wondered what the national anthem of Bolivia, Nepal or The Republic of Seychelles sounded like? Well wonder no more because <a href="http://www.nationalanthems.info/">NationalAnthems.info</a> has got you covered! It claims to have the national anthem for every country in the world in MIDI format, along with downloadable lyrics and sheet music so you can sing and play along. But if the MIDI format isn't doing it for you, there's also other sites that you can visit that have downloadable MP3s of pretty much every national anthem this planet and its inhabitants have to offer, <a href="http://www.national-anthems.net/">such as this one</a> or <a href="http://www.navyband.navy.mil/anthems/national_anthems.htm">this one</a>, which is notable in that the anthems featured there were performed by the US Navy Band. And finally, for your further reading and listening pleasure, <a href="http://www.nationalanthems.us/">check out this forum</a> which contains background information on and even more links to downloadable national anthems.
Prewar Blues Lyrics &amp; Dylan Lyrics Concordances 'N Stuff
The things I like best about Michael Taft's <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/michael%20taft,%20blues%20anthology.txt.WebConcordance/framconc.htm" title="">Prewar Blues Lyrics Concordance</a>, a subsection of T. G. Lindh's <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/concordance_meny.html" title="&#0169; Copyright TG Lindh , all rights reserved ">Web Concordances of Pre-War Blue Lyrics and Bob Dylan Lyrics</a>, are the listings of the lyrics by singer: <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesA_C/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20A-C.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - A - C">A - C</a>, <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesD_H/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20D-H.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - D - H">D - H</a>, <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesJ_L/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20J-L.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - J - L">J - L</a>, <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesM_R/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20Index%20by%20Artist%20M-R.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - M - R">M - R</a> and <a href="http://www.dylan61.se/MTBluesS_Y/Michael%20Taft,%20Blues%20Anthology%20with%20index%20by%20Artist%20S-Y.htm" title="Pre-war Blues Lyric Poetry: an Anthology - S - Y">S - Y</a>. And the nice thing about the blues lyrics is you don't need to ask for a log in and password. It 's all right there. Explore and enjoy. <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/cncintro.htm" title="''Its simplest use is as an index, to locate quickly any passage in a text. All you need to know is one word from the passage: look up that word in a concordance to the text and you will find the passage.''"><em>What is a Concordance ?</em></a> you may ask. Well, woot, there it is: <em>A concordance is a comprehensive index of the words used in a text or a body of texts. </em>. See also <a href="http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm" title="This site is devoted to the study of literature using literary computer concordances, a form of analysing text. This document will attempt to help students understand what is meant by literary concordancing and will ask questions about featured Romantic writers which may be answered by using the English department concordance site.">The Web Concordances and Workbooks</a>. Not to mention the less scholary, more incomplete and occasionally rather dubious <a href="http://www.federalcigarjugband.com/Pages/glossary.html" title="What follows is an excerpt from the dictionary portion of The Jug Band Dictionary and Companion&#0169;. The Jug Band Dictionary and Companion&#0169; is a work in progress by Federal Cigar Jug Band bass player/juggist, Bill Boslaugh -- the completed work is expected sometime in the (not too?) distant future. ">Jug Band Dictionary</a>, as the etymologies of some words therein are sometimes more folk than the author realizes...
Lyrical visuals
<a href="http://www.vimeo.com/658158">Solar, with lyrics.</a> A very pretty, surprisingly wordy video. <a href="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=5558">(via)</a>
Protest Songs
So are you ready to march on Washington to protest in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protest_song">song</a>? Here are some <a href="http://www.ocap.ca/lyrics.html">lyrics</a>. Some <a href="http://www.brownielocks.com/sixtieswarsongs.html">examples</a> from the 60's. Something <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-op0vyUhkE">sweet</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>. Speaking of Zimmermans, here's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlUyNmUABbc">Roy's</a> take on Iraq. Roy is new to me, but <a href="http://royzimmerman.com/">apparently</a> he protests in song about a lot of stuff.
Famous First Words
<a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">The 25 Best Pop Song Opening Lyrics, like EVER</a> - a spinner.com 'hit list', complete with wry commentary and abruptly cut-off audio clips. Bonus: <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">25 more</a>, suggested by people who don't work for the webside. If you are as annoyed by the one-item-per-page format as I am (and if you don't have AdBlock, the video ads are extra annoying), here they all are sorted by artist name: 50 Cent <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-22/">#22</a>, Fiona Apple <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-24/">#24</a>, The Beatles <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-4/">#4</a> <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-11/">R11</a>, Beck <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-7/">#7</a>, Bon Jovi <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-10/">#10</a>, Johnny Cash <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-13/">R13</a>, The Carpenters <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-6/">#6</a>, Elvis Costello <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-11/">#11</a>, The Doors <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-8/">R8</a>, The Eagles <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-14/">R14</a>, Erik B and Rakim <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-12/">R12</a>, Merle Haggard <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-18/">#18</a>, Jimi Hendrix <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-14/">#14</a>, Human League <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">#25</a>, Michael Jackson <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-15/">#15</a>, Joe Jackson <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-5/">R5</a>, Rick James <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-1/">#1</a>, Jefferson Airplane <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-18/">R18</a>, Led Zeppelin <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-10/">R10</a>, Jerry Lee Lewis <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-24/">R24</a>, LL Cool J <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-5/">#5</a>, Lynyrd Skynyrd <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-6/">R6</a>, Madonna <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-21/">R21</a>, George Michael <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-19/">#19</a>, Nirvana <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-19/">R19</a>, Roy Orbison <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-12/">#12</a>, Ozzy Osbourne <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-23/">R23</a>, Pavement <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-16/">#16</a>, Carl Perkins <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-8/">#8</a>, Tom Petty <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-20/">R20</a>, Prince <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-17/">#17</a> <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-25/">R25</a>, The Ramones <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-3/">#3</a>, Otis Redding <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-15/">R15</a>, The Righteous Brothers <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-23/">#23</a>, The Rolling Stones <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-2/">#2</a> <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-1/">R1</a>, Bob Seger <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-17/">R17</a>, The Sex Pistols <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-20/">#20</a>, Simon &amp; Garfunkel <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-21/">#21</a>, Paul Simon <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-22/">R22</a>, Sir Mix-A-Lot (!?!) <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-2/">R2</a>, The Smiths <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-16/">R16</a>, Patti Smith <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-9/">#9</a>, Bruce Springsteen <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-4/">R4</a>, Rod Stewart <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-7/">R7</a>, Three Dog Night (?)<a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-3/">R3</a>,Weezer <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/06/best-opening-lyrics-no-13/">#13</a>, Warren Zevon <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2007/08/24/readers-best-opening-lyrics-no-9/">R9</a>.
Carlos Gardel and the Tango
<a href="http://www.gardelweb.com/index-english.htm">Carlos Gardel was a singer</a> who became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Carlos_Gardel_Abasto_Buenos_Aires.jpg">national icon of Argentina</a>. <a href="http://www.gardelweb.com/Gardel_music.htm">He sang<a href="http://www.totango.net/ttindex.html"> the tango </a>among other styles, but would now be most famous for <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHhSVJ_S6A">this</a>, which was originally <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGrDh5OLS-M">this</a>. (<a href="http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/porunaca.htm">Lyrics here</a>.) For those of you who think this is all too romantic, listen to <a href="http://www.todotango.com/spanish/biblioteca/letras/letra.asp?idletra=154">another side of tango</a>...(<a href="http://www.planet-tango.com/lyrics/cambalac.htm">Translation here</a>.)</a>
Bomb the Bass
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncHsp1Sn5-M">Bug Powder Dust</a> <br><a href="http://www.sauna.org/kiulu/powder.html">Lyrics</a>, by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_The_Bass">Bomb the Bass</a>
Great Russian Voices
<a href="http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/">Giants of Soviet opera are little known in the West.</a> But Victor Han has taken it upon himself to keep their memory alive....my personal favorite is <a href="http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/Reizen/index.htm">Mark</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afLLdU8Odfs">Reizen</a>, a deeply nuanced bass, who was powerful enough to carry on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MzO56PmjQ4">singing into his ninth decade</a>. If you'd care to follow along with some of the songs, you can use Emily Ezust's <a href="http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/">massive archive of lyrics</a>, to which Victor contributes. Or, try listening in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-ch6dmen2k">English</a> first. Too much music? <a href="http://www.vor.ru/English/Music_Portraits/Music_Portraite_06.html">Here's some reading</a>.
Haaaaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! The Laughing Policeman!
<a href="http://www.laughingpoliceman.com/sing_along.htm">When I was a kid, my dad, who grew up in London, during the Blitz, used to play this old record: a song called "The Laughing Policeman."</a> It always put a smile on my face. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Laughing_Policeman_%28song%29">Wikipedia</a>, it was written in 1922 by Charles Jolly, who wrote "numerous other laughing songs (The Laughing Major, Curate, Steeplechaser, Typist, Lover, etc)." If you want to hear the happiest policeman ever, <a href="http://www.radiocraft.co.uk/laughiiceman.mp3">here's the mp3</a>. The song has inspired <a href="http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/l/laughing_policeman.asp">cartoonists</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0752847724/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">mystery novelists</a> (great series, by the way!), <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0070292/">filmmakers</a>, a <a href="http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/recordings-laughingpoliceman.html">more-recent recording</a> (<a href="http://www.brillianttv.co.uk/timmymallett/sound/mallett2.mp3">mp3</a>), and, inevitably, some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH1Atggwzfc">scary</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HAD1fcPDOM&mode=related&search=">people</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpvYV32eQIQ&mode=related&search=">on</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYEIcPPEydk&mode=related&search=">youtube</a>. Speaking of youtube, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZPkrkT6BVQ">this</a> is how I remember the song.
Paroles, Paroles, Paroles...
<a href="http://lyricwiki.org/Main_Page">LyricsWiki</a> is the place to find reliable lyrics without invasive ads. <a href="http://www.songmeanings.net/">SongMeanings</a> when you've been wondering what those lyrics mean. <a href="http://www.kissthisguy.com/">The Archive of Misheard Lyrics</a> because sometimes your version is much better than the original.
Songophobia
<a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/observer/archives/2006/09/29/jarvis_cocker_w.html">What inoffensive songs do people find scary?</a> A list asked for by a curious <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker">Jarvis Cocker</a>, former frontman of the band Pulp. <br>My favorite entry:<br>"Laughing Gnome - Bowie. Scared the crap out of me as a kid. I remember getting my parents to check under the bed. My father, a bit of an evil electronics bastard put a speaker under my bed one night and played the song just as I was drifting off. He then ran in when I started screaming and pulled out a doll from under the bead and chopped its head off with a machete. God I need therapy."
Bob Dylan Annnotated and Tablaturated
Artur J's <a href="http://republika.pl/bobdylan/lat/" title="'Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.' - The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism T.S. Eliot">Annotated Lyrics of Bob Dylans Love and Theft</a> has expanded and now features Annotated lyrics for <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/streetl/index.html" title="Street Legal comes the closest to where my music is going, you know. It has to do with an illusion of time, I mean, what the songs are necessarily about is the illusions of time.- Bob Dylan 1978">Street Legal</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/kol/" title="'I’m thinking about calling this album Knocked Out Loaded. Is that any good, you think, Knocked Out Loaded?' - Bob Dylan 1986 (to Mikal Gilmore">Knocked Out Loaded</a>, <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/ohmercy/index.html" title="'Most of [Oh Mercy songs] are stream-of-consciousness songs; the kind that come to you in the middle of the night, when you just want to go back to bed.'- Bob Dylan, 1989">Oh, Mercy</a> and <a href="http://www.bobdylan.republika.pl/mt/index.html" title="'I'd make this record no matter what was going on in the world. I wrote these songs in not a meditative state at all, but more like in a trancelike, hypnotic state. This is how I feel? Why do I feel like that? And who's the me that feels this way? I couldn't tell you that, either. But I know that those songs are just in my genes and I couldn't stop them comin' out.' - Bob Dylan 2006">Modern Times</a>. And he is already on top of Dylan's quotes of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/arts/music/14dyla.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin" title="But maybe you've heard his words, if you're one of the 320,000 people so far who have bought Bob Dylan's latest album, 'Modern Times,' which made its debut last week at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart. It seems that many of the lyrics on that album, Mr. Dylan's first No. 1 album in 30 years (down to No. 3 this week), bear some strong echoes to the poems of Timrod, a Charleston native who wrote poems about the Civil War and died in 1867 at the age of 39. ">Henry Timrod</a> on the new album. On a related tip, someone waved a lawyer at Eyolf &#0216;strem, so he removed all his tabs from his Dylan tablature site, <a href="http://www.dylanchords.com/" title="My Back Pages Bob Dylan - Chords and lyrics - For chords, go to one of the mirrors. The rest you may still find here">My Back Pages</a>. But, fortunately there are some mirrors and the blog of <a href="http://dylanchords.info/" title="Aug 26: Didn’t I say it? And it was so. I was going to wait until the official release date, but since a) I am going away for a week, and b) most people seem to have it already, I figured: why wait any longer? Modern Times it is.">this one</a> has a tab page for Modern Times already.
It's like 10 000 spoons when all you need is a knife
<a href="http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid14634.aspx">32 worst lyrics of all time</a>
Gracenote.com announces legal lyrics downloads
<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/14/BUG1MJUJOT29.DTL">An end to</a> <a href="http://www.kissthisguy.com/">mondegreens?</a> It looks like <a href="http://www.gracenote.com/">Gracenote</a>, the company behind the <a href="http://www.mp3-converter.com/faq/cddb.htm">CDDB</a> (CD database), is looking to enhance your music-listening experience by providing an expansive and "legitimate" lyrics database <a href="http://www.betanews.com/article/Gracenote_Inks_Deal_to_Offer_Lyrics/1152903017">in association with major on-line digital music providers</a>. Will this be the end of the road for <a href="http://www.mredkj.com/other/lyrics-illegal2.html">existing lyrics sites</a>? <small>[more inside]</small>
i was standing by the window
Made most popular to many Americans as the closing song for the Grand Ole Opry programs, Will The Circle Be Unbroken was written in 1907 by Ada Habershon, an intensely religious young woman and acquaintance of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Moody">Dwight Moody</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_David_Sankey">Ira David Sankey</a>. The music was "composed" by <a href="http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/FAMOUSIOWANS/501300335">Charles Gabriel</a>, a popular songwriter and composer of the era who is often solely credited with the song, but while he may have put the notes down on paper, the tune itself already existed as the African-American spiritual Glory Glory / Since I Laid My Burden Down. [lots more inside]
Music CopyRight Cops Strike Again
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4508158.stm">Now they're after the lyrics.</a> The MPA isn't stopping at the MP3 files.
Singhing the blues
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1581445,00.html">When science meets art.</a> Science writer <a href="http://www.simonsingh.com/">Simon Singh</a> was annoyed with the lyrics to British singer <a href="http://www.katiemelua.com/">Katie Melua</a>'s latest single. He rewrote them to be scientifically accurate, and she sings <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today1_melua_20051015.ram">the unfortunate result</a> (RealAudio file).
the saddest song I've ever heard
<a href="http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/usa/asiwoits.htm"><i>The Streets of Laredo: The Cowboy's Lament</i></a> was originally written as the Irish drover balled <i>Bard of Armaugh</i> (or <i><a href="http://www.ierland.com/lyrics/bard_of_armagh.txt">Armagh</a></i>), which later mutated into <i>A Handful of Laurel</i>, about a young man dying of syphilis in a London hospital, musing back on his days in the alehouses and whorehouses. Immigrants settling in the Appalachians brought their own version, <i><a href="http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7101">The Unfortunate Rake</a></i>, sung as early as 1790, about a young soldier dying of mercury poisoning, a result of treatment for venereal disease, who requests a military funeral - a slight but important evolution from the previous version. The current lyrics are most popularly attributed to cowboy <a href="http://www.cowboypoetry.com/fhmaynard.htm">Frances Henry "Frank" Maynard</a>, who copyrighted them in 1879. While various <a href="http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=46310">versions</a> of the song were popular in the US before Maynard took pen to paper and needle to wax cylinder (under such titles as <i><a href="http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=3672">Locke Hospital</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5525">St. James Infirmary Blues</a></i>, <i>Tom Sherman's Bar</i> and <i>Way Down in Lodorra</i>), his version is the one with which we are most familiar today.</br> </br> <i>beat the drum slowly, play the fife lowly / sound the death march as you carry me along / cover my body in sweet-smelling posies / for I'm the young</i> (rake, soldier, man, girl, lass, etc) <i>cut down in</i> (his/her) <i>prime</i> (or <i>and I know I've done wrong</i>)</br> </br> The song has been recorded by pretty much every country, western and folk-identified musical artist since recording music became practical, although the most popular versions must be those by <a href="http://www.arlo.net/bio.shtml">Arlo Guthrie</a> (who once said it was "the saddest song I know," and who sings it on his album <i>Son of the Wind</i>) and <a href="http://www.johnnycash.com/Cashcareer.htm">Johnny Cash</a> (who added <a href="http://www.lyricsdepot.com/johnny-cash/streets-of-laredo.html">a few verses</a> to his 1965 version, improving the song a bit and making it more emotionally complex). <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden/php/search/individ.php?mid=103">Roger McGuinn's</a> creative commons-licensed version is one of my personal favorites, as is Bobby Sutliff's <a href="http://www.houseofideas.com/bobby_sutliff/sound.htm">version</a>.
People have a problem with me, cause I ain't lazy...
<a href="http://www.pegcity.com/images/bastidpipismitty.mov">"I Ain't Lazy"</a> (lyrics NSFW) featuring <a href="http://www.skratchbastid.com/">Skratch Bastid</a>, <a href="http://www.peanutsandcorn.com/artists/johnsmith.html">John Smith</a> &amp; <a href="http://www.peanutsandcorn.com/artists/pipskid.html">Pip Skid</a>. A day-in-the-life indie hip-hop video directed by Jason Lapeyre featuring another top notch crew of <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/40944">PCRs</a>.

popular than Jesus. This quote caused quite a backlash with Beatle boycotts and public record burnings. Their manager, Brian Epstein, immediately arranged a press conference and John reluctantly apologized and said what he said was wrong. Could any another person have said something like that and then go on to even bigger stardom?

He was a partner with his boyhood friend, Paul McCartney and together they left a musical writing partnership and a legacy that are unequaled to this day and may never be. The Beatles, with their producer George Martin, changed music in dramatic fashion, with studio techniques that had never been attempted.

They pioneered the concept album with "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,” which the editors of Rolling Stone magazine list as the greatest rock album of the rock era.

He had the attention of our government with his antiwar protests and at one point was under FBI investigation. He sang of love and peace and living in harmony, with all people coming together as one. There are some who called him a genius. He could be nasty, resentful and meanspirited. He fought his demons and it seems he was winning, until December 8, 1980.

We can only recall his career, from the beginning, until the end and who doesn't know the story about the four lads from Liverpool. He was part of the group that changed rock and roll music history.

We can only wonder what John Lennon would be doing if he were alive today. How active would he be in promoting world peace? Would he still be creating wonderfully crafted rock and roll songs? All we can do is Imagine, and that is the shame of it all.

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