It's only rock and roll
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ericcolemanThere are a couple of them in the New Boss Old Boss replies, but I thought I would move it here.
What is the best rock and roll line ever?
A couple spring to mind
WAAYYYY DOWWWWN INSIIIIIIIDE - Led Zep
I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola - The Kinks
ALL of Johnny B Goode
What is the best rock and roll line ever?
A couple spring to mind
WAAYYYY DOWWWWN INSIIIIIIIDE - Led Zep
I'm glad I'm a man and so is Lola - The Kinks
ALL of Johnny B Goode
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Date: 2008-11-06 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 07:48 pm (UTC)Wait, you probably really mean "from a rock and roll song."
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Date: 2008-11-06 07:50 pm (UTC)"There's no point in asking, you'll get no reply." Sex Pistols.
"You know you're semi good-looking." Van Halen.
"I am not in love....but I'm open to persuasion." Joan Armatrading.
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Date: 2008-11-06 07:56 pm (UTC)Candy came from out on the island
In the backroom she was everybodys darling
But she never lost her head
Even when she was given head
I also like Freaker's Ball from Doctor Hook (by way of Shel Silverstein, of course ...)
Smear my body up with butter
Take me to the freakers ball
Damn near anything by Frank Zappa.
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Date: 2008-11-06 07:59 pm (UTC)"We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control."
"Some are weak and some are wise and summer comes as no surprise."
Lines and hours
Date: 2008-11-06 08:08 pm (UTC)Nate
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Date: 2008-11-06 08:11 pm (UTC)And I'm not even a music guy, really.
Date: 2008-11-06 08:18 pm (UTC)"Do you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real and in the present tense?
And that everybody's on a stage, and you're the only person sitting in the audience?" - Jethro Tull
"And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds,
Are immune to your consultations, they're quite aware what they're going through" - Bowie
"Excess ain't rebellion
You're drinkin' what they're sellin'
Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them
Your chaos won't convert them
They're so happy to rebuild it
You'll never really kill it." - CAKE
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill
I will choose a path that's clear
I will choose freewill" - RUSH
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Date: 2008-11-06 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 08:39 pm (UTC)"I don't have to fight, to prove I'm right. I don't need to be forgiven." -- The Who
"Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine." -- Patty Smith
"I haven't fucked much with the past but I've fucked plenty with the future........... at heart, I am an American artist and I have no guilt." -- Patty Smith
"All I want is loving you and music music music." -- Teresa Brewer
"I know Darth Vader's really got you annoyed but remember if you kill him then you'll be unemployed." -- Weird Al
"How many deaths will it take 'till we've learned, that too many people have died." -- Bob Dylan
"LA's fine but it ain't home, New York's home but it ain't mine no more." -- Neil Diamond
["We were young and strong, we were runnin' against the wind." -- Bob Seger
"I'm a man of means by no means, King of the road." -- Roger Miller
"Elenore, gee I think you're swell
And you really do me well
You're my pride and joy, et cetera." -- The Turtles
Hmmm... lots. Insert all of Eleanor Rigby and let's call it a post.
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Date: 2008-11-06 08:44 pm (UTC)TK - "Oh yes, I wish I was as mellow, as for instance, Jackson Browne, but 'Fountain of Sorrow' my ass, Motherfucker, I hope you wind up in the ground."
DB - "This ain't rock 'n' roll, this is genocide."
NY - "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you."
DB - "As they pull you out of the oxygen tent, you ask for the latest party..."
DB - "It's not the side effects of the cocaine, I'm thinking that it must be love."
IH - "Halfway home in the parking lot..."
IH - "Hi there, your friendly neighborhood sadist want to take you for a ride."
IP - "I'm a streetwalkin' cheetah with a heart full of napalm."
FM - "And now you can kiss my ass goodbye."
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Date: 2008-11-06 09:04 pm (UTC)Oh hell yeah. "No Language In Our Lungs" might be one of the most perfect songs ever written.
There are sooooooo many XTC great lines, nearly impossible to list em all...
"He died grinning on live TV/Hanging there he looked a lot like you and an awful lot like me"
"Still I'm getting higher/Icarus regrets and retires puzzled/Chalkhills and children anchor my feet"
"F...U...C...K, is that how you spell "friend" in your dictionary?"
"Swallowing is easy when it has no taste"
Someone stop me.......
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Date: 2008-11-06 08:56 pm (UTC)A WOMP BOMP A LOO BOMP A WOMP BAM BOOM
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Date: 2008-11-06 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 10:28 pm (UTC)I do, however, dig ol' Pat's version of Smoke on the Water, if only to hear him sing the lyrics "Fr-rank Zappa and the MoTHERs..."
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Date: 2008-11-06 10:48 pm (UTC)BTW, I love your cat/vacuum cleaner song!
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Date: 2008-11-06 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 09:00 pm (UTC)Just finished reading "Iggy Pop: Come Out and Bleed". I now know who Lola was. Heh.
My favorite line though:
It's my belief that my big balls
Should be held every night
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Date: 2008-11-06 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 09:04 pm (UTC)Does this count?
Date: 2008-11-06 09:07 pm (UTC)(Really, the first few lines of that song.)
Another, more modern, favorite...
I know some day you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why (oh why, whyyyyyyy) can't it be mine?
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Date: 2008-11-06 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-06 09:43 pm (UTC)"Come on let me show you how to sing it out, sing it out" "OUT!" "Sing it" "OUT!" "Sing it" "OUT BABY!"
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Date: 2008-11-07 12:33 am (UTC)-Johnny Rotten's last words at the last Sex Pistols concert. Maybe not in a song, but that's ROCK.
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Date: 2008-11-07 04:41 am (UTC)I want to break free from your lies, you're so self satisfied, I don't need you.
Queen, I want to break free.
Some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress, but the balls that are held for pleasure are the balls I like the best. ACDC big balls.
And, also ACDC:
To those who are about to rock. We salute you.
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Date: 2008-11-07 04:49 am (UTC)Crazy as a rocket, nothin in my pocket, I keep it at the rainbow's end.
I never think of money, I think of milk 'n honey, grinnin like a cheshire cat.
I focus on the pleasure, somethin' I can treasure, can you picture that?
Can you picture that? Dr teeth and the electric mayhem
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:31 pm (UTC)If only, if only it was so
The emptiest words that there'll ever be
It could've been me
It could've been me"
Meat Loaf - "A Kiss Is A Terrible Thing To Waste"
(Words, of course, by Jim Steinman.)
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:35 pm (UTC)"Everyone avoids me like a Cyclone Ranger" - The Vapors, Turning Japanese
"My sex waits for me like a mongrel waits downwind on a tightrope leash" - Ultravox, My Sex
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Date: 2008-11-07 01:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-07 01:37 pm (UTC)"You were catchy like a virus, there was no place I could hide. But now you feel more like a tumor cuz you grew and grew inside" - Gigolo Aunts
"You can't call it cheatin', she reminds me of you" - Gin Blossoms
"Unbreak my heart... [something something something] Uncry these tears" - Don't remember her name, but she should die
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Date: 2008-11-07 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-07 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-10 02:46 pm (UTC)-=ShoEboX=-
It's only rock and roll
Date: 2008-11-09 06:06 pm (UTC)"Scuse me while I kiss this guy" - Jimi Hendrix