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#21 Post by findingcharlotte » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:12 pm

Meddle is an AWESOME album
Call me if you get lost...

" before we go, Im not as brave as I told you.."

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#22 Post by adrien950 » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:16 am

Pink Floyd is a part of my Holy Trinity of music: Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and Portishead.
Here's a somewhat "twisted" Floyd love song-

Don't Leave Me Now

Ooooh, babe
Don't leave me now.
Don't say it's the end of the road.
Remember the flowers I sent.
I need you, babe
To put through the shredder
In front of my friends
Ooooh Babe.
Dont leave me now.
How could you go?
When you know how I need you
To beat to a pulp on a Saturday night
Ooooh Babe.
How could you treat me this way?
Running away.
I need you, Babe.
Why are you running away?
Oooooh Babe!
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#23 Post by Just Like Honey... » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:30 pm

Don't leave me now is the most dramatic song on The Wall, there to represent Pink calling his wife and having another guy answer the phone (his wife is cheating on him).
Great song by a great band.
I'd rather be a gear in a big, deterministic, physical machine than just some random swerving.

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#24 Post by ratcatcher » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:25 pm

alright, heres my suggestion. maybe not a boy-girl love song, but i think it suits LIT.

it brings back a hundred memories of late nights, parties, times when youve been places you shouldn't have been, weird scenes.

when you can see the sun coming up, and you know its almost over, and it breaks your heart...

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Bob Dylan:

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man?"
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain






another song which i think conjures up much the same feeling as LIT is Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah - the live version where he finishes it off with "i know its over" by morrisey/the smiths.

need to sit back and think about that for a minute.
whats that line johnny cash has about putting on his "cleanest dirty shirt"?

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#25 Post by adrien950 » Tue Oct 11, 2005 5:49 pm

Jeff Buckey's version of Hallelujah is absolutely amazing! I haven't heard the live version, but will be looking out for it. His version is even better than Leonard Cohen's version. That should say something. :D
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#26 Post by Congruous » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:33 pm

"Don't Leave Me Now" reminds me of that old hilariously ironic Sparklehorse song- read the lyrics carefully- "One Day I Will Be Good to You."

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#27 Post by sw25 » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:26 pm

I have a bunch of favorite love songs, but a few immediately spring to mind. They're a little unorthodox, but, oh well.

The first is by one my favorite bands of all time. I can't imagine another career span that has produced so much verbal poetry.

"With or Without You"- U2

"See the stone set in your eyes
See the thorn twist in your side
I wait for you

Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait without you

With or without you
With or without you

Through the storm we reach the shore
You give it all but I want more
And I'm waiting for you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

My hands are tied
My body bruised, she's got me with
Nothing to win and
Nothing left to lose

And you give yourself away
And you give yourself away
And you give
And you give
And you give yourself away

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you

With or without you
With or without you
I can't live
With or without you
With or without you"


The next one is by a band that some of you might not have heard of, but I highly recommend them. They've quickly jumped to my favorites, and I've burned their album after having listened to it so much. This particular song is quite affecting.

"This Modern Love"- Bloc Party

"To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
You've been trying to reach me
You bought me a book
To be lost in the forest
To be cut adrift
I've been paid
I've been paid

Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
Just keep telling me facts
And keep making me smile
Don't get offended
If I seem absent minded
I get tongue-tied
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
I will be yours

I'll pay for you anytime

You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Well jump on, enjoy, you can gorge away
You told me you wanted to eat up my sadness
Jump right on
Baby, you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
Baby, you've got to be more demanding
I will be yours

What are you holding out for?
What's always in the way?
Why so damn absent-minded?
Why so scared of romance?

This modern love breaks me
This modern love wastes me

Do you wanna come over and kill some time?
Tell me facts, tell me facts, tell me facts
Tell me facts
Throw your arms around me"

I know, I know, both rock songs. What can I say? I've been raised on indie rock and classic rock.

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#28 Post by 52FM » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:41 pm

WELCOME BACK SW25!

Great to see you again!!
"Willoughby. Next stop is Willoughby."

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#29 Post by sw25 » Thu Oct 13, 2005 10:00 pm

Good to be back, moviefan.

I've missed these forums. I was lurking a while back, and then I just stopped altogether.

This is the first I've seen of them in a while. Now I have to run the gamut of topics and add my thoughts to as many as I can.

See you around!

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#30 Post by I65 » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:47 am

Ya good to see you around sw. :)

And gratz on Suntory Time 52 :)

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#31 Post by 52FM » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:06 pm

Thanks, Ith; but now the question is - have I reached the top rank - or are there more to come? Sounds like Bob is hiding that from us!

(As if I need encouragement to post on here! :lol: )
"Willoughby. Next stop is Willoughby."

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#32 Post by adrien950 » Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:39 am

I love this post! :P
Here's another semi-obscure song. This is by the group The The.

Love Is Stronger Than Death

LoveLoveLove
LoveLoveLove

Me & my friend were walking
In the cold light of mourning.
Tears may blind the eyes but the soul is not deceived
In this world even winter ain't what it seems.

Here come the blue skies Here comes springtime.
When the rivers run high & the tears run dry.
When everything that dies.
Shall rise.

LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.
LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.

In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch.
All the thoughts unuttered & all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath.

But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak
"How could you believe that the life within the seed
that grew arms that reached
And a heart that beat.
And lips that smiled
And eyes that cried.
Could ever die?"

Here come the blue skies Here comes springtime.
When the rivers run high & the tears run dry.
When everything that dies.
Shall rise.

LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.
LoveLoveLove is stronger than death.

Shall rise. Shall rise.
Shall rise. Shall rise.
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#33 Post by 52FM » Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:31 pm

OK - technically not a love song except the reference in the last verse. But I heard it today and it just suddenly struck a chord with me (I think it was B-flat minor 7th - dry humor.) Anyway, it fits where I am and where I see myself going...

Wasted on the Way
Crosby Stills and Nash

Look around me
I can see my life before me
Running rings around the way it used to be

I am older now
I have more than what I wanted
But I wish that I had started long before I did

And there's so much time to make up everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away

[Instrumental]

Oh, when you were young
Did you question all the answers
Did you envy all the dancers who had all the nerve

Look around you know
You must go for what you wanted
Look at all my friends who did and got what they deserved

So much time to make up everywhere you turn
Time we have wasted on the way
So much water moving underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away

So much love to make up everywhere you turn
Love we have wasted on the way
So much water moving underneath the bridge
Let the water come and carry us away
Let the water come and carry us away
"Willoughby. Next stop is Willoughby."

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#34 Post by 52FM » Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:15 pm

Saw the movie Daredevil again the other night. (I like comic book movies for some reason - probably because I was such a comic book fan as a kid - and yes, my mom threw them all away, including FF #1 and X-Men #1). Pretty violent for a comic book movie - my wife thought I was weird for liking it (though it wasn't the violence I like - it's the struggle I think of the respsonsibility of having powers and being doomed to never having anything close to a mormal life.)

Anyway - I found this song to be kind of haunting by a group called Evanescence:

My Immortal

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus:]
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me

You used to captivate me
By your resonating mind
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

[Chorus]

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

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#35 Post by Just Like Honey... » Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:32 am

I really like that song, 52FM, as I'm sure many will agree, but unfortunately it has been destroyed by excessive radio and TV airplay.
It's pretty bothersome when a really great song is ALWAYS playing on the radio or on tv or somewhere and you're sick of it within a few weeks.
I'd rather be a gear in a big, deterministic, physical machine than just some random swerving.

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#36 Post by lemoncupcake » Wed Nov 16, 2005 4:23 am

Just Like Honey... wrote:unfortunately it has been destroyed by excessive radio and TV airplay.
It's pretty bothersome when a really great song is ALWAYS playing on the radio or on tv or somewhere and you're sick of it within a few weeks.
For some reason that tends to happen to a big majority of new songs/bands that i like.

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#37 Post by Congruous » Wed Nov 16, 2005 9:37 am

That's funny you say that...I remember back in the seventies when George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" album came out. One night a bunch of us were driving around and "What is Life" came on the radio. I made some comment about how it was a great song and one of the people in the car said, "Yeah, it is good, but the radio will ruin it."

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#38 Post by Just Like Honey... » Wed Nov 16, 2005 1:07 pm

The worst offender, literally, of the century I believe is Hoobastank's The Reason. Not that I liked it in the first place anyway. :roll:
I'd rather be a gear in a big, deterministic, physical machine than just some random swerving.

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#39 Post by 52FM » Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:19 pm

OK - this is pretty pathetic for a love song - but the Chicago Bear's defense has the football fans here partying like it's 1985!
(And the rookie QB from Purdue is not doing too bad either!)


Bear Down, Chicago Bears

Lyrics: Al Hoffman, 1941

Bear Down, Chicago Bears.
Make every play clear the way to victory!
Bear Down, Chicago Bears.
Put up a fight with a might so fearlessly!

We'll never forget the way you thrilled the nation,
With your T formation.

Bear Down, Chicago Bears.
And let them know why you're wearing the crown.

You're the pride and joy,
of Illinois.

Chicago Bears, Bear Down!

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#40 Post by Congruous » Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:03 pm

Da Bears played a good game against a good team yesterday.

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