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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ravells on April 29, 2007, 06:15:11 PM
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I love this song. It tells me about what should be right in your growing up years. What's yours? And does it have a dark equal?
Ravs
p.s. the dark side of this song is 'The River' by Springy, equally good.
r
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Night Moves
The Boys are Back
Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting
Born to Run
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Night Moves
beat me too it
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Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
Roller Derby Queen - Jim Croce
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
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Night Moves sorta sums up every red blooded Ameican male experience. Still think they are some of the best lyrics ever.
However, a song can not sum up my formative years quite like the movie "Dazed & Confused". Almost every dynamic of my youth was captured in the glorius movie.
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Night Moves
Turn the Page
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Thought of another one...
Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
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It's all or nothing, and nothing's all I ever get
Everytime I turn it on, I burn it up and burn it out
It's always something, there's always something going wrong
That's the only guarantee, that's what this is all about
It's a never ending attack, everything's a lie and that's a fact
Life is a lemon and I want my money back
And all the morons and all the stooges with their coins
They're the ones who make the rules,
It's not a game, it's just a rout
There's desperation, there's desperation in the air
It leaves a stain on all your clothes
And no detergent gets it out
And we're always slipping thru the cracks
Then the movie's over, fade to black
Life is a lemon and I want my money back
I want my money back, I want my money back
What about love?
It's defective - it's always breaking in half
What about sex?
It's defective - it's never built to really last
What about your family?
It's defective - all the batteries are shot
What about your friends?
They're defective - all the parts are out of stock
What about hope?
It's defective - it's corroded and decayed
What about faith?
It's defective - it's tattered and it's frayed
What about your Gods?
They're defective - They forgot the warranty
What about your town?
It's defective - it's a dead end street to me
What about your school?
It's defective - it's a pack of useless lies
What about your work?
It's defective - it's a crock and then you die
What about your childhood?
It's defective - it's dead and buried in the past
What about your future?
It's defective - and you can shove it up your ass!
I want my money back - life is a lemon
I want my money back - life is a lemon, life is a lemon
It's all or nothing, and nothing's all I ever get
Everytime I turn it on, I burn it up and burn it out
It's a never ending attack,
Everything's a lie and that's a fact
Life is a lemon and I want my money back
And we're always slipping thru the cracks
Then the movie's over, fade to black
Life is a lemon and I want my money back
Back, back, back, back!
I want my money back, I want my money back
Life is a lemon
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Song for the Mira. It reminds me of summers up by the lake.... Unfortunately it also makes me one of probably two or three people under 40 who can name an Anne Murray cover :noid
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Originally posted by Blooz
Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
Brings me back to summer as a kid, some songs bring you back to a place and time you don't get to think about(remember) very often.
State of mind by Clint Black kinda sums them up
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Gravedigger - Dave Mathews Band
The Ballad of Serenity
Blue Skies - Stephanie Cooke
It Ends Tonight - All American Rejects
Move Along - All American Rejects
2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden
Headlong - Queen
Suicide is Painless - Manic Street Preachers
Snoopy vs the Red Barron - Irish Rovers
Hate Me - Blue October
Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
However, a song can not sum up my formative years quite like the movie "Dazed & Confused". Almost every dynamic of my youth was captured in the glorius movie.
Thats it in a nutshell!
Goin to the moontower baby! KEG PARTY!
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There was a Stephen King book that was made into a rather good movie--"Stand By Me"--every time I hear "Come Go With Me" by the Del Vikings, I zone back to being 12 years old doing stupid watermelon with my friends just like the 4 kids in the movie--
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? "
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Now: Fat Old Sun - Pink Floyd
Then: Drowse - Queen My oldest brother (I'm the youngest in my family) would play this off of A Day at the Races ad nauseum, but it is good one.
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Cat in the Cradle
A child arrived just the other day,
Came to the world in the usual way,
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay,
He learned to walk while I was away.
He was talking before I knew it, and as he grew
He said, "I'm going to be like you, Dad,
You know I'm going to be like you."
And the cat in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon,
"When can we play, Dad?" "I don't know when,
We'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."
My son turned ten just the other day,
Said "Thanks for the ball, now c'mon let's play.
Will you teach me to throw?" I said, "Not today,
I've got a lot to do." He said, "That's OK."
And he walked away and he smiled and he said
"You know I'm going to be like you, Dad,
You know I'm going to be like you."
And the cat in the cradle and the silver spoon,
Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon,
"When can we play, Dad?" "I don't know when,
We'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."
He came from college just the other day,
So much like a man, I just had to say,
"I'm proud of you, won't you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and said with a smile,
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?"
And the cat in the cradle and a silver spoon,
Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon,
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."
I've long since retired and my son's moved away,
I called him up just the other day.
"I'd like to see you, if you don't mind."
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I could find the time.
You see, my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu,
But it's sure nice talking you, Dad.
It's been real nice talking to you."
And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me,
He'd grown up just like me.
My boy was just like me.
And the cat in the cradle and a silver spoon,
Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon,
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."
And the cat in the cradle and a silver spoon,
Little Boy Blue and the Man in the Moon,
"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when,
But we'll get together then.
You know we'll have a good time then."
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I am currently trying VERY hard to not let this song be a reality for my kids.
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Saturday Nights Alright for Fighting
Before every game in High School by friend and I would sit in his car and play that song as loud as possible on the 8-track. It fired us up to do battle.
gawd that was a long time ago.
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Slayer's Reign in Blood.
That or Bach's Moonlight Sonata.
Either way, it's all good.
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The cradle will rock - van halen
renegade - styx
Forgot to add, Bought my first KISS album at age 10 (1974) It was AWESOME... Strutter, deuce, cold gin, 100,000 years, firehouse, nothin to lose. It was the first album i ever picked out on my own... I had never heard of them before buying the album... My parents quickly grew to hate it and all of my albums ended up at a neighbors yard sale... my mom "donated" them! :mad:
That album turned me from the weaker 60s and 70s stuff.. I had already started guitar lessons at age 6... sure changed my "tune"
Great thread!
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I'd say Social D's "Born to Lose" I think is sufficiently light and dark on its own. Though from March-May of 1991 I probably would have gone with Nine Inch Nails "Something I can never have." What can I say, it was my blue period lol.
I was brought in this world 1962,
I didn't have much choice you see.
But by the time I was eight,
I could tell it was too late,
I was already barking up the wrong tree.
When I was in school you thought I was a fool,
In trouble, Breaking all the rules.
I was absent from class,
My daddy'd spank my bare ass,
But I sure tried hard to be cool.
[Chorus:]
Born to lose, was what they said,
You know I was better off dead.
Born to lose, you're just bad news,
You don't get no second chance.
It was a hot summer night in mid July,
A hangover and a black eye.
Your momma said I was a loser,
A dead end cruiser,
And deep inside I know that she was right.
[Chorus:]
Born to lose, was what they said,
You know I was better off dead.
Born to lose, you're just bad news,
You don't get no second chance.
I tried to get myself a job
Because that's the way that
Things are, wanna have nice things and go far.
Well I'm sorry Honey,
I ain't got much money
But I can sure play this here old Guitar.
As the years went on, I made a few mistakes
there was Troublebound for this young Man.
Police knockin' at my Door,
"Well he don't live here no More,
and he's playin' in a rock 'n' Roll band."
[Chorus:]
Born to lose, was what they said,
You know I was better off dead.
Born to lose, you're just bad news,
You don't get a second chance.
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That is what came to mind when I thought about this too Sikboy.