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This ones for you Dean:

 

"Worry the bottle Mamma, it's grapefruit wine

Kick off your high heel sneakers, it's party time..."

 

 

Now... Is it really "worry?" I always thought it was "hurry." What does "worry" the bottle mean! Explanation please...

 

:thumbsup:

 

I actually already cited that, but since it's so good I'll let it go.

 

Worry definition:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/worry

 

Making sense of The Dan ain't easy.

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Branch Deanians, oh my goodness. That's funny! Green Day came out of that scene and I really like them. I still remember when I bought Aja. I wore it out. Those songs hit you in so many places, lyrically and musically. So intelligent. And the backing musicians! A who's who of the greatest session guys of the era. I'd never heard anything like it. When BB and I were newlyweds, we played it a lot on our stay at home date night dinners (we were too poor to go out).

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Well I think by naming the bands whom the Dead Boys were influential, you have already made my point. But I'll take the bait and say Steely Dan is mentioned as an influence, or at least as being admired, by many diverse bands and musicians. They are regularly sampled by hip-hop/rap bands, folk, jazz fusion, and rock bands alike. I can hardly think of a musician I have met that doesn't love Steely Dan. Off the top of my head musicians as diverse as, Joe Jackson, Kanye West.

That settles it, now I truly hate Steely Dan.

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She came on to him like a slow-moving cold front. His beer was warmer than the look in her eyes."

 

John Hiatt...nice! :thumbsup:

 

 

On a bit of a Stones kick, so indulge me:

 

 

"Never kept a dollar past sunset, always burned a hole in my pants..." (Happy)

 

"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste..." (Sympathy for the Devil)

 

"I'm a flea-bit peanut monkey, and all my friends are junkies..." (Monkey Man)

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:thumbsup:

 

I actually already cited that, but since it's so good I'll let it go.

 

Worry definition:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/worry

 

Making sense of The Dan ain't easy.

 

Thanks.. Must of missed it... I caught the one MD missed but not yours, go figure in a getting longer by the day thread... LoL

 

You can say that again.... Making sense of the lyrics... But it fits... For the life of me, listened 1,000's of time and always just assumed "hurry." Wow! NEW PERSPECTIVE!

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I reach out to the Belfast Cowboy, Van the Man when I seek musical inspiration w/a spiritual outlook on things:

 

"REAL REAL GONE

I GOT HIT BY A BOW AND ARROW

GOT ME DOWN TO THE VERY MARROW..."

 

 

 

The rest of it:

 

"...And I'm real real gone

Real real gone

I can't stand up by myself

Don't you know I need your help

And I'm real real gone

 

Some people say

You can make it on your own

Oh, you can make it if you try

I know better now

You can't stand up alone

Oh, baby, that is why

 

 

I'm real real gone

I can't stand up by myself

Don't you know? I need your help

You're a friend of mine and I'm real real gone

 

 

And Sam Cooke is on the radio

And the night is filled with space

And your fingertips touch my face

You're a friend of mine and I'm real real gone

 

 

I'm real gone now

Oh Lord, I got hit by a bow and arrow

Got me down to the very marrow

You're a friend of mine and I'm real real gone

 

And I'm real real gone, I'm real gone

 

Wilson Pickett said, "In the midnight hour

That's when my love comes tumbling down"

 

Solomon Burke said, "If you need me

Why don't you call me"

 

James Brown said, "When you're tired of what you got

Try me"

 

Gene Chandler said, "There's a rainbow in my soul""

 

 

 

 

Couldn't resist.

 

 

I should know better to call anybody out! Tom beat me to the punch @ The Copacabana! LoL

 

I am 1 for 2... LoL...

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I reach out to the Belfast Cowboy, Van the Man when I seek musical inspiration w/a spiritual outlook on things:

 

"REAL REAL GONE

I GOT HIT BY A BOW AND ARROW

..

 

Van is the King, IMO. Nobody better.

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Blackbird singing in the dead of night ...

Paul McCartney was on Stern and gave a tremendous story about how that song was written. I can't listen to it the same anymore, it lost some fantasy and beauty when you realized it was so murked up and mudded in sadness.
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“I am an Antichrist, I am an anarchist” –Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK”. I sing this occasionally when Beerball listens to country in the car.

"I put it In 1st and then I punch it, listen to the engine roar." MC5, Thunder Express. Elemental rock.

"When I think back to all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all." Paul Simon

"Lights Out Tonight, trouble in the heartland, got a head-on collision smashin' in my guts man, I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand." Springsteen

"Oh I used to be disgusted and now I try to be amused." Elvis Costello

"Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be sedated." This was the ringtone assigned to Beerball's mother-in-law for many years.

 

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I wanted to include a line from a Dead Boys song but BB wouldn't be amused.

 

What is the possibility of you kicking the sphere of beer to curb and post in his place? Your posts are much more interesting. Not hard to do but still.....

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F### all that we've gotta get on with these.

 

 

 

Sex and drugs and rock and roll

 

 

 

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty, sound of the breath fades with the light, I think about a loveless fascination under the Milky Way tonight.

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