Entertainment For Lively Minds
Broken Songs
Posted by Simon Moffatt on 17 June 2008 - 10:56pm.
I'm not sure there's a thread yet to commemorate those broken songs mentioned in this month's Word. Here goes anyway...
No Milk Today by Herman's Hermits
- in a world where no-one gets their milk delivered, what possible sense could that make anymore.
On Tape by The Pooh Sticks
- "Got it on tape? What's a tape, Mum"
You Can't Say Crap On The Radio - Stiff Little Fingers
- these days it's pretty much compulsary
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Do You know the way to San Jose?
Now thanks to Tom Tom everybody does!!
But no
He doesn't actually say the actual route as far as I remember. So getting to San Jose may still be a challenge.
We get the milk delivered
Still sing along to that one.
I'll see your Hermans Hermits and raise you a The Jam...
"This town called malice.
Rows and rows of disused milk floats
stand dying in the dairy yard
And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk
bottles to their hearts"
I'll see your The Jam and raise you a Billy Bragg
"I love you
I am the milkman of human kindness
I will leave an extra pint"
...and if anyone mentions Ernie, I'm going home.
It's been said before
But why would you possibly want to spend a whole 24 hours travelling to Tulsa?
That's probably in the magazine. I'm taking it slowly this month.
634-5789
These days his number, baby, would be more like +34769928356543.
Hit me with your..........
........Yamaha RY30.
C30 C60 C90 Go!
You what? I think that's what it's called - Bow Wow Wow wasn't it?
Semaphore Signals?
Still hits a chord. That nice Mr Eric has presumably not sent or received many such communications in real life.
Uncertain about Morse Code Melody, by Prof Bruce Lacey, I think. (I have a wonderful mfp (music for pleasure) LP of the Temperance 7, early Bonzos, the Alberts and Prof Bruce Lacey, the same Bruce Lacey "immortalised" in "Mr Lacey" on a very early Fairport LP, with the nearest thing to a conventional blues guitar solo ever played by Richard Thompson, something he says he doesn't do. No doubt some clever Herbert will now point out Simon Nicol played that solo, as RT diligently refused to...)
Is Morse still a valid distress alerter? Or do they now use their i-phones?
(No, I bloody don't! How dare you! A phone is a phone. An i-pod is a music player.)
Del Amitri
Nothing Ever Happens
"The needle returns to the start of the song"
Kids today probably think its a drug reference......
Telegram Sam
"Predictive Text Rex" just about scans.
I suppose the above confirms that Bolan....
...were he still alive, would be a bit of a dinosaur.
(Geddit!)
Masterblaster (Jammin') came on the iPod the other day...
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe..." Hmmm, when was it Stevie wrote that... 1981? Hmmmmmmmm...
I was thinking about doing something on protest songs..
...that are just plain wrong.
I was listening to the Temptations "Ball Of Confusion" the other day and was puzzled by the line "and the only safe place to live is on an Indian reservation."
What was Norman Whitfield thinking of when he wrote that line?
Apart from lunch.