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Thursday 29 August 2024

Batty book titles


I'm aware of how childish this article is, but I don't care.

I remember a craze in the 70's for improbable book titles?

To illustrate my point here are those I remember; even the lame ones.

Flying High - by L.E. Copter
I Fell Off A Cliff - by Eileen Dover
Falling Down - by Willie Bounce
Naughtiness - by Ben Dover and Phil McCrackin
Naughtiness 2 - Reah Entry
You're Nicked! - by Les B. Avenue
Understanding Fossils - by Dina Sore and Terry Dactyl
I Love My Truck - by Laurie Driver
I Love My Spectacles - by Seymour Clearly
Surviving A Tiger - by Claude Bottom
I Escaped - by Scott Free
Loneliness Is Tough - by Billy Nomates
Going Solo - by Willie Stroker
Being Different - by Tom Boy
Being Musical - by I. Singh
Saving Money - by Penny Pincher
I'm In Advertising - by Bill Boards
Where's Wendy - by Peter Pan
Winter Travel - by Bob Sleigh
I'm Not Ready - by Hugo First
I'm So Tired - by Mustafa Rest
Making Porn - by Ivor Biggun and Ivor Whopper
Making Porn 2 - by Ivanna Fucku
Getting Lucky - Willie Fucker
Lucky With Women - by I. Pullem
Take Me If You Can - by Hugh Mungus
I Can't Breath - by Dick Sucker
I Can't Pay Now - by Bill Melater
Dressing Windows - by Annette Curtain
Languages Are Easy - by Polly Glot
Hanging Wallpaper - by Polly Cell
Getting Drunk - by Johnnie Walker
A Big Win - by Jack Pot
Puddings - by Roly Poly
Spanking - by Rosie Bottom
A Little Bit Of Pain - by Dick Thrasher
How To Nag - by Mona Lot
Classic Tankards - by Toby Jug
Hearing Things - by Isabel Ringing
Birdsong - by Dawn Chorus 
Telling Tales - by Hugh Liar 
Wildlife Water - by Lily Pond
Smelly Feet - by Jim Shoes
I Shot A Sheriff - by B. B. Gunn
Portable Light - by Tilly Lamp
I Give In - by Hugh Winn
Meeting Deadlines - by Justin Time
Signs Of Poor Workmanship - by Lucy Screws 
Worthless Trinkets - by Nick Nacks
We Can't Agree - by Miles Apart
I Need Aspirin - by Ed Ache
What Are The Facts - by Sir Cumspection
Spunk On The Bed - by Mr. Completely
Plastics - by Polly Propelene
Trouble Standing - by Dickie Back
Tough Times - by Helen Back
Prickly Plants - by Holly Bush
A Fish Supper - by Chip Fryer
Procrastination - by May B. Later
School Starts - by Wendy Bellrings
Posh Schools - by Ivy League
Spend, Spend, Spend! - by Rich Mann
Not Digital! - by Anna Log
Exotic Shrubs - by Jasmine Grower
Going Bareback - by Johnnie Dumper
Loving Sex - by Randy Sod
Going Down! - by Fanny Licker
Danger At Sea - by Coral Reef
Ploughing - by Connie Lingus
Good Food - by Chris B. Bacon
You'll Want To See This - by Mike Hunt
How Embarrassing - by Fanny Farts
Child Abuse - by Moe Lester
Bad Smells - by Hugh Farted
Being Broke - by Penny Less
Don't Do Drugs - by Crystal Meth
Know Your Future - by Krystal Ball
Fantasizing - by Jack Off with Rudi Thoughts
The Love Of Men - by Gay Bouy
Too Much Booze - by I.B. Sick
Big Tits - by Norma Snockers
Pre-coming - by Dick Trickle
Playing The Fool - by Dick Wad
Small Dicks - by Justin Cider 
Keep Safe - by Jock Strap
A Scottish Valley - by Glen Coe
Strong Winds - by Gale Force
I'm so annoyed - by Gunter Killem
I Love Tea - by Ginger Biscuit
Felling Trees - by Tim Burr
On The Beach - by Sandy Bottom
Exciting Stories - by Cliff Hanger
Easy Money - by Robin Banks
Scamming - by E.Z. Money
Where did they go? - by Mary Celeste
As Good As Butter -  by Marg A. Reen
Fast Food - by Donna Kebab
Too Much Drink - by Stu Per
Never Drunk - by Ginger Ale
Playing Safe - by Pru Dense
Killing People - Tommy Gun
Stuck On The Loo - by Tom Tits
Master HTTP - by Dot Com
Palindromes - by Hannah
Toilet Training - by P. Here
Taking A Stroll - by Wanda Round
I Love Dancing - by Lindy Hop
Stay Safe! - by Luke Bothways
What A State To Be In - by Ken Tucky
Racing Cars - by Monty Carlo
London Airports - by Stan Stead and Heath Row
Itchy Scalps - by Dan Druff
Break Windows! - by Chuck Stones 
Stealing Cars by - Joy Rider
What's That Smell - by Hugh Stink 
Big Bags - by Carrie More
Static Electricity - by Bri Nylon
Getting Lost - by Wanda Off
Not Understanding - by I. B. Thick
I Love Christmas - by Carol Singer
Who knows what I am - by Polly Morfus
Talking Rubbish - by Poppy Cock
Gay Pride - by Les B. Friends
My Favourite Weed - by Dan D. Lion
Sunny Days Ahead - by Wendy Rainstops
Old Cars - by Mini & Morris Minor
Sporting Cars - by Mini Cooper
Hit Records - by Poppy Tunes
Bingo! - by Tom Bola
Salad Oil - by Olive Tree
Mountain Safety - by Guy Ropes
Cat Toilets - by Kitty Litter
Too High - by Al Timeter
I'm Cold - by Jack Frost
I'm The Leader - by Hugh Followme
Good Phones - by Sam Sung. 

If you find these intriguing, this site is so much better.

Sunday 18 August 2024

Meaningful songs - INDEX OF SONGS







Ostensibly a list of songs that remain meaningful to me, because of memories or emotions that were expected to fade with age (when in fact they do not); this is my personal time machine, for I play these songs and I'm off to another time. I don't know why music does this, but I'm glad it does for me and perhaps you also. 

For those born into the golden age of vinyl (you know if you were), "vinyl" was readily available, relatively cheap and almost defined who you and friends where, providing sanctuary from the real world, emotional support and true happiness; who does not remember girlfriend/boyfriend tapes of selected vinyl tracks recorded and swapped to express all sorts of feelings way beyond our own expression?

Anyway, getting to my point, "vinyl" was destined for the bin of history but oldies, zealots, fashionistas, musicologists, old-tech geeks and newbies (to the joy of this music delivery format) have made its resurgence economically viable and thus readily available for collection and permanent ownership, as opposed to renting your download until it is no longer yours. 

In my formative years I would get back to my freezing bedroom, put on my latest vinyl and avidly pore over its sleeve art and notes as it played, so in a similar vein you may like to read through these articles as you listen.

These are the songs in the "Meaningful songs" series.

 Click on each to hear it.

#1 BLUE MINK - Melting Pot                                                     Read article

#2 NORMAN GREENBAUM - Spirit In The Sky                    Read article

#3 MUNGO JERRY - In The Summertime                              Read article

#4 THE KINKS - Lola                                                                   Read article

#5 LOU REED - Walk On The Wild Side                                  Read article

#6 RALPH McTELL - Streets Of London                                 Read article

#7 ELVIS COSTELLO - Alison                                                    Read article

#8 DORY PREVIN - Lemon Haired Ladies                              Read article

# 9 BILLY PAUL - Me And Mrs Jones                                       Read article

#10 CHARLES AZNAVOUR - She                                              Read article

#11 THE ROLLING STONES - Angie                                         Read article

#12 HELEN REDDY - Angie Baby                                              Read article

#13 INSTANT AUTOMATONS - Harriot's Nurse                    Read article

#14 SINEAD O'CONNOR - Nothing Compares To You          Read article

#15 CARLY SIMON - You're So Vain                                          Read article

#16 PETULA CLARK - Downtown                                              Read article

#17 CHARLES AZNAVOUR - Yesterday when I was young  Read article

#18 THE BEATLES - She's Leaving Home                                Read article

#19 DAVID BOWIE - Letter To Hermione                                Read article

#20 THE SPECIALS - Ghost Town                                             Read article

#21 THE STRANGLERS - Golden Brown                                 Read article

#22 GARBAGE - Stupid Girl                                                        Read article

       With Peter Sarstedt - Where Do You Go To My Lovely

#23 STAN RIDGEWAY - Camouflage                                        Read article

#24 BLACK SABBATH - War Pigs                                              Read article

#25 ARGENT - Hold Your Head Up                                           Read article

#26. TRACEY THORN - Too Happy.                                         Read article

#27 GEORGE MICHAEL - A Different Corner                        Read Article

#28 THE CHI-LITES - Have You Seen Her?                            Read Article

#29 THE ROLLING STONES - Sympathy For The Devil      Read article

GLEN CAMPBELL - Wichita Lineman

THE ARCHIES - Sugar Sugar

GLEN CAMPBELL - By The Time I Get To Phoenix

THE CARPENTERS - Rainy Days And Mondays

GARRY PUCKETT & THE UNION GAP

FUN BOY THREE - Our Lips Sealed

TOM TOM CLUB - Wordy Rappinghood

BADFINGER - Baby Blue and backstory

GORDEN LIGHTFOOT - If You Could Read My Mind


Four-on-the-floor American rarities - Northern Soul hits


FRANK WILSON - Do I Love you (Indeed I Do)

THE TAMS - Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy

CURTIS MAYFIELD's - Move On Up (cover by The Northers Souls)

AL WILSON - The Snake

FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS -The Night-

GLORIA JONES - Tainted Love 1964 and 80s smash hit by SOFT CELL

CHARLIE RICH - Don't Tear Me Down

DUKE BROWNER - Crying Over You

OTIS CLAY - The Only Way Is Up  Joyous steps and later YAZZ version

JUDY STREET - What

THE VIBRATIONS - 'Cause You're Mine

THE 5 ROYALES - Catch That Teardrop

KELLY GARRETT - Love's The Only Answer

JASON KNIGHT - Our Love Is Getting Stronger

TURLEY RICHARDS - I Feel Alright

DEAN PARRISH - Tell Her and 1974 pop hit by Hello

GENE CHANDLER - There Was A Time

BRENDA HOLLOWAY - Look What You've Done What You

SANDI SHELDON - Your Gonna Make Me Love You

YOUNGHEARTS - A Little Togetherness

LAURA MICHELE - You Always Hurt The One You Love

SAM DEES - Lonely For You Baby

HERB JOHNSON AND THE IMPACTS - I'm So Glad

TERRIBLE TOM - We Were Made For Each Other

THE SHIRELLES - Last Minute Mira

THE VEL-VETS - I Got To Find Me Somebody

DON GARDNER - Cheatin' Kind

JAMES CARR - That's What I Want To Know

JIMMY RUFFIN - What Becomes Of The Broken-hearted


Dancing in the spirit if Norther Soul -  ROLY PLATT AND JUSTIN FORESLY - Shuffle The Deck (great video) and these girls also deserve a mention.


SKA from Jamaica, was multi-ethnic in the UK


PRINCE BUSTER - They Call It Madness

THE SPECIALS - Gangsters (cover of Al Capone?)

DANDY LIVINGSTONE - Rudy A Message To You (orig)

THE SPECIALS - Rudy A Message To You (copy)

BAD MANNERS - Wooly Bully

THE SELECTER - On My Radio

THE SPECIALS - Too Much Too Young

DESMOND DEKKER AND THE ACES - The Isrealites

THE SPECIALS - Nelson Mandela

PRINCE BUSTER - Enjoy Yourself

BAD MANNERS - My Girl Lollipop

THE SPECIALS - Ghost Town

THE BEAT - Hands Off She's Mine

BAD MANNERS -Lip Up Fatty

SYMARIP - Skinhead Moonstomp

SYMARIP -Teenage Girl

DAVE AND ANSELL COLLINS - Double Barrel

THE BEAT - Mirror In The Bathroom

THE SPECIALS - Do Nothing

BAD MANNERS - Inner London

DENNIS BROWN - Money In My Pocket

THE HARRY JAY ALL STARS - Liquidator (no vocal)

THE UPSETTERS - Return Of Django (no vocal)

UPTOWN TOP RANKING - Althea And Donna

THE BEAT - Rough Rider

DESMOND DEKKER - Baby Come Back

LORD CREATOR - Hurry Up

MUSICAL YOUTH - Pass The Dutchie

MADNESS - One Step Beyond

PRINCE BUSTER - Al Capone

THE PIONEERS - Long Shot Kick De Bucket

JUNIOR REID - Banana Boat Man

THE BEAT - Rankin Full Stop


Copy Cats (song covers)

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Meaningful songs #29 - THE ROLLING STONES

This  is the twenty-ninth in an occasional series of songs from my collection, with the intent of introducing music to younger readers that they may gain appreciation of music from the classic years, 1957-1990. 

I have lived long enough to hear the "popular" music industry become ever-more formulaic, lazy, uninspiring and cynical; delivering "units" and "artistes" as interesting and memorable as polished mud.

Meaningful songs that eloquently convey a story, sentiment, or social comment and make it to national consciousness are rare these days. If you agree this song is meaningful, please introduce it to someone young; they might enjoy becoming "musical archaeologists".

Todays song, titled "Sympathy For The Devil", released in 1968, is by a group called The Rolling Stones.


Hear the song here


















The release of Sympathy For The  Devil, especially in America, an incendiary and febrile country fighting for social change, racial equivalence and the end of the Vietnam war, was an "edgy" decision, but that's the (early) Stones - edgy!

Mick Jagger sings a song about the influence of "the devil", from the perspective of the devil, with  lyrics sung over a passive-aggressive and then snarling tune that perfectly fits the zeitgeist then; the world was in a mess and the devil was to blame. This song exemplifies the adventurous and dynamic prowess of the early Stones.

If want more about this song start here or here.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
    
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
And I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
 
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzlin' you is the nature of my game

Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank, held a general's rank
When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
Oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzlin' you is the nature of my game
Aww yeah

I watched with glee while your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all, it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
Oh yeah
But what's puzzlin' you is the nature of my game
Aww yeah

Pleased to meet you, hope you'll guess my name
Oh yeah
But what's confusin' you is just the nature of my game
Mmm yeah

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer
'Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Mmm, yeah

Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name
Mmm, yeah
But what's puzzlin'' you is the nature of my game
Mmm, mean it, get down

Woo hoo!
Aww yeah
Get on down
Oh yeah
Ba bum bum, ba ba bum
Ah yeah
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me honey, can you guess my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
I'll tell you one time, you're to blame
Ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo
All right
Ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo
Ah yeah
Ooo hoo, ooo hoo hoo
Ah yes, what's my name?
Tell me baby, what's my name?
Tell me sweetie, what's my name?
Ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo, ooo hoo hoo
Ah yeah
What's my name

Read the next article in this series or hear the next song in the series.

For the index of all songs in this blog click here.