BWahahahaha!!! ;D (to all above qoutes)

What about strange lyrics especially in it's time. What did the people in the 60's think of Pink Floyd or rather Syd Barrett

BIKE

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I've got a cloak. It's a bit of a joke.
There's a tear up the front. It's red and black, I've had it for months.
If you think it could look good, then I guess it should.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.
I don't know why. I call him Gerald.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I've got a clan of gingerbread men.
Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men.
Take a couple if you wish. They're on the dish.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I know a room of musical tunes.
Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.
Let's go into the other room and make them work.

Squonk wrote: What about strange lyrics especially in it's time. What did the people in the 60's think of Pink Floyd or rather Syd Barrett

BIKE

I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good.
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I've got a cloak. It's a bit of a joke.
There's a tear up the front. It's red and black, I've had it for months.
If you think it could look good, then I guess it should.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I know a mouse, and he hasn't got a house.
I don't know why. I call him Gerald.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I've got a clan of gingerbread men.
Here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men.
Take a couple if you wish. They're on the dish.

You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world.
I'll give you anything, everything if you want things.

I know a room of musical tunes.
Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.
Let's go into the other room and make them work.

??? I dunno. What medication helps for that? Sheesh

lol

I dunno. What medication helps for that? Sheesh

I think it was the "medication" helping that got that in the first place. ?

Tom's very clever and it shows (despite the fact that he presents himself as being permanently drunk). I have a vid of him doing "Chocolate Jesus" and in the preamble he describes it as "kind of an immaculate confection, as it were", which I still think is brilliant. He has some very deep insights too.

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:

I dunno. What medication helps for that? Sheesh

I think it was the "medication" helping that got that in the first place. ?

Tom's very clever and it shows (despite the fact that he presents himself as being permanently drunk). I have a vid of him doing "Chocolate Jesus" and in the preamble he describes it as "kind of an immaculate confection, as it were", which I still think is brilliant. He has some very deep insights too.

Yes he also strikes me as really bright. Do you have any idea what that piece "What's he building in there?" is about? It's creepy but cool.

I Havent heard Tom Waits at all. Where do you start?

Squonk wrote: I Havent heard Tom Waits at all. Where do you start?

I'm not an expert. I think you should as Alan. I'm listening to his "mule variations" and enjoying it.

Conrad

Do you have any idea what that piece "What's he building in there?" is about?

He's wondering what a neighbour is building, with hints that he may be up to no good. But the whole point is that he doesn't know what it is. Kinda like King Crimson's Indiscipline - you're not supposed to know what is being spoken about.

I Havent heard Tom Waits at all. Where do you start?

Nighthawks at the Diner (live) or Small Change. Rain Dogs, Mule Variations, and Swordfishtrombones are also highly regarded.. Twisted blues/jazz kind of like if Captain Beefheart was on whiskey instead of drugs (if that helps - LOL!). Somebody else says it better:

"Tom Waits, as you may know, is an infamous singer, songwriter, and actor. His trademark voice has earned him widespread notoriety, to the degree that any artist with an abrasive or interesting singing voice must face countless Waits comparisons. But while Waits's voice is his most commonly referred to quality, it's not his best: Waits's lyrics rank among the finest ever written, earning him all kinds of critical attention and establishing his work as art of the highest musical order (Any "weird" music with well written lyrics must decidedly be, to the pretentious folk, "high art"). His albums are about a subversive underground culture of weirdos and late night locales - if these songs were movies, they'd be shot in grainy black and white film stock, and every character would smoke. Fitting, then, that Waits appears so often in the films of Jim Jarmusch - if Jarmusch's movies were songs, they'd be rough and poetic."

Quite weird Two of my favourite songs and lyricists (wordsmiths) mentioned in one thread The Bicycle-Syd Barrett The Piano's been drinking - Tom waits - I think it is time for ten of your best lyricists. ?

Renesongs wrote: Quite weird Two of my favourite songs and lyricists (wordsmiths) mentioned in one thread The Bicycle-Syd Barrett The Piano's been drinking - Tom waits - I think it is time for ten of your best lyricists. ?

I think there is something wrong with me. Since about age 18, I don't really remember lyrics. Maybe I'm half autistic or something..

Conrad

Squonk wrote: What about strange lyrics especially in it's time. What did the people in the 60's think of Pink Floyd or rather Syd Barrett

I know a room of musical tunes.
Some rhyme, some ching. Most of them are clockwork.
Let's go into the other room and make them work.

Geez they really frittered and wasted their time in an off-hand way!

Alan Ratcliffe wrote:

I Havent heard Tom Waits at all. Where do you start?

Nighthawks at the Diner (live) or Small Change. Rain Dogs, Mule Variations, and Swordfishtrombones are also highly regarded..

First one I listened to was Closing Time. Was hooked in 40 minutes and for life thereafter. Three classics on there (Rosie, Martha, Ol '55).

Some of my favourite Tom Waits quotes:

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

"I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink."

"I'm so goddamn horny the crack of dawn better watch itself around me."

"Coleen's belly was shakin' like jelly, and I'm gettin' harder than Chinese algebra."

"I did my time in the jail of your arms"

"My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day".

"Yeah, I even want to have kids. I'll call the first one "Get off the rug" and the second one "You too".

"I don't have fun. Actually, I had fun once. In 1962. I drank a whole bottle of Robitussin cough medicine and went in the back of a 1961 powder-blue Lincoln Continental to a James Brown concert with some Mexican friends of mine. I haven't had fun since. It's not a word I like. It's like Volkswagens or bell-bottoms, or patchouli oil or bean sprouts. It rubs me up the wrong way. I might go out and have an educational and entertaining evening, but I don't have fun."

Don't get me started on Warren Zevon ... :-[

Ahoooooo ?

It is a fullish moon....

Graeme Parfett wrote: Ahoooooo ?
It is a fullish moon....

Indeed! ?

I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Going to get himself a big dish of beef chow mein

Yeah! ?

after reading this, i asked a friend of mine if he had any tom waits that i could listen to...told me the guy doesnt include an instrument that he cant already play

he then educated me with this -
i had a good chuckle

Geez, he's young there. Believe it or not, that was before his voice broke ?

Alan Ratcliffe wrote: Believe it or not, that was before his voice broke ?

lol!!! did u fix my link there alan? thanks 2 whoever did

Not me, boss.