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24 August 2007

Goodbye My Almost Lover I've been thinking this past year and a half or so about songs that express sentiments I haven't heard musically expressed before. Here is one. Anyone have others to share?
That's a DRM'd iTunes file. We can't play it.
posted by birdherder 24 August | 21:38
Sentiments. Ok. Some of these aren't really for everyone, but they really haven't been expressed musically before. Naturally, some may find two of the following tracks offensive in various ways. Life's like that.

Vaughn Monroe And His Orchestra - When The Lights Go On Again (All Over The World)
Lyrics
When the lights go on again all over the world
And the boys are home again all over the world
And rain or snow is all that may fall from the skies above
A kiss won't mean "goodbye" but "hello to love"

When the lights go on again all over the world
And the ships will sail again all over the world
Then we'll have time for things like wedding rings and free hearts will sing
When the lights go on again all over the world

When the lights go on again all over the world

Notes
Peaked at # 1 in 1943
Competing version by Lucky Millinder hit # 12
Title song from the 1944 film.
This was a mid-WW2 song. *Title* refers to the practise of having to black out possible bombing targets and to avoid back-lighting torpedo targets for offshore U-boats.



Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota.
Liner Notes
potentially extremely offensive to some.

Lyrics:
This is Jordan, we do what we like
This is Jordan, we do what we like

Stay with me, my five year old
Stay with me, play hide and seek
Stay with me, my five year old
This is Jordan, we do what we like

And this will stay with you until you die
And this will stay with you until you die
And I will stay with you until you die
And this is Jordan, we do what we like

And this will stay with you until you die
And this will stay with you until you die
This will stay with you until you die
And I will stay with you until you die

Suck daddy, suck daddy, suck daddy, etc


Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady
Lyrics:
By far worse is the hambuger lady,
We must heal them for the qualified technicians,
Worse,
Alternating nights are automatic,
She's lying there,

Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady

She's dying,
She is burned from the waist up,
On her arm,
Her ear is burned,
Her eyelashes are burned,
She can't hold anything up,
And even with medical advances,
There's no end in sight,
For hamburger lady,
She wants me to tell you of her claim mind,
From which the double play laying,
The propping chair,
Leave her,
She's Burned from the waist down,
Has to eat her life through tubes,
And the nice nurse,

Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady

She's okay if you change the tubes,
Tubes in her legs,
The tubes in her arms,
She's okay,
Then it came out and saw the burn nurses,
Indeed in the account of killing,
And it flashed on the carpet,
And it flashed on the floor,
The hamburger lady,
She's been here for three weeks,
She came to rest,
Because of the burn she needs relief,
Kneel down,
The qualified Technician,
Keeps her alive,

Hamburger Lady
Hamburger Lady

posted by Zack_Replica 25 August | 03:51
Oh, and I also wish I had a copy of Roxy Music's "In Every Dream Home a Heartache", which is a love song to a blow-up doll 'I blew up your body/but you blew my mind!', but I don't, alas.
Also, on one of their albums, "The Feeding of the 5000", CRASS originally had a "song" (more of a rant) called 'Reality Asylum', which was a blistering condemnation of christianity ("There are no words for my contempt"). On subsequent releases, this was replaced with two minutes of silence entitled "The Sound of Free Speech", as workers at the pressing plant allegedly refused to handle the single.
posted by Zack_Replica 25 August | 04:07
"John Wayne Gacy, Jr" by Sufjan Stevens is the greatest ballad about serial killer ever written.

Kate Bush's ode to a computer - "Deeper Understanding" - may well be unique... as is her ode to Pi.
posted by chuckdarwin 25 August | 05:31
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