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Favourite NZ lyrics? Easy:
If things get appallingly bad
And we're all under constant attack
Remember, we want to see good clean ball
And for god's sakes, feed your backs -
Or the 70s version:
If things get appallingly bad
And we all get atrociously poor
If we stand in the queue with our hats on
We can borrow a few million more -
I've got my wash hose
and I can do elefunk -
The summer of love is over.
So get a job, buy a car, eat shit. -
Mate!
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Wow. Who were the Ponsonby DCs? I thought I was the only one...
Note - to increase you chances in the competition, cite your lyrics, and suggest which NZ artist (living, or dead is fine too) you think should have a crack at interpreting them...
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Mate!
I'm also very fond of the Front Lawn song How Are You Doing?, which has to have been a major inspiration for FOTC. In fact they might take a stab at the old Dagg material, too, no? Consider it my entry. I'm running out of tees.
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Was always very keen on Peter Jefferies' lyrics for "The Fate of the Human Carbine", since covered by Cat Power.
Excerpt:
He likes to take the long way home
It's another fine decision
From six to seven he'll be all alone
So he turns on televison
Doesn't even notice as the hour rolls by
Gets lost inside the screen
Watches a film about the evening sky
It was someone else's dream"Watches a film about the evening sky" is a great sentence ...
When you say an artist to interpret, I don't know if you mean musical or visual so I'll hedge my bet with someone who does both: Maryrose Crook.
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Sorry, I mean visual, like the t-shirts that are on offer - Dick Frizzell doing Dimmer lyrics, for instance.
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"Those boys who go to so much trouble
to be Rasputin's double
they look so grand behind the big car doors
with the girls who remind you of weeping sores"Headless Chickens - 'Do the Headless Chickens'.
Art work by Bill Hammond or Richard Kileen, maybe ?
'"Red is the empty sky
black is what they're building on it
they knocked down the ivory mansion
it was one of my favourites"Headless Chickens - 'Donka'.
Hmm, I reckon Seraphine Pick or Maryrose Crook could come up with soemthign pretty good.
"There are some people who can swallow their fear
pull straight ahead and then
crush the living daylights out of all around"Tall Dwarfs - 'Crush'.
Art by Chris Knox or Alec Bathgate, of course would be ideal, but given Chris' current predicament, maybe he'd be able to at least "direct" the art work ?
Or failing that, I think cartoonist Trace Hodgson would make a fair fist of it. -
Not particularly nice lyrics, but I've always had a soft spot for Headless Chickens' "Do the Headless Chicken"
And those boys who go to so much trouble
To be Rasputin's double
They look so grand behind their big car doors
With the girls who remind you of weeping soresAnd please can I have it by the guy that drew this:
http://www.markbehm.com/blogger/uploaded_images/rasputin-716378.jpg -
Oooo snap
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"They're making money out of money here" (Andy, Front Lawn)
Artwork by Mark Briars and Mark Hotchin (Preferably on cell wall)And regarding the alcohol thing... Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds
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Baby I'm kinda sick & tired of waiting till you make your mind up
(you may as well be a brain in a jar)Francis & Denise, always.
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June, June, June, June, June, June, June, JULY! August.
Winter months, all done dark & gloomy by Colin McCahon.Or Cactus Cat - done by Reuben Patterson, all sparkly & shiny.
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That Verlaines one is pretty special already, and another of my favourite lyrics.
This one too:
I watch your striptease til I feel I have to go
I hear the crowd applaud as you put on your show
You're like some mad musician on his funeral pyre
I have to shout aloud...'Don't catch fire!'Chris Knox ideally to do the illustration
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Goodshirt:
When we went to Hamilton I said
"Just pretend it's a holiday" and you said
"Yep, I'll just pretend it's Fiji baby." -
A couple of favourites:
In view of the alcohol issue:
The Chills: "fill your mind with alcohol, comic books and drugs....this is the only way for me"And the Blams;
"I appreciate that joke about the prime minister, i know it was only a joke but youve got teach these kids respect!!" -
Interpreted by Dick Frizzell "A man and a woman" by the Front Lawn
A man and a woman,
A woman and a man,
Look at them lying there,
Sleeping in each others arms,
Oh don't wake them up -
Showing my spots:-
"She's a MOD, she's a MOD, she's a MOD, yeah yeah yeah..."
Ray Columbus and the Invaders for those born after the 70's,
and writing credits go to Terry Beale, lead singer of the Senators,
who originally recorded the song Ray made so famousI would include Pauly's "How Bizzare?" but i like the tune more than the lyrics - go figure.
As an alternative, and a definite Kiwi Knockout how about Sharon O'Neil
~~Maxine!~~Maxine, (Who’s that walking, walking behind you)
You’re not the only one (Who’s that talking, talking about you)
To take the whole world on, (Who’s that walking, walking with you, Maxine)
But no one’s ever won
Maxine, (Who’s that walking, walking behind you)
Case one-three-five-two (Who’s that talking, talking about you)
A red and green tattoo, (Who’s that walking, walking with you, Maxine)
Eyes cold as steel blueUnbeatable - surely??
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This is one seriously interesting character.Love this but at the same time his lyrics always sadden me.
Babybird.( Stephen Jones)Bad Old Man.
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He's got a young man who feeds him
Whispers sweet nothings just to please him
He makes him cool for the TV
Makes half the man he is a celebrity
With his swollen lips around his early teens
In his dress he can't believe it's in his genes
He's half a man, and half a God
One half bitch, one half dog.
He drowned his stepson in the duckpond
Let the wifebeater out to make a pop song
He put razor blades in the ice cream..... -
I fidget with the digit dots and cry an anxious tear
As the XU-1 connects the spot
But the matrix grid don't care
Get a message to my mother
What number would she be
There's a million angry citizens
Looking down their tubes at meActual design pending. Watch this (8-bit) space. For an outside artist's take on it, the artist who destroyed a McCahon with laser-toting pixellated aliens.
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Atually couldn't resist.
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Thanks for the link to the radio interview with Nutt.
Anyone know if PA Radio has a RSS feed I can slot into Google Listen? -
Ben, the little orange RSS symbol by the PA Radio link on the home page is what you need.
And the first of my entries, from Blam Blam Blam's 'Respect':
"Free thinkers make messy citizens"
And:
" ... and I didn't appreciate that crack about the Prime Minister."
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