The petrol engine
The old age pension
The fires of Hades
The Briscoes lady!

Don McGlashan, heard live at the Harbour Light. After which, mutual delight as he met for the first time a certain lady who was more than a little chuffed to be name-checked in his song.

Artwork:…

t-shirt -deepest black with a tiny copper&purple double spiral over your heart-

“They’re sending rockets to the moon
They say the rich are going to live there soon,
But my cars broken down and it doesn’t run.
Mind you, a car won’t make the trip,
they’ll have a silver-plated rocket ship
but they won’t be asking me if I…

1 x 20L bucket.
Some chopped fruit
1 kg sugar
add yeast.

Cover....but leave room to breathe.

IN a few days…

come on, have yourself a look
I'm proud of my shop
almost everything is from overseas
you won't find a better selection

You'd want someone who could pick out the cringe, the unease. Frizzell, perhaps, or Janice Gill.

Such an amazing song, the sense of underlying wrongness in it gives…

I run by a string of houses,
Laid out like a string of pearls,
In each house there's a room,
And in each room there's a girl that I don't know, and it's as if
they've left their windows open for me

Artwork: prison…

Here I sit in a coffin full of shit
As she knits guillotines for the epileptic fit
That killed me

Toy Love / Chris Knox, Good Old Joe

Christchurch
In Cashel Street I... oh holy fuck!

Art, again, Joe Wylie.

So you sailed across the ocean
making plans to meet your family
Clutching packages of photographs
of those you left behind you
And of those you left behind you
I'm the only one still waiting
for the photographs to find me
and the…

I too love the tiny triumphs though not in the matchbox car way.

Ok I spent way too long on this but enjoyed listening to loads of songs along the way. Had a lot more trouble coming up with artists than lyrics. Apparently I like artists that make…

Put your clock back for the winter

Or ... Joe doing a whole other Chris Knox song. Let me think about that ...

Amputee Song

We lie here in our holes
We cannot tell you why
We go from day to day
We cannot even die
There but for the grace of god
Go I, you point…

In my room I have built a religion of a kind
I've found virtue in things that stay the same
In my room I measure time by the things that I use up
And just like my shopping list I will never change

The Mutton Birds – In My…

Baby I'm kinda sick & tired of waiting till you make your mind up
(you may as well be a brain in a jar)

SJD – Baby You're Oh So. Artists = Francis Hooper & Denise L'Estrange Corbet

so like I went inside you know, and I turned…

Would have to be Joe Wylie to do the art.He's bloody good.

Totally with you on that.

Or ... Joe doing a whole other Chris Knox song. Let me think about that ...

Instigators Hope she's alright

I'm waiting for my baby
she's late, but then just maybe*
she won't be coming home tonight.
Hope she's alright

Art by Alexis Hunter.

*It's pretty hard to hear…

-Jackie Clark, apropos "Human Remains": your comment that it would make a good film/was cinematic, is right on the button...I really must go out & dig in the bookshed-

incidentally – is your brother familiar with a taoistic technique, of focusing on fingertips (including thumbs)…

One finger at a time, relax your grip and free your mind Hamish Clark/Breaks Co-op. Yes he's my bruv but I stlll think it's a lyric that bangs.

That'd be John Rowles. And that'd have to be Heather Straka again.

So if you fit that category, and want to win, feel free to repost.

Toy love
Bride of Frankenstein

Make me a bride he said
From one who died he said
Sewn up, so fine
Bride of Frankenstein

Would have to be Joe Wylie to do the art.He's bloody good.

I stayed at this masquerade
And had another drink
I was hoping to bring sin to my sheets

'The Drinker' – Phoenix Foundation

And maybe said sheets could be colour fieldy bits by Gretchen Albrecht.

Down at The Rising Sun
Bowing to the Lord of the Smoking Mirror
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 sores

Patrick Reynolds,…

she's got a mind but it's the clothes they see through

"Victoria" by The Exponents

(Artwork: "Putting Victoria into Victorious" by Miriam Saphira)

I want to be a rebel,
but mummy says
I'm not allowed to be,
so I live in mass conformity,
I'm lost in uniformity

"I'm Normal" by The Killjoys

(artwork = Michael Smither "Kawaroa Paddling Pool")

Phoenix Foundation, "Gandalf"

Artist – Heather Straka

Let's go, let's go, to Australia,
Your dole cheque came, with the right name,
and it's easy to score a joint

"Let's Go" by Vivid Militia

(Artwork by Chris Knox)

"... and there are no sheep on our far-arms"

(Artwork by Collette)

"There is no Depression in New Zealand" by Blam Blam Blam

Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School....

I didn't know that... knew he did art... ta for that and the link Philip

Really really like the new Gate album and thanks to this thread and my choice I am now eyeing up a Bruce Russell designed…

Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School for several years, I think he'd be able to provide something without too much trouble.

A heck of a painter, eg these examples

But otherwise (and without going beyond where the original post ended with The Verlaines) maybe:
__ I…

the Dead C can do their own artwork for this one

Given that Michael Morley's been a lecturer at Dunedin Art School for several years, I think he'd be able to provide something without too much trouble.

(Bet you didn't know that about him, Mr Daktari!).

Toy Love, 'Rebel'. Can Judy Darragh make it into a lei…

Able Tasmans – Michael Fay

artwork to be supplied by Allen Hubbard

doodle after the Chills, Heavenly Pop Hit

Not that we should be surprised, that 18 & 19 year olds chose to drink in the same way as everyone else was. But it is disproportionately high…

I'll keep you in line
If you'll bring me the cheque
Just take your time
I'll take all you can get
You'll keep no secrets from me
All I want is a little more back this time
Shut your mouth
Put your money into it

'Precious', by Fur Patrol

Dedicated…

is from A Thing Well Made, by The Mutton Birds. Which also has a euphonium solo, for an additional dose of awesome.

You are the best thing that's happened to me
Since I fell on my face on Tuesday

(I figure for it to be a classic lyric, then you don't need to say who the performer is :) )

I'd love to agree with you, but I can't. I don't know a number of the bloody lyrics quoted above as though everyone is supposed to know them :)…

We can leave to another day what to do about the likes of heroin, meth, coke, LSD.

I'm not sure why you include LSD there, since it ranks lower on Nutt et al.' index of harm than cannabis (and therefore lower than tobacco and alcohol too).

(Artwork by Collette)

the Dead C can do their own artwork for this one

In his career before entering politics, Banks worked as a market researcher in the pharmaceutical industry, as a commercial property developer, and as a restaurant owner. He served for…

Where I am going you can't save me

Nigel Brown.

If not then Julia Deans

Don't talk to me like I'm one of your cynical peers
Talk to me like a lover

Seraphine Pick
In fact, although can only find small version, [[http://www.wanganui.govt.nz/news/commslink/images/issues/issue368/ClosingIn2008.jpg|this…

I'll keep you in line
If you'll bring me the cheque
Just take your time
I'll take all you can get
You'll keep no secrets from me
All I want is a little more back this time
Shut your mouth
Put your money into it

Dedicated to Alan Hubbard.

You'd want someone who could pick out the cringe, the unease. Frizzell, perhaps, or Janice Gill.

listen to that you used to say
can you hear someone drawing plans?
can you hear someone cutting wood?
can you hear someone walking the land?
all the time I wanted to be
somewhere that wasn't so new
where you didn't have to dig…

so like I went inside you know, and I turned on my tv
and you know what I saw?
you know what I saw?
I saw John Banks he was telling me...
rat- rat- rat on ya neighbour!

I would totally wear this t-shirt.

In my room I have built…

(also, hat-tip to chris for helping me decipher the lyrics. thanks!)

TrustMe

In my room I have built a religion of a kind
I've found virtue in things that stay the same
In my room I measure time by the things that I use up
And just like my shopping list I will never change

J. Wylie – artist.

I think those…

My choice?

I used to do lots of things.
I used to do things,
and I'd say things,
Jesus I was evil

Excellent choice.

J. Wylie – artist.

I used to do lots of things.
I used to do things,
and I'd say things,
Jesus I was evil

Illustrated by Ant Sang (I'm thinking his Dharma Punks comics....)

As for artists, rope in Greg Page.

When I was in Riverhead
I wanted to tell you that I was dead
My hands were cold and my lips were bled...

This is a love song for John & Leisha's mother.
It's not that easy,
I might not write another.

(I figure for it to be a classic lyric, then you don't need to say who the performer is :) )

any widespread of a pristine beach (o, come on! You'll find one!)
or, a perfect mountain stream*-

(*-hey! they cant see giardia without huge & unlikely magnification...)

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."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwjIYZo_pg

Actual design pending. Watch this…

Bad Old Man.
....
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…

"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 famous

I would include…

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

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…

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."

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…

Or Cactus Cat – done by Reuben Patterson, all sparkly & shiny.

Francis & Denise, always.

And regarding the alcohol thing... Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers, Study Finds

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 sores

And…

Headless Chickens – 'Do the Headless Chickens'.

Art work by Bill Hammond or Richard Kileen, maybe ?

'"Red is the…

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…

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.

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...

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

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