We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when…
I’m the Berlin Wall, I’m a Communist, You’re a wrecking ball in a summer dress…
Now the lounge is full of farmers for the 7:30 draw
They shot a movie once, in my home town
Another day breaks and the last one’s gone, you dig deep just to carry on
Dark eyes and careless hair, you were fashionably sensitive but too cool to care
So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways
Do you listen to music, or do you just skim through it?
Playing crokinole with the Princess of Monaco
I can be handy mending a fuse when the lights have gone
Will you read my book, it took me years to write - will you take a look?
When you say she’s looking good she acts as if it’s understood
Now we know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
Thanks for all those, Dr_Paprika! I want to listen to so many of those songs now. So, can you repost all of yours with the artists’ names?
I doubt it, it’d take half a day.
How about just two?
Thanks for all your work on our behalf.
I was thinking of making a thread getting people to guess the songs. Some of them are too Canadian to be widely known. I figure they can be easily Googled if anyone much cares.
I only guessed about a third of @Dr_Paprika 's contributions, but this is obvious (but not really a rock song): Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again”, one of the most famous British pop songs ever and a boost for morale of British soldiers and civilians in WWII.
Though there are connections to rock: I first enconuterd the name “Vera Lynn” in the song “Vera” on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, and the first version of the actual song I heard was the Byrds cover.
I was thinking Vera Lynn and it could be easily argued this isn’t rock music. Of course I was aware of later uses. The other song is by a band so Canadian that two of its members were named Gordon - The Tragically Hip. The song is Blow At High Dough or something similar.
I shoulda known right then it was too good to last,
God it’s such a drag when you’re livin’ in the past
–“Even The Losers” / Tom Petty
Now that song’s going through my head, and the line before the one you posted is haunting:
Two cars parked on the overpass.
Rocks hit the water like broken glass.
Let me expand that request to EVERYBODY. Please include artist & song title on ALL quotes.
As the OP, I endorse this request. Identify the title and artist, always, as a rule.
Several lines from Venus by Television:
The world was so thin between my bones and skin
There stood another person who was a little surprised
To be face to face with a world so alive
I fell right into the arms of Venus De Milo
I stood up, walked out of the arms of Venus De Milo
Try as I might.
To succeed at this site
I followed this thread with all measure
But soon it was clear, “Single Line” disappeared
And people still posted with pleasure.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to fight
Just trying to follow the flow.
And maybe I might guess what posting is right
And won’t be told where to go.
(played on rock guitar)
-Ssounder
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls”
And then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right
There must be fifty ways to leave your lover
She said, “A good day ain’t got not rain”
She said, “A bad day’s when I lie in bed
And I think of things that might have been”
phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
The Clash - London calling
From Taylor Swift’s “The Story of Us”: “I’ve never heard silence quite this loud”.
I can’t believe I never heard Visions of Johanna before. Or at least I don’t remember it. What quintessentially perfect Dyan lyrics! On the ragged edge of nonsense but wonderfully coherent. It was released when I was 20 and I would have loved to have heard it back then.
Possibly the most alliterative line in rock and roll.
“I held my nose I closed my eyes…I took a drink”
You pulled that out of thin air, I wonder how many know where it’s from.
I know where it’s from and I played in a band that played that song.