From Cleveland’s own Michael Stanley singing “Lover” (sung with one breath):
“Baby what you gonna do when the fire is through and you find he’s out looking for somebody new cause you did everything that he wanted you to do and now you’re all alone and crying, aren’t you…lover?”
I want to thank you falletinme be mice elf agin.
Got to have some Cheap Trick “Surrender” (the whole song is quotable)
“But when I woke up Mom and Dad were rolling on the couch, rolling numbers rock and rolling my Kiss albums out…”
34th and Vine.
“White, shining silver studs with their noses in flames” Patti Smith - Horses.
I don’t want to spend the time going back through them all, they are easy to Google should anyone care, but might be persuaded to quiz people on them in a separate thread.
Right now listening to Velvet Underground. From “Some Kinda Love”:
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime
Another one from Lou Reed comes to mind, from “Magic And Loss”:
There’s a bit of magic in everything, and then some loss to even things out
You could find better things to do than to break my heart again
Beatles, “I’ll Be Back”
Great idea. Another Dylan song that would make a great movie is Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts. Since it’s a western, Ford would be a perfect choice here too.
Or, the song/story that Dylan wrote with an actual film guy, Sam Shepherd, with lines like:
She said, "Even the swap meets
around here are getting pretty corrupt."
It was hard to choose one line of “Brownsville Girl”.
The entire story is worth listening to (and following the plot, for gems like how the protagonist’s relationship to a Gregory Peck movie keeps changing as the story unfolds).
The story/poem/lyrics from Bob’s site, but you really should hear it…
Ain’t there one damn song that can make me break down and cry?
David Bowie - Young Americans
The bats have left the bell tower
Bela Lugosi’s Dead - Bauhaus
One of the best quotes in rock all right
I don’t believe in Beatles
Some lines from the Clash’s “Death Or Glory”, another song that’s quotable in its entirety:
And every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us he’ll die before he’s sold
Of course that was a dig at Pete Townshend.
Love and hate tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
The hands that slap his kids around 'cause they don’t understand how
Death or glory
Becomes just another story
Another cultural reference here, Robert Mitchum’s masterfully diabolic character in “The Night Of The Hunter” had these tattoos.
Which reminds me of this great line (possible already in the thread):
And I’m hiding in Honduras
I’m a desperate man
Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan
“I don’t want the world, I just want your half.”
They Might Be Giants, “Ana Ng”
Thanks for the inspiration.
GROUP: Moody Blues
ALBUM: In Search of the Lost Chord
SONG: Legend of a Mind
QUOTE:
Timothy Leary’s dead
No, no, no, no, he’s outside, looking in
He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, taking every wrong direction
(The Pilgrim, Kris Kristofferson)
Two lines from Captian Beefheart’s “When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy”:
Her interest fades like breath on a mirror
and a bit later…
And the wind from my hand blows away like a feather