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Has "Every lyric written by Ronnie James Dio" been mentioned yet?

Not so much factually incorrect, more totally inconherant.

with such gems as "Ride the tiger, You can see his stripes but you know he's clean, Oh don't you see what I mean? " - no Ronnie, we don't.

" Race for the morning You can hide in the sun 'till you see the light "

" It's like broken glass You get cut before you see it "

" You've got wings of steel But they never really move you You only seem to crawl "

" Don't hide in doorways You may find the key that opens up your soul "

 

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7 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

If I go there will be trouble

If I stay it will be double

Well Joe, clearly you should have gone, so why bother asking?

True, but pedant alert... I think it was Mick singing that song.... and he was actually writing about how he felt about the Clash.

They eventaully made the choice for him by firing him :sad:

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3 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

True, but pedant alert... I think it was Mick singing that song.... and he was actually writing about how he felt about the Clash.

They eventaully made the choice for him by firing him :sad:

I stand corrected 😲

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There's wheat in the field
And water in the stream
And salt in the mine
And an aching in me
I can longer stand and wonder
Cos I'm driven by this hunger
So I'll jug some water, bake some flour,
Store some salt and wait the hour
When thinking of love,
Love is thinking for me
And the baker will come
And the baker I'll be
I'm depending on my labour,
The texture and the flavour
Hey!
I can no longer stand and wonder
Cos I'm driven by this hunger
So I'll jug some water, bake some flour,
Store some salt and wait the hour

 

 

Come on, Mr Marriott, you'll either need some yeast or a sourdough culture or your bread is going to be disappointing at best.

 

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13 hours ago, TheRev said:

Jefferson Starship:

Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?
We built this city, we built this city on rock and roll

A mamba is a bad tempered, highly venomous snake and Marconi would deeply regret messing with it.

And that's before we get into a discussion about suitable foundations for large urban conurbations.

I think I once read  'We built this city' being described as a 'bunch of people in a room with a synth and a big pile of coke...and only one of them knows how to work the synth'.

:)

That said, I still like it.

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10 minutes ago, Bill Wy,Aye,Man said:

Belinda Carlisle would gain more credibility if she re recorded her hit as Hebburn (Tyne and Wear) is a Place on Earth. Likewise Bryan Adam's with, (I'm Finding it Hard to Believe) We're in Hebburn

Also, anyone whose ever been there would agree that the Smith's classic, Hebburn Knows I'm  Miserable Now, would be more accurate

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1 hour ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

What's the time difference between Memphis and Dublin?

Dublin is six hours ahead, so it would have been one minuit past midnight (so the next day...) in Dublin at the time of the assassination of MLK (18h01...)

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1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

Has "Every lyric written by Ronnie James Dio" been mentioned yet?

Not so much factually incorrect, more totally inconherant.

with such gems as "Ride the tiger, You can see his stripes but you know he's clean, Oh don't you see what I mean? " - no Ronnie, we don't.

" Race for the morning You can hide in the sun 'till you see the light "

" It's like broken glass You get cut before you see it "

" You've got wings of steel But they never really move you You only seem to crawl "

" Don't hide in doorways You may find the key that opens up your soul "

 

And Holy Diver. There surely isn't much call for clerical industrial diving services these days!

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58 minutes ago, Bill Wy,Aye,Man said:

Belinda Carlisle would gain more credibility if she re recorded her hit as Hebburn (Tyne and Wear) is a Place on Earth. Likewise Bryan Adam's with, (I'm Finding it Hard to Believe) We're in Hebburn

To be fair, I am sure Fred Astaire sang “Hebburn, I’m in Hebburn” which was followed up by “I’m singing in the rain...” 😀

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1 hour ago, PaulWarning said:

If I go there will be trouble

If I stay it will be double

Well Joe, clearly you should have gone, so why bother asking?

Actually, maybe this is understandable if we take into account what psychologists 'the endowment effect' where we place higher value on things we already posess, and will need non-rationally high incentive to relinquish them.

 

Perhaps it is more easily explained via this diagram ;):

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2 hours ago, ahpook said:

I think I once read  'We built this city' being described as a 'bunch of people in a room with a synth and a big pile of coke...and only one of them knows how to work the synth'.

:)

That said, I still like it.

I like the version that made number 1 a couple of years back. Everyone likes a sausage roll after all.

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1 hour ago, Nail Soup said:

Actually, maybe this is understandable if we take into account what psychologists 'the favourite gear effect' where we place higher value on basses we already posess, and will need non-rationally high incentive to relinquish them.

 

Perhaps it is more easily explained via this diagram ;):

926307635_Endowmentgraph.png.ef7c030d736b43ab4143d77f7ec7f334.png

Fixed.

Maybe?

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8 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

What's the time difference between Memphis and Dublin?

Strictly speaking, MLK was shot just after midnight -  and therefore early morning -- Dublin time. However, it was by then April 5th in Dublin.

Poor old Bono. He can't catch a break here.

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A slight geographical error from "Wagon wheel".

If you were actually "a-heading west from the Cumberland gap to Johnson City, Tennessee", you'd be going in the wrong direction.

Oh I really must get out more.🙄

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On 30/06/2020 at 11:17, paul_c2 said:

Live and Let Die:

Its either "in this ever changing world in which we live" or "in this ever changing world...which we live in". NOT "in this ever changing world in which we live in"!!!!!

Grrr!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought he was singing "In this ever changing world in which we're livin..."

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From Wikipedia:-

The sheet music used the line "in this ever-changing world in which we live in" as part of the opening verse of the song. In the Washington Post interview more than 30 years later, McCartney told the interviewer, "I don't think about the lyric when I sing it. I think it's 'in which we're living', or it could be 'in which we live in', and that's kind of, sort of, wronger but cuter," before deciding that it was "in which we're living.

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