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The Dutch techno choon James Brown is Dead by L.A. Style, released in 1991, fifteen years before it bore any truth in relation to reality.
Yaz, “The Only Way is Up!”
Demonstrably incorrect.
Do they know it’s Christmas? Yes. Christianity is a very popular religion in Africa, plus the commercialisation of the festive season will cover any non believers.
There’ll be no snow in Africa this Christmas time.
Yes there will. Kilimanjaro has snow capped peaks, year round.
No rain nor rivers flow Apart from the Nile, one of the longest in the world.
In Working Man by Rush, Geddy moans about leaving for work at 9 and being home for a beer at 5.
He then moans that he doesn’t have time for living because he’s working all the time. Let’s assume he has a 30 minute commute …9.30 to 4.30 is a pretty cushy working day.
I feel his woes will fall on deaf ears of NHS workers and those on zero hours contracts.
In Working Man by Rush, Geddy moans about leaving for work at 9 and being home for a beer at 5.
He then moans that he doesn’t have time for living because he’s working all the time. Let’s assume he has a 30 minute commute …9.30 to 4.30 is a pretty cushy working day.
In my last job, my working day was 6.30am to 6.30pm. With a 30-40 minute commute.
Mike Oldfield / Maggie Reilly's "Moonlight Shadow". 4am in the morning. 4am cannot possibly be in the afternoon.
Robbie Williams's "Strong". And that's a good line to take it to the bridge. No, Mr. Williams, it is not.
Oh, and anything by Pendulum, if we're being pendantic
Saturday night’s alright for fighting.
The law disagrees here.
Year 3000 by Busted. Great, great, great grand daughter.....
They’re in California
Surely they are dreaming of going to California?
Can leaves dream?
Pedants’
If several pedants are contributing to a single playlist.
Anyway. Bluebirds are not to be found in the vicinity of Dover, as they're not a native species.
'Thunder only happens when it's raining'
Not necessarily.
I've never really looked at that album cover before (not my sort of thing at all), but has Mick there got a pair of fake bollocks dangling? Wassat about then?
"Err, no. Christmas is at the end of the year, the new year is still a week away."
New Year is during Christmas. And yes there will be snow somewhere in Africa, not everyone will be having fun and snowmen are not responsible for snow.
"Have you not cycled Moscow to California on a warm Scottish day?"
I have always fancied a cross border run doing Oxford to Cambridge
'Are we human or are we dancer?': is that not a false dichotomy?
Have you not cycled Moscow to California on a warm Scottish day?
https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/cyclists-complete-brilliant-challenge-bike-20865656 - with a beard like that, surely they're a STWer?
And did those feet, in ancient times
Walk upon England's mounrtains green?
er no.
'And did those feet...'. The Swedenborgians thought so.
Ride a White Swan... baby can't go wrong...
I won't be putting any baby of mine anywhere near a swan. Can break a man's arm, apparently.
An all time classic of the genre has to go to Alanis Morissette and ‘Ironic’.
This is an age old "argument". I remember at Uni the campus drunk who liked the sound of his own voice wrote an article on it on the Union rag. It was time to move on a long time ago.
“Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak somewhere in this town”
I’m going to guess the jail?
London has many jails.
indeed. Another that's been done to death.
went to a party in the county jail...
- Oh really?
- That's what we're going with...
“Tonight there’s going to be a jailbreak somewhere in this town”
I’m going to guess the jail?
London has many jails.
It's a city mind.
'Everybody walk the dinosaur'
Dinosaurs were never domesticated and certainly didn't require walks.
Wassat about then?
‘Clackers’ , very popular in the late 60s, and like a swan they could break your arm (apparently).
In Working Man by Rush, Geddy moans about leaving for work at 9 and being home for a beer at 5.
He then moans that he doesn’t have time for living because he’s working all the time. Let’s assume he has a 30 minute commute …9.30 to 4.30 is a pretty cushy working day.
I've listened to that song a million times and yet it's never struck me how short his working week is. And if he's hitting the bottle at 5 every evening he's probably a borderline alcoholic too.
And now I'm beginning to wonder if they ever really did fly through that black hole. I always assumed it was a true story!!
And did those feet, in ancient times
Walk upon England’s mounrtains green?er no.
Definition of a mountain seems to vary slightly but, generally 300m elevation or approx 610m above sea level is a mountain. Apperently there are over 200 mountains in England.
You can tell by the way I use my walk
I'm a woman's man, no time to talk
I'll be honest, I'd thought it was more likely piles playing up?
Along the border with Wales, a mountain is just upland rough grazing and even that's a thing of the past with improvements - Harley's Mountain is usually arable these days.
And somebody's feet walked them, them tumuli did not erect themselves.....
– if the leaves are brown, isn’t that still technically autumn?No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.
They’re in California…
There are plenty of brown leaves on the ground down here in Wales, and it's winter by any definition. The song doesn't specify where the leaves are.
jimmy
An all time classic of the genre has to go to Alanis Morissette and ‘Ironic’.This is an age old “argument”. I remember at Uni the campus drunk who liked the sound of his own voice wrote an article on it on the Union rag. It was time to move on a long time ago.
Nice of you to add something new and interesting to the amusing discussion.
Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me
"I was 37 you were 17, you were half my age, A youth I'd never seen"
1. eeeuww, 2. Are you blind? AFAIK Glen Gregory is not...
Eggman? Walrus? You can't be both, and tbh neither seems likely.
Pour me somethin' tall and strong
Make it a hurricane before I go insane
It's only half past 12, but I don't care
It's five o'clock somewhere
Technically it could feasibly be exactly 5 o'clock somewhere but it's more likely to be 'around 5 o'clock', especially given the duration of the song and the number of times he repeats this refrain. It cannot be 5 o'clock each time it is said.
With all the world time zones there
are, it might not be exactly 5:00, as there are minutes involved. So, technically it could range from 5–6pm depending on the time zone and such.
And somebody’s feet walked them, them tumuli did not erect themselves…..
"and did those feet, in ancient times" etc etc, reers to feet of the holy lamb of gpd - ie jesus - as made clear in the next stanza of Blake's lyric. It is unlikely Jesus was building welsh pre-christian tumuli.
And did those feet, in ancient times
Walk upon England’s mountains green?
Henning Wehn (German comedian; yes there is such a thing) brilliantly described Jerusalem as "Not so much a hymn, more a series of questions, the answer to all of which is 'no'."
– if the leaves are brown, isn’t that still technically autumn?No, meteorological winter starts on 1st Dec and oaks could still have leaves, as well as beech and hornbeam which would hold some leaves all through winter.
They’re in California…
There are plenty of brown leaves on the ground down here in Wales, and it’s winter by any definition. The song doesn’t specify where the leaves are.
but it says all the leaves are brown. The leaves on my hedge stay green all winter even though the fallen leaves that have gathered under them are brown. I think you’d only get all brown leaves during a nuclear winter.
"I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA"…. Do they fear LA isn’t there anymore?
is this all a veiled reference to the aftermath of the cuban missile crisis and the new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles that consequently became operational in the year the song was released?