What are you listening to? The world really needs to know. #5

Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Erik said:
If you ever get a chance to hear these guys live - do.
But can anyone explain the referance to codeine?
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Possibly Erik the friend has the Codeine on standby, 'cos she'll need it when she's done cryin' an' wailin' because:
a) he said "what hairdo?"
b) agreed that her bum did look big in that dress
c) refused to give up custody of the tv remote

Think this is more the real answer: quote from Jason Isbell, singer/songwriter of the above track,the Dirty Beggars covered.

Isbell’s work is filled with references to prescription drugs — one of his finest songs, a kind of fiddle-strewn anti-waltz, is titled “Codeine” — and when I asked him later why this is, he hesitated for a minute. “I think I just love the sound those words make,” he said. “Prescription drugs have never been seductive to me, but they put some realism in a song. More people are addicted to legal drugs than illegal ones.”
Jason Isbell, a songwriter and former member of the Drive-By Truckers.
By DWIGHT GARNER
Published: May 31, 2013
New York Times Magazine, Jason Isbell, unloaded.
 
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hoochmonkey9

hoochmonkey9

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Miles Davis, gone 22 years today. I remember that day well, it was also a Saturday. I had come home from a relay race from here to Lunenburg, about 100 kms. I was stiff and just wanted to have a few beers and read and listen to music and go to bed. The phone was ringing in my apartment when I got home. It was my mother calling to tell me that Miles Davis had died. Moms were the internet back in 1991.

I did have the beers and listen to music, but I went to bed a lot later than planned.

Ah, Miles.

 
PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Skygazer said:
Some Vintage Punk:

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I saw Keith Richards and the Expensive Winos at an old venue here in the Philly area called the Tower Theater in '93(?). They opened with "Somethin Else". I was blown away. They did the semi-obscure "Between the Buttons" gem "Connections":
 
hoochmonkey9

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misheard lyric mayhem!

So, I've had a copy of Fun House since high school, the mid '80s. I've always thought the line from Loose, "I'll stick it deep inside" was "I'm stupid deep inside." Yesterday I decided to look at the lyric sheet.

Doh. They all say Doh.

And what's worse, I've sung that song in a couple of my shortlived bands.(They were all short lived, most not making it out of the basement.) It was probably with Shiloh or Tim Karurinsky, or both. But in my defense, I had a taped pirated copy of the album at that point, so I couldn't consult the lyric sheet, I transcribed it.

Stupid deep inside, indeed.

Anyway...

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mjp

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There's a lyric sheet?

Stick it deep inside gives it a slightly different meaning than what you were singing, doesn't it.

So now you know he's screaming the wall! on down on the street, right? I only learned that one when I read something Ron Asheton said in the Detroit Rock City book.
 
PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Ponder: Sam Baker is reminiscent of Willie Vlautin from the band Richmond Fontaine. "High County" He's also an excellent novelist.
 
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