Top Ten whatever......

[Keef]

Before all this forum lark kicked off, myself, Mockney Piers, and CrystalClear used to waste away our working days by doing top tens.... One day it would be albums, another day song lyrics, and another day 80's hair cuts... Whatever one of us could think of in the morning.....

This could be a fun thing to start doing on the forum...

I'll kick off with Top 10 song lyrics (not that creative, but it'll get us started). Compile yours, and post it here. Then each day, anyone can suggest a new top 10.... Lets see how we go, we used to spend ages thinking about these before this forum took over our working lives ;-)

[SeanMacGabhann]

ooh we loves a challenge

By song lyrics do you mean a snippet/quotation from a song that stands out - or the full malarkey but just give top 10 song titles/artist?

Am I overthinking?

[CrystalClear]

I think quotes.

[mockney piers]

"England my country the home of the free

Such miserable weather

But England's as happy as England can be why cry"

The Sundays

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"And the television's gone

Go to the grocery store

Buy some new friends

And find out the beginning

The end

And the best of it

Well, do you need a lot of what you got

To survive?

Here's the man with teeth like God's shoeshine

He sparkles

Shimmers

Shines

Let's all have another orange julius

Thick syrup standing in lines

The malls are the soon to be ghost towns

Well so long, farewell, goodbye"

Modest Mouse

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"Brother see we are one in the same

And you left with your head filled with flames

And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth

Push the pieces in place

Make your smile sweet to see

Don't you take this away

I'm still wanting my face on your cheek"

Neutral Milk Hotel

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"Heads down, thumbs up

Two sips from the cup of human kindness

And I'm shit-faced, just laid to waste"

The New Pornographers

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"She stayed with me until,

She moved to Notting Hill,

She Said it was the place she needs to be,

Where the cocaine is fair-trade,

and frequently displayed,

is the Buena Vista Social Club CD,

I thought you'd be back in three weeks,

and we'd go wandering in the peaks,

Sojourn in my uncle Joe's ashram,

And when you're in Matlock Bath,

You don't need Sylvia Plath,

Not while we've got mrs. Gibsons jam,

Alas I'm brooding along by the runnel,

while shes in Capri with her swain,

and the light at the end of the tunnel,

Is the light of an oncoming train.

Well we both grew up in Eyam,

and strange as it may seem,

Neither of us thought we'd ever leave,

But the beak in Leek is weak,

and she's moved it so to speak,

With featureless TV producer Steve,

And now it's all Eva Cassidy,

and aphids in Piccardy,

and so I can only ascertain,

That the light at the end of the tunnel,

Is the light of an oncoming train.

No frills, handy for the hills,

That's the way you spell New Mills,

Brooding along by the runnel,

While shes in Capri with her swain,

and the light at the end of the tunnel,

Is the light of an oncoming train."

Half Man Half Biscuit

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"And from the bottom of the river

I looked up for the sun

Which had shattered in the water

And the pieces were raining down

Like gold rings

That passed through my hands

As I thrashed and grabbed

I started rising rising"

Smog

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"Traveling in a fried-out combie

On a hippie trail, head full of zombie

I met a strange lady, she made me nervous

She took me in and gave me breakfast

And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?

Where women glow and men plunder?

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?

You better run, you better take cover.""

Men At Work

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"The creature in the sky

Got sucked in a hole

Now there's a hole in the sky

and the ground's not cold

and if the ground's not cold

Everything is gonna burn

We'll all take turns

I'll get mine, too

This monkey's gone to heaven"

Pixies

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"Oh, I wish, I wish, I wish I was born a man

So I could learn how to stand up for myself

Like those guys with guitars

I've been watching in bars

Who've been stamping their feet to a different beat

To a different beat

To a different beat

I will not pretend

I will not put on a smile

I will not say I'm all right for you

When all I wanted was to be good

To do everything in truth"

Martha wainwright

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"Putting all the vegetables away

That you bought at the grocery store today

And it goes fast

You think of the past

Suddenly everything has changed"

The Flaming Lips

[SeanMacGabhann]

Fake chrome and a lick of paint

and a change of name announced

by some menswear dummy turned messenger

of a master whose name he cannot pronounce

You feast on bargain-basement dregs

Get your self-delusions off the well-worn peg

The Fatima Mansions

[bagpuss78]

Lucky that my lips not only mumble

They spill kisses like a fountain

Lucky that my breasts are small and humble

So you don't confuse them with mountains

Lucky I have strong legs like my mother

To run for cover when I need it

And these two eyes that for no other

The day you leave will cry a river

Skakira, whenever, wherever

Underlined bit my favourite!

Surely a classic *sniggers to self*

[mockney piers]

Nice.

I'm thinking may have to buy the Men at Work album in Fopp for a fiver :)

[blinder999]

Here's a few of mine - had to chuck in a bit of NMH as well Mockey!

David Bowie - Candidate

I'll make you a deal, like any other candidate

We'll pretend we're walking home 'cause your future's at stake

My set is amazing, it even smells like a street

There's a bar at the end where I can meet you and your friend

Someone scrawled on the wall "I smell the blood of Les Tricoteuses"

Who wrote up scandals in other bars

I'm having so much fun with the poisonous people

Spreading rumors and lies and stories they made up

Some make you sing and some make you scream

One makes you wish that you'd never been seen

But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache

Making bullet-proof faces; Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay

"If you want it, Boys, get it here, thing"

So you scream out of line:

"I want you! I need you! Anyone out there? Any time?"

Tres butch little number whines "Hey dirty, I want you

When it's good, it's really good, and when it's bad I go to pieces"

If you want it, Boys, get it here, thing

Well, on the street where you live I could not hold up my head

For I put all I have in another bed

On another floor, in the back of a car

In the cellar of a church with the door ajar

Well, I guess we must be looking for a different kind

But we can't stop trying 'til we break up our minds

'Til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knights

Who press you on the ground while shaking in fright

I guess we could cruise down one more time

With you by my side, it should be fine

We'll buy some drugs and watch a band

Then jump in the river holding hands

Neutral Milk Hotel ? Holland 1945

And now we ride the circus wheel

With your dark brother wrapped in white

Says it was good to be alive

But now he rides a comet's flame

And won't be coming back again

The Earth looks better from a star

That's right above from where you are

He didn't mean to make you cry

With sparks that ring and bullets fly

On empty rings around your heart

The world just screams and falls apart

Prefab Sprout ? Appetite

Here she is with two small problems

And the best part of the blame

Wishes she could call him heartache

But its not a boys name

If you grow up to be, just like him, just like me

Youre fighting for exclusive rights,

For honeymoons each sleepless night

In which case Ill call you appetite

Yes I think Ill call you appetite

So if you take - then put back good

If you steal - be robin hood

If your eyes are wanting all you see

Then I think Ill name you after me

I think Ill call you appetite

Leonard Cohen ? Suzanne

Now Suzanne takes your hand

And she leads you to the river

She is wearing rags and feathers

From Salvation Army counters

And the sun pours down like honey

On our lady of the harbour

And she shows you where to look

Among the garbage and the flowers

There are heroes in the seaweed

There are children in the morning

They are leaning out for love

And they will lean that way forever

While Suzanne holds the mirror

And you want to travel with her

And you want to travel blind

And you know that you can trust her

For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

REM ? Driver 8

I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.

The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged.

Bells are ringing through the town again,

Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing

And the train conductor says

"Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break

We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

[bagpuss78]

Time flies by when you're a driver of a train,

Speeding out of Trumpton with a cargo of cocaine.

I get high when im a pilot of a plane.

Touching down in Camberwick,

I'm stoned out of my brain.

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination.

Careful with that spliff, Eugene, it causes condensation.

Every saturday i get the Chigley skins.

And they always smash my windows

'cos the home side always wins.

Time flies by when you're a driver of a train,

Gonna get my syringes out and crank up once again.

Under bridges, over bridges, to our destination.

Careful with that spliff, Eugene, it causes condensation.

Time flies by (when your a driver of a train) - Half man half biscuit

[SeanMacGabhann]

blinder - how odd - Sweet Thing came on my shuffle yesterday on way to work and I was loving the lyric all over again

And Appetite makes me Swoon every time - "if you take, then put back in....if you steal be Robin Hood"

[ben]

Corporeal by Broadcast

Under the white chalk

Drawn on the black board

Drawn on the black board

Under the xray

I'm jut a vertebrate

Do that to me

Do that to my anatomy

Do that to me

Do that to my anatomy

Corporeal Corporeal

We are mankind

We are manikin

With and without mind

With or without Darwin

Classify me

The strings of my autonomy

Classify me

The strings of my autonomy

Corporeal corporeal

A thorny red heart

Around a thin arm

Inside a white bone

The love is inborn

Close up to me

Up close to my anatomy

Close up to me

Up close to my autonomy

Corporeal corporeal

Corporeal

Another 9 to be added when time allows

[Jah Lush]

My pink half of the drainpipe

I may paint it blue

My pink half of the drainpipe

keeps me safe from you.

The Bonzos

[bagpuss78]

The place where I stand gives way to liquid lino

Underneath the weeping willow lies a weeping whino

The place where I stand gives way to liquid lino

Underneath the weeping willow lies a weeping whino

The mind's a crowd -- search for the the spaces

And turn around time's gone, take ten paces.

Been up ahead - can't make head or tale of it

I drink till I'm drunk, and I smoke till I'm senseless.

You see in black and white, feel in slow motion,

I drown myself in sorrow, until I wake up tomorrow.

The illusion of confusion is not from where I am sat

Different levels of the devil's company

They lead us outside, take us out quietly

To the cage through the bars

You see scars: results of my rage

The place where I stand gives way to liquid lino

Underneath the weeping willow lies a weeping whino

The place where I stand gives way to liquid lino

Underneath the weeping willow lies a weeping whino

the mind's a crowd -- search for the the spaces

And turn around time's gone, I take ten paces.

Been up ahead - can't make head or tale of it

Tricky - Ponderosa

[Ant]

Hard to pick the line I like most from the whole thing... a silly little song but I do like it so. HMHB strike again:

Here she lies in a fleecy gown

By my side in the eiderdown

But she can't get a ticket to Morning Town

Cause I've got restless legs

Boring though this film may be

Slumber still won't visit me

So long as you stay next to me

For I have restless legs

Milky drink and Sudafed

"That should sort you out" she said

As I kicked myself clean out of the bed

And raised my restless legs

Call me a puppet. Cures I've sought

All in all they've come to naught

I wish it was some astronaut

Who had these restless legs

4:06 and I'm wide awake

Got an uncontrollable urge to take

A 5-mile hike around the Ogwen lake

And stretch these restless legs

No sympathy from Uncle Greg

Nor indeed from Auntie Meg

Well Thank God I'm not Jake the Peg

With an extra restless leg

So come the day when I don't exist

And worms are flying through the graveyard mist

Don't go calling the excorcist

It's just my restless legs

It's just my restless legs

It's just my restless legs

[mockney piers]

HMHB coming out on top.

As it goes I posted the video to this in the soundproofed room a few weeks back. Worth hunting down as it's a superb pastiche/use of eraserhead.

[ben]

The L S Bumblebee - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

There is a little insect not many people see

He's known to all the insects as the L S Bumblebee

So when you hear him coming, just throw away your tea

That psychodilic humming will mean you'll soon be free

{Oh, druggy druggy}

{Freak out baby, the bee is coming}

I can hear the hum of the lovely L S Bum, Bum, Bumblebee....

Now it's time to fly out of your mind and into the sky with me

I fly through the land where my hand can see, where my eyes can walk and the mountains talk

I fly through the land where my hand can see, where my eyes can walk and the mountains talk

I hear with my knees, run with my nose, smell with my feet, my heart is a rose

Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, berbumble

Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, berbumble

{And this weeks bumberbumble is for Alf Herbert and his marajuana brass and their hit waxing, Spanish Bee}

I can hear the hum of the lovely L S Bum, Bum, Bumblebee

Take a little sip from the lovely lips of the LS Bumblebee

I hear with my knees, run with my nose, smell with my feet, my heart is a rose

L S Bum, bum, bum, bum bum, bumblebee

{Need the psychedelic, zither or harpsichord driven music really but it's a nice piece of 60's whimsy}

[bagpuss78]

Well, I never gargled, I never gambled, I never smoked at all.

Until I met my two good amigos, Nick Teen and Al K. Hall.

Rolf Harris ;-) Nick teen and A K Hall

[bagpuss78]

UP TOWN TOP RANKING

Althea and Donna

See me in me heels and ting

Dem check sey we hip and ting

True them no know and ting

We have them going and ting

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

See me pon the road I hear you call out to me

True you see mi inna pants and ting

See mi in a 'alter back

Sey mi gi' you heart attack

Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist

Uptown Top Ranking

See mi in mi Benz and ting

Drivin' through Constant Spring

Them check sey me come from cosmo spring

But a true dem no know and ting

Dem no know sey we top ranking

Uptown Top Ranking

Shoulda see me and the ranking dread

Check how we jamming and ting

Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Watch how we chuck it and ting

Inna we khaki suit and ting

Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Love inna you heart dis a bawl out fe me

When you see me inna pants and ting

See me inna 'alter back

Sey me gi' you heart attack

Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist

Uptown Top Ranking

See mi pon the road and hear you call out to me

True you see me in me pants and ting

See me inna 'alter back

Sey me gi' you heart attack

Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist

Gimme likkle bass, make me wine up me waist

Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

You shoulda see me and the ranking dread,

Check how we jamming and ting

Love is all I bring inna me khaki suit and ting

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

Nah pop no style, a strictly roots

[SeanMacGabhann]

good choice bagpuss - Tricky & Martina

[bagpuss78]

shes a topley-bird! - I've always been jealous of her surname

[ivemet-jimmy]

Wake up!

Grandma should put on a little make-up!

System of a down. rock

[Ant]

Great choice, Bagpuss! Was tempted to start singing that very loudly. But I didn't, cos I work in a very quiet office where people Don't Do That Sort Of Thing, and I don't want them to think I'm a weirdo.

[ivemet-jimmy]

Good work Bagpuss. I,m Singing it out load now and I dont care! TUNE!!

[Keef]

Right, there are actually 11 here, and there are probably loads more that I didn't think of..... :-S

In no particular order......

Counting Crows ? Round Here

(Couldn?t choose between these two)

She parks her car outside of my house

Takes her clothes off

Says she?s close to understanding Jesus

She knows she?s more than just a little misunderstood

She has trouble acting normal when she?s nervous

But the girl on car in the parking lot says

man you should try to take a shot

Cant you see my walls are crumbling?

Then she looks up at the building and says she?s thinking of jumping

She says she?s tired of life she must be tired of something

Pink Floyd ? Wish you were here.

(Love every word of this song, but my favorite line is?)

And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

New Pornographers ? The Bleeding Heart Show

We hunched together in one chair out on the deck

In snow that froze and fell down on the modern set

It looked as if I picked your name out of a hat

Next thing you know you are asleep in someone's lap

Jet ? Look what you?ve done

Give me back my point of view

'Cause I just can't think for you

I can hardly hear you say

What should I do, well you choose

AFI ? The Leaving Song

Walked away, heard them say

"Poison hearts will never change,"

walk away again.

Turned away in disgrace,

felt the chill upon my face cooling from within.

Jeff Buckley ? Hallelujah

(Pure poetry this song, by Leonard Cohen if memory serves me correctly)

There was a time when you let me know,

what?s really going on below.

But now you never show that to me do ya?

Remember when I moved In you, the holy ghost was moving too,

And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Crash Test Dummies ? God shuffled his feet

(always made me laugh)

The people sipped their wine.

And what with God there they asked him questions.

Like ?do you have to eat, or get your hair cut in heaven??

And if your eye got poked out in this life,

Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?

Squeeze ? Up the junction

(A sad end to such a promising start *sob*)

The devil came and took me from bar to street to bookie.

No more nights by the telly, no more nights nappies smelling?.

The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl ? Fairytale of New York

(Shane) I could have been someone

(Kirsty ? In heart breaking voice) Well so could anyone!

You took my dreams from me, when I first found you.

(Shane) I kept them with me babe. I put them with my own. Can?t make it all alone, I built my dreams around you!

Chris Franklin ? Bloke

(To the tune of B!tch by Meredith Brooks)

Or take me as I am,

This may mean you?ll have to fetch another can?.

Rest assured if I start to make you breakfast, I?m going to extremes.

But tomorrow I?ll get sh!t faced, and today won?t mean a thing!

The Offspring ? She?s got issues

And I know she?ll feel abandoned if I don?t stay over late.

I know that she's afraid to commit, but it?s only our second date!

You told me a hundred times how your father left and he?s gone?.

But I wish you wouldn?t call me daddy when we?re getting it on!

>:D<

[bagpuss78]

well ant i think you practice and sing it to all at the next forum meet up, i'll join in in the 'nah pop no style, a strictly roots' bits promise!