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Kinks were one of the greatest bands ever, and most don't recognize that.

One more from the Final Oz, the last show The Dire Straits Rock and Roll Band show ever played.
This how they closed, Jack Sonni and Mark Knopfler duck walking the walk of life off the stage as the lights go dark.
Jack Sonni (who recently passed) and Mark Knopfler were one of the best 1-2 guitar punch that ever-lived IMO.

How great is it that the band closed out their careers with this.
Reminding me as I watch this clip again that there goes one of the all-time great fun, but deep bands ever.
They sure did the walk of life.
Dire Straits weren't just a tight band, they were airtight.

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IMO, Mark Knopfler is not only this generations great guitarists, but also this generations great songwriters.

This IMO is one of the best ever written about social control and manipulation.
I know my buddy Mr. Hicks would appreciate this verse.


Now, I go down to Speaker's Corner, I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song

He says, "They wanna have a war, keep their factories
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease

They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind
Give ya "Rule Britannia", gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease"
Meanwhile, the first Jesus says "I'll cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons"
The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees

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I forgot all about this song. Thanks Man!

It's so true, and shows how long this shit has been going on for.


Same school of thought.


This is the age of machinery,
A mechanical nightmare,
The wonderful world of technology,
Napalm hydrogen bombs biological warfare,

This is the twentieth century,
But too much aggravation
It's the age of insanity,
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.

Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.
My mama said she can't understand me
She can't see my motivation
Just give me some security,
I'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.

You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough,

Girl we gotta get out of here
We gotta find a solution
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here.

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy got no liberty
Cos the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.

Don't wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here.

My mama says she can't understand me
She can't see my motivation
Ain't got no security,
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.

This is the twentieth century
But too much aggravation
This is the edge of insanity
I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here

[ChuckyTheGoat]

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IMO, Mark Knopfler is not only this generations great guitarists, but also this generations great songwriters.

This IMO is one of the best ever written about social control and manipulation.
I know my buddy Mr. Hicks would appreciate this verse.


Now, I go down to Speaker's Corner, I'm thunderstruck
They got free speech tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong
There's a protest singer, he's singing a protest song

He says, "They wanna have a war, keep their factories
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease

They're pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind
Give ya "Rule Britannia", gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease"
Meanwhile, the first Jesus says "I'll cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons"
The other one's out on hunger strike, he's dying by degrees

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I'm worth a million in prizes
With my torture film
Drive a GTO
Wear a uniform
All on a government loan


I'm worth a million in prizes
Yeah, I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk
No more beating my brains
No more beating my brains
With liquor and drugs
With liquor and drugs

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OK one more.

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Same vein

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Yeah, you have to love a song that's a story and history lesson all in one. Being Irish myself makes it more meaningful.

Love a good anti-imperialism, anti-empire, anti-ruling class tune.

Tull's Thick as a Brick is similar in this fashion.

Incubus is another band with some great lyrics as well. Hidden meaning with prospective. Like a poem made into a song.

Better than watching Geller bending silver spoons
Better than witnessing newborn nebulas in bloom
She who sees from up high smiles and surely sings
Perspective pries your once weighty eyes and it gives you wings

Deeper than the deepest Cousteau would ever go
And higher than the heights of what we often think we know
Blessed she who clearly sees the wood for the trees
To obtain a bird's eye is to turn a blizzard to a breeze

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Here's another genius display of word play Hicks.
Elvis has been writing just amazing songs for 40+ years now, and he's coming to Ridgewood and we're going!
I'm all about the songwriting, which explains my love for Brandon Flowers and the Killers.

"Oliver's Army" is about Oliver Cromwell who is pretty much credited for founding the Brit Army.
Not only is Costello one of this generation's great song writers he's a student of world history.
The chord progressions in this are simply amazing.

A white ***** that Elvis eludes too is an ethnic slur common in the UK referring to an Irish man.
(Apologies to anyone that I may have offended)

Not for nothing I really respect your taste in music Hicks.

Oliver's army is here to stay
Oliver's army are on their way
And I would rather be anywhere else
But here today

There was a checkpoint Charlie
He didn't crack a smile
But it's no laughing party
When you've been on the murder mile

Only takes one itchy trigger

One more widow, one less white ******

Hong Kong is up for grabs
London is full of Arabs
We could be in Palestine
Overrun by a Chinese line
With the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne

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Here's to better times.

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I love this song, IMO one of the greatest written.
Just genius word play, genius.



Pump It Up

Song by

Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Juanes




I've been on tenterhooks
Ending in dirty looks
Listening to the music
Thinking 'bout this and that

She said that's that
I don't wanna chitter-chat
Turn it down a little bit
Or turn it down flat

Pump it up
When you don't really need it
Pump it up
Until you can feel it

Down in the pleasure center
Hell bent or heaven sent
Listen to the propaganda
Listen to the latest slander
There's nothing underhand
That she wouldn't understand

Pump it up
Until you can feel it
Pump it up
When you don't really need it

Hey

She's been a bad girl
She's like a chemical
Though you try to stop it
She's like a narcotic

You wanna torture her
You wanna talk to her
All the things you bought for her
Putting up your temperature

Pump it up
Until you can feel it
Pump it up
When you don't really need it

Out in the fashion show
Down in the bargain bin
You put your passion out
Under the pressure pin

Fall into submission
Hit-and-run transmission
No use wishing now
For any other sin

Pump it up
Until you can feel it
Pump it up
When you don't really need it

[ChuckyTheGoat]

[stevenash]

Just a happy, pleasant, little toe tapping ditty.

[JIBBBY]

One of my favorite songs growing up in college. No one probably ever heard it. Inspirational and real.. Listen to the lyrics..

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@Hicks
Great Rory Gallagher pull.

I really like this song by Led Zep.

My two favorite bands are Queen and The Killers, but IMO the GOAT is Zep.

*Not for nothing, how great are Plant's primal screams*

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Possibly the most underrated song of all time.. I'm a music lover and know these things!

Love this one. Good Post.

[JIBBBY]

Possibly the most underrated song of all time.. I'm a music lover and know these things!

[JIBBBY]

I really like this song by Led Zep. I had a woman like this years back so it brings back memories.

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I've always been a Robert Palmer fan.
This 20 second intro is about as funky as it gets.
Judging by Palmer's facial expressions, you can tell he's just cutting loose and having fun up there.
You can't fake that, that's genuine.

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