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Wild Thing - The Troggs

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Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child (Wild One)

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Simple Minds - Speed your Love to me

(Because Iggy starts the best music show on Australian TV - rage - and this song ends it).

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So don't ever call me lucky
You don't know what I done, what it was, who I lost, or what it cost me
- A B Original: I C U

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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).

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Simple Gifts (Shaker Hymn)

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That's a lovely song.

Alison Krauss/Gillian Welch: I'll Fly Away

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Dark Knight

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The best version of that song is from the TV show Treme.
Which leads my mind inevitably to ...
John Butler Trio - Gov did nothing

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So don't ever call me lucky
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- A B Original: I C U

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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).

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Nothing's gonna change my love for you
(Truly awful song, I'm sorry.)

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Dark Knight

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Sweet of you to apologise*

Nirvana - All Apologies

*on a thread which recently featured Midler's 'The Rose', which is an abomination, I don't think you have much to apologise for.

[ 27. October 2017, 01:49: Message edited by: Dark Knight ]

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So don't ever call me lucky
You don't know what I done, what it was, who I lost, or what it cost me
- A B Original: I C U

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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).

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no prophet's flag is set so...

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Nothing to apologize for when you're wearing your Famous Blue Raincoat, nor sorry for linking to the Jennifer Warnes version from the album of the same name, written by the great Leonard Cohen.
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"Love Is Blue" was a favorite of mine in middle school.

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Tom Waites: Blue Valentines

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Blue Velvet - Bobby Vinton
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Dark Knight

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Bob Dylan - It's all over now, Baby Blue

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- A B Original: I C U

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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).

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Au contraire. It ain't over til it's over
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Over There: WW1 US Recruitment Song

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Simon and Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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Rod Stewart - Sailing
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Kenneth McKellar - Song of the Clyde.
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Paul Warfield - Old Man River

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Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers

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Roxy Music: Love is the Drug

My fave Brian Ferry song. Also the song which led me to believe he was Russian, for some reason. I believed that for at least a year. [Ultra confused]

[ 07. November 2017, 05:56: Message edited by: simontoad ]

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Somewhat less benign than love...

Laryssa Campbell - Cocaine Blues

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Gillian Welch: My Morphine

Seems opiate problems are not new...

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I'll assume the audial connection is obvious to anyone who listened to My Morphine...

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Jemima the 9th
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Ah well, if we're on to the work of Julie Andrews,
A spoonful of sugar

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I'll see your Spoonful of Sugar and raise you Sugar Sugar by The Archies (in reality a group of session musicians using multi-track recording).

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Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet

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Pigwidgeon

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I prefer the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar.

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Ike & Tina Turner River Deep Mountain High because I once read that Mick Jagger based his dance moves on Tina Turner's.
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Jimmy Somerville - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

I've always liked that video which seems to be a cheesy celebration of humanity [Yipee]

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It is indeed, a feat of cheesy magnificence. Love it. [Big Grin]
From Jimmy Somerville to Green Day - St Jimmy

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Cold Chisel: Cheap Wine

For lead singer Jimmy Barnes.

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Is that cheap wine Red Red Wine?

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Is that cheap wine Red Red Wine?

Definitely not as strong as the Red Army
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Phil Ochs: I aint Marching Anymore

So many songs to choose from. It took me an hour to settle on this reaction to the previous.

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Phil Ochs: I aint Marching Anymore

So many songs to choose from. It took me an hour to settle on this reaction to the previous.

[And very appropriate for Veterans/Remembrance Day.]

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Phil Ochs: I aint Marching Anymore

So many songs to choose from. It took me an hour to settle on this reaction to the previous.

[And very appropriate for Veterans/Remembrance Day.]
[I can't help but notice, though, that he avoids discomforting his liberal audience by omitting any reference to Hitler in his condemnation of World War II.]

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I know what the King would say to all this commentary, rather than playing the game.

Elvis Presley - A Little less conversation

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So don't ever call me lucky
You don't know what I done, what it was, who I lost, or what it cost me
- A B Original: I C U

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Talking Heads: Stay up Late

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After Midnight, Eric Clapton

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Midnight at the Oasis - Maria Muldaur

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Abba - Gimme gimme gimme (a man after midnight)
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ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'

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Primal Scream - Rocks because the first time I heard it on the radio, I honestly thought it was ZZ Top. (Tenuous, moi? [Biased] )
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D-Generation: Things of Stone and Wood Melbourne Cliches

A parody song, rock/stone...

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Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan (of course!)

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In which Sir Bob asks "How does it feel?" which is the first line of New Order's Blue Monday
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lol, nice associating there.

Duke Ellington: Memphis Blues

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Forgive me for breaking the chain, but the song I'm associating with today, the day the Australian population voted resoundingly for marriage equality
[Smile]

Dixie Cups - Chapel of Love

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So don't ever call me lucky
You don't know what I done, what it was, who I lost, or what it cost me
- A B Original: I C U

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Love is as strong as death (Song of Solomon 8:6).

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Love will find a way.
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Billy Bragg Sexuality

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