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| What is the best song about/referencing Elvis? |
| Elvis' Rolls Royce - Was (Not) Was w/ Leonard Cohen |
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| Fight the Power - Public Enemy |
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| Graceland - Paul Simon |
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| Jesus Mentioned - Warren Zevon |
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| Memphis, TN - Chuck Berry |
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| My My Hey Hey - Neil Young |
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| Porcelain Monkey - Warren Zevon |
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| Walkin' in Memphis - Mark Cohen |
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| You Worthless Thing - Elvis Costello |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Woland wrote: |
I hadn't heard that one before. Nice. I Like how she connects Elvis and Orson Wells.
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You gotta hear her song "pi" it's phenominal...
Sweet and gentle sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279... |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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Kirsty Maccoll
''There�s A Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He�s Elvis"
(kirsty maccoll/philip rambow)
Oh darling why d�you talk so fast
Another evening just flew past tonight
And now the daybreak�s coming in
And I can�t win and it ain�t right
You tell me all you�ve done and seen
And all the places you have been without me
Well I don�t really want to know
But I�ll stay quiet and then I�ll go
And you won�t have no cause to think about me
There�s a guy works down the chip shop swears he�s elvis
Just like you swore to me that you�d be true
There�s a guy works down the chip shop swears he�s elvis
But he�s a liar and I�m not sure about you
Oh darling you�re so popular
You were the best thing new in hicksville
With your mohair suits and foreign shoes
Lou says you changed your pickup for a seville
And now I�m lying here alone
�cause you�re out there on the phone to some star in new york
I can hear you laughing now
And I can�t help feeling that somehow
You don�t mean anything you say at all |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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American Pie.
I don't like things being overstated. |
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skinhead
Joined: 11 Jun 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Postcard from Elvis - Tex, Don & Charlie
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Got a postcard from Elvis
It was postmarked Guam
Said he was working at a little cafe, where he met Yvonne
Said the lights from the kitchen didn't bother him much
Said he wasn't wasn't worrying about about watering or shaving and such
Said he found a red Monaro
Said it runs pretty good
And most Saturdays he's dreaming away
Under the hood
He said "Maybe it's a little bit stupid
And sometimes I forget
But the closer I come to the heart of the matter
The farther away I get" |
Elvis Ate America - U2 as 'Passengers'
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Elvis
White trash
Elvis
The Memphis flash
Elvis
Didn't smoke hash
Would have been a sissy without Johnny Cash
Elvis
Didn't dodge the draft
Elvis
Had his own aircraft
Elvis
Having a laugh
Elvis
On the Lisa Marie
In a color photograph
Elvis
Under the hood
Elvis
Cadillac blood
Elvis
Darling bud
Flowered and return to the Mississippi Mud
Elvis
Ain't gonna rot
Elvis
In a Memphis plot
Elvis
Didn't hear the shot
Dr. King died just across the lot from
Elvis
Vanilla ice cream
Elvis
Girls of 14
Elvis
Memphis spleen
Shooting tv's
Reading Corinthians 13
Elvis
With God on his knees
Elvis
On three tv's
Elvis
Here come the killer bees
Head full o' honey
Elvis
The bumper stickers
Elvis
The white knickers
Elvis
The white nigga
Ate a cheeseburger and just kept getting bigger
Elvis
Sang to win
Elvis
The battle hymn
Elvis
The battle to be slim
Elvis ate America before America ate him
Stamps
(Elvis)
Necromance
(Elvis)
Fans
(Elvis)
Psychopants
(Elvis)
The public enemy
(Elvis)
Don't mean shit to Chuck D
(Elvis)
Changed the center of gravity
(Elvis)
Made it slippy
(Elvis)
Hitler
(Elvis)
Nixon
(Elvis)
Christ
(Elvis)
Mishima
(Elvis)
Marcus
(Elvis)
Jackson
(Elvis)
The pelvis
(Elvis)
The Psalmist
(Elvis)
The genius
(Elvis)
The generous
(Elvis)
Forigve us
(Elvis)
Pray for us
(Elvis)
Aaron
Presley
Elviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis
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Elvis
American Pie was about Buddy Holly. |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| Woland wrote: |
I hadn't heard that one before. Nice. I Like how she connects Elvis and Orson Wells.
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You gotta hear her song "pi" it's phenominal...
Sweet and gentle sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279... |
Does she actually sing out the numbers of pi?
It's a bit like Zevon's Run Straight Down, a song about environmental destruction that begins with background singers intoning the following:
(4-Aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene
Dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether
2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-
para-dioxin, carbon disulfide)
(Dibromochloropane, chlorinated
benzenes, 2-Nitropropane, pentachlorophenol,
Benzotrichloride, strontium chromate
1, 2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane)
and continuing with it in the background through the whole song. It's a list of environmentail pollutants he got from a Sierra Club flyer somewhere.
You could use it as a chant for meditation. Maybe not. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Woland wrote: |
Does she actually sing out the numbers of pi? |
Yeah, you have tyo hear it to believe how much emotion and passion she put into singing numbers... it's kind of freaky.
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It's a bit like Zevon's Run Straight Down, a song about environmental destruction that begins with background singers intoning the following:
(4-Aminobiphenyl, hexachlorobenzene
Dimethyl sulfate, chloromethyl methylether
2, 3, 7, 8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-
para-dioxin, carbon disulfide)
(Dibromochloropane, chlorinated
benzenes, 2-Nitropropane, pentachlorophenol,
Benzotrichloride, strontium chromate
1, 2-Dibromo-3-chloropropane)
and continuing with it in the background through the whole song. It's a list of environmentail pollutants he got from a Sierra Club flyer somewhere.
You could use it as a chant for meditation. Maybe not. |
Haven't heard it, will have to check it out. |
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Benicio
Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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"Walkin in Memphis" by Mark Cohn farking sucks major a$$!
I hate that song- always have.
I remember when he got shot in the head. I thought- oh great! now he's gonna die and be famous again and we'll have to hear that crap song. Or, he'll live, come back and be famous again and we'll have to hear that crap song.
Luckily, neither happened.
S*cks! |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Benicio wrote: |
"Walkin in Memphis" by Mark Cohn farking sucks major a$$!
I hate that song- always have.
I remember when he got shot in the head. I thought- oh great! now he's gonna die and be famous again and we'll have to hear that crap song. Or, he'll live, come back and be famous again and we'll have to hear that crap song.
Luckily, neither happened.
S*cks! |
Glad to hear he got shot in the head. No more crap songs like that. It ranks right up there with that cheesy song "Butterfly kisses" |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| He's alive and well- a miraculous recovery by all accounts. |
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