Which lyrics are stuck in your brain today?

Do you mean the Marvin Gaye song, Panz? You know I'm a stickler - the 4 Non Blondes song is called 'What's up'. Both are cool songs though give me the shiver...

Pan - it is a bit sharp. Or something.

Thanks Hinge.

while joey is my fave concrete blonde composition, their version of cohens everybody knows is by far my fave song

Joey
Concrete Blonde

Joey, baby - don't get crazy
Detours. Fences... I get defensive
I know you've heard it all before -
so I don't say it anymore
I just stand by and let you
fight your secret war.
And though I used to wonder why -
I used to cry till I was dry.
Still sometimes I get a strange pain
inside
Oh, Joey, if you're hurting so am I.

Joey, honey - I've got the money
All is forgiven. Listen, listen
And if I seem to be confused
I didn't mean to be with you.
And when you said I scared you,
well I guess you scared me too.
But we got lucky once before
And I don't wanna close the door
And if you're somewhere out there
passed out on the floor.
Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore.

<bridge>

and if I seem to be confused
I didn't mean to be with you.
but when you said I scared you,
well I guess you scared me too.
But if its love you're looking for
Then i can give a little more
And if you're somewhere drunk and
passed out on the floor.
Oh Joey, I'm not angry anymore.

Angry anymore..
Angry anymore..


Everybody Knows
Concrete

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows that the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight is fixed
the poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows that the boat is sinking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody's got this broken feeling
Like their Momma or there dog just died
Everybody's hands are in their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
and a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's the way it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that its now or never
Everybody knows that its me or you
Everybody knows that you live forever
When you had a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old black Joe still pickin' cotton
for ribbons and bows
Everybody knows you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you been faithful
Give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you been discrete
So many people you had to meet
without your clothes
and Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's the way it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows
Everybody knows
that's how it goes
and Everybody knows

OOPS. Panz gets mixed up.

dj reminded me of this David Crosby song

Everybody's Been Burned - The Byrds


Everybody's been burned before
Everybody knows the pain
Anyone in this place
Can tell you to your face
Why you shouldn't try to love someone

Everybody knows it never works
Everybody knows and me
I know that door that shuts
Just before you get to the dream
You see...

I know all too well
How to turn, how to run
How to hide behind
A bitter wall of blue
But you die inside
If you choose to hide
So I guess instead, I'll love you

I got out an old TMBG album today. It reminded me about something that I decided some number of years ago; the bridge to "They'll Need a Crane" is genious:

Don't call me at work again
No, no, the boss still hates me
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore
And there's a restaurant we should check out where the other nightmare people like to go
I mean nice people -- baby wait, I didn't mean to say nightmare

(Wow, that was recorded 17 years ago?! Huh.)

"Do you suppose that waiting hand on eyes
Veronica has gone to hide
And all the time she laughs at those
Who scream her name and steal her clothes
Veronice!"

"Veronica" by Elvis Costello,

Love that song

Hello Panzade. I'm interested to know how big Elvis Costello was/is in America. i lose track of which Brit artists have broken over there and which ones have never made it. Could you drop me a line?

Gosh. Elvis C broke big in 1979 and "Alison was a smash.
Veronica I think was his last record to chart, he fell out of favor. Now he's known as Mr Krall and I listen to his album with Burt Bacharach a lot. Good stuff.

Thanks for that, Panzade. I'm surprised "Alyson" was a smash as it was an early release that flopped in the UK [or only got to about No.50], his first serious chart entry here was "Watching the detectives"in 1977. Didn't Linda Ronstadt also have a hit with "Alyson" in the U.S. in a version that Costello was openly scathing about?
I lost sight of Elvis's stuff about the time of "Veronica", or more specifically, after the album after that, "Mighty like a rose", which I couldn't get into at all apart from the single "The other side of summer". I've only just started catching up on his recent releases through the internet, but his arrogance towards his fans on recent radio interviews has started to turn me against him.

whats stuck in my head-

Its such a good feeling
to know your alive
its such a happy feeling
your growing inside
and when you wake up ready to say
I guess Ill make a snappy today

it such a good feeling
a very good feeling
the feeling you know
that ill be back
when the day is new
and Ill have more ideas for you
and youll have things you want to talk about
i will too

( mister rogers )

I'm sailing off
On a sailing ship
And if I don't come back
Say hello to my baby

(Singing section of a Sonny Rollins tune -- not sure which one. Have the whole thing going through my head, it's very welcome. I think it's on the same album as "Don't Stop the Carnival" but I don't think that's it.)

Ooh, a switcheroo -- looking up the lyrics/ song (no luck so far) and came across this, which I also know and is way catchy (did Harry Belafonte do it? Seems to be the version I have in my head):

Jamaica Farewell
by Erving Burgess

Down the way where the nights are gay
And the sun shines daily on the mountain top
I took a trip on a sailing ship
And when I reached Jamaica I made a stop

CHORUS:
But I'm sad to say, I'm on my way
Won't be back for many a day
My heart is down, my head is turning around
I had to leave a little girl in Kingston town

Sounds of laughter everywhere
And the dancing girls swaying to and fro
I must declare that my heart is there
Though I've been from Maine to Mexico

CHORUS

Down at the market you can hear
Ladies cry out while on their head they bear
Ackie rice and salt fish is nice
And the rum is good any time of year

CHORUS
CHORUS

You reminded me that "Summer" was the last charter.
I think when artists are young and rebellious they have "juice" and as they mature and start receiving royalties they lose that edge. Some retire gracefully, some make fools of themselves and some are left behind by the public.
Elvis C's fans wouldn't follow him through some of his musical adventures and it made him bitter and arrogant. But he's a genius and I imagine he'll be singing "The Great American Songbook" some day soon for those aging rebellious fans that used to follow him.

God rest his soul...what a wonderful singer he was

Stop teasing me.What is it? "St Thomas?"

I found this interesting bio on Lord Burgess...the writer:




Irving Burgie was born in Brooklyn in 1924. His mother was from Barbados, and he grew up surrounded by people from the Caribbean. After serving in the Army during World War II, Burgie studied music at Julliard, the University of Arizona and the University of Southern California.

He was influenced by the folk music revival that was sweeping the country and began performing and writing songs. During the early 1950s, he appeared at the Blue Angel in Chicago and the Village Vanguard in New York, where he worked for a period with Louise Bennett, a writer and interpreter of Jamaican folk traditions. It was during this period that he assumed the name "Lord Burgess."

Burgie is best known as a songwriter. Some of his compositions, such "Jamaica Farewell" and "Day-O," were based, in part, on Jamaican folk traditions. In 1955 he met Harry Belafonte and provided him with "Day-O" and other songs for a performance in "Holiday in Trinidad," a segment on NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour.

The next year, Belafonte included "Day-O," "Jamaica Farewell" and other Burgie compositions in his immensely successful album titled Calypso. Burgie went on to write other songs for Belafonte, such as "Island in the Sun," which was the title song for a 1957 movie that starred Belafonte. He also wrote the music for an Off-Broadway musical titled Ballad for Bimshire (1963) and composed the national anthem for Barbados, which gained independence from Britain in 1966.

I was right about Belafonte anyway! Whew!

Just can't figure out the Sonny Rollins tune. It might BE "Don't Stop the Carnival"... it's very syncopated, calypso-ish. (Wouldn't it be useful if I could just sing into the computer and you'd hear it? Not that I can sing...) I looked up that album and nothing else on it rings a bell.

It's just a short sung section in a more usual longish jazz riff/ improvisation -- I think only that verse, and I think it's several voices, not just Sonny.

Cheers Panzade!