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Artifacts of Lyrics

 
 
panzade
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 06:00 pm
More cars OK?

409-BBoys
3 window coupe-rip chords
Little Deuce Coupe
Fuel Injected stingray-Shut Down

and a bus
Magic Bus-Who

and a motorcycle
Little Honda-B Boys
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LaBruja
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 06:10 pm
boots of shiny, shiny leather (Velvet Underground)
a jukebox that goes doyt - doyt (Rickie Lee Jones)
a cigarette that bears lipstick's traces (Cole Porter)
three little birds (Bob Marley)



LB
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panzade
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 06:17 pm
nice witchy woman...and welcome
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boomerang
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 07:01 pm
Hi LaBruja! Welcome! Those are great additions.



I'm tempted to add...

A ball and a biscuit

...from the White Stripes but I have a feeling thats not what they meant....

and a Tijuana Taxi

... even though thats a title to an instrumental...

So I'll add two yellow ribbons -- the one around the old oak tree (Tony Orlando) and the one from the hair of the girl on the corner that I can't get out of my mind (Youngblood, Leiber and Stoller wrote it but I don't know who first sang it)
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djjd62
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 07:14 pm
from tom waits, some artifact song titles

old shoes (& picture postcards)
diamonds on my windsheild
eggs and sausage (in a cadillac with susan michelson)
warm beer and cold women
spare parts (a nocturnal emmission)
red shoes by the drugstore
christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis
a sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun
on the nickel
16 shells from a thirty-ought six
just another sucker on the vine
swordfishtrombone
soldiers things
troubles braids
picture in a frame


Soldier's Things

Davenports and kettle drums
and swallow tail coats
table cloths and patent leather shoes
bathing suits and bowling balls
and clarinets and rings
and all this radio really
needs is a fuse
a tinker, a tailor
a soldier's things
his rifle, his boots full of rocks
and this one is for bravery
and this one is for me
and everything's a dollar
in this box

Cuff links and hub caps
trophies and paperbacks
it's good transportation
but the brakes aren't so hot
neck tie and boxing gloves
this jackknife is rusted
you can pound that dent out
on the hood
a tinker, a tailor
a soldier's things
his rifle, his boots full of rocks
oh and this one is for bravery
and this one is for me
and everything's a dollar
in this box
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InfraBlue
 
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Reply Tue 21 Sep, 2004 07:47 pm
A Black Cow (Steely Dan)
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hingehead
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2004 07:15 am
Things I'd love to see in your museum:

The pompetus of love (whatever the heck that is)

The rust that never slept

Whatever billy joe mcallister threw off the Talahachie bridge

The thing we got when John Lydon said 'This is what you want, this is what you get'

The transcript of what the voices said while you watched the rings of smoke through the trees - and that bustle you found in the hedgerow.

The needle and the damage done
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boomerang
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2004 07:39 am
Ohhhh. Good ones hingehead!

Its nice to see you here.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2004 09:52 am
Fred Astaire's Top Hat, White Tie and Tails

The ui nu mumu Mama wore when she was swingin' along the beach at Waikiki (Mama's Mumu)

The Coat of Many Colors that Dolly's Mom made (Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton)

The Leather and Lace Stevie Nicks and Don Henley exchanged

The red dress that Big Ole Ruby Red Dress wore (Helen Reddy)

The feather in Yankee Doodle's hat
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 29 Sep, 2004 04:42 pm
from ireland - paper and pins
from america - needles and pins
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hingehead
 
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Reply Thu 24 Aug, 2006 10:03 am
The flare gun used to burn down Deep Purple's hotel in Montreaux (from Smoke on the Water)

That damn cash register from the start of Pink Floyd's 'Money'

The 'Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polkadot bikini'
The 'White Sports Coat with a Pink Carnation'
Them shoes with the diamonds on the soles.


Thread Resurrection Team
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djjd62
 
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Reply Thu 24 Aug, 2006 01:05 pm
when the protaganist of camper van bethoven's song, when i win the lottery, does just that he promises to buy all the girls on his block, in order

a colour tv and a bottle of french perfume, and later in the song, silver plated six shooters and a pint of the finest island scotch
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hingehead
 
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Reply Sun 27 Aug, 2006 05:31 pm
All the items final ramble of The Tubes' 'What do you want from life?'

Well, you can't have that, but if you're an American citizen you are entitled to:
a heated kidney shaped pool,
a microwave oven--don't watch the food cook,
a Dyna-Gym--I'll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
a king-size Titanic unsinkable Molly Brown waterbed with polybendum,
a foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
real simulated Indian jewelry,
a Gucci shoetree,
a year's supply of antibiotics,
a personally autographed picture of Randy Mantooth
and Bob Dylan's new unlisted phone number,
a beautifully restored 3rd Reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary's baby,
a dream date in kneepads with Paul Williams,
a new Matador, a new mastodon,
a Maverick, a Mustang, a Montego,
a Merc Montclair, a Mark IV, a meteor,
a Mercedes, an MG, or a Malibu,
a Mort Moriarty, a Maserati, a Mac truck,
a Mazda, a new Monza, or a moped,
a Winnebago--Hell, a herd of Winnebago's we're giving 'em away,
or how about a McCulloch chainsaw,
a Las Vegas wedding,
a Mexican divorce,
a solid gold Kama Sutra coffee pot,
or a baby's arm holding an apple?
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