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[maxk] 30/5/2004 20:34

If You Could Read My Mind (If You Could Read My Mind) 3:48

G. Lightfoot


If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see
If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell
When you reach the part where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love, let's be real
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well
In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone
And I just can't get it back

[jakass] 08/5/2004 20:27

Agree Jaxaxe - nice song.
PS, why haven't you changed your name yet? LOL.
Just joshing.

[jaxaxe] 08/5/2004 18:41

Somethin`s gotten holda my heart by the Vamps - truly enchanting circa 1966

[jakass] 08/5/2004 00:19

Norbury? Jeeze.

[gerryl] 07/5/2004 23:42

Ah well we are playing ALL OF THOSE Favourites and MORE at the :
Ticket Only :
FA CUP NIGHT May 22 nd - Old Xavavarians Club, County Road,Norbury,London SW 16 ( if you say youre from the ADVFN youre in free gratis!
Make sure you book the return taxis!

GL

[jakass] 07/5/2004 23:41

AND I SAY GOODBYE TO AMERICA - AND SAY HELLO TO THE WORLD..............

[mattgordon] 07/5/2004 19:41

Here is a couple of tunes for you guys:

Nick Drake - Hazey Jane II
Lovely, un-pretentious country type rock and roll - well worth a listen

Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
Never been a fan of the Stones, untill I heard this song and liked it the first time i heard it, which doesnt happen often.

[megryan] 07/5/2004 18:55

Its absolutely chucking it down here which reminds me of this classic from Jimi Hendix

COUGH, COUGH, SNIFF, SNIFF
HEY MAN, TAKE A LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING
HEY MAN, ITS RAININ' ITS RAININ' OUTSIDE MAN
OH DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT, BROTHER
EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE EVERYTHING
WE'LL GET INTO SOMETHING REAL NICE, YOU KNOW
WHY DON'T YA SIT BACK AND GROOVE ON A RAINY DAY

SNIF, YEAH
SNIFF
YEAH I SEE WHAT YOU MEAN BROTHER
MAYBE I CAN GROOVE

RAINY DAY DREAM AWAY
LET THE SUN TAKE A HOLIDAY
FLOWERS BATHE AND UH
SEE THE CHILDREN PLAY
LAY BACK AND GROOVE ON A RAINY DAY
WELL I CAN SEE A BUNCH OF WET PREACHERS, LOOK AT 'EM ON THE RUN
THE CARNIVAL TRAFFIC NOISE, IT SINKS
INTO THE SPLASHY HUM
EVEN THE DUCKS CAN GROOVE
RAIN BURDENED IN A PARK-SIDE POOL
AND I'M LEANIN' OUT MY WINDOW SILL
DIGGIN' EVERYTHING
AND UH YOU TOO

RAINY DAY RAIN ALL DAY
AIN'T NO USE IN GETTIN' UP TONIGHT
JUST LET IT GROOVE ITS OWN WAY
LET IT DRAIN
YOUR WORIES AWAY
LAY BACK AND GROOVE ON A RAINY DAY
LAY BACK AND DREAM ON A RAINY DAY

[dondee] 03/5/2004 10:37

Moonlight In Vermont


Written by: John Blackburn

Written by: Karl Suessdorf

Arranged By: Billy May – Neal Hefti & Billy May – Patrick Williams
From the Album: Come Fly With Me (1958)

Live In Australia with the Red Norvo Quintet
Label: Capitol – Reprise – Capitol

Recorded: 10/3/57 – 6/5/62 (live in Paris) - 10/12/93 (with Linda Rondstadt)

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Pennies in a stream

Falling leaves, a sycamore

Moonlight in Vermont



Icy finger-waves

Ski trails on a mountainside

Snowlight in Vermont



Telegraph cables, they sing down the highway

And travel each bend in the road

People who meet in this romantic setting

Are so hypnotized by the lovely...



Ev'ning summer breeze

Warbling of a meadowlark

Moonlight in Vermont







Telegraph cables, how they sing down the highway

And they travel each bend in the road

People who meet in this romantic setting

Are so hypnotized by the lovely...



Ev'ning summer breeze

The warbling of a meadowlark

Moonlight in Vermont



Moonlight in Vermont

Moonlight in Vermont

[jaxaxe] 02/5/2004 16:55

up on the roof. Brings back memories of the strangeways riot in 1988.

[niggle] 30/4/2004 20:51

Hooya, top man Mike Skinner (The Streets), he's on Jonathnan Ross tonight.

[samg99] 30/4/2004 15:52

Don't think we've had any classical music nominations yet.....so here's a few of mine, all from Handel's Messiah:


1. AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD
2. FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN
3. HIS YOKE IS EASY
4. BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD
5. HE WAS DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MAN
6. SURELY HE HATH BORNE OUR GRIEFS
7. ALL WE LIKE SHEEP HAVE GONE ASTRAY
8. THOU SHALT BREAK THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON
9. HALLELUJAH!
10.THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND
11.WORTHY IS THE LAMB. AMEN

Actually there are plenty more great songs - these are just my personal highlights - about two dozen in all, and some marvellous purely-orchestral pieces. Sorry about the lyrics, folks - I sympathise, as an agnostic bordering on atheism - but the music is so bloody marvellous that at times I almost think there could be a God!

One of the many big differences between classical music on the one hand, and pop/rock on the other, is that with the former there is no "definitive version". Some people like Handel to be all light and fluffy with lots of harpsichord and fast tempo. Me, I like the slower, more majestic Handel with enormous orchestra and choir! My recommended version is the 1959 recording of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with the Huddersfield Choral Society, conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, issued by EMI Classics For Pleasure on CD. It's a bit hissy (a few years too early for Dolby) but it's a magnificent sound overall (it's been digitally remastered), one of the first stereo recordings of its kind. HMV have got it on special offer for £4.99 - absolute bargain for a 2-CD set! I paid a lot more for it years ago! Highly recommended if you like choral music.

[hooya] 29/4/2004 10:35

Link to the video for those who havent heard it.

[quidzinn] 29/4/2004 10:24

Hooya,

It's a great track - shades of "Parklife" by Blur in there plus a dash of "Really Free" by John Otway and Wild Willy Barratt ...

Q

[hooya] 29/4/2004 08:33

OK not everones cup of tea but im not a major fan but I think they are original and talented....The Steets. New track "you're fit but you know it"
fantastic....possible future No1 imo


out on the 26-4-2004


"Fit But You Know It"

See I reckon you're about an 8 or a 9,
Maybe even 9 and a half in four beers time.
That blue top shop top you've got on IS nice,
Bit too much fake tan though - but yeah you score high.

But theres just one little thing that really really,
Really really annoying me about you you see,
Yeah yeah like i said you are really fit
But my gosh don't you just know it

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though i would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit But my gosh dont you know it

So when i looked at you standing there with your hoard,
I was waiting in the que looking at the board
Wondering whether to have a Burger or chips
Or what the shrapnel in my back pocket could afford
When i noticed out the corner of my eye
Looking toward my direction
Your eyes locked onto my course
I couldnt concentrate on what i wanted to order,
Which cost me my place in the queue i waited for YEAH

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though i would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit But my gosh dont you know it

Whoa! Leave it out
Are you smoking something?
Leave it Out
Mike just leave it just leave it
We cannot have that behaviour in this establishment
S'not worth it mike, just leave it
Dont Touch Me, S'not Worth It
Dont Touch Me, D, Look Im Alright Dont Touch me

For a while there i was thinkin - yeah but what if?
Picturin' myself pullin with bare white hot wit
Snarin you as you were standing there opposite
Whether or not you knew it i swear you didnt tick
And when that bloke in the white behind us lot queuing
Was clockin onto you too yeah i had to admit
That yeah yeah you are fit,
And yeah i do want it,
But i stop sharkin' for a minute to get chips and drinks

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though i would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit But my gosh dont you know it

Oy, just as you started to make your big advance
With the milkshake and that little doughnut in hand
I was like nah, even though you look grand
But you look sharp there smilin hard suggesting and
Gleaming away with your hearty hearty lookin tan
But i admit the next bit was spanner to my plan
You walked towards my path but just brushed right past
And into the arms of that white shirted man

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though i would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit But my gosh dont you know it

Oh what do i give .. i've got a girlfirend anyway
(whoa, we've all had a drink mate)
We're all a bit drunk, yeah we've had a few fair play
I got this stella i bombed from that last cafe
This nights not even begun, yes yes oh yay

I did fancy you a bit though yeah i must say
I would rather i hadnt mugged myself on display
But this is just another case of female stopping play
On otherwise a total result of a holiday

I'm not trying to pull you
Even though i would like to
I think you are really fit
You're fit But my gosh dont you know it

[riverdiver] 28/4/2004 23:45

harlem shuffle

[alchemy] 28/4/2004 17:22

It is not a song it is an instrumental but I love it. I am suppose to say why.

It was part of the 50s early memories but not about pink or blue toothbrushes.

I give you Green Onions.

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Oh that White Album .................

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[samg99] 28/4/2004 16:12

Just occurred to me that as this is a financial website I should mention a particularly appropriate song

WALL STREET SHUFFLE - 10cc

Wonderful piece of powerpop/rock with razor-sharp lyrics, still relevant over 30 years later. The Travelling Wilburys later borrowed quite a bit of the melody and riff (OK, zzaxx, I won't say it was "exactly the same"!!) for their song TWEETER AND THE MONKEY MAN (sung by Mr. Zimmerman in his incomparable sand and glue rasping vocals) - its chorus even begins with the line "And the walls came down"....

[dave37] 27/4/2004 23:21

I was a bit worried, as I knew that houllier was around at that time, and he doesnt have a good record of 'playing away'..!!

[dave37] 27/4/2004 22:20

GH..gerard houllier?