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  • Nocturnal Submission
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    Saxon sang:

    "Time after time, 10 miles high
    I'm living my fantasies, at 20,000 feet"

    Biff confusing feet and yards, there.

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  • andrew7610
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    The Darkness's One way ticket to Hell and back is not a one-way ticket - you'll be wanting an off-peak day return, mush.

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  • Stumpy Pepys
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    Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
    Uh, I'm pretty sure that that was part of the joke.
    Went over my head at the time. (I was only 14.)

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  • pebblethefish
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    Summer of '69, what with joining bands, meeting his baby and his friend getting married, gave me unrealistic expectations of what a nine year old should be up to (Bryan Adams being born in November '59 and all)

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  • Guy Profumo
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    Texarcana is 30 or so miles away from the Louisiana border

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  • elguapo4
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    I was going to include " Pride ( in the name of love)" but ,according to Wikipedia, U2 have realised their error on the time of day of MLK Jnrs death, and now sing " In the evening, April 4" .

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  • lambers
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    No-one mentioned Alanis yet? Isn't that ironic. Or possibly not... who knows?

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  • Sits
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    Iggy Pop: Search and Destroy

    I'm a street walking cheetah with a heart full of napalm
    I'm a runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb


    Well, Mr. Pop. Where do we start?

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  • Greenlander
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    Ditto Things Can Only Get Better.

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  • Auntie Beryl
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    The Only Way Is Up.

    Nonsense.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Ah, well if we're getting into semantics, then I heard The Levellers' thirty-year-old anthem One Way on 6Music earlier.

    I appreciate what the lyric is about, but it nonetheless had me wondering whether career criminals listen to that song and think 'oh well, if The Levellers say it's okay...'

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  • 3 Colours Red
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    Double Exposure once sang that "ten percent of something, it beats one hundred percent of nothing at all".

    Not if that 10% is say, having to watch two hours and 24 minutes of GB News every day.

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  • Giggler
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    Originally posted by tee rex View Post
    Is this "they got it wrong" or "I got it wrong"? We need herding.

    Anyway, in Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves Cher "picked up a boy just south of Mobile", having plucked him out of the sea.
    Cher also sang later on in her career, "But there's one thing there's just not enough of/Not enough love and understanding". That's two things.

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  • tee rex
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    Is this "they got it wrong" or "I got it wrong"? We need herding.

    Anyway, in Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves Cher "picked up a boy just south of Mobile", having plucked him out of the sea.

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  • Sporting
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    Or The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

    Nope.

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  • Sporting
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    Similar to It Never Rains in Southern California. I mean, it doesn't rain much, but precipitation does exist.

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  • Jah Womble
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    Uh, I'm pretty sure that that was part of the joke.

    Stevie herself, however, documented some inaccurate information via Fleetwood Mac's Dreams: "Thunder only happens when it's raining."

    This, as any meteorologist will tell you, is complete cobblers.

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  • Incorrect information gleaned from song lyrics

    Half Man Half Biscuit's Fuckin' 'Ell it's Fred Titmus contains the line:

    "Oh Dracula comes from Transylvania
    Stevie nicks books about kleptomania"

    As a teenager, I misunderstood this as "Stevie Nicks' books about kleptomania" and for a good 25 years assumed that the witchy Fleetwood Mac singer had written confessional books about shoplifting and suchlike.
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