What's your favourite line...

Went to see him a couple of tines on his last tour he did the whole of life's is a riot as an encore at one of them.

 

http://songmeanings.com/m/songs/view/3530822107858574968/

Thus whole song has got great lyrics Jay made me remember it fannytashdick as they say.

 

Seen him a few times over the years, but would have loved to see that. IMHO, his output up to and including bits of Don't Try This At Home was just phenomenal. He's gone off the boil since, although he still does some good things, but that period from 83 to 91 he was superb.

I'm not even gong to try to pick any lines out of this, it's all brilliant:

I'll never forget the first day I met her
That September morning was clear and fresh
The way she spoke and laughed at my jokes
And the way she rubbed herself
Against the edge of my desk

She became a magic mystery to me
And we'd sit together in double
History twice a week
And some days we'd walk the same way home
And it's surprising how quick
A little rain can clear the streets

We dreamed of her and compared our dreams
But that was all that I ever tasted
She lied to me with her body you see
I lied to myself 'bout the chances I'd wasted

The times we were close
Were far and few between
In the darkness at the dances in the school canteen
Did she close her eyes like I did
As we held each other tight
And la la la la la la la la means I love you

She danced with me and I still hold that memory
Soft and sweet
And I stare up at her window
As I walk down her street
But I never made the first team,
I just made the first team laugh
And she never came to the phone
She was always in the bath

In the end, it took me a dictionary
To find out the meaning of unrequited
While she was giving herself for free
At a party to which I was never invited

I never understood my failings then
And I hide my humble hopes now
Thinking back she made us want her
A girl not old enough to shave her legs

If you haven't got a girl that comes to mind when you read that, then you were never a teenager.

 

The Jam, Down in the Tubestation at Midnight. All of it. Love it.

 

Aye Jay still good live. He's just rereleased Life is a Riot for the 30th (gulp) anniversary and the encore version is on that. I love his stuff up to William Bloke which has another favourite line "now I feel like I've won the cup everytime that we make love. 45 minutes each way at half time I hear a brass band play". Less consistent after that but still some gems.

 

Great song though I've always thought Man in the Corner a Shop or That's Entertainment were Weller's best lyrics.

 

"do you ever feel like a plastic bag"

 

Bit soppy like but it's still amazing writing, it's the first verse from Suck it and see by Arctic Monkeys

"Your love is like a studded leather headlock
Your kiss it could put creases in the rain
You're rarer than a can a dandelion & burdock
And those other girls are just post mix lemonade"

those last two lines are just superb.

 

the theme from enterprise by russel Watson, the whole song just summed up a bad time in my life

 

"You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of your life."

Pavement - Shady Lane

 

Shes got the Jack
AC/DC

 

Was it a millionaire who said "imagine no possessions" - Elvis. Other side of summer
If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they,d send a limousine anyway - Clash. White man
Heavens above, can this sticky stuff really be love. - Billy Bragg. Moving the goalposts
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters and a German sense of humour. He,s got a mind like a sewer and a heart like a fridge, he stands to be insulted and he pays for the privilege.-Elvis. Man out of time
So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own and you walk home and you cry and you want to die.- Smiths. How soon is now.

 

Shut up you talk too loud
you dont fit in with the crowd
i cant believe you exist
i crossed you right off my list
Motorhead- No class

 

That's Entertainment was next on my list.

 

My favourite Roses song and one of my all time favourite songs, this brings back so many good memories of the early nineties

 

Also, from Moving the Goalposts by the great Billy Bragg, anyone that can get Gennady Gerasimov into a song is a genius.

"Once in a while, Gennady Gerasimov drops his smile"

 

"I'm just a notch in your bed post, but your just a line in a song"

Sugar we're going down, Fall Out Boy

 

so many to choose from, impossible. I'll go with the one that's most relevant to me at the moment. (And I was listening to it earlier..)

everybody seems to think I'm lazy, I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed, 'til they find there's no need.

sums up my life

 

I had a word with Stanley,
He said I'd come in handy,
He started me on Monday,
So I had a bath on Sunday (Squeeze)

The eye receives the messages,
And sends them to the brain.
No guarantee the stimuli must be perceived the same
When looking through Gary Gilmore's eyes. (The Adverts)

I gave a love bite
To a scrubber in the half light
Pushed a squeaky pram
Over to her Mam's (Leery Bleeder)

God is a tender pervert and the angels are voyeurs
Watching us forever, their vision never blurs
They make us then forget us for a hundred million years
And then by chance they glance at us and something in them stirs
They find us so provocative, so weak, so full of pride
Our cleverness, our nakedness, fills them with delight
The way we hold our coffee cups, the way we pick our words
God is a tender pervert and his angels
His angels are voyeurs

And when the tender pervert is too busy to admire us
He sends his angels down to pass amongst us and desire us
He gives them little notebooks where they note each quirk and boast
Our foolish pride and pompousness turn him on the most
When we're throwing temper tantrums
When we're giving up the ghost
The pervert keeps his distance
But his angels, his angels move in close (Momus)

Most things by the Kinks