by Andrew HamiltonThe title track employs "Shaft"-like guitar licks, but the similarity ends there: It's a lame attempt at disco done in by Ike's lazy singing and irritatingly banal lyrics. But it's the LP's only sore point. Ike returns to his roots on "Your Loving Is Much Too St...
Two of the Cure’s most beloved early songs –“Killing an Arab” and “Boys Don’t Cry” – were released as singles and not included on their debut LPThree Imaginary Boys(though they did turn up on the U.S. releaseBoys Don’t Cryin 1980). Either track would be a worthwhile choice...
(And Watch Me Bounce). Words and music by Duke Ellington and Don George / arr. Mark Hayes. SATB Choral Octavo. This Duke Ellington number was featured in Sophisticated Ladies, the musical revue celebrating the life and music of the great bandleader. A sl
Yes I wore a slinky red thing Does that mean I should spread For you, your friends your father Mr Ed And I know what this means Me and Jesus a few years back Used to hang and he said "It's your choice babe, just remember
The extra lyrics were like little jokes that echoed the main lyrics. I was trying to remember all these lyrics and my daughter thought I was being funny. It blew her mind that no, I wasn't making it up and I learned it in school....
It's a Small World (currently stylized as "it's a small world") is a water-based dark ride located in the Fantasyland area at each of the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide: Disneyland Park in California, Magic Kingdom in Florida, Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Park (Paris), and...
Debuted during the well-oiled year of 1977, Bob Weir and lyricist John Perry Barlow’s “Estimated Prophet” captured late ’70s hippie paranoia in the form a of a slinky 7/8 reggae groove. A lope spacious enough for the band’s drummers, it became a platform for the endless ...
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Song year:1988 Alternative rock darlings, the Pixies, summed up what many of us often ask ourselves when they wrote “Where Is My Mind?” With its slinky lead guitar and haunting female backing vocals, “Where Is My Mind?” sounds just as unsettled and weird as someone that asks themselves...
The lyrics go on to say that, ‘something happened on the way to that place / they threw an American flag in our face’. The song marks roughly the time when the optimism curve started to trend downward. (That time was emphatically not 1982, which was the year I got married. ...