Pick a side
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Silent Majority
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Pick a side
From the Stiff tour, which side are you on?
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Silent Majority
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Re: Pick a side
I think - understandably given the raucous, end of night pissed up singalong that he experienced it through - that Costello missed the libertarian subtlety of the Dury song and wrote a response to a song that doesn't quite exist.
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Flex
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Re: Pick a side
I honestly don't think I knew that particular origin of Pump It Up. I probably prefer the Costello tune on the merits, but I dunno if it really stands up as a rejoinder to the Dury tune.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Dr. Medulla
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Re: Pick a side
Grouchy Elvis for me.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Re: Pick a side
1 vote for Elvis. I remember getting This Year's Model when it came out & I was in high school. Love that album.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Re: Pick a side
I never thought it was a direct rejoinder so much as a response to the tour experiences itself.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Wolter
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Re: Pick a side
Like, I would consider it more like two different songs responding to Kent State than a “Southern Man/Sweet Home Alabama” situation.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: Pick a side
Dont know the story, have heard both and of these 2 songs I prefer the EC song.
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Marky Dread
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Re: Pick a side
I prefer having sex, drugs and rock n roll to pumping it up.
Both great songs in their own right.
Both great songs in their own right.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
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